Member Profiles

Patrick Tan, TEP is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortis Law Corporation, which is a medium-sized law firm in Singapore. Fortis Law also has an office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Patrick is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. His areas of practice include Private Client, Trust, Elder law, Family Law, and Real Estate. He is a Notary Public, Commissioner for Oaths, a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, an accredited Associate Mediator of Singapore Mediation Centre, as well as a registered Trust and Estate Practitioner with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He also currently serves as a Volunteer Mediator with the State Courts of Singapore. Patrick obtained his LL.B. (Hons) (2nd Upper Class) at the University of Nottingham, where he clinched several academic awards in Land Law, Company Law and Partnership law for emerging as the top candidate in these courses. In 2007, Patrick steered the firm into becoming the first law firm in Singapore to be accredited with the PrimeLaw Practice Management Excellence Standard awarded by the Law Society of Singapore. It is also the first law firm in Singapore to be awarded the Volunteer of the Year Award four times in a row from 2010 to 2013 by the Law Society of Singapore. In 2017, Patrick was awarded the Singapore Skillsfuture Study Award (Legal Sector) by the Singapore government and successfully completed the SAL-INSEAD Law Firm Leadership Programme conducted by INSEAD. Patrick is an approved CPD Trainer by the Council for Estate Agencies (which is the regulating authority for the real estate industry in Singapore) and the Legal Advisor to the Singapore Estate Agents Association and the Spa and Wellness Association Singapore.

MARKECHOVA JMJ LEGAL is a stable and reliable law office with extensive international experience. Based in the capital of the Slovak republic – Bratislava, our law office offers a wide range of legal services to our clients ranging from numerous subsidiaries of significant global companies operating in chemical, machine, automotive and consumer industries to small and middle-sized enterprises. The main areas of our legal services include legal aid with foundation, alternation or dissolution of business companies, re-structuralizing of companies, performing legal audits and elaborating due dilligence relating to acquisition of business shares in Slovak corporations along with legal assistance in acquisitions regarding merger, amalgamation and division of business companies. Our legal services also include the area of real estate law, employment law and medical law. For more information please visit our website.

MARKECHOVA JMJ LEGAL is a stable and reliable law office with extensive international experience. Based in the capital of the Slovak republic – Bratislava, our law office offers a wide range of legal services to our clients ranging from numerous subsidiaries of significant global companies operating in chemical, machine, automotive and consumer industries to small and middle-sized enterprises. The main areas of our legal services include legal aid with foundation, alternation or dissolution of business companies, re-structuralizing of companies, performing legal audits and elaborating due dilligence relating to acquisition of business shares in Slovak corporations along with legal assistance in acquisitions regarding merger, amalgamation and division of business companies. Our legal services also include the area of real estate law, employment law and medical law. For more information please visit our website.

Law office is experienced in Litigation and arbitration procedures. Court proceedings require long practice and advocate specific characteristics and experience. It is necessary to react fast, to know the relevant jurisprudence in other similar cases. We are experienced in International Litigations and Arbitrations also. Daniela is an assistant professor at Comenius University Law faculty, and her specialization is International and European Law. Daniela is counsellor at American International Commercial Arbitration Court. We have received also several legal awards in the dispute resolution field. See below. We have experience in dealing dispute cases on any level. We provide solutions for disputes d our clients. More information please kindly find on www.jezova.sk

Janez Starman began his professional career after graduation in 1996 as a Junior Associate for mag. Gregor Velkaverh. In 1998 he passed the National legal exam. In the period between 1997 and 1998 he worked as a Judge trainee at the Koper Higher Court. He has been a partner in the Law Firm Straman/Velkaveh since 2000. In 2005 he successfully completed training in the program: »International Criminal Court (ICC) from the perspective of defence lawyers« acquiring the skills necessary to act as counsellor before the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague. Two years later he enrolled in postgraduate studies of Civil, Commercial and Corporate law. In 2009 he successfully completed training and acquired the title of mediator trainer at the Slovenian mediators association. Since 2010 he has been working as a mediator at the Ljubljana District Court, Koper District Court and Koper Labour Court. Since 2012 he is also involved in the work of the Slovenian Bar Association and from 2021 he is the President of the Bar for the 3 (three) year term. Fields of practice: Civil law, Commercial and corporate law, Labour law, Law of inheritance Criminal law Administrative law, Constitutional law International law Alternative Dispute Resolution Foreign language skills: English, Italian, Croatian, Serbian.