Dentons

Adam Přerovský

Adam Přerovský is a senior associate in Dentons’ Prague office. Adam is a member of the Competition, Life Science, IP/T and Commercial Law practice. He focuses his practice on all areas of competition and antitrust law, contract law and consumer protection, the life science/pharma industry, and intellectual property law and technology. Adam’s experience encompasses merger control proceedings before the European Commission, Czech and Slovak Competition Authorities, representing clients in antitrust proceedings and investigations including proceedings on cartels, abuse of dominance and significant market power, advising on state aid proceedings before the European Commission, as well as in cases of private enforcement of competition law. Adam also regularly advices our clients in competition law aspects of M&A, distribution, franchise, JV and other commercial matters. Adam has also experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sector, advising clients mostly on commercial and regulatory matters under both Czech and European law, including EU product regulation, clinical trials, pricing regulation, data privacy and supply agreements. Adam also regularly advises clients on various matters relating to intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights and industrial designs, and he represents clients before the Czech Industrial Property Office. With regard to industry sectors, he mostly concentrates on the life science/ pharma industry, FMCG, automotive, energy, media, the tobacco and e-cigarette industry, new technologies, IT and e-commerce.

Alžběta Böhmová

Alžběta Böhmová is a junior associate in Dentons’ Prague office. She focuses her practice primarily on insolvency and restructuring, financial transactions as well as corporate and litigation.

Barbora Obračajová

Barbora Obračajová is an associate, innovation ambassador, and a member of the Energy and Corporate practice at Dentons Prague office. Her focus is energy and environmental regulation, M&A, administrative and civil proceedings, as well as compliance, including environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. Barbora has strong track record in cross-border M&A transactions, especially helping Czech businesses heading abroad and coordinating multinational teams. She also has significant experience with complex regulatory and technical issues (such as IPPC and emission trading under the EU ETS). Barbora regularly presents at conferences and other business events.

Boris Tregler

Boris Tregler is a senior associate in Dentons' Prague office. He focuses on financial and tax law, securities law, bill of exchange and promissory note law, civil, commercial and corporate law, law of bankruptcy, and labour law. He further specialises in dispute resolution, including litigation and arbitration.

Chris Watkinson

Chris Watkinson is an English law qualified partner based in Prague, Czech Republic, where he co-heads the Corporate group. Chris focuses on cross-border M&A, complex joint venture, private equity and venture capital transactions. He brings a wealth of experience in CEE/CIS, advising on major cross-border deals and providing English Law advice to clients based in the region.

Daniel Hurych

Daniel Hurych is Partner and Co-head of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in Dentons' Prague office. Daniel has particular experience in banking & finance advising both lenders and borrowers on a broad range of financing transactions, including acquisition, project, export, real estate and general corporate financing. He also has extensive experience in corporate law and business contracts.

Evan Lazar

Evan Z. Lazar is Co-Chairman of the Global Real Estate Group at Dentons. He also is a Member of the Global Board and Global Vice Chair of Dentons around the world. Evan is widely recognized as a top tier real estate lawyer specializing in multi-country property investment, joint ventures, and finance matters. He has over 30 years of experience acting as lead partner on major institutional real estate transactions involving from single assets to large portfolios in Europe and globally in the logistics, data center, residential, office, retail and hotel sectors. He has built an excellent, institutional client base, which includes major leading investors, Private Equity and pension funds, insurance companies, borrowers and developers. His clients include Corebridge Real Estate Investors (formerly AIG Global Real Estate), Blackstone, GIC, Harrison Street, Heimstaden Bostad, Heitman International, Round Hill Capital and Starwood Capital Group, to name a few.

