Legal
Legal
The Czech KPMG Legal office was established in August 2010. Its team features around 30 experts, many of whom also have economic degrees.
Radek is the founding partner of KPMG Legal and also the Managing Partner of the KPMG Czech Republic.
As an expert in financial institutions, he specialises in counselling for banks, investment companies and investment funds, including private equity. Radek has extensive experience in transaction advisory, investment structuring as well as international planning, financing and restructuring.
Radek actively cooperates with the Czech Banking Association, the Czech Leasing and Finance Association, the Czech Capital Market Association and the Czech Ministry of Finance.
Martin is the head of the legal office and is responsible for developing it in line with the latest legal and technological developments. He has been part of KPMG Legal since its creation.
His specialisation is in corporate law, transactions, restructuring and regulatory issues. He has broad experience with court and arbitration proceedings, including international arbitration.
Martin focuses on the legal aspects of multidisciplinary and special projects. He is also responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice for private clients and family businesses.
Radim specialises in transaction advisory, contracts, the energy sector, public procurement and PPP projects.
He provides legal counselling for sales, acquisitions and corporate restructuring with emphasis on the energy sector. Radim is particularly knowledgeable of the legal aspects related to the launch and operation of renewable sources of energy. Both the private and public sectors have benefited from his legal advice pertaining to public procurement and PPP.
At KPMG Legal, Radim is responsible for providing legal counselling to German speaking clients.
Viktor focuses on commercial and corporate law, public regulation and contentious issues.
He provides comprehensive legal advice to important international investors entering the Czech market, primarily from Asia. He is responsible for tax litigations and serves his clients as a counsel in court and arbitration proceedings – including cross-border disputes – and also in tax and administrative proceedings. At KPMG Legal, Viktor is in charge of personal data and privacy protection.
He also coordinates pro bono legal services for non-profit organisations.
Filip specialises in finance and IT law, covering legal issues arising from regulation of technological advancements, which primarily impacts fintech companies. He has participated in a number of unique projects, chiefly as an advisor for investment companies and investment funds, in which he assisted with the implementation of complex reorganisations and investment structures. Filip provides services in other areas as well, such as commercial and corporate law.
Barbora primarily specialises in labour law and the employment of foreign nationals.
As part of her practice she provides clients with comprehensive advice on matters of industrial relations. She focuses on the preparation and revision of internal documents and contracts, continuous advice on clients’ routine HR agendas, services related to the revision of labour-law compliance and the setting up of remuneration and benefit schemes. Barbora has assisted with reductions in employee numbers and collective bargaining negotiations. She also provides legal support regarding personal data processing, international assignments/secondments, resolutions of labour-law disputes, and specific international aspects of industrial relations. She advises in matters of civil and commercial law.
Aneta focuses on corporate law, commercial law and contentious issues.
Her main specialisation is advising clients on establishing and operating companies, setting up corporate governance and ensuring overall compliance with legal regulations. She also has experience with public procurement and providing comprehensive legal advice to international investors.
Eva specialises in tax and administrative proceedings and administrative justice.
She has vast experience in providing advice and serving as her clients' counsel during tax inspections and follow-up appeal and court proceedings. Eva also focuses on international tax law and European law. Before joining KPMG, she worked as a judge’s associate at the Supreme Administrative Court and at the Czech Ministry of Finance.
Jana’s main specialisation is tax law, in particular comprehensive tax advisory for the financial sector and tax disputes. As part of advisory services for financial institutions, Jana focuses on corporate income tax as well as selected VAT issues, international tax aspects, and related procedural issues primarily for banks, insurance companies, and investment funds. Jana also focuses on procedural tax law, advisory in tax disputes and client representation in tax audit, appeal proceedings and subsequent judicial proceedings before regional courts and the Supreme Administrative Court. In this respect she has participated in a number of comprehensive projects, in particular relating to VAT and corporate income tax across different sectors ranging from financial institutions to production plants. Jana is a member of the Chamber of Tax Advisors.
Petr’s role primarily involves corporate law, transaction advisory services, real estate law and tax law. He has experience with providing Czech and international clients with comprehensive legal advice related to sales, acquisitions and transformations of corporations. As part of his advisory services, he has also assisted investors with setting up a contractual framework governing relations in the post-transaction phase. His area of expertise also includes project and acquisition finance.
Ladislav primarily specialises in personal data protection law, and labour and corporate law. Ladislav has extensive experience in assessing the impacts of European legislation on Czech legislation. He has been engaged in a number of projects relating to the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He also provides comprehensive advisory services relating to compliance and legislative compliance to foreign investors. In addition, Ladislav provides his clients with services focused on contract or competition law.
Linda focuses on commercial and civil law, and the banking and finance industries.
Her specialisation in the latter consists of insurance, loan financing and consumer protection. She also gained valuable experience through her involvement in large projects implementing new legislation governing process and documentation procedures in financial institutions.
At KPMG Legal, she is responsible for knowledge management.
Linda Kolaříková won the Talent of the Year Award (Czech Lawyer of the Year 2017) in recognition for her paper on the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence.
Lenka primarily specialises in corporate law and corporate governance. Her work also includes dealing with comprehensive restructuring and transformation (both local and cross-border) and focusing on issues arising in everyday business practice. In addition, she provides legal advice regarding matrimonial property law and inheritance law. Prior to joining KPMG Legal she worked at a notary office.
Romana provides clients with comprehensive legal services relating to labour law, including their representation in court and administrative proceedings. She specialises in the preparation of contractual documentation and internal regulations, the recruitment and release of employees, and extrajudicial dispute resolution. She also has experience with collective bargaining, labour-law compliance, the resolution of ethics-related incidents at work, and employees’ privacy protection. She also provides assistance to clients posting employees abroad or employing foreign nationals in the CR. She regularly gives lectures on labour law for businesses in educational agencies and institutions.
Ladislav specialises in real estate law. As part of his legal practice, he has provided advice to real estate funds, companies and individuals on managing their real estate portfolios (purchase/sale/lease), represented clients in negotiating leases for office, business, warehouse and manufacturing premises, and participated in legal reviews with a real estate element. Ladislav also focuses on M&A, corporate law and law of obligations. In addition to acting as a solicitor, he also worked for a Prague-based real estate developer.
In his work, Ondřej focuses on intellectual property law, particularly copyright law and related legislation. Moreover, he provides advice on IT law, specialising in new technologies, legal aspects of the internet and legal relations in the online realm. In this respect, Ondřej also works on cases involving personal data protection and personal rights in general. In addition, he provides legal counselling in the field of healthcare. Ondřej is a member of ALAI, the international learned society dedicated to studying copyright law. In 2017, he began cooperating with Pro Bono Aliance, a Czech non-profit through which he provides free legal services to non-profits and individuals in difficult circumstances.
