ROWAN LEGAL

The firm: ROWAN LEGAL belongs with the leading Czech law firms, was founded in 1990 and can now provide clients with almost 30 years of experience. The clients include the largest national and international corporations and public institutions, to which the firm provides comprehensive legal support in key projects.

The firm provides its clients with full legal support; however it is particularly recognised and regularly highly ranked for its expertise in IPMT/IT, public regulation (including public procurement and competition), dispute resolution/arbitration, corporate law and commercial law. It also has an extremely strong tax law department.

ROWAN LEGAL is particularly recognised and regularly highly ranked for expertise in IT and media, telecommunications, privacy and data protection, corporate law and commercial law, dispute resolution and arbitration, intellectual property and competition (including public procurement).

Members of the team include lecturers at law faculties and authors of expert articles in the various areas the firm covers. They try to be the people forming, rather than following, legal opinions.

Thanks to the firm’s long-term presence in the international market of legal services, it has become an exclusive member of MULTILAW for the Czech Republic.

Areas of practice
IT/media/communications: the firm’s lawyers are leading experts in information systems delivery and implementation, outsourcing, software development, e-commerce, cloud computing and cyber security.

Dispute resolution and arbitration: ROWAN LEGAL is a leading choice for dispute resolution and arbitration in the Czech markets. For over 20 years, the firm’s lawyers have been selected for advocacy in the most complex cases worth billions of euros.

Public procurement: public procurement is one of the firm’s traditional areas of expertise and it has a very long track record of advising the contracting authorities, the candidates and tenderers.

Corporate law, M&A: ROWAN LEGAL provides comprehensive legal counselling to both national companies and national branches of global companies in full range of this field of law – from long-term management of corporate matters, drafting of corporate structures, modifications of corporate and group structures, company transformations and group restructuring.

Privacy and data protection: ROWAN LEGAL is the right partner for issues related to privacy and data protection especially with regards to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and provides strategic advice to associations and individual clients. ROWAN LEGAL has the largest team of privacy protection and cyber-security specialists in the Czech Republic.

Tax: ROWAN LEGAL is convinced that lawyers should work in the closest co-operation with tax experts and that every transaction, including in particular cross-border transactions, should be structured in such a way as to reflect at the same time both legal and tax considerations.

The firm also provides full legal support in the following areas: commercial law; intellectual and industrial property; competition and antitrust; labour law; regulatory and compliance; product recalls; and real estate and construction.