Deloitte Legal s.r.o., advokátní kancelár

Hana Gawlasová

Hana Gawlasová is a partner and head of the digital (formerly TMT) law practice group at Deloitte Legal in Prague. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of information technology and telecommunications law. She has significant experience with regulatory and compliance advisory work in the TMT sector (telecommunications, media, technology), as well as transactional work. She advised a British telecommunications operator on the acquisition of a Czech and Romanian mobile operator, a consortium of investors on the financing of a Czech infrastructure operator and a Slovak investment group on the launch of a unique telecommunications operator providing fixed and mobile services within one technology and one network. Before working at Deloitte Legal, she led a regional TMT team at a British law firm, which focused on coordinated advice to foreign and Czech investors in the TMT sector in the CEE region. Before working at Deloitte Legal, she founded a practice called People & Technology, which primarily deals with legal advice in areas where a human element (humanware) is decisive, such as advice in the field of copyright, privacy, personal data protection, compliance programmes for employees and internal investigations involving employees, suppliers and customers.

Jan Procházka

Jan Procházka is a Partner and head of the Banking & Finance department and Employment department at Deloitte Legal. In Banking & Finance he focuses on providing legal advice to banks, insurance companies and other financial market entities on regulatory requirements, including the regulatory aspects of transformations, restructurings and acquisitions. Recently, Jan was leading projects that included: acquiring a qualifying stake in an insurance company and the merger of insurance companies (including representation before the Czech National Bank, as the regulator); mergers of banks; revision of the complete set of documentation for a leasing company; implementation of the Insurance Distribution Directive for an independent insurance intermediary; design of innovative insurance products covering IoT; and review of regulatory issues and set-up of a bitcoin mining pool. In the area of Employment and benefits Jan focuses on both the standard employment-law agenda and the area of flexibility, innovative benefits and cross-border assignment of employees. Recently, Jan has led projects consisting in the recruitment of employees by a foreign bank entering the Czech market, including resolving issues of applicable law, taxation and setting up the day-to-day HR operation (e.g., preparing internal regulations and securing the necessary applications and registrations); or a project consisting of preparation of a new design of relations with members of the statutory body, including the preparation of contracts covering the transition from employment relationships and the setting up of internal approval and liability processes for a major developer. Jan also manages the knowledge management agenda at the law firm. Under his leadership, the actively built culture of knowledge sharing contributes to the stable, accessible and sustainable development of the team as a whole and its individual members. The basis is case law and legislative monitoring and analysis, which is directly reflected in the quality of legal advice. The client work also benefits from access to other Czech and foreign information sources and a sophisticated training system. Jan does not forget about innovation and technology in knowledge management either. He seeks and explores the possibilities of their application and promotes a positive attitude of the team towards them.

Jaroslava Kračúnová

Jaroslava Kračúnová is a Partner and head of the Business Integrity team at Deloitte Legal in Prague. She has more than 15 years of experience in corporate law with focus corporate governance, management liability, white collar crime, corporate criminal liability, criminal law compliance and compliance management systems, anti-bribery, anti-fraud, and anti-corruption prevention, whistleblowing and data privacy.   As part of her Business Integrity practice, Jaroslava leads teams during forensic investigations in major Czech and European companies. She has advised clients on subsequent legal steps to be taken in disputes and criminal investigations. She further leveraged the experience gained in investigations and used the identified gaps in processes during investigation projects to build efficient compliance management systems for clients.    In majority of data privacy compliance matters she focused on complex GDPR implementation projects and related privacy matters. She was also a member of the Working Group on the Preparation of the Adaptation Act to the GDPR and she of the Working Group on the Implementation of the NIS 1 Directive into Czech legislation.   

Ludvík Juřička

Ludvík Juřička specialises in mergers and acquisitions, real estate and construction law, corporate law with a focus on corporate management and advising family businesses on the protection, preservation and management of assets using mainly family foundations and trusts. In the M&A area, he has participated in a number of transactions (both on the sell and the buy side) mainly in the sectors of iron and steel industry, construction, engineering, chemical industry, but also insurance, spa and private equity. In real estate and construction law, he provides comprehensive legal advisory, including, in particular, due diligence as part of real estate acquisitions, transaction and supplier contractual documentation, advice on the selection of suppliers and obtaining relevant public permits. Ludvík has extensive experience in creating family holding structures using endowment and trust funds as a tool for preserving family assets for future generations, including setting the rules for the management of these funds. Prior to joining Deloitte Legal, he worked for 12 years as a managing associate of a law firm cooperating with leading foreign audit firms and for 10 years as a partner at Havel & Partners where he was co-responsible for the management of branches in Brno and Ostrava.

Martin Bohuslav

Managing Partner

Petr Suchý

Petr Suchý is a Partner at Deloitte Legal in Prague. He is head of the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Deloitte Legal and participates in the leadership of the Restructuring & Insolvency team. He started his professional career in 1997 and has been with Deloitte since 2003. He specialises in corporate law, especially in mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. He lectures on Mergers & Acquisitions at the faculties of law at Charles University in Prague and Masaryk University in Brno. Within the Deloitte Legal global network of law firms, Petr is a member of the Deloitte Legal EMEA Corporate / M&A Executive Committee and leader of the Deloitte Legal Central Europe M&A Expert Group.