Adéla Kučerová
Adéla is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing. Adéla advises national and international clients in all areas of Real Estate and Construction. In addition, she has a focus on Corporate and M&A matters.
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Ales Linhart
Aleš Linhart is a partner at Taylor Wessing in Prague. He advises national and international clients in all areas of Litigation & Dispute Resolution. In addition, he has in-depth experience in Pharmaceutical Law. After 20 years of experience his consulting portfolio includes contentious and non-contentious matters. These include development projects, construction law, claims, administrative procedures related to pharmaceutical law and various legal disputes, with a focus on construction law and breach of contracts.
Alfred Fink
Partner
Allan Hahn
Allan Hahn is a senior associate and a member of the Banking & Finance as well as the Corporate/M&A team at Taylor Wessing in Vienna. He supports in advising national and international clients in all areas of banking and corporate law. He is particularly involved in due diligences, the foundation/incorporation of legal entities and branches of foreign legal entities and also supports in restructurings and liquidations as well as in (cross-border) M&A transactions.
Amandine Joulié
Partner
Andrea Čupeľová
Andrea is a partner at Taylor Wessing, she advises national and international clients on the full range of employment law issues. Amongst others, she focuses on the relationships of clients with trade unions and collective bargaining negotiations, the employment part of complex M&A transactions, staff reorganisations as well as the redundancies and terminations of employment relationships in high profile contentious cases.
Andrea also helps clients to optimise their working time models and internal policies, including bonus/incentive schemes. Being an expert on employment-related topics, she is often quoted in the media and invited to TV and radio broadcasts. In addition, she regularly speaks about employment-related topics in webinars and conferences. Clients also often rely on her comprehensive know-how in dispute resolution.
Andreas Howadt
Andreas is a senior associate and a member of the Restructuring & Corporate Recovery team at Taylor Wessing. He advises national and international clients in all areas of restructuring and insolvency matters.
Andreas Schütz
Andreas Schütz is a partner and a member of the IP/IT team at Taylor Wessing Vienna. He specialises in the areas of copyright & media, unfair competition law, IT & telecommunications, data protection and public commercial law. Andreas regularly advises well-known national and international companies from the IT, telecommunications and food sector on all aspects of unfair competition and IT law. His areas of focus include software contracts and software distribution law as well as data protection, e- and m-commerce and GTCT. He also advises in relation to IT projects. In addition, Andreas has extensive experience in the areas of food law and public procurement law as well as logistics & transport law.
Andrej Leontiev
Andrej Leontiev is a partner at Taylor Wessing Slovakia and co-heads the office in Bratislava with Radovan Pala. He specialises in Corporate and Commercial Agreements. In addition, Andrej has years of experience in advising national and international clients in all areas of Dispute Resolution.
Andrzej Mikosz
Andrzej Mikosz is a partner in the Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets team at Taylor Wessing in Warsaw, Poland. He has a profound specialization and many years of experience especially in public M&A, capital markets and related regulatory. He has been providing corporate clients as well as public authorities with his strategic advise in some most demanding and critical situations.
Anna Rataj
Anna Rataj is a senior associate and a member of the Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets team at Taylor Wessing Warsaw in Poland. She is experienced in advising clients in all matters regarding mergers and acquisitions, post-transactional restructuring of companies, commercial contracts and corporate governance. She is also specialised in Banking and Finance.In the course of her professional career, Anna has given legal advice in the course of several multistage national and global M&A transactions, including both share deals and asset deals. She has also supported commercial clients in making investments into Polish companies, including start-ups. Anna has completed a number of complex pre-transactional legal due diligences. She has also participated in projects involving the establishment of financial securities connected to loan agreements.
Anne-Juliette de Zaluski
Partner
Antoni Goraj
Antoni is a proficient banking & finance lawyer with a special focus on financing and refinancing transactions in domestic and cross-border projects, including real property finance, acquisition finance, corporate finance and project finance. He also advises on the restructuring of existing debts (including in distressed projects), intra-group financing and documentation for standard banking products (such as guarantees and cash-pooling agreements). He acts for banks, syndicates, private funds as well as for the borrower’s side including sponsors and project companies.
Due to his many years of experience, Antoni also has profound know-how in advising national as well as international clients in questions regarding regulatory, transactional and corporate aspects of banking operations and operations of close-end investment funds.