Jana Matisková

Jana Matisková is a senior Counsel and a member of the Real Estate practice group in the Dentons Prague office with over 20 years of legal experience. She is active in all fields of real estate with focuses on development, construction and construction related environmental law, leasing and property management as well as related dispute resolution. Jana has led or has been involved in numerous projects of development, sale and acquisition and lease of real estate, including R&D, hotel, logistic, industrial, office and multifunctional centers, as well as environmental technologies and engineering networks. She is particularly strong in advising on all types of construction contracts (including FIDIC), development management agreements, leases and property (facility) management agreements. In addition, Jana has advised on the regulatory issues (especially on monumental protection, construction (zoning and building permits) and/or environmental aspects (IPPC, LEED or BREEAM)) of the construction, reconstruction and development of hotels, R&D centres, greenfield logistics and production facilities. She also has experience in advising clients on or representing in related dispute resolution.

Jiří Tomola

Jiří Tomola is Partner and Co-Head of the Banking and Finance Group and Head of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy team in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses his practice on financing, insolvency, restructuring, and legal services for financial institutions. He has acted as lead counsel in numerous complex acquisition, project, trade, export, and real estate financing transactions and bond issues. He also has experience in complex loan structures, including revolving credit facilities and mezzanine financing, and in debt and bond restructuring. He advises mostly Czech and international financial institutions, alternative lenders, borrowers and private equity sponsors. He is one of the pioneers in the field of mezzanine financings and its regulatory framework in the Czech Republic. In the area of restructuring and insolvency, Jiří has a sizable portfolio of high-end restructuring and insolvency matters handled for leading financial institutions and corporations in the Czech Republic and Central and Eastern Europe. In some such insolvency proceedings, complex financing arrangements were tested before the Czech courts for the first time, and the concepts of syndicated lending and security agents’ rights (including parallel debt arrangements) were successfully defended for the first time in the Czech Republic. Jiří also advises corporate entities in insolvency and restructuring proceedings. He has prepared and implemented pre-packed reorganization solutions and has been successful in negotiating such arrangements with creditors.

Jiří Stržínek

Jiří Stržínek is the Czech Republic Co-Managing Partner. He is Partner and Co-Head of the Real Estate Practice Group in Dentons’ Prague office. Jiří has almost 20 years of transactional experience and is recognized as one of the top M&A Real Estate lawyers in the Czech Republic. He focuses on real estate acquisitions and disposals as well as real estate financing. Jiří has also extensive experience in real estate development, asset management and leasing work, as well as hotel management agreements. He has worked as a lead lawyer on a number of transactions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary and Russia.

Jiří Maršál

Jiří Maršál is a junior associate in Dentons Prague office. He focuses on ICT, personal data protection, e-commerce, and intellectual property law. Jiří has significant experience in ICT disputes, due diligence investigations as well as compliance projects, often coordinating teams in several countries. He is also versed in database law, telecommunications and unfair competition.

Jitka Soldado

Jitka Soldado is a senior associate in Dentons' Prague office and a member of the Corporate and M&A Practice Group and the Employment and Labor Practice Group, with more than 11 years’ experience in employment law, commercial and corporate law and M&A. Within employment law, she concentrates on employment as well as managers’ contracts, employees’ individual and collective dismissals, employees’ secondments and outsourcing via employment agencies and employees’ benefits. She is also advising clients on the employment aspects arising out of corporate and M&A transactions. In the area of commercial, corporate law and M&A, she advises on corporate governance and has particular experience in mergers & acquisitions. In fall 2014, she was a core member of the Employment and Labor Practice in Dentons’ Paris office.

Kateřina Kučerová

Kateřina Kučerová is a junior associate and a member of the TMT, Corporate and Energy teams in Dentons’ Prague office. She focuses her practice on M&A, corporate law, TMT, as well as on energy law. Within TMT, she concentrates on e-commerce matters, media law and data protection advising clients on both contractual and contentious matters.

