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Sophie Blégent-Delapille
Sophie Blégent-Delapille
Sophie Blégent-Delapille, Partner, is Managing Partner of the French Deloitte Tax & Legal Practice.She advises French and European international groups on their growth strategies, business models and international expansion.Based on data analytics and strategic development objectives, her aim is to ensure tax security and competitiveness. Her assistance combines the entire branch of Deloitte expertises, such as IT technology tools specialists, transfer pricing experts, legal specialists and consultants.Furthermore, Sophie has developed a strong expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions, either with investment funds or major companies. She assists her clients on multi-country business units cessions (carve out), acquisitions structures and post-acquisition restructurings in order to ensure an efficient integration of operations.Since 2021, Sophie is the DCE Member Firm Tax & Legal leader (over 20 countries in EMEA).
Martin Bohuslav
Martin Bohuslav
Martin Bohuslav is a Managing Partner at Deloitte Legal. He provides clients with services in the areas of ICT security, software contracts, personal data protection of new technologies and intellectual property rights where he focuses on data management in digital environment. He also focuses on managing complex transactions, projects and restructurings, performance of legal due diligence reviews concerning ownership titles to real estate and lease relationships to real estate, residential and non-residential premises.  Martin gained experience through participation in several important projects aimed, among other things, at setting contractual relations in the field of cloud services, e-commerce and specific personal data protection issues. Has long-term experience in leading cross-functional team of specialist in complex GDPR implementation projects. At the same time, in the field of personal data protection, Martin applies his expertise in the field of technology and focuses on technological and innovative solutions that save clients time and money; an example includes the GDPR Detective application which at the time of its implementation helped clients analyse their situation and implement necessary changes. He also provides clients with services including negotiation and preparation of contractual and other documentation related to the acquisition of business companies as well as legal consultancy in business restructuring.   His clients include domestic as well as foreign construction companies, real estate investors and developers, technology companies, retail chains, producers and distributors in numerous industries, as well as local administrations and other public entities.  
James Brodie
James Brodie
James is a lawyer and partner within Deloitte Legal’s UK Real Estate business. He leads the Living Sector group, acting for all manner of land promotion, investment and development clients. James has worked with many of the of the UK’s leading housebuilders and is a specialist in structuring complex site acquisitions, partnership delivery models and collaboration arrangements. With almost 15 years’ real estate experience James also has a broad commercial development background, having been involved in many mix-use developments and high-class city centre office schemes.
Craig Conte
Craig Conte
Lead Partner for Legal Operate. Work undertaken: Created the shared service centres in India, Poland, Guatemala and Brazil for Capgemini Legal and & Commercial functions​ Created the outsourced centres of excellence in Brazil and India for global consumer goods company​ Created new contracting target operating model for global coffee and retail company​ Implemented CLM technology for numerous entities, including those in consumer goods, healthcare & finance​ Created post-award contract & commercial functions for a number entities – including in finance and consumer goods – across North America & Europe​
Vicky Cooper
Vicky Cooper
Technology Disputes Partner Work undertaken: Renegotiation of a £multi-billion global IT services outsourcing contract acting for a global IT services provider against a global bank and settlement of a number of associated long running disputes​ Partial termination of a £multi-million business process outsourcing agreement for a global bank as a result of force majeure (coronavirus)​ Expert determination of a contractual interpretation point in relation to a data centre services contract​ Renegotiation of a £multi-million end-user services contract for a global IT services provider against a central government department ​ Arbitration of a £1 billion IT dispute leading to a successful judgment in favour of our client
Jürgen Egger
Jürgen Egger
Jürgen heads the Commercial and Business Criminal law practices. He also leads the commercial law service line within the global Legal network. Jürgen has extensive experience in advising Belgian and foreign companies in commercial and criminal law matters. His focus is on contract law, distribution law, market practices, pre-insolvency and insolvency, tort law and white collar crime. Jürgen advises and represents clients before both civil and criminal courts, and he is well-acquainted with arbitration proceedings.
