Zdeněk Beránek > PETERKA & PARTNERS > Prague, Czech Republic > Lawyer Profile

PETERKA & PARTNERS
Karlovo náměstí 671/24
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic

Position

Partner, Leader of Sport, Media and Gaming

Career

Zdeněk has been cooperating with PETERKA & PARTNERS since 2000 and became a Partner of the firm in 2010. Currently, he is the Leader of the Sport, Media and Gaming practice at PETERKA & PARTNERS.

Zdeněk focuses on mergers and acquisitions, utilities, and sports, media and gaming law. He has a solid track record of mid-size and large mergers and acquisitions transactions, including cross-border CEE deals.

During his spell in Slovakia, he co-managed the firm’s office in Bratislava for a couple of years.

Zdeněk also regularly publishes in Online Gambling Lawyer magazine in connection with Czech gambling law.

Last but not least, acting as a counsel for the leading Czech football club for several years, Zdeněk is well known as one of most significant Czech sports lawyers and gives lectures to university students on sports law.

Languages

Czech, English, French, Slovak

Memberships

Czech Bar Association

Slovak Bar Association

Education

Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Law Faculty of University in Nancy, France

Lawyer Rankings

Czech Republic > TMT

PETERKA & PARTNERS’ TMT practice operates across both the local Czech market and the wider CEE region. With experience in the domestic media law sphere, the firm focuses on the negotiation of media rights agreements and on TMT-related litigation. The offering is co-led by Hynek Peroutka, who handles IP litigation and represents clients from the pharmaceutical and construction industries, and Zdeněk Beránek, who covers sports, media, and gaming matters.