Ladislav Smejkal

Ladislav Smejkal is the Czech Republic Co-Managing Partner. He is Partner and Head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice that covers also the Criminal law practice of Dentons’ Prague office. Ladislav has more than 20 years’ experience advising clients on litigation and criminal law cases. In litigation, Ladislav advises and represents clients in particular in the area of commercial disputes, unfair dismissal claims and other employees-related litigation cases as well as in construction litigation. In criminal law matters, he represents clients in criminal cases as defense counsel or advises clients in the areas including white collar crime, anti-corruption, criminal compliance, and both internal and governmental investigations. Ladislav is licensed as attorney (advokát) both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Ladislav provides legal advice to both individual and corporate clients from a wide range of sectors, with a focus on the manufacturing, construction, IT/media, financial services, automotive, health care and pharmaceutical sectors.

Lukáš Výmola

Lukáš Výmola is Counsel and a member of the Corporate/M&A and Energy and regulatory teams in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses his practice on energy regulatory matters, public procurement and corporate transactions in the energy, climate change, and heavy industry sectors. He also provides advice on day-to-day corporate and commercial matters and on ongoing industry specific regulatory matters. As part of his practice, he also acts on PPP projects and defense matters.

Markéta Tvrdá

Markéta Tvrdá is Partner and Co-Head of the Real Estate Practice Group in Dentons' Prague office. She focuses her practice on real estate acquisitions and disposals as well as corporate M&A and commercial law. She has extensive experience advising major institutional investors and developers on a number of complex transactions in commercial, office space and logistics sectors. She also advises private equity clients on different M&A transactions.

Michael Mráček

Michael Mráček is a senior associate and a member of the Employment and Labor Group in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses his practice on employment law, data protection law including GDPR as well as competition and intellectual property law. Michael has extensive experience providing day-to-day advice to multiple automotive clients at all levels of distribution.

Monika Kajánková

Monika Kajanková is a partner in Dentons’ Prague office and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group. Monika focuses on various areas of real estate legal advice, including in particular real estate acquisitions, sales and lease agreements, asset management matters, title and W&I insurance. She also coordinates and manages real estate title due diligence processes for a number of investor clients and has an excellent corporate/M&A background. In the course of her more than 8 years of legal experience, Monika has been involved in numerous top-tier real estate projects in the Czech Republic. She has advised, among others, the following clients: Tesco, GLL/Macquarie, Penta, Reico, Dual Asset / MA, Savills, Flow East, Portland Trust, Cushman & Wakefield/Tetris and Generali RE.

Ondřej Bartoň

Ondřej Bartoň is a partner in Dentons’ Prague office. With more than 10 years’ experience, Ondřej has advised clients on project, export, real estate and acquisition financing as well as debt restructuring. He also played a key role in preparing the COVID III, COVID Plus and EGAP Plus state guarantee programs to support the Czech economy in sectors affected first by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then by the war in Ukraine. Ondřej’s other areas of focus include insolvency proceedings and regulation of banks and insurance companies. He has represented a number of financial institutions in connection with acquisitions of regulated entities in the CEE region.

Petr Kotáb

Petr Kotáb is a honorary member in Dentons' Prague office. He focuses on financial and tax law, securities and financial markets, banking, foreign investments, corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions. Petr is also active in the academic field, as a member of the Department of Financial Law of the Charles University School of Law in Prague and a lecturer at multiple universities (including previously Economic University in Prague, Metropolitan University in Prague and the University of Connecticut and Central-European University) on taxation, banking and financial markets. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 professional books, university textbooks, articles in periodicals and other publications on tax law and financial law.

Petr Zákoucký

Petr Zákoucký is Partner and Head of the Energy practice and Co-Head of the Corporate/M&A practice in Dentons’ Prague office. He has over 15 years’ experience advising on M&A transactions, regulatory and litigation matters, primarily in the energy, chemicals and infrastructure sectors. Petr has been involved in several top global M&A and regulatory cases. His experience encompasses advising on regulatory issues and representing before national and EU regulators; drafting and negotiating commercial arrangements, including SPAs and JV agreements, long-term supply agreements or auction documentation; drafting merger filings and submissions in antitrust investigations before Czech, Slovak and EU competition authorities; representing in state aid proceedings and complaints before the EU Commission; advising on environmental matters and public procurement; and representing in litigation before Czech and EU courts; and advising on investment protection (BITs) structuring. Petr´s work involves also a number of jurisdictions outside Europe, including Africa, Australia/Asia and the US.

