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Vladimír Uhde

Vladimír Uhde

Work Department

CORPORATE LAW, ENERGY LAW, LITIGATION, ARBITRATION AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS, M&A, REAL ESTATE

Position

Vladimír Uhde is partner at the BBH law firm and is co-head of the litigation & arbitration department and head of the energy law department.

Career

Within the scope of litigation, Mr. Uhde focuses on commercial court and arbitration proceedings. He also has extensive experience in energy law and in media law. Over the course of his career Mr. Uhde has advised numerous domestic and foreign investors in the completion of major acquisitions, particularly in the energy sector in various countries, including the Czech and Slovak Republics, Russia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Vladimir Uhde is a long standing legal advisor in many projects for the CEZ Group, the largest energy concern in the Czech Republic. Vladimir participated on CEZ’ behalf as the head legal adviser in a project concerning the acquisition and construction of a wide range of photovoltaic resources in the Czech Republic with a total installed capacity exceeding 100 MW and he further advised CEZ in a wide range of issues relating to energy regulation. In the litigation area, Vladimir leads and has led the representation of both Czech and foreign clients in various significant disputes including international and domestic arbitration proceedings, institutional and ad hoc, as well as disputes before domestic courts and significant foreign venues such as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Recently, among others, Vladimir represented Czech investors in arbitration proceedings according to the UNCITRAL rules the value of which exceeded EUR 800 million and an international real estate developer in an arbitration arising from a construction contract, the value which was EUR 31.8 million. Mr. Uhde has acted for a significant international investment group as legal advisor in a complex umbrella dispute including various disputes in different legal jurisdictions, including English and Cypriot.

Languages

Czech, English, German and Russian.

Memberships

Czech Bar Association (since 2002)

Young International Arbitration Group at the London Court of International Arbitration

Arbitrator of the Czech Arbitration Court in Prague attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agrarian Chamber of the Czech Republic

Education

Charles University in Prague – Faculty of Law (1993 – 1998)

1998 Mgr.

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