HAVEL & PARTNERS s.r.o., advokátní kancelář

HAVEL & PARTNERS S.R.O., ATTORNEYS AT LAW

·Managing partner: Jaroslav Havel

·Number of other partners: 39

·Number of other fee earners: 350 lawyers, tax advisors and patent attorneys

·Offices: Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Pilsen, Olomouc (Czechia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Frankfurt am Main (representation office in Germany)

·Languages: Czech, Slovak, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian

·Website: www.havelpartners.com

·E-mail: [email protected]

·Phone: +420 255 000111

Founded in 2001, HAVEL & PARTNERS is the largest Czech-Slovak law firm with an international approach. With a team of highly qualified lawyers, the firm strives to provide services with high added value, to create excellent and lasting business relations with clients, and to deliver services in a manner that exceeds clients' expectations. The firm's clients include large international companies, leading Czech and Slovak firms, including strategic state-owned companies and public sector authorities, as well as medium-size businesses, individual entrepreneurs, and investors. The firm advises approximately 150 of the largest Fortune 500 global companies, almost 50 of the Czech Top 100 companies, and 20 of the Slovak TOP 100 companies. HAVEL & PARTNERS currently provides services to more than 3,000 clients. The firm offers legal and tax advice, and patent services in 110 countries, with up to 70% of cases involving an international element.

Main areas of practice:

• M&A/corporate law

Commercial and corporate advice is core to the HAVEL & PARTNERS 's services for domestic and international clients. The firm assists clients in all matters, from choosing the type of business enterprise and its establishment, to complex domestic and international transactions.

Mergers & Acquisitions is the firm's most extensive specialization area, making it one of the leaders in the Czech legal market. The firm's lawyers have participated in numerous standard M&A transactions, transformations, and restructuring projects on the Czech and Slovak markets, particularly for foreign investors. These include transactions involving major companies and state-owned enterprises in sectors such as banking and finance, energy and utilities, the building industry, engineering, metallurgy, the pharmaceutical industry, paper and pulp production, the rubber industry, the food industry, telecommunications and information technologies, consumer goods, and tourism.

The firm also has a strong private equity and venture capital practice, representing both Czech/Slovak and international buyers and sellers of businesses across a wide range of industries.

• Banking & Finance:

Banking, finance, and capital markets are among the firm's main areas of practice. The firm's clients include leading Czech, Slovak, and foreign banks, insurance companies, as well as other financial institutions, corporations, and major institutional and private investors. Most of the firm's lawyers joined with experience from renowned international law firms or from leading positions in regulatory offices, such as the Czech National Bank.

• Competition law and Economics

The team of dedicated competition specialists is the largest, one of the most experienced, and fastest growing in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, comprising more than 25 lawyers and economists. HAVEL & PARTNERS advises clients on matters relating to merger control, antitrust, FDI, state aid and UTP in Czechia and Slovakia and in proceedings before the European Commission. It also provides guidance to clients with dominant market positions and offers recommendations on contractual and other relationships among businesses with potential competition implications.

• IT/IP/Technology

The firm has 9 partners and a total of 45 experienced lawyers dedicated to technology law. It boasts the largest team focused on technology law in the Czech and Slovak markets, enabling it to handle the most comprehensive projects that overlap into all legal and tax practice areas. The firm works for the largest technology giants and international investors, financial institutions, public authorities, as well as local IT companies, start-ups, and early-stage entrepreneurs. The team comprises technology enthusiasts who always consider clients' needs comprehensively and in context.

The team specializing in IP is also one of the largest in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It offers an unparalleled degree of specialization in individual fields, with detailed knowledge of the market and the latest trends in the rapidly evolving digital world. The firm provides advisory services to the largest multinational corporations, established family companies, and individuals.

• Private Clients:

The firm considers one of the cornerstones of its legal practice to be the provision of comprehensive legal advice to a strictly defined group of its most important clients. Priorities include utmost discretion, as well as the clarity and unambiguity of recommendations, and prompt delivery of results.

The extensive knowledge, practical experience, and high level of specialization and expertise of the firm's lawyers enable them to provide this particular category of clients with comprehensive legal advice in all key practice areas. Additionally, the firm offers specialized and above-average consultation and organizational services related to the management of personal and family assets, investments, as well as in family law, inheritance law, tax law, litigation, arbitration, and other types of proceedings.

Another practice ares: Commercial, Litigation & Arbitration, Real estate & Construction, Restructuring & Insolvency, Tax, Public, ESG, Life sciences, Energy, Contractual, Family, Film, Inheritance, Labour, Sports etc.