Axel Ferly
Counsel
Barbora Antalíková
Barbora is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing, she is a member of the Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets team. Barbora advises national and international clients in all areas of Banking and Finance.
Bartosz Świdrak
Bartosz is a senior associate in the IP/IT team, having in-depth experience and know-how especially in the Life sciences and healthcare sector.
He focuses on providing comprehensive legal advice for medical device, pharmaceutical and food companies, including regulatory, market access, product classification and advertising matters. Medical companies rely on him with regard to adapting to the ever-changing medical device legislation. Bartosz also advises clients on data protection and compliance issues. He has extensive experience in providing legal trainings and workshops to the Life sciences industry.
Benjamin Znaty
Counsel
Benoît Goulesque-Monaux
Partner
Borys Strukov
Borys Strukov is a senior associate and a member of the Dispute Resolution team at Taylor Wessing in Kiev, Ukraine. Besides being experienced in multiple areas subject to national Ukrainian regulations, he particularly specialises in advising national and international clients in commercial disputes and litigation, as well as in arbitration matters. He has also participated in civil, economic and administrative court trials on behalf of both contesting parties, through all litigation stages, including courts of appeal and cassation.
Christian Valsamidis
Partner
Christophe Flaicher
Partner
Christopher Bakier
Christopher is a Senior Associate at Taylor Wessing Vienna, who specialises in advising on regulatory, data and commercial matters within the IT, public administrative sector, telecommunications, Life Sciences and Healthcare and in particular in the gambling / gaming industry.
He has experience working on a range of matters that include commercial market entries, resolving contractual and regulatory issues and risk minimizations, leading and undertaking practice area related corporate due diligence and responding to regulatory questions.
Claire Saint-Laurent
Partner
Claudia Steegmueller
Claudia Steegmüller is Managing Partner and Head of Banking & Finance at Taylor Wessing Vienna. In addition, she also specialises in Corporate as well as Capital Markets and Private Client. Within Banking & Finance, Claudia advises national and international clients in all areas of finance law. With regard to acquisition financing, she mainly advises on borrower´s side, however she also advises banks, especially when it comes to bank (concession) issues regarding cross-border activities. Claudia also specialises in all areas of corporate law, be it company foundations, restructurings or liquidations. She is also regularly involved in M&A and private equity transactions.
Claudia Jonath
Partner
Dalila Mabrouki-Jacques
Partner
Dániel Ódor
Dániel Ódor is a partner at Taylor Wessing in Budapest, Hungary. He specialises in Real Estate, Banking & Finance as well as in Corporate law. In addition, he advises national and international clients in all areas of IP/IT.
Dieter Natlacen
Dieter Natlacen is a partner and CEE Head of the industry group TMT (Technology, Media & Telecoms) at Taylor Wessing. His main areas of expertise also include Distribution Law as well as Commercial (e.g. cooperation and outsourcing agreements). He also has in-depth knowledge in Dispute Resolution, being both litigator and arbitrator (ICC, VIAC, ad hoc). Dieter Natlacen is Head of the Taylor Wessing Italy Group. Austrian corporations with business interests in Italy as well as Italian clients who are active in or plan to do business in CEE, are being advised.
Eric Charvillat
Partner
Erik Steiner
Erik is a distinguished and integral member of the IT/IP practice group in Vienna. With a background in software development, his expertise spans across multiple domains, including Open Source Software (OSS), data protection, software licensing, cyber security, IT outsourcing as well as the rapidly growing fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Web3. His unique insights into the industry and his experience allow him to effectively advise both multinational and domestic clients, tailoring his approach to their specific needs.
As a video gaming law expert, he supports companies from this industry by providing comprehensive legal advice on a wide variety of issues, including the specific gaming regulations in Austria. Being a member of the International Videogaming Group enables him to collaborate with colleagues from multiple regions and stay abreast of the latest development in gaming law, ensuring clients receive the most up-to-date and well-rounded advice possible.
Erwin Hanslik
Erwin Hanslik is a partner at Taylor Wessing in the Czech Republic. He heads the offices in Prague and Brno. Erwin advises national and international clients in all aspects of corporate law and has years of experience in M&A. In addition, Erwin specialises in Real Estate and Litigation & Dispute Resolution.
