Czech Republic

FIRM:

HAVEL & HOLÁSEK is a leading independent full-service law firm in the Czech Republic. We serve both domestic and foreign clients in all important areas of modern business law. Our lawyers have a broad breadth of experience and offer professional expertise and familiarity with the Czech business environment and rapidly developing legal environment coupled with the ability to manage the legal aspects of complex international transactions that demand requisite professional standards.

HAVEL & HOLÁSEK stands for excellence and professionalism – through all stages of our representation. Our services have been consistently recognized by international law firm rating organizations as top-tier domestic advice in our market with European Legal 500 and Global Counsel 3000 recommending HAVEL & HOLÁSEK in, among other areas, banking and finance, capital markets, commercial and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and insolvency, construction and real estate matters and telecommunications.

Our teams of specialists cover a wide spectrum of specific fields. We pool this expertise and international experience to provide comprehensive and coordinated advice tailored to clients’ needs. We adopt a business-oriented and pro-active approach to efficient and successful transaction management and continuously exert our best efforts to provide the best value for money.

HAVEL & HOLÁSEK was established on June 1, 2001 by senior lawyers from top international and domestic law firms. From its inception, the firm has provided a wide range of legal services to premier domestic and international clients in all areas of business. Our success and market reputation has allowed us to steadily expand our teams of specialist lawyers. Our attorneys have considerable experience from their previous positions in top Czech, U.K., U.S., German and Austrian law firms. Many of our attorneys have also completed postgraduate studies at universities in Western Europe or North America. All our attorneys are members of the Czech Bar Association, two of them are, in addition, members of the Slovak Bar Association and one is also admitted in New York and Illinois.

In the changing Czech legal environment, HAVEL & HOLÁSEK is known as a rapidly developing Czech law firm with the informational background and professional standards of a strong international law firm as well as a firm that is able to combine an excellent knowledge of Czech law with a thorough understanding of international issues typical of international law firms.

We provide the highest professional quality and standard of legal services, and have been rewarded for this by the credit and trust of our growing base of top local and international clients doing business in the Czech Republic. We create a special legal team for each client and each transaction so as to achieve the optimum balance between the results achieved and fees subsequently charged to our clients. We strictly follow the Czech Act on Attorney Services and the regulations issued by the Czech Bar Association, protecting the interests of each individual client, maintaining confidentiality of information obtained in connection with service to clients, and preventing any conflict of interest that might jeopardize these priorities. Our lawyers strive to create excellent and lasting business relations with clients and to provide services in a manner exceeding our clients’ expectations. It is our aim to ensure both profit and security for our clients.  

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Corporate & Commercial
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Legal Audits and Legal Due Diligence
• Private Equity/Venture Capital
• Banking and Finance
• Capital Markets
• Projects
• Real Estate and Construction
• Greenfield and Brownfield Investments
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Labor Law and Employee Benefits
• EU Law
• Telecommunications, Internet and Information Technology
• Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition
• Competition and Antitrust
• Public Procurement and State Aid
• Litigation and Arbitration
• Media, Sports and Entertainment Law
• Energy
• Environment
• Tax and Customs