act Randa Havel Legal

The firm: Established by Martin Randa and Jan Havel, act Randa Havel Legal is a Czech law firm operating on the market since 2006.

act Randa Havel Legal provides high-quality legal services to Czech as well as foreign companies, entrepreneurs, private entities and public institutions. Based on its detailed knowledge of the Czech legal environment and domestic market, as well as its lawyers’ extensive experience with international transactions, act Randa Havel Legal offers its clients comprehensive legal services in all fundamental areas of law.

act Randa Havel Legal’s aim is to always give its clients the exceptional legal care they expect while making them feel secure, successful and respected.

The firm listens to its clients’ needs, and drives its work with both passion and specialised insight into its clients’ specific legal environments and broader strategies. It’s this philosophy that act Randa Havel Legal brings to each and every case and client.

act Randa Havel Legal is a part of the European law firm act legal. With almost 300 top lawyers, tax advisors and business experts, act legal is the very first choice for top-level legal service at both the local and international level. Thanks to act legal, both domestic and foreign individuals have the opportunity to get legal support throughout the whole of Europe.

Areas of practice: Seven core practice groups (Corporate and M&A, Labour law, Energy, Dispute resolution, Real estate and Construction, TMT and Environmental Law and Waste Disposal) form the pillars of the firm’s legal services in different areas of law.

M&A: The lawyers at act Randa Havel Legal have extensive experience during structure proposals and completion of transactions to acquire or sell shares in companies, plants or parts thereof or any other transactions to change the owner of identified property of companies or natural persons. act Randa Havel Legal’s experience includes privatisation and transactions in the area of private equity and venture capital. It has long-term and regular clients whom it represents during the acquisition and sale of shares or stakes in companies, during transfers of plants or parts thereof, transfers of identifiable assets and liabilities, during consolidation, merger, division or other changes in the form of companies, establishment of joint ventures, during complex restructuring, etc. act Randa Havel Legal provides consultancy to companies with shares quoted on regular markets in relation to any questions associated with regulating transactions involving quoted shares, including takeover bids.

act Randa Havel Legal provides these legal services in various branches of industry such as energy generation, construction, steel working, metallurgy, the chemical industry, the rubber industry, pharmaceuticals, mining, the production of electrical appliances, the production of automobile parts and so on. It regularly secures legal aspects of acquiring and selling photovoltaic power stations. Its experience includes transactions also in non-industrial branches such as telecommunications, information technology, the media, insurance, tourism, transport, advertising services and so on.

Labour law: act Randa Havel Legal provides universal legal services in the area of labour law. It prepares standard (sample) labour law documents and negotiate contracts with specific companies, such as managerial contracts, for example. act Randa Havel Legal participates in creating internal employment regulations, including wage regulations and other regulations pertaining to remuneration. It draws up draft collective agreements at a company and higher level and represents its clients during meetings with representatives of trade union organisations or other employee representatives.

Energy: act Randa Havel Legal is one of the few Czech law firms that provide regular, long-term comprehensive legal services in all segments of the energy market, including construction of power engineering units for generating or processing electricity, thermal energy and gas and energy utilisation of waste.

The lawyers at act Randa Havel Legal have had the opportunity to acquire first-hand expert knowledge and legal experience during a number of varied transactions associated with the energy sector.

Jan Havel, head of act Randa Havel Legal's energy team, has acquired extensive expert experience and knowledge, especially in the area of commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and construction law focused on the energy sector and supplies of technological equipment and investment units, including international EPC contracts. Jan Havel has provided consultancy within the framework of international acquisitions and sales of companies in the area of power engineering. Jan Havel’s many years of experience include the provision of legal consultation in almost 100 complex investment and developer projects in the power engineering sector, including nuclear facilities, in Europe, Americas and Asia.

Dispute resolution: act Randa Havel Legal provides all the legal services associated with dispute resolution contracts or breach of the legal regulations. It always endeavours to reach the quickest, most cost-effective amicable settlement. If no amicable solution is achieved, act Randa Havel Legal represents its clients in proceedings before the courts, in arbitration proceedings and during mediation. act Randa Havel Legal always proceeds with the greatest possible regard to protecting the client’s interests and provides the client with the maximum amount of information concerning the course of the dispute.

Martin Randa, managing partner and head of the dispute resolution team, and Jan Havel, partner, are arbitrators in the Arbitration Court of Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic. As of June 2019, Jan Havel has also been a listed mediator.

Real estate, development, investment and construction: act Randa Havel Legal offers legal services in the area of real estate, development, investment and construction. It provides services to large development companies, lessors and leaseholders, individuals investing in real estate and construction companies. It's lawyers have extensive experience with comprehensive legal coverage of large commercial and residential development projects. act Randa Havel Legal negotiates lease contracts and prepares standard sample contracts. A natural part of its legal services includes representing clients when negotiating construction project financing and consultancy from a tax perspective during suitable structuring of groups of companies owning real estate.

TMT: act Randa Havel Legal provides legal services in the area of technology, media and telecommunications (TMT). This area is undergoing significant dynamic development, especially in the online environment. Legislation is frequently significantly delayed in  reacting to changes, so it is often necessary to implement individual solutions for each project. Thanks to its lawyers’ extensive experience in the area of TMT, act Randa Havel Legal is able to provide high quality legal services even in the case of non-traditional and innovative solutions.

act Randa Havel Legal is one of few Czech law firms that offer extensive experience and expertise in the area of personal data protection on the internet. act Randa Havel Legal’s experience in the TMT area includes projects in the sphere of internet media (focusing on news and entertainment, including internet television), internet advertising and internet payment relations, including general questions pertaining to online commerce, especially the area of the concluding contracts via the  internet.

Environmental law and waste disposal: act Randa Havel Legal is one of the leading law firms in the Czech market in the area of waste disposal and environmental law. The activities in this area are regulated by ever stricter standards at a national, european and international level, while sanctions for breaching them are in the range of several tens of millions of Czech crowns.

act Randa Havel Legal provides legal services with regard to procuring administrative permits and assessing compliance of clients’ activities with binding legal regulations; it represents clients in administrative proceedings and in any associated judicial proceedings, provides contractual documentation concerning this area and regulates contractual relations regarding compliance with environmental protection regulations in general. The services provided by act Randa Havel Legal also include consultancy associated with the area of planning permission and building permit proceedings and assessing environmental impact.