Sona Taghiyeva

Sona Taghiyeva is Partner in Dentons' Prague office. She focuses on corporate and business law and has broad expertise in energy and infrastructure, banking and finance, compliance, real estate law, construction, licensing and hospitality issues.

Štefan Potočňák

Štefan Potočňák is a senior associate in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses his practice on contractual as well as regulatory aspects of large investment and infrastructure projects, mainly in the sectors of energy, construction, defense industry, logistics and transport infrastructure. He also provides legal advice in connection with construction law, PPP projects, administrative law, contractual civil law and legislation. With regard to comprehensive legal advice in investment projects, he focuses on drafting, review and negotiation of contractual documentation, taking into account specific legal issues that regularly occur in such projects: various regulatory aspects, financing, corporate aspects, state aid, investment incentives, public procurement rules, etc. In PPP projects, he has experience in connection with national and municipal projects with focus on transport infrastructure, health care, social or cultural-social services. Among other projects in the energy sector, he has a unique experience in advising on a complex and long-term project of the construction of the new nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic. In construction law, Štefan deals with both contractual aspects of construction projects and public law issues related to spatial planning and permit proceedings. In this area, he also regularly lectures to both developers and public sector entities. He actively participated in several legislative projects, especially in the field of transport infrastructure. In administrative law, he advises clients especially in connection with permit proceedings and in other administrative procedures. In the area of contract law, he focuses mainly on drafting, review and negotiation of various commercial contracts, preparation of legal analyses and provision of legal advice in pre-trial stages of commercial disputes.

Štěpánka Havlíková

Štěpánka Havlíková is a Senior Associate in Dentons’ Prague office. She focuses her practice on TMT, intellectual property, data privacy, electronic contracting issues, technology transactions, IT company acquisitions, consumer law, online marketing, as well as on commercial law and dispute resolution.

Stewart M. Middleman

Stewart M. Middleman is the head of cross-border transactions for Dentons’ Global Real Estate Group. He is a senior commercial real estate lawyer who brings with him over 25 years' experience in this specialised field. A prominent member of GREG, Stewart focuses on cross-border transactions, representing global and regional clients in connection with real estate related transactions throughout Europe, where he draws on his extensive experience in real estate acquisitions, real estate financing and restructuring (representing lenders as well as borrowers), development, construction and title insurance.

Tomáš Bílek

Tomáš Bílek is Partner and Head of Employment and Labor practice in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses primarily on employment, general corporate, M&A, competition and commercial. He has broad experience in individual and collective dismissals, employment litigations (including unfair dismissals, damage claims arising from work injury or occupational diseases discrimination and harassment) as well as employment and managers’ contracts. He also advises on collective bargaining, employee secondments and outsourcing via employment agencies, remuneration schemes, benefits, incentive programs and data privacy. As to sectors, he focuses on pharmaceuticals & chemicals, food and pet food, automotive and other machinery manufacturing, technology and retail.

Zdeněk Kučera

Zdeněk Kučera is a partner in Dentons’ Prague office and Head of the local TMT practice. He has more than 15 years' experience in ICT law, commercial law and dispute resolution. Within ICT law, he focuses on complex projects, IT company acquisitions, software law, digitalization of processes, regulation of new technologies, personal data protection, intellectual property law, cybersecurity and media law. He often represents clients in various disputes, namely in the technology sector. His experience also encompasses advising on commercial, corporate, unfair competition, copyright and media law disputes. His clients include global corporations operating in the IT and e-commerce, financial institutions, and companies from communications, media, and defence industries.