Czech Republic
Business Service Providers (BSP) in the CR
Legal Services
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, v.o.s., advokátní kancelář
Contact: Vladimira N. Papirnik, Managing Partner
Vaclavske namesti 57/813
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 221 662 111
Fax: +420 221 662 222
Web: http://www.ssd.com
Squire Sanders is one of the leading law firms in Central Europe and has been active in the region for almost 20 years. Our Central European team is supported by the knowledge and experience of more than 800 lawyers in 32 offices located in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Our attorneys in the region are unsurpassed in the depth and breadth of their experience and have been at the forefront of market development in the region.
The Prague office provides a full range of legal services to Czech, foreign and multinational clients. The firm maintains an extensive practice, combining its comprehensive international experience with essential local knowledge in a broad and varied commercial practice. The office advises clients on complex transactions, financings and disputes in the Czech Republic and throughout Central and Eastern Europe and works closely with the firm’s Brussels and other Western European offices on matters involving EU law.
The firm’s practice in Prague includes:
• Arbitration and Litigation
• Banking and Finance
• Bankruptcy and Restructuring
• Competition Law
• Corporate and Commercial Law
• EU Law
• Energy
• Environmental
• Intellectual Property
• IT and Telecommunications
• Labor and Employment
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Project Finance
• Venture Capital
• Real Estate
Vachuda & Co.
Contact: Tomáš Vachuda, Managing Partner
Vachuda & Co.
Francouzská 30
120 00 Prague 2
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 225 987 076
Fax: +420 225 987 077
Email: office@vachuda.com
Web: http://www.vachuda.com
V&Co. is a boutique international business law firm specialized in providing transactional and corporate advice to US firms entering Central Europe as well as to Central European firms with dealings related to the US, in particular as relates to:
• Corporate Transactions
• Investments and Joint Ventures
• Credit, Banking and Project Finance
• Securities
• Local Corporate Counsel
• Legal Analysis
• Arbitration and Litigation
• Administrative Law and Government Affairs
• Competition
• Legal Translations
V&Co. is composed of a collective of sophisticated US and local attorneys, some of whom have worked together on a broad range of matters since the early 1990s. Two partners are graduates of the Yale Law School, each with over a decade of New York practice. We offer our clients in Central Europe a combination of Wall Street experience and sophistication coupled with intimate local knowledge.
Clients of V&Co. range from individuals to some of the world’s largest multinational corporations. We focus on advising clients engaged in international business and with that focus comes expertise and experience. In the field of corporate transactions, we can handle the entire process, from advising on identifying and selecting business partners, through due diligence and structuring, to drafting and negotiating documentation, to closing and post closing matters.
V&Co. provides a full range of corporate legal services and acts as local counsel or outside general counsel to firms and entrepreneurs without a dedicated legal department in Central Europe. In cooperation with partner firms, www.larive.com, V&Co can offer a regional solution.
In addition, V&Co. prepares high quality translations and localizations of legal documentation between the Czech and English languages, with due regard for different legal regimes.
Baker & McKenzie
Contact: Lothar Determann, Partner
Two Embarcadero Center, 11th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: (415) 576-3000
Email: lothar.determann@bakernet.com
Web: http://www.bakernet.com
Baker & McKenzie has provided sophisticated legal advice and services to many of the world's most dynamic and global organizations for more than 50 years. We are a law firm of more than 3,600 locally qualified, internationally experienced lawyers in 38 countries, we have the knowledge and resources to deliver the broad scope of quality legal services required to respond effectively to both international and local needs - consistently, confidently and with sensitivity for cultural, social and legal practice differences. The more than 10,000 lawyers, supporting professionals and staff of Baker & McKenzie share common values of integrity, personal responsibility and tenacity in an enthusiastic client service culture.
Čermák Hořejš Matějka a spol., Lawyers and Patent Attorneys
Contact: Jakub Vyplel, Attorney at Law
Lawyers and Patent Attorneys
Národní 32, 110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420-296 167 403
Fax: +420-224 946 724
Email: jvyplel@apk.cz
Web: http://www.cermakhorejsmatejka.cz
Cermak Horejs Matejka a spol. is one of the biggest and most renowned law and patent firms in the Czech Republic. The firm offers complex law services to both businesses and individuals. Our main concentration is on the commercial law in its broadest sense and on industrial and other intellectual property rights.