Cavan Fabris
Cavan Fabris
Lead Partner for data protection & privacy, cybersecurity and telecoms at Deloitte Legal. Cavan more than 25 years of industry, government and legal experience. Cavan oversees the delivery of pragmatic, business-focused legal solutions across all aspects of privacy compliance, from interpretation of new laws through to the implementation of compliance programmes, enabling data transfers and dealing with data breaches or enforcement actions by authorities. Cavan combines his legal expertise in these areas with the technical knowledge from Deloitte’s specialist cyber risk practice, as well as more broadly across the firm’s extensive multidisciplinary network.
Vaq Farooq
Vaq Farooq
Vaqas Farooq is the Head of Real Estate Legal at Deloitte Legal, to which he brings in-depth knowledge and insight through almost two decades of experience advising developers, occupiers, local authorities and investors on schemes across the UK. Recent projects he has led include: the acquisition, development and pre-letting of Allied London’s No. 1 Spinningfields Development in Manchester over the four year period, a joint venture with Manchester City Council culminating in the sale to Schroder Real Estate for £200 million; advising an FTSE 250 leisure company on the management and optimisation of its estate since 2000; acting on a range of major commercial portfolio acquisitions and disposals; pioneering a number of innovative approaches in the Build to Rent sector where he advised on deals valued at £1.2 billion; and working with a number of local authorities in relation to several regeneration projects particularly in town centres. He also advises on the strategic elements of such projects from conception to procurement options to ultimate completion. Vaq is well-known in the legal market for his commercial approach and driving innovation into structures to help unlock viability and streamline developments and investment trading. A strong leader, he has successfully built and motivated new teams and helped open up new markets. In the 2019 Legal 500, Vaqas Farooq was commended for his “knowledge, drive and contacts” and Chambers UK described him as “a specialist in development matters, who acts on many of the largest urban regeneration projects across the UK and represents a number of regional and national developers”.
Felix Felleisen
Felix Felleisen
Felix specializes in corporate law and M&A transactions. He has over 16 years of experience in advising domestic and international clients in all aspects of corporate law as well as complex cross-border M&A transactions and corporate restructurings where he frequently works as leader or member of multidisciplinary international teams. He also advises clients in all aspects of real estate law. For seven consecutive years, JUVE Guide to Commercial Law Firms in Germany, a leading directory, has been listing Felix as frequently recommended attorney for Corporate Law as well as M&A with competitors describing him as „quick, showing intelligence and a good sense of humor“, “competent and pragmatic“ as well as “assertive and internationally experienced”.
Jenny Friberg
Jenny Friberg
Director, Deloitte Tax & Legal, Sweden. Jenny has a long and solid experience of advising clients in all aspects of Swedish corporate & commercial law, including real estate transactions. Furthermore, Jenny have significant, in-depth expertise in corporate taxation, focusing on the regulations on the so called closely held companies (Sw: fåmansföretagsreglerna). Jenny's clients include Swedish and international corporations and institutions. Deloittes tax & legal teams are part of a multinational network that provides legal advice in all major business areas. This helps us cover the range of issues that may arise in a single corporate transaction. For more information on Deloitte Legal, visit www.deloittelegal.com.
Hana Gawlasová
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.