Eva Smoleňová
Eva Smoleňová is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing Bratislava, Slovakia. She supports her team in advising national and international clients mainly in the areas of Environmental, Planning & Regulatory, Commercial as well as IP/IT.
Evelyne Friedel
Partner
Ewelina Stobiecka
Ewelina Stobiecka is a partner at Taylor Wessing in Poland. She heads the Warsaw office. Together with her team she advises notable national and international corporations in the areas of corporate law, real estate law and arbitration. Furthermore she specialises in commercial agreements, projects and employment law.
François Mary
Partner
Gábor Kőhidai
Gábor is a senior assiociate at Taylor Wessing. He is a member of the Real estate & construction group. His expertise includes all areas connected to real estate, be it transactional work, dispute resolution, or regulatory questions.
Gábor will also advise national and international clients in Disputes & investigations.
Gábor Helembai
Gábor is a member of the Corporate and M&A team at Taylor Wessing in Budapest. He advises national and international clients from various industries on their domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and joint venture deals.
Beyond transactions, he also supports chief legal counsels of multinational companies with cross-border legal advice, coordinates lawyers in different jurisdictions in international legal projects and advises decision makers on complex restructuring, general corporate and commercial matters. Due to his many years of experience, Gábor will also consult developers, property owners, financiers, designers, lessors and lessees in their (cross-border) real estate/construction-related matters.
Having advised major (online) slot machine operators and manufacturers on regulatory and commercial matters, Gábor has gained special sector knowledge on gaming in recent years and is a sought-after speaker at leading international gaming conferences.
Georg Walderdorff
Georg Walderdorff is a partner and was a founding member of e|n|w|c Attorneys at Law (now Taylor Wessing CEE). He is the liaison partner of the Taylor Wessing CEE offices Budapest, Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Warsaw and Kiev. In addition to his admission in Austria, he also has an international admission in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia, in Poland and in Hungary. Georg heads the Private Client team. He specialises in estate and wealth transfer planning. He advises on anticipating structures of equitable last will dispositions, on setting up family foundations and giving support with regards to the latter. Another focus of his work is the representation of clients in inheritance proceedings.
Grégoire Toulouse
Partner
Gwendal Chatain
Partner
Hugo Khalfallaoui
Associate
Iman Torabia
Iman is a Counsel as well as an attorney at law and a member of the Corporate, M&A and capital markets team.
In addition, she supports in advising national and international clients on all areas of Banking and Finance law as well as Real Estate and Construction law matters with a particular focus on the according industry sectors. Iman is an author of various publications in the field of Corporate and Real Estate law and was also a lecturer at the University of Vienna, faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Institute of Economics and Law, ordinariate for private and business law).
Ines Ljeskavica-Jergovic
Ines is a counsel specialising in dispute resolution in Vienna. Her focus is on advising banks in defending against claims by injured investors and in asserting claims for recourse and compensation. She has extensive know-how and routine in being a litigator in mass and investor proceedings.
Inès Tribouillet
Counsel
Inès Slougui
Associate
Iva Gráczová
Iva is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing, she is a member of the Corporate as well as the Real Estate & Construction team.
She has years of experience in advising national and international clients in corporate secretarial. In addition, she has an industry focus on Automotive, Consumer & Retail as well as Healthcare and Life Sciences.
Ivo Deskovic
Ivo Deskovic is a partner in the Disputes & investigations team. His focus is on advising national and international clients from the financial sector, where he has extensive experience in mass- and cross-border litigation. Due to Ivo’s deep understanding of the financial institutions sector he will also advise you on banking related matters.
Jakub Adam
Jakub Adam heads the Real Estate team in the Czech Republic. He is an experienced transactional lawyer with a strong property background and a proven track record of property, financing and energy transactions. Fluent in Czech, English and German, Jakub advises both domestic and international clients in complex transactions in various industry sectors.
Jakub Pitera
Jakub Pitera is a partner in the corporate/M&A & capital markets team and focuses on working with financial institutions. He has advised on many transactions concerning corporate restructuring of the largest Polish and international holdings. Jakub has expertise in M&A transactions, IPOs, trade in financial instruments and investment funds. A key area of his work is representing clients in the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and Polish Competition Authority, which often involve regulatory matters and mergers and acquisitions proceedings
Jan Adamus
Jan is a senior assicate at Taylor Wessing. He focuses on leading real estate projects. He advises clients on the sale and purchase of real estate (asset and share deals) and their investment process as well as on the rental of office, logistics and commercial space. He has been involved in numerous national and international real estate projects and has conducted several real estate due diligences, not least for the purposes of financing and refinancing.