The firm provides all kinds of legal services not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Slovakia and on European level (EPO and OHIM). One office will serve the needs of our clients in both countries, especially in the area of industrial property rights.
Our services cover the following IP law areas:
• Patents and inventions
• Trademarks
• Unfair competition
• Industrial design
• Utility design
• Software and its legal protection
• Domain names
• Know-how and protection of confidentiality Pharmaceuticals
• Advertisement and its regulation
Our services cover the following business law areas:
• Corporate law
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Investments, including foreign investments
• Due diligence
• Litigation and arbitration, including international arbitration
• Bankruptcy law and claims collection
• Public bids
• Product liability
• Labour law, position and liability of management
CZERWENKA & PARTNER v.o.s.
Contact: Milan Chládek, Partner
Minoritská 10
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 542 422 811
Fax: +420 542 422 826
Email: chladek@czerwpart.cz
Web: http://www.czerwpart.cz/
CZERWENKA & PARTNER v.o.s. has provided a broad range of Czech, Austrian and EU legal services in the Czech Republic since 1993 and is nowadays a leading law firm in Brno throughout Moravia. C&P has achieved a pioneering roll in providing legal and economic advisory services to supreme quality in any respect.
The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services to both foreign investors and their Czech subsidiaries with special emphasis on corporate and commercial matters in connection with real estate, project business, distribution and employment.
C&P’s philosophy is to combine supreme quality legal advice and assistance with a very personal commitment to the servicing and care of their clients.
C&P has sufficient resources to be deployed to complex matters requiring urgent attention. But the firm is still small enough to be able to respond efficiently and quickly to varied client demands.
Czerwenka & Partner provides legal services and advice on the following principal practise areas:
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Greenfield Investments
• Real Estate and Construction
• Energy and Project Finance
• Bankruptcy and Restructurings
• Cooperate Services
• Labour Law
• Litigation and Arbitration
• Competition Law and International Property
• EU Law
Daniel Mališ & Partners
Contact: Mr. Daniel Mališ, Attorney at Law
Longin Business Center
Na Rybníčku Street No. 5
120 00 Prague 2
Phone: +420 296 368 350
Fax: +420 296 368 351
Email: law.office@malis.eu
Web: http://www.malis.eu
Daniel Mališ & Partners is focused on delivering top quality legal services for Czech and foreign clients, particularly in the following areas of law:
• Business and Civil Law
• Real Estate Law
• Intellectual Property Law/Information Technology Law
• Legal Relations with International Elements
• Debt Recovery and Management of Receivables
• Medical and Pharmaceutical Law
• Labor Law
Daniel Mališ & Partners is easy to distinguish from others in its comprehensive and strategic approach to legal challenges. It delivers a high level of legal analysis and provides its services in both English and Czech. International experience also plays a major role.
Daniel Mališ & Partners forms an alliance with Katz, Barron, Squitero, Faust, Friedberg, Grady, English & Allen, P.A., a Florida law firm.
DVOŘÁK & SPOL.
Contact: Mr. Stanislav Dvořák, Mr. Stanislav Servus, Partners
Burzovní palác
Rybná 14, 110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 255 706 500
Fax: +420 255 706 550
Email: stanislav.dvorak@akds.cz, stanislav.servus@akds.cz
Web: http://www.akds.cz
DVOŘÁK & SPOL. was established in 2003. The firm’s attorneys have practiced law for several years in international and leading Czech law firms. In 2008 we were recommended by Legal500 (www.legal500.com) for mergers & acquisitions and corporate.
We are lawyers who understand what is required in practical business life and that legal advice is not important on its own but that its value lies in helping our clients achieve their objectives as efficiently as possible.
Our goal is always to find a pragmatic and cost effective legal solution to a particular problem or situation. To achieve this, we draw on our expertise, experience and focus on our clients’ needs. We offer high quality legal services and, at the same time, flexibility and tailored, commercially minded advice.
Our clients include both Czech companies and multinational corporations operating in the Czech Republic.