Paul Gidman
Paul Gidman
Paul is a highly respected and experienced real estate development lawyer who acts for a large number of developer and investor clients on a wide range of matters including site assembly, acquisitions and disposals, forward funding agreements, conditional contracts and the full range of asset management work. Paul has a particular specialism in strategic land work, acting for both landowners and promoters on the promotion of large scale strategic sites for residential and/or commercial developments, including advising on the negotiation of planning promotion agreements, option agreements, and multi-party collaboration and equalisation agreements. His recent experience includes:- advising Anwyl Homes on the acquisition and development of their residential development and strategic land sites, for example the acquisition of a 20 acre site at Handforth, Cheshire for 217 new homes from a promoter and family trust; advising two family trusts in relation to the exchange of contracts, conditional on planning, with a large national housebuilder in relation to two large strategic sites totalling circa 90 acres for residential development in East Halewood, Merseyside, which will provide circa 700-800 much needed homes for that area acting on behalf of various landowners and promoters (over 30 different sites/locations) up and down the country on planning promotion, option and collaboration/equalisation agreements and the subsequent sale of those sites to national housebuilders where planning permission is obtained, including sites in Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Bedfordshire, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Essex, for example acting for 4 landowners on a planning promotion and collaboration agreement with a major national promoter on a large strategic residential/commercial development in Yorkshire for over 800 homes, new industrial/commercial units and associated infrastructure. advising the Developer on Project Jennifer, the £150 million regeneration of the Great Homer Street/Scotland Road area of Liverpool in partnership with Liverpool City Council, anchored by a new Sainsbury’s supermarket and petrol station, a new 80,000 sq ft District Centre, a new 2 storey McDonalds restaurant, a new home for the famous “Greatie” Market, together with significant improvements to local roads, open space and infrastructure advising the Developer on the development of Leigh Sports Village in partnership with Wigan Borough Council, the £80m multi-use sports, retail, leisure and housing development in Leigh including disposal of land for residential development, construction of a new 12,000 capacity sports stadium, swimming pool and athletics track/facilities for the Council, development of a new college and hotel and the forward funded development and letting of a new 65,000 sq ft Morrisons supermarket and PFS advising a large North West property development and investment company in relation to the acquisition, development and management of its national office, leisure and industrial property portfolio, including complex joint venture, asset management and funding arrangements, for example on the acquisition funding, management, redevelopment, letting and ultimate disposal of a portfolio of 9 multi-tenanted industrial sites.
Robert Griffiths
Robert Griffiths
Disputes Partner Work undertaken: Acting for a medical devices distributor in obtaining a freezing injunction against a rogue member of the LLP. ​ Acting for an IT supplier in a claim for repudiatory breach of a contract to provide software for the management of offenders and probation services. ​ Acting for a leading provider of healthcare staff in claims for breach of contract, breach of confidence and data privacy claims against former employees and their new employer. Obtaining interim injunctions to restrain the defendants prior to successful settlement.​ Acting for a client in the Defence sector in relation to claims against a departing executive who was to become CEO of a major defence competitor. Settlement reached with employee and competitor protected a $4bn customer relationship. ​ Acting for a significant minority shareholder in a claim for breach of a SPA and unfair prejudice in relation to the sale of shares in a motorsport media business. Successfully reaching a multi-million-pound settlement. ​ Successfully defending a $70m ICC Arbitration claim relating to the installation of TV studios in the Middle East under a joint venture agreement.​
Glenn Hansen
Glenn heads the dispute resolution and insolvency & restructuring division of Deloitte Legal’s Commercial law team. Glenn joined Deloitte Legal in 2009. He has more than 12 years of experience in assisting in negotiations, advising and representing clients in diverse a wide range of commercial and corporate litigation and arbitration proceedings. He is also experienced in fraud and white-collar crime as well as general contract and tort law. In this capacity, he acts as a trusted business advisor to a wide-variety of Belgian and international clients, going from start-ups, over scale-ups, SME’s to large Belgian and multinational companies corporations, operating in various sectors. Furthermore, Glenn focusses on insolvency and restructuring matters, for which he is recommended in the Leaders League. Glenn has successfully concluded the training to act as insolvency practitioner. He is a member of the Belgian Turnaround Association and has several publications to his name.
Jeremy Harris
Jeremy Harris
IP and Disputes Partner. Jeremy advises clients on all aspects of the protection and exploitation of intellectual property and related rights. He has acted for clients in substantial intellectual property disputes, including High Court proceedings involving trade mark infringement, passing off, copyright and database right infringement and breach of confidence. In addition, he acts for clients in technology and software licence disputes. Jeremy also advises on IP transactions, including IP acquisitions/disposals, IP licensing deals, joint ventures, the IP aspects of group restructurings and corporate transactions. In addition, Jeremy provides the full range of IP discovery, strategy and IP value management services. Jeremy has a focus on technology related IP issues, in particular in relation to software and data. He has specific expertise in software copyright issues, software copying disputes, software over-deployment and open source software. In addition, Jeremy regularly advises on rights in data, data use clearance and data licensing disputes.