Ján Lazur
Ján Lazur is a partner and a member of the IP/IT group at Taylor Wessing in Bratislava, Slovakia. In addition, he advises national and international clients in Commercial and Competition, EU & Trade matters. Ján Lazur has a particular industry focus on Energy, Life Sciences as well as on Technology, Media & Communications.
Jan Píza
Jan is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing, he has a special focus on Dispute Resolution and will advise national and international clients in all questions related this practice area.
Janka Brezániová
Janka Brezániová is a partner at Taylor Wessing Prague, Czech Republic and has more than ten years of experience. She mainly focuses on providing advice in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate law. She has extensive experience with transactions across a wide range of industries, both on the domestic and international level. Janka also specialises in the field of labour law and personal data protection.
János Kopasz
János is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing, he is a member of the IP/IT Group. From a large number of cases János gained in-depth knowledge in the field of intellectual property rights, IT and data protection.
He also focuses on commercial and distribution law as well as on Corporate crime & compliance. In addition, he has special expertise in the healthcare and logistics & transport sectors.
Jaroslav Kuba
Jaroslav is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing. He has years of experience and profound knowledge in the area of Corporate, M&A and capital markets including private equity. He also advises national and international clients in questions related to Employment, pensions & mobility.
Juraj Frindrich
Juraj Frindrich is a partner and a member of the Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets team at Taylor Wessing in Bratislava, Slovakia. He specialises in all areas of Slovak and European corporate law. Juraj also has a focus on Competition, EU & Trade as well as on Commercial. In addition, he has an industry focus on Financial Institutions, Manufacturing & Industrials as well as on Real Estate & Infrastructure.
Karin Pomaizlová
Karin Pomaizlová is a partner and Head of IP/IT at Taylor Wessing Prague, Czech Republic. Karin has extensive experience in IP enforcement and administration, representing clients before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the Industrial Property Office, the State Office for Drug Control and Czech courts. She is also experienced in IP-licensing (mainly trademarks, software and know-how) and issues pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry (e.g.: regulation of advertising, FCPA, compliance, clinical studies and data privacy). Furthermore, Karin has experience in Dispute Resolution including unfair competition matters. Karin regularly represents market leaders in the pharmaceutical, technology, fashion, beverage and other consumer goods industries.
Katarzyna Matusiak
Katarzyna Matusiak is a senior associate and a member of the Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets team at Taylor Wessing Warsaw in Poland. She is experienced in advising clients in all matters regarding mergers and acquisitions, as well as real estate transactions. Katarzyna has a deep understanding of the Life Sciences sector, in addition she also specialises in construction, commercial and civil law matters.In the course of her professional career, Katarzyna has participated in multistage share sale transactions, real estate sales and acquisitions by both national and international entities. She has also advised commercial clients on complex lease agreements. Katarzyna has completed a number of legal due diligences ahead of various transactions.
Kinga Harza
Kinga is an associate at Taylor Wessing, she is part of the Disputes & investigations team, based in Budapest. She advises national and international clients on all aspects of dispute resolution.
Konrad Kohutek
Konrad Kohutek is a counsel at Taylor Wessing Warsaw in Poland. He is an expert in Competition, EU & Trade with many years of experience in advising national and international clients in all areas of competition law as well as antitrust and regulatory issues.
Kristell Cattani
Partner
Kristýna Koç
Kristýna is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing. As a member of the commercial team, Kristýna Koç supports national and international clients on all commercial matters, with a focus on commercial agreements, consumer protection & retail and compliance, among others.
Kristýna is both a Czech and Turkish citizen based in the Czech Republic. She is the President of the Czech Turkish Friendship Society and has strong ties to key Turkish intermediaries from the public and private sectors that are located in Europe. Kristýna is a member of our CEE Turkish Desk.
Krystian Stanasiuk
Krystian Stanasiuk is a partner at Taylor Wessing Warsaw, Poland. He specialises in all areas of Employment & Pensions. He has in-depth know-how in residence legislation and in the legal process of recruiting foreign management level specialists, as well as highly qualified specialists for large construction projects. In addition, Krystian also focuses on Corporate, Commercial Agreements and Litigation & Dispute Resolution.