Apart from the Czech language, we also provide legal services in English and German. Our team currently consists of 10 attorneys (3 partners) and primarily concentrates on advisory in the following areas:
• mergers and acquisitions/corporate
• banking and capital markets
• real estate
• labour law
• litigation and arbitration
• insolvency
• competition law, public tenders, state aid•
• intellectual property
• European law
TRIBUTUM CONSULTING s.r.o.
Contact: Patrik Bartuska, LL.M., Managing Partner
Washingtonova 5
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420-222 212 322
Fax: +420-222 212 418
Email: pbartuska@tributum.cz
Web: http://www.tributum.com
TRIBUTUM CONSULTING s.r.o. has provided sophisticated advice on international and European taxation to global MNCs, European and overseas firms, NGOs, foundations and private clients. Most of our clients belong to top and most admired firms from most important economic sectors like machinery, engineering, hi-tech, automotive industry, banking & finance, real estate, venture capital, FMGC, oil exploration, telecommunication, IP&IT, entertainment, consultancy, legal services etc.
We have one of the most internationally experienced and qualified team of tax advisers in the Czech Republic, delivering quality tax advice on international taxation in Europe, CIS, Far & Middle East, USA, South Africa, Australasia and important low tax countries.
We have provided our clients with highly advanced and comprehensive tax solutions suiting both their tax and non-tax needs and requirements, cutting significantly their tax costs and achieving all available tax relieves and incentives.
Our most required tax services are from the following areas:
• Global tax planning & international tax optimisation;
• Expatriates (in-out), foreigners and non-residents - global taxation and tax & insurance optimisation;
• Foreign investments (in-out) - tax effective structuring, tax planning and investment incentives;
• Tax effective profit repatriation from subsidiaries and branches;
• Cross-border M&A, reorganisation and post-merger integration;
• Private equity – global tax planning for private investors;
• Sportsmen, artists and VIP persons – international tax planning and tax optimisation;
• Holding & financial structuring and group tax planning;
• Real estates;
• Intellectual property & know-how incl. cross-border licensing and franchising;
• E-commerce & IT services;
• VAT, sales tax & indirect tax planning;
• Comprehensive corporate & personal income tax services in the Czech Republic and the EU
Vyskočil, Krošlák a spol., advokatni a patentova kancelar
Contact: Mr. Jiri Spousta, Partner
Vorsilska 10
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 224 819 141
Fax: +420 224 816 366
Email: spousta@akvk.cz
Web: http://www.akvk.cz
Vyskočil, Krošlák & spol. ("AKVK") was founded in 1996. Some of our lawyers practiced law with premier international law firms and were on several occasions seconded to their main offices in London and Paris and gained extensive experience of working for international clients.
22 attorneys (including 6 partners) provide legal advice in all significant areas of law set out below. AKVK has also a wide-range of experience of acting on behalf of clients in various disputes before Czech courts of all instances as well as in arbitration.
· banking
· corporate, mergers and acquisitions, asset sales
· information technology including the law relating to the internet
· copyright and related rights including audiovisual and media law
· real estate including property financing
· commercial: advice on material commercial contracts
· securities
· insolvency
· legal aspects of advertising and promotion
· competition including legal advice in relation to mergers and acquisitions, unfair competition
· litigation
· intellectual property
· protection of personal rights including data protection
· labour law including collective bargaining agreements
· legal aspects of consumer protection
· criminal law, in particular white collar crime
· European law.
White & Case
Contact: Mr. Ales Rudisar, Marketing Manager
Na Prikope 8
Phone: +420 255 771 111
Fax: +420 255 771 122
Email: arudisar@whitecase.com
Web: http://www.whitecase.com
White & Case has provided a wide range of Czech and cross-border legal advisory services in the Czech Republic since early 1991 and is now one of the largest international law firms in Prague.
With 8 partners and almost 40 attorneys in its Prague office, White & Case, concentrates on complex corporate and financial transactions, usually involving cross-border aspects, as well as litigation and dispute resolution matters.
The Prague office provides legal services and advice on the following principal practice areas:
* banking, leasing, insurance and other financial services
* capital markets & securities
* mergers & acquisitions, privatization
* green-field investments
* energy and project finance
* real estate & construction
* tax and customs
* bankruptcy and restructurings
* corporate services
* litigation and arbitration
* labor law
* media, telecoms and e-commerce
* antitrust, competition and international trade
* sovereign representation
* EU law
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