diff --git a/extensions/panache/panache-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/panache/common/deployment/visitors/KotlinPanacheClassOperationGenerationVisitor.java b/extensions/panache/panache-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/panache/common/deployment/visitors/KotlinPanacheClassOperationGenerationVisitor.java
index c1cdd463b82a2e..c2f035b45aeaf1 100644
--- a/extensions/panache/panache-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/panache/common/deployment/visitors/KotlinPanacheClassOperationGenerationVisitor.java
+++ b/extensions/panache/panache-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/panache/common/deployment/visitors/KotlinPanacheClassOperationGenerationVisitor.java
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ public class KotlinPanacheClassOperationGenerationVisitor extends ClassVisitor {
     public static final String NULLABLE_DESCRIPTOR = "Lorg/jetbrains/annotations/Nullable;";
     public static final ByteCodeType OBJECT = new ByteCodeType(Object.class);
     protected static final ByteCodeType CLASS = new ByteCodeType(Class.class);
+    private static final String CTOR_METHOD_NAME = "<init>";
     protected final Function<String, String> argMapper;
     protected final ClassInfo classInfo;
     protected final ByteCodeType entityUpperBound;
@@ -291,7 +292,7 @@ private void emitNullCheck(MethodVisitor mv, Type returnType) {
                 .replace("java.util.List", "kotlin.collections.List")));
 
         mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESPECIAL, "java/lang/NullPointerException",
-                "<init>", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", false);
+                CTOR_METHOD_NAME, "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", false);
         mv.visitInsn(ATHROW);
         mv.visitLabel(label);
         mv.visitFrame(Opcodes.F_SAME1, 0, null, 1, new Object[] { "java/lang/Object" });
@@ -538,6 +539,9 @@ public MethodVisitor visitMethod(int access, String name, String descriptor, Str
         } else if (name.contains("$")) {
             //some agents such as jacoco add new methods, they generally have $ in the name
             return super.visitMethod(access, name, descriptor, signature, exceptions);
+        } else if (name.equals(CTOR_METHOD_NAME)) {
+            //Arc can add no-args constructors to support intercepted beans
+            return super.visitMethod(access, name, descriptor, signature, exceptions);
         }
         return null;
     }
diff --git a/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/panache/kotlin/AddressDao.kt b/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/panache/kotlin/AddressDao.kt
index 31932718646331..f10ac5da7b6e5e 100644
--- a/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/panache/kotlin/AddressDao.kt
+++ b/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/panache/kotlin/AddressDao.kt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.panache.kotlin.PanacheRepositoryBase
 import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped
 
 @ApplicationScoped
-open class AddressDao : PanacheRepositoryBase<Address, Int> {
+open class AddressDao(private val dummyService: DummyService) : PanacheRepositoryBase<Address, Int> {
     companion object {
         fun shouldBeOverridden(): Nothing {
             throw UnsupportedOperationException("this should be called and not be overwritten by the quarkus plugin")
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ open class AddressDao : PanacheRepositoryBase<Address, Int> {
     }
 
     override fun count(query: String, params: Map<String, Any>): Long = shouldBeOverridden()
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/panache/kotlin/DummyService.kt b/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/panache/kotlin/DummyService.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..85c330413fdb75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/panache/kotlin/DummyService.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package io.quarkus.it.panache.kotlin
+
+import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped
+
+// used only to validate that we can inject CDI beans into Panache repositories written in Kotlin
+@ApplicationScoped
+class DummyService {
+}
diff --git a/integration-tests/mongodb-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/mongodb/panache/book/BookRepository.kt b/integration-tests/mongodb-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/mongodb/panache/book/BookRepository.kt
index c2d2bebd4c4e63..30e6438eac573e 100644
--- a/integration-tests/mongodb-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/mongodb/panache/book/BookRepository.kt
+++ b/integration-tests/mongodb-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/mongodb/panache/book/BookRepository.kt
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ import io.quarkus.mongodb.panache.kotlin.PanacheMongoRepository
 import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped
 
 @ApplicationScoped
-class BookRepository : PanacheMongoRepository<Book>
\ No newline at end of file
+class BookRepository(private val dummyService: DummyService) : PanacheMongoRepository<Book>
diff --git a/integration-tests/mongodb-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/mongodb/panache/book/DummyService.kt b/integration-tests/mongodb-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/mongodb/panache/book/DummyService.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..eed33d52a1ba8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration-tests/mongodb-panache-kotlin/src/main/kotlin/io/quarkus/it/mongodb/panache/book/DummyService.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package io.quarkus.it.mongodb.panache.book
+
+import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped
+
+// used only to validate that we can inject CDI beans into Panache repositories written in Kotlin
+@ApplicationScoped
+class DummyService {
+}