Laure Hüe de la Colombe
Partner
Laurence Lapeyre
Partner
Lenka Filipoiu
Lenka Filipoiu is a senior associate and a member of the Commercial team at Taylor Wessing in Bratislava, Slovakia. She also supports her clients with regard to Corporate matters.
Łukasz Szymański
Łukasz is a renowned legal expert on the Polish market and even beyond. He advises banks, insurers, leasing companies, insurance agents, loan companies and other financial institutions in all banking & finance related matters, including regulatory matters (licensing, inbound and outbound investments, payments services, outsourcing, regulatory transformations, AML, digital transformations) and transactions (in particular real estate finance).
Łukasz regularly serves as a mediator at the Court of Arbitration of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. He heads our Financial institutions & insurance group in Warsaw.
Magdalena Jaczewska-Żurek
Magdalena is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing. She is a member of the Banking & finance team. She advises national and international clients in all financial matters.
Marc Schuler
Partner
Marcin Sroga
Marcin Sroga is a counsel and a member of the Tax team at Taylor Wessing Warsaw, Poland. Among others he advises international and national clients on all tax aspects of M&A, financing and real estate transactions. He specialises in matters regarding income tax, international tax law as well as tax dispute resolution.
Marcin Zimny
Marcin Zimny is a counsel at Taylor Wessing in Warsaw, Poland. Having almost 20 years of experience being a tax advisor, he has in-depth knowledge of all areas related to VAT, corporate income tax and excise duty. Amongst others, he advises national and international clients in all areas related to international trade, M&A and finance transactions, restructurings and joint ventures. Regarding transactions he has experience working in sectors like technology, media & telecommunications, business & professional services, consumer & retail, real estate & infrastructure and finance. Marcin also has comprehensive know-how in representing clients in disputes with tax authorities and the Administrative Court.
Marcin Przybysz
Marcin Przybysz is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing in Warsaw, Poland. He specialises in Commercial as well as in all areas of IP/IT. He has broad experience in consumer law with a particular focus on e-commerce projects. Marcin advises national and international clients with regards to the operation of various internet platforms including web-shops, online gaming platforms, web contests, etc. He also specialises in the protection of intellectual property rights including copyrights, trade marks and designs. In addition, his areas of expertise also include new technologies, data protection and gambling law.
Marek Strádal
Marek is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing. He has many years of experience in advising national and international clients in real estate and construction law, including tenant and landlord representation. Marek also has expertise on energy law, having in-depth know-how in the areas of energy licensing and investments in renewable energies.
Marketa Cvrčková
Markéta Cvrčková is a partner at Taylor Wessing Prague, Czech Republic. Her main area of activity is Corporate. Amongst others, she advises national and international companies regarding all aspects of M&A. In addition, Markéta has extensive experience in advising renowned clients in Real Estate matters.
Markéta Deimelová
Markéta Deimelová is a partner at Taylor Wessing Prague and Brno (Czech Republic). She specialises in Corporate and has years of experience in advising national and international clients in Commercial Agreements and Employment & Pensions. In addition, Markéta provides advice regarding all aspects of Competition, EU & Trade, particularly in the areas of merger control and antitrust investigations.
Markéta Cibulková
Markéta is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing, and specialises in individual employment law, having a focus on employment and managing director agreements, the termination of employment relationships, settlements with key employees or directors, benefits and premium plans, job reductions and redundancy, transfer of undertakings, agency employment, personal data protection, employer duties in relation to healthcare & social insurance and collective bargaining and labour litigation. She also advises on corporate matters.
Markus Asshoff
Markus Asshoff, Partner, advises a wide range of national and international companies in all sectors, but also high-level executives, on all aspects of individual and collective labor and social security law as well as in compliance matters.
His expertise is particularly focused on international employment contracts, managing director's status, negotiation of termination packages, international mobility, complex restructuring operations, including social plans, transfer of business as well as legal, strategic and HR advice. Moreover, Markus assists his clients before French Courts.
Markus, who speaks French, English and German, is a member of the Taylor Wessing International Compliance Practice Group and specializes in all notably labor law related issues (employee trainings, alert procedures, audits, assistance and preparation of anti-corruption controls, etc.).
