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Overview
Our Prague office advises clients on some of the most complex transactions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Central European region. Those transactions include representing Czech energy holding company EPH in its purchase of a 49% stake in Slovak gas utility SPP for CZK 66.5 billion (US$2.8 billion). We also advised Czech beverage company Kofola Group on its restructuring, public offering and listings on the Prague and Warsaw Stock Exchanges, which raised CZK 765 million (US$31 million).
As one of the leading international law firms in the country, we work closely with our colleagues around the world to offer first-class advice to domestic and foreign multinationals and financial institutions. The quality of our work is reflected in the recognition we receive from leading legal directories. Our Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A, Dispute Resolution, and Tax practices are ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 EMEA.
Complementing our work on major transactions, we are also market leaders in Intellectual Property and Technology, Media & Telecommunications, both of which are ranked Tier 1 by Chambers Europe. Our Czech lawyers have broad experience advising clients in rapidly-evolving areas of law and leverage their local knowledge and global perspective to help clients achieve their business objectives.
Connect With Our Prague Office
Offices
Prague
Praha City CenterKlimentská 46
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Over the past 20 years we have developed a deep understanding of the local market and what is required to close deals in the Czech Republic. That understanding, along with our global approach, makes us the go-to firm for leading multinational companies and financial institutions.
We advise the world’s largest Banking & Finance institutions on their investments in the Czech market as well as cross-border financial transactions. We advise corporate borrowers on all types of lending transactions, including bilateral and syndicated credit facilities that range from short-term unsecured facilities to global structuring.
Our Dispute Resolution practice represents clients in complex multijurisdictional litigation and arbitration. We provide dispute analyses and assessments on possible outcomes and potential costs to help clients choose the best direction for their disputes. We also create compliance programs and perform risk assessments.
Our Disputes Resolution group works with our Banking & Finance teams to advise major banks, insolvency administrators and top industry players on Corporate Restructurings and Insolvency proceedings. We also have vast experience in M&A transactions, from providing structuring advice based on our industry knowledge, to negotiating acquisition and financing arrangements and obtaining regulatory approvals and merger clearances.
Recognizing the challenges that rapid advancement of new technologies poses to IP protection, our Intellectual Property lawyers advise clients on registering and enforcing trademarks, copyrights, designs and patents. Our IT & Communications team has pioneered deal structures for technology vendors and buyers developing and pursing new technology products such as IPTV, internet banking, and mobile phone entertainment
We also provide both global and local advice in the following areas:
- Antitrust & Competition
- Capital Markets
- Employment
- Energy, Mining & Infrastructure
- Environmental
- Healthcare
- Real Estate
- Tax
- International Commercial & Trade
We attend job fairs organized by the main law faculties in the Czech Republic to give students the opportunity to meet lawyers from the Firm and discover what it’s like to work at Baker McKenzie. Our objective is to give our lawyers the platform to advance their careers by providing the resources they need for personal and professional development.
How to report through the internal reporting channel and through external channels
The whistleblower is entitled to submit a notification to the designated person via the internal notification system established by the company, i.e. verbally by calling the designated person's telephone number: +420 236 045 001, in writing via the designated person's e-mail address: or via a personal meeting. If the whistleblower prefers to make the notification by means of a face-to-face meeting, they must do so by sending their request to the e-mail address of the designated person or by communicating their request for a face-to-face meeting by telephone. Upon receipt of the whistleblower's request, the designated person will contact the whistleblower to arrange a meeting within 14 days of receipt of the request.
A whistleblower is entitled to submit a notification of a possible violation (except for a notification of a violation of obligations under the Act no. 253/2008 Coll.) through the external notification system established by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic. In such a case, the whistleblower may make a notification using the form available here: https://oznamovatel.justice.cz/chci-podat-oznameni/, by e-mail: [email protected], orally by telephone: +420 221 997 840, or by requesting a personal meeting at the above e-mail address or telephone number.
A whistleblower may submit a notification of a breach of obligations under the Act no. 253/2008 Coll. in the notification system established by the Czech Bar Association.
Identification of the designated person(s), their telephone number(s) and e-mail or other delivery address(es)
Managing Partner
phone: +420 236 045 001
e-mail: [email protected]
address: Klimentská 1216/46, Nové Město, 110 00 Praha 1
HR Manager
phone: +420 236 045 001
e-mail: [email protected]
address: Klimentská 1216/46, Nové Město, 110 00 Praha 1
Exclusion of certain notifications
Baker & McKenzie s.r.o., advokátní kancelář hereby excludes receiving notifications from a person who does not perform work or other similar activity for the obliged entity as referred to in Article 2(3)(a), (b), (h) or (i) of the Act no. 171/2023 Coll. on protection of whistleblowers. Notifications from individuals that are acting for Baker & McKenzie s.r.o., advokátní kancelář otherwise than in a basic employment relationship are, in accordance with Section 21 (6) (b) of the Act no. 253/2008 Coll., not excluded.
Key Contacts
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Managing Partner
Tomáš Skoumal
Partner- Prague
+ 420 236 045 001 Email -
Pavel Brouček
Marketing and Business Development Manager- Prague
+ 420 236 045 001 Email