Clare Jenkinson
Clare Jenkinson
Financial Regulation Partner. Clare is a partner within Deloitte Legal, who specialises in financial services regulation and regulatory technology (RegTech) law. She has over 15 years’ experience of providing strategic and commercial advice to financial services firms, ranging from large international banks, broker-dealer businesses and new market entrants. Clare advises on regulatory matters arising from ongoing business, business or market change, or changes in regulation.  Areas of advice include digital assets and digitalisation of financial services; securities and derivatives regulation; investment research; market structure and transparency; regulatory reporting; market abuse; investor protection; the regulatory perimeter and related licensing and financial promotion requirements; cross-border business requirements; systems and controls. Clare excels in leading the legal and regulatory aspects of significant regulatory change and advocacy projects such as EU MAR, EU MiFID II, Brexit and CRD VI, and whilst at HSBC was the chair of AFME’s Investment Research Working Group.  She is recognised for her ability to advise business leaders with clear product understanding and commercially-focussed risk assessments. Prior to joining HSBC, Clare has been seconded from law firms to a number of financial services firms including banks, broker-dealers and asset managers.
Ludvík Juřička
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.
Jaroslava Kračúnová
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.   
Jaroslava Kračúnová
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.   
Jurga McCluskey
Jurga McCluskey
Jurga McCluskey is a leading immigration lawyer. Having joined Deloitte LLP in 2015 as Partner and Head of UK Immigration, Jurga also leads Deloitte’s European immigration practice and is part of the wider immigration global leadership team and Deloitte's UK GES executive. She is an award winning immigration expert with some 20 years’ experience in her field and deals with all immigration matters including highly complex corporate and personal immigration matters. In 2021, Jurga was recognised as one of the Top 10 Most Powerful Women in the professional services industry. She is contributing editor for Legal500’s first ever Corporate Immigration Guide. In 2019, she was appointed as Chair of the Immigration Committee of the Worldwide ERC and in 2022, Jurga was invited to attend the International Migration Review Forum at the United Nations, where she represented WERC and the Business Community on the need for more flexible migration across borders. Jurga leads Deloitte's Global Government Relations team and is regularly called on to provide expert guidance on immigration matters. Jurga also sits on the Home Office Employer Advisory Group and advises the Home Office on the post Brexit Immigration System.
Daniel Monaghan
Daniel Monaghan
Daniel is a real estate lawyer with a broad range of experience in all aspects of real estate law. He acts for both developer and investor clients on a variety matters, including investment/development acquisitions and disposals, funding agreements, conditional contracts, options and asset management. Matters on which Daniel has recently advised: acting for a developer on the forward funding disposal of a key logistics development in Leeds; • acquisitions and disposals of properties to a value in excess of £100 million in the last 12 months for offshore investors; • acting for Allied London on the development of St John’s in Manchester, including the £110 million arts and cultural centre known as the factory and two 36 storey PRS buildings; • acting for the developer on the pre-let of 230,000 sq ft of office space to be constructed in Manchester City Centre to an international e-commerce occupier; • development of city centre student accommodation sites throughout the UK; and • acting for a leading international mobile logistics company on the letting of their European HQ in London.
Aicha Nafii
Aicha Nafii
Aicha is a Partner in the Tax Controversy and Litigation practice of Deloitte Legal Canada LLP. Aicha practices tax law with a focus on tax litigation and tax controversy, from the audit and objection stages to tax appeals and judicial reviews before the courts. She regularly assists clients in resolving tax disputes, both in and out of Court, and engages in managing complex tax audits. Aicha has successfully represented clients in a wide variety of domestic and international tax disputes involving the Canada Revenue Agency and the provincial tax authorities. Aicha also has a significant experience in large and complex transfer pricing and scientific research and experimental development disputes. Aicha has acted in matters before the Tax Court of Canada, the Court of Québec, the Superior Court of Québec, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal. Aicha joined Deloitte Legal Canada LLP in 2016 and returned in 2017 after having served as a law clerk at the Tax Court of Canada. Professional and Business Affiliations Aicha is a member of the Quebec Bar, the Canadian Tax Foundation and is an Adjunct Professor at Sherbrooke University (Coach for the Donald G. Bowman National Tax Moot). Education Québec Bar – 2017 Bachelors’ degree in law, Sherbrooke University – 2015 Master’s degree in tax law, Osgood Hall Law School (York University) – 2018
Hiroshi Naito
Partner of DT Legal Japan; Head of Commercial Law Team Mr. Naito provides services for global companies both in corporate and commercial law areas. As to the corporate law area, Hiroshi assists foreign clients to commence, develop, reorganize or shut down business in Japan. He also assists Japanese companies to enter into foreign markets. With respect to commercial law area, Mr. Naito provides compliance advice in antitrust law, white collar crime, Data protection, Intellectual property law. He also has experiences of disputes before courts or international arbitral institutions.