Maroš Podstavek
Maroš is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing. Maroš specialises in all areas of Projects, energy & infrastructure. He advises national and international clients also in Technology, media & communications.
Marta Janowska
Marta is mainly active in Compliance and also supports clients in Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets. Being an approved Compliance expert, Marta provides advice on the implementation of Compliance systems, in particular in the area of AML and public procurement.
She supports clients in formulating and implementing codes of ethics, procedures for reporting irregularities, conflicts of interest or rules concerning the operation of Compliance departments. Within Corporate, she has advised clients in M&A transactions, company restructuring, purchasing of stocks and shares, as well as in foreign investments in Poland and has also supported on regulatory issues subject to the supervision of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) as well as in due diligence processes.
Martin Eckel
Martin Eckel is a partner and Head of Competition, EU and Trade at Taylor Wessing Vienna. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of Austrian and European competition law, particularly in the areas of merger control, antitrust investigations, abuse of dominance and contractual competition restraints. For many years, he has been representing clients in various complex antitrust proceedings before the Austrian competition authorities as well as the European Commission. From a large number of cases relating to the areas of construction, building and insulating materials, transports, wholesale & food retail and retail in general, Martin has gained in-depth experience in these industries. Martin is experienced in the handling of multi-jurisdictional-filings and he coordinates the competition advice of Taylor Wessing in CEE.
Martin Prohaska-Marchried
Martin Prohaska-Marchried is a partner and Head of the IP team at Taylor Wessing Vienna. In his more than 15 years of experience he has been focusing on contentious and non-contentious IP. Among his main areas of focus are trade marks & designs, copyright law and advertising law. Martin regularly advises clients - who come from the food industry, telecoms and welding technology, among others - in clearance risks, protection strategies, enforcement and commercial exploitation of trade marks & designs. In addition, he takes care of all legal aspects regarding the clearing of promotions.
Martin Šerák
Martin is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing. He is a member of the Banking & finance group. Together with his team he advises national and international clients in all related matters . Martin also has expertise in all areas of Corporate, M&A and capital markets.
Michaela Petritz-Klar
Michaela Petritz-Klar is a partner and head of the Tax team in CEE. She has comprehensive expertise in all areas of tax law and advises national and international clients on M&A transactions, private equity, capital markets, restructurings, corporate tax planning and project finance. In addition, Michaela gives tax advice to high net worth individuals and is also active in the tax optimization of funds.
Nick Storrs
Nick is a partner specialising in international arbitration and commercial litigation. He regularly represents clients in arbitrations under institutional rules, including under the rules of the LCIA and ICC, and in ad hoc proceedings. Nick also has extensive experience of conducting proceedings before the English High Court including obtaining freezing injunctions and managing enforcement proceedings. Nick represents clients in international disputes across a wide range of industry sectors, including natural resources, aviation and banking and financial services. He regularly advises on shareholder actions, joint venture disputes, disputes arising out of complex financing arrangements, and fraud and asset tracing claims. Many of his cases concern interests held in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (including Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Georgia) as well as interests held in off-shore jurisdictions such as the BVI and Cayman Islands.
Nicolas de Witt
Partner
Niri Shan
Partner, Reputation ManagmentMedia & Entertainment
Olav Nemling
Olav Nemling is a partner at Taylor Wessing Warsaw, Poland. He specialises in Energy & Environment and has in-depth knowledge in all areas regarding renewable energy projects, in particular wind energy projects, as well as in the energy & electricity sectors. Olav has also represented national and international clients in regulatory matters in the Polish energy regulator. In addition, he advises national and international companies in M&A and private equity transactions. Olav also specialises in all areas of corporate law, be it company formation, restructuring or liquidation
Olena Stakhurska
Olena Stakhurska is a partner at Taylor Wessing CEE. She heads the office in Kiev. Olena specialises in advising national and international clients in all areas of Corporate. In addition, she focuses on Competition, EU & Trade and Employment & Pensions. She is also a member of the Taylor Wessing „Italy Group“ and the „Russia/CIS Group“.
Paul-Albert Iweins
Partner
Pavel Juřička
Pavel Juřička is a senior associate and a member of the Dispute Resolution, the Employment, Pensions & Mobility and the Restructuring & Corporate Recovery teams at Taylor Wessing in Prague, Czech Republic. He supports in advising national and international clients in all areas of litigation & arbitration as well as in matters related to employment or insolvency law.
