Dentons

Public Policy and Regulation

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.

Senior Associate, Dentons, Prague (October 2022-Present)

Junior Associate, Associate and then Senior Associate, HAVEL & PARTNERS, Prague (2014-2022)

Officer in the Commission for the Application of New Civil Legislation (KANCL), Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic, Prague (2013-2014)

English, Czech, German, Slovak

Czech Bar Association

Palacký University Olomouc, 2013, Master of Laws