Wayne Nash
Wayne Nash
Wayne specialises in finding solutions to client’s real estate challenges and problems across a number of different sectors and is recognised as a leading individual in the north west. With over 20 years’ experience, Wayne handles all aspects of commercial property risk, strategic advisory and disputes, acting for some of the UK’s largest property developers, investors and occupiers. Wayne is best known for the innovative solutions he produces in dealing with development constraints (rights to light, contractual and development disputes, rights of way and access rights) and was highly commended at the FT Innovative Lawyers (Europe) Awards 2019 for his expertise in this area. Wayne also has a keen interest in complex landlord and tenant disputes and has considerable experience of high value complicated dilapidations claims; helping clients to navigate a commercial and cost-effective path to a successful resolution. Notable work highlights include: numerous rights of light risk analysis and solutions on some of the largest development schemes in the UK; with a specific emphasis on high rise towers within the PRS and Student sectors; advising a JV consortium in respect of an option dispute for a significant regeneration scheme in the north; providing strategic advice to a major UK property investor regarding complex tenant break conditions in order to prevent early exit from a lease; and acting for a substantial property occupier in the leisure sector regarding lease-end liabilities and the successful defence to the entirety of a significant dilapidations claim. He joined Deloitte Legal from Shoosmiths in 2022.
Wim Naudts
Wim Naudts has a clear focus on administrative and regulatory law and is trusted advisor to a wide diversity of public bodies. Wim holds master degrees in Public Administration, European Studies and Law. He started his career in 2005 as a university researcher. In 2009 Wim was admitted to the bar and began to work as a lawyer for an Antwerp boutique law office, specialized in administrative and transport law. Wim worked i.a. on a large scale assignment for the EC’s DG MOVE on cargo handling in ports. In 2013 he joined the department public and regulatory law of Deloitte Legal. From 2012 until 2014 he was also a teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven. Wim has solid knowledge of restructuring and public procurement, combining his experience as a lawyer with his insights as master in Public Administration and master in European Studies.
Jiřina Procházková
Jiřina Procházková
Jiřina Procházková is a Partner and a leader of the Tax Litigation department at Deloitte Legal in Prague. Jiřina is a specialist in tax administration, tax law and state aid regulation. She has extensive experience in representing clients in tax audits and subsequent administrative and judicial proceedings, especially in the area of VAT frauds, R&D tax deductions and grants and incentives. In her practice, Jiřina seeks to offer innovative procedural strategies that incorporate the individual needs of a client and up-to-date case law of the Czech administrative courts and the CJEU. She has led many successful disputes before the highest Czech courts. Jiřina also stands behind the development of a technology app for the prevention of involvement in tax fraud. Jiřina is regularly recommended in Legal 500 and among the Top 100 Women of the Czech-Slovak Legal Profession and she was rewarded as the Best Litigation Lawyer in the Tax Advisor & Tax firm of the Year. She is also active as a pro bono lawyer and is responsible for the cooperation of Deloitte Legal with Pro Bono Alliance.
Karin Sernbo
Karin work as a consultant at Deloitte’s Legal Services and is advising both private and public international companies regarding all aspects of Swedish corporate, M&A and employment law. Her main work involves, inter alia, M&A, reorganizations and restructuring, cross-border transactions and setup of foreign establishments in Sweden. Furthermore, Karin is specialized within the field of employment law and assists clients with employment related matters such as employment agreements, pensions schemes, termination, reorganizations etc.
Johan Speecke
Johan is a partner in the Tax Dispute Resolution team and is a specialist in (criminal) tax litigation, advising companies and individuals, not only during the administrative process of the litigation (advice on tax challenges to final assessments, negotiations with both local and central tax administration, individual rulings, claims against assessments, notices, etc...) but also before tax courts at Belgian (Court of first instance, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court) and European level.