Peter Solt
Peter Solt is recognized for his experience in Real estate & construction, having a focus on real estate finance, transactions and the realisation of property development and investment projects for residential properties. He is also a member of our energy sector group and an ideal partner for national and international clients seeking advice in energy generation and trading. He also has special knowledge in Banking & finance.
Petra Knall
Petra is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing and a member of the Corporate, M&A and capital markets Group. She supports national and international clients in all areas of corporate law.
In addition, Petra has gained substantial experience in Employment, pensions and mobility and will also advise clients in questions related to Banking & finance.
Petra Hansliková
Petra Hansliková is a senior associate and a member of the Real Estate & Construction team at Taylor Wessing in Prague, Czech Republic. Petra supports her team in advising national and international clients in all matters related to Czech Real Estate. In addition, she has special know-how in Restructuring & Corporate Recovery.
Philip Hoflehner
Philip Hoflehner is a partner at Taylor Wessing Vienna. He advises national and international companies with regards to Banking & Finance, Capital Markets and Corporate Law. He particularly specialises in cross-border M&A transactions and related financing aspects.
Philipp Zumbo
Nebojša is a Senior Associate in the Real estate group. He supports in advising national and international clients in all areas of real estate law.
Philippe Glaser
Partner
Pierre-Olivier Leblanc
Partner
Przemyslaw Walasek
Przemysław Walasek is a partner at Taylor Wessing in Warsaw and Head of IP/IT. Together with his team he advises a significant number of blue chip and other key international trading organisations, particularly focusing on trademarks, copyright, media and competition law. With over 15 years of experience his IP portfolio includes contentious and non contentious matters, such as trademark tax restructuring, licence & franchise agreements, as well as various IP litigations, with a clear leaning towards internet trademark infringements. He also advises in clearance risks, supports clients with regards to protection strategies and helps them to enforce IP rights, both in Poland and in other CEE countries. In addition, Przemysław has extensive experience in advising clients with regards to IT, E-business and new technologies, he also supports them in corporate matters.
Radoslava Lichnovská
Radoslava Lichnovská is a senior associate and a member of the Employment, Pensions & Mobility team at Taylor Wessing Bratislava, Slovakia. She also advises national and international clients in all areas of Dispute Resolution. In addition, her scope of expertise covers data protection in labour law matters.
Radovan Pala
Radovan Pala is a partner at Taylor Wessing Slovakia and co-heads the office in Bratislava with Andrej Leontiev. He specialises in IP/IT, however, he also has in-depth knowledge in Corporate, Employment & Pensions and Restructuring and Corporate Recovery.
Raimund Cancola
Raimund Cancola is Managing Partner and Head of Corporate / M&A at Taylor Wessing CEE. Together with his team he advises renowned national and international corporations in all areas of corporate law, one focus being cross border M&A and private equity transactions.
Sandrine Jasserme
Counsel
Silvia Schenner
Silvia is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing, and a member of the Corporate/M&A & capital markets team. She advises national and international clients in all corporate-related questions.
Silvia Hlavačková
Silvia Hlavačková is a partner at Taylor Wessing Bratislava, Slovakia. Her core practice areas are Banking & Finance, Construction & Engineering as well as Real Estate. However, Silvia also has in-depth knowledge in private client law. Silvia has also been advising national and international companies in Competition, EU & Trade.
Sophie Pignon
Partner
Stefan Turic
Stefan Turic is a partner and a member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team at Taylor Wessing Vienna. He specialises in litigation and has in-depth experience in finance- and restructuring-related litigation as well as litigation with regard to real estate law and law of agency. Stefan regularly advises and represents well-known national and international companies in court and arbitration proceedings and supports the enforcement of or defence against claims in a variety of legal areas. He considers the economic approach as an important part of his counselling and attaches great importance to the evaluation of prospects – and possible costs – of high-risk cases at an early stage.
Thomas Rechberger
Thomas Rechberger is a partner at Taylor Wessing Prague, Czech Republic. His main area of focus is Corporate, however he also specialises in Banking & Finance (including regulatory work) and Restructuring & Corporate Recovery. Thomas Rechberger has in-depth experience in advising national and international corporations in all areas of corporate and commercial law matters, in cases of mergers and other company transformations as well as in insolvency and reorganisation matters.
