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Richard Macko

Associate

Richard is recognized by clients as a rising star in dispute resolution.

Richard represents corporations and private clients in their high stake matters at trial and on appeal, as well as before supreme and constitutional court, in internal investigations, and before government enforcers, including various state ministries, antimonopoly office, regulatory office for network industries, gambling regulatory office, attorney general, public prosecutors and police investigators. Notably versatile, Richard has a particularly deep focus on litigation cases and investigations involving general civil and commercial matters, antitrust and competition, unfair competition, intellectual property, life sciences, energy and utilities, technology and gaming, environment, retail, foodstuffs, employment, and criminal law representation.

Richard is also a core member of the A&O Shearman's task force focused on EU consumer class actions and has – himself – been involved in a number of Slovak class action cases. Having an academic background, Richard has recently co-authored a legal commentary on the Slovak Commercial Code, and has penned topics covering unfair competition, in particular focusing on both the 'general clause' of unfair competition and enforcement of damages, unjust enrichment, and non-pecuniary damage. In addition, Richard teaches 'negotiation class' as an external lecturer at the Comenius University in Bratislava and is a regular contributor to legal journals where he publishes articles on Slovak civil procedural law and Slovak and EU antitrust/competition and company law.

Expertise

Industries

Published Work

  • Macko, R., Garajová, N. "Does the Inclusion of a Generic Medicinal Product in the List of Reimbursed Drugs Before the Patent Expiry Constitute Unfair Competition?" In: Bulletin of Slovak Advocacy, 2024, No. 4 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "Publication of a Judgment at the Costs of the Losing Party in Unfair Competition Disputes" In: Bulletin of Slovak Advocacy, 2024, No. 3 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "Stand-Alone Actions at Risk in Slovakia. A Doctrinal Dissent to the Slovak Supreme Court Judgment of 24 June 2020, File No. 3 Obdo 108/2019" In: Antitrust, 2022, No. 3 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "Costs and Financing of Private Enforcement Antitrust Disputes" In: Antitrust, 2022, No. 2 (Slovak original)
  • Grambličková, B., Macko, R. "The Rise of Cross-Border Corporate Conversions (From the Polbud Judgment to the Cross-Border Conversions Directive (Part 2)" In: Judicial Review, 2022, No. 5 (Slovak original)
  • Grambličková, B, Macko, R. "The Rise of Cross-Border Corporate Conversions (From the Polbud Judgment to the Cross-Border Conversions Directive (Part 1)" In: Judicial Review, 2022, No. 4 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "Bending Traditional Private International Law Towards More Favourable Private Enforcement" In: Prague Law Working Papers, 2022, No. II/3 (English original)
  • Macko, R. "The Concept of a Strong Judge in light of the Material Conduct of Court Proceedings" Chapter in the Czech Monography on Obligations and Liability in Civil Substantive and Procedural Law (Sedláček, M., Střeleček, T. (eds), 1st edition). Prague, Wolters Kluwer, 2022 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "Volvo Judgment: Bending Classical PIL with a Vision of More Claimant-Friendly Private Enforcement" In: Lexforum Blog, 2021 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "International Jurisdiction and National Competence of Court in Private Enforcement of Competition Law" In: Antitrust, 2021, No. 4 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "How to Correct an Error in the Operative Part of a Court Decision Caused by a Party in Its Procedural Submission" Lexforum Blog, 2020 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "Interpretation of an Error in the Statement of Claims Incorporated by the Court into Judgment and Admissibility of Its Correction" Chapter in the Czech Monography on Legal Acts and Procedural Acts (Sedláček, M., Střeleček, T. (eds), 1st edition), Prague, Wolters Kluwer, 2019 (Slovak original)
  • Magál, M., Macko, R. "Intervening Parties in Court Proceedings Initiated Before the New Slovak Code of Civil Litigation Procedure" In: Bulletin of Slovak Advocacy, 2017 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "Potencial Barriers to the Exercise of Secondary Establishment of Legal Persons in the European Area" In: Judicial Review, 2017, No. 2 (Slovak original)
  • Macko, R. "Selected Aspects of Cross-Border Transfer of Company's Seat" In: Judicial Review, 2017, No. 1 (Slovak original)

Recognition

Richard Macko is a rising star in dispute resolution, lots of expertise
Legal 500 Slovakia 2023

Qualifications

Academic

Mgr, Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2017

Languages

Slovak, English, French, Czech, Polish
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.