Danny Stas
Danny is head of the tax advisory practice. He is a tax lawyer specialised in VAT, in particular with respect to real estate and financial transactions, as well as eco taxes and contributions. As partner, Danny focuses on VAT consulting for Belgian clients in the private and public sectors and the broad corporate market at national and international level. In the real estate industry, Danny focuses on VAT consulting for clients in the private (e.g. real estate developers, REITs, hospitals, senior housing, etc.) and public sectors and the broad corporate market at national and international level. Besides the specific VAT topics (e.g. reduced VAT rates, VAT exemptions), he has also good knowledge of alternative financing of real estate and transfer duties.
Petr Suchý
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.
Takashi Tanazawa
Takashi Tanazawa is a partner of Labor & Employment practice. He also leads Dispute Resolution Practice. Takashi provides clients with advice on broad labor and employment issues and handles wide range of disputes including labor and employment disputes, contract disputes, tort disputes such as product liability disputes, and consumer disputes. He also provides advice on various types of contracts, examples of which include construction agreements, carriage contracts, EPC agreements.
Yannick Van den broeke
Yannick Van den broeke is a Director in Deloitte Legal - Lawyers’ Corporate and M&A practice, also leading Deloitte’s Sports Sector in Belgium. He is an experienced lawyer with a demonstrated history of undertaking M&A and corporate structuring work for Belgian and international clients, with a specific focus on privately owned businesses. His transactional work involves advising clients during the complete process of acquiring or selling businesses (i.e. buy- and sellside due diligence, negotiating with counterparties and drawing up transaction documents). In his corporate structuring practice, Yannick supports clients with the (solvent) reorganisation of their businesses' legal structure through mergers, demergers, contributions, etc. He also advises clients on a wide range of company law matters, such as corporate governance and director's liability. Yannick is considered a trusted advisor to clients in various industries, notwithstanding his specific focus on Private clients and Technology, Media and Telecommunications, which includes Sports business), having strong project management skills and an eye for detail. Yannick regularly lectures and publishes on corporate law related matters.
Dominique Vanherck
Dominique is a member of Deloitte Legal's Public law, regulatory & permits team. She is a sustainability expert with a particular focus on the energy sector. She advises clients on all climate and energy law related matters including subsidies, permits, concessions and contracts. Furthermore, she has extensive experience with large infrastructure projects, and in that respect advises public and private sector clients on construction law, PPP, DBFM(O) contracts, EPC contracts and public procurement. As an affiliate researcher at the KU Leuven’s Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, she writes several scientific contributions per year and regularly speaks at energy law conferences. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Environmental and Energy Law Journal.
Alain-Laurent Verbeke
Prof. Dr. Alain-Laurent Verbeke is a Partner at Deloitte Legal, Greenille Private Client Team. For more than 30 years, he has been working for national and international UHNW families and captains of industry. He is recommended consistently in many international rankings (eg Chambers tier 1). He specialises in estate planning, family property law (relational property law, inheritance law, wills and donations), family dynamics and governance. His work involves facilitating next gen and family wealth processes as well as negotiation, mediation, collaborative law and arbitration of family business, inheritance and divorce conflicts and disputes. Alain-Laurent is a Full Professor of Private Law and ADR, Chair of Family Property Law (Trusts and Estates) and Negotiation & Mediation at the University of Leuven and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He also is Professor of Law at Tilburg University and UCP Lisbon Global School of Law.
Daniel Vitous
Daniel Vitous
Daniel Vitouš is a Partner in the Corporate M&A department at Deloitte Legal in Prague and leads the Corporate Structuring Team. In his practice, he specializes in comprehensive corporate structuring processes including the post-structuring corporate and contractual set-up and intragroup financing. Thanks to his long-term cooperation within Deloitte’s network, he has wide experience in combining legal, tax, and financing aspects in his project in order to find the best solutions for his client from a business perspective. Daniel joined Deloitte Legal in 2010 and during his career, he also worked for D.Law, a Luxembourg-based law firm associated with Deloitte, where he focused on international M&A/structuring projects for clients originating especially from the USA and UK. As the legal leader for corporate structuring, Daniel actively presents our unique tax and legal capabilities as the respected expert in this field.