Thomas Adocker
Thomas is a partner at Taylor Wessing Vienna. For more than 20 years Thomas has been advising national and international clients in the field of intellectual property, with a strong focus on patent law, with respect to litigation, licensing and technology transfer. He has represented clients in major Austrian patent infringement cases, especially in the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors and has broad know-how in connection with multinational disputes. Additionally, Thomas specializes in Life Sciences and Regulatory issues.
In addition to his extensive regulatory expertise, Thomas is also frequently active in franchise law and deals with distribution agreements.
Torsten Braner
Torsten Braner is a partner at Taylor Wessing in Budapest, Hungary. His main areas of activities are Employment & Pensions as well as Banking & Finance. In addition, Torsten has in-depth experience in advising clients as regards Commercial Agreements, Corporate and Restructuring & Corporate Recovery.
Tuğçe Yalçın
Tuğçe is a dual-qualified lawyer (Attorney at Law in Austria and Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales) having a strong focus on cross-border M&A, Private Equity (PE), Joint Venture (JV), Warranty & Indemnity (W&I) and financial transactions as well as on global corporate restructurings including the regulatory aspects such as the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Screening Regulation and the export control.
Her ability to practice law in both a civil law and a common law jurisdiction, her language skills (being native in German, English and Turkish) and her excellent network make her an ideal Head of the Taylor Wessing CEE Turkish Desk. This desk bundles comprehensive expertise for both Turkish investors and companies aiming to enter the CEE markets as well as for investors and companies based in Europe who are positioning themselves or making investments in Türkiye.
Tuğçe has many years of experience in advising national and international clients in transactions often involving multiple jurisdictions. Another main area of her practice are transport & logistics projects, often with a focus on the CEE region. She regularly writes and speaks at conferences on a wide range of corporate law and FDI topics.
Vasyl Pop-Stasiv
Vasyl Pop-Stasiv is a counsel and heads the IP/IT department at Taylor Wessing in Kiev, Ukraine. With more than 10 years of experience, Vasyl has expertise in advising national and international clients on various legal issues, especially covering intellectual property rights protection, trademarks and copyright licensing, telecommunications, research & development, financing, mergers and acquisitions, software development (including outsourcing), marketing and antitrust issues.
Walter Pöschl
Walter Pöschl is a partner and advises numerous national and international employers on all facets of employment law. His areas of expertise include secondment issues, including related social security topics, remuneration systems in banks, labour law restructuring and termination claims (including on grounds of discrimination). He is appreciated for his solution-oriented and practical approach underpinned by detailed legal knowledge. Another strength lies in his many years of experience in labour law disputes, proven in numerous complex cases.
Wolfgang Kapek
Wolfgang Kapek is a partner at Taylor Wessing Vienna and heads the Employment as well as the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team. Wolfgang has extensive experience in the management of national and international clients in all areas of employment law. Services comprise individual employment law (e.g. drafting of employment and management contracts, bonus plans, etc.) as well as collective employment law (e.g. flexible working time solutions, all kinds of plant bargaining agreements, stock option plans, etc.). Wolfgang also specialises in restructuring including (cross-border) transfer of undertakings and redundancies (mass dismissal procedures and social plans). His experience also encompasses employment related litigation, being, for example, discrimination cases, challenging of terminations, unfair dismissals and also white collar crime cases.
Zbigniew Korba
Zbigniew is a partner at Taylor Wessing and heads the Banking & finance team in Warsaw and also has significant expertise in real estate and corporate law. With more than 20 years of experience, he is a “player” on the local market and beyond. He focuses on all areas of banking law, and represents financial institutions, multinational corporations, and many domestic and foreign investors in both transactional matters and regulatory issues.
Zbigniew also advises clients in particular from the financial and real estate sectors on the restructuring of capital groups and various types of investments.
Zoltán Novák
Zoltán Novák is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing in Budapest, Hungary. He specialises in Litigation & Dispute Resolution as well as in Employment, Pensions & Mobility and also has experience in Compliance. Zoltán has special know-how of the Life Sciences and Healthcare sectors.
Zsombor Lenner
Zsombor supports national and international clients in all matters regarding Commercial, has substantial know-how in Employment, pensions & mobility and will also advise in corporate matters.