Michal Nulíček

Practice Areas

Michal Nulíček specializes in advising on data protection, IT (including artificial intelligence), intellectual property, compliance, and regulatory matters across various sectors. His clients include Czech and international companies in automotive, e-commerce, financial services, IT, telecommunications, and energy industries.

Career

Michal Nulíček specializes in advising on data protection, IT (including artificial intelligence), intellectual property, compliance, and regulatory matters across various sectors. His clients include Czech and international companies in automotive, e-commerce, financial services, IT, telecommunications, and energy industries.

Michal also has experience in representing clients before Czech regulators, other authorities and courts (including the Supreme, Supreme Administrative and Constitutional Courts), as well as European courts. The value of disputes in which Michal has represented clients amounts to tens of billions of CZK.

Michal is registered on the list of Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic. He is a member and certified arbitrator of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

He is a frequent speaker at local and international conferences and is the lead author of the first Czech commentary on the GDPR, a commentary on the Czech Personal Data Processing Act, and a commentary on the Whistleblower Protection Act (published by Wolters Kluwer). Michal is a member of the IAPP (International Association for the Protection of Personal Data), the Society for the Protection of Personal Data, and an internationally certified privacy professional (CIPP/E). He is also a member of the Appeals Committee of the Office for Personal Data Protection.

Professional Memberships

Czech Bar Association

Publications

• Practical Commentary: The Personal Data Processing Act (Wolters Kluwer, 2019)

• GDPR / General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679/EU) - Practical Commentary - 2nd updated edition, Wolters Kluwer, Prague May

2018, lead author

• GDPR / General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679/EU) - Practical Commentary, Wolters Kluwer, Prague June 2017, lead author

• The protection of personal data on customers will be stricter, Hospodářské noviny, November 2016

• Privacy Shield launched: the transfer of personal data to the US has new rules, EPRAVO.CZ, October 2016

• New developments in personal data protection (video interview), EPRAVO.CZ, July 2016

• How not to fall asleep to the new EU data protection regulation, Insurance Horizon, June 2016

• Leaky personal data, Lidove noviny, May 2016

• ASPI Navigator Arbitration, 2015, co-author

Work Highlights

• He provided legal advice in connection with the implementation of GDPR to the largest insurance group in the Czech Republic, the largest e-commerce group, the second largest software company, the largest international shipping company, one of the three largest

providers of corporate benefits and many other entities. He advises numerous clients in connection with inspections by the Office for Personal Data Protection.

• Advised a second major software company in connection with the realignment of its distribution relationships in the Czech Republic and abroad.

• Advised several international pharmaceutical companies on the regulatory aspects of marketing their products and in connection with clinical trials and setting up related contractual relationships.

• Advised a major international turbine manufacturer in connection with the regulation of the import and export of its products, and successfully represented this client before the Czech customs authorities in a dispute over a surcharge of hundreds of millions of USD.

Languages Spoken

English