Petr Kincl
Managing Partner
Petr is an experienced attorney with more than 20 years of practice not only in
the Czech Republic, but also in other countries in Central and Eastern Europe
and the Middle East.
Petr is a project-oriented lawyer focusing on M&A, corporate law, sectoral
regulations, insolvency and litigation.
During his career, Petr has advised multinational and Czech companies on
acquisitions and restructurings, represented them in court and arbitration
proceedings as well as in negotiations with other state authorities, and advised
them on European and national regulation of their businesses. In addition, he
has assisted entrepreneurs, managers, and their families with succession
planning and the structuring and protection of their assets.
He considers his greatest achievement to be the rescue of the insolvent St.
Elizabeth's Hospital in Prague.
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734 182
727
Vendelín Balog
Managing Associate
Vendelín has been a managing associate at PwC Legal Czech Republic since 2019. For
more than eigthteen years, he has specialised in mergers and acquisitions,
corporate restructurings, financing and real estate projects. After graduating
from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague in 2005, he worked for a
renowned Czech law firm, where he provided legal services and led a number of
projects for foreign and Czech clients. During his practice, Vendelín has
assisted a number of foreign companies with their entry into the Czech market
and led a large number of intra-group restructurings.
In addition to his main area of expertise, Vendelín focuses on energy and
contract law.
His most interesting cases include the acquisition of minority stakes in
companies operating the TAL transalpine pipeline in Italy, Austria and Germany
by a Czech state-owned company. Vendelín also managed the sale of a major Czech
transport engineering group (a Czech TOP 100 group) involving dozens of
companies across Europe and successive negotiations with three bidders. In
addition, he advised a major Czech energy group on corporate restructuring and
energy law.
+420 724 224 603
Daniel Pikal
Managing Associate
Daniel has been the leading lawyer at PwC Legal Czech Republic since 2021, having
joined the team in 2014. His practice involves representing domestic and
international clients in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate
restructuring, bank financing, and regulatory aspects of transactions.
He obtained his education at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague
and also at the Faculty of Law of Manchester Metropolitan University in the
United Kingdom.
His main focus is on merger and acquisition law, corporate law, including
company restructuring, bank financing, and regulatory aspects of acquisitions
and restructuring.
Among the most interesting cases he has been involved in are providing
comprehensive legal advice for the acquisition of a plastics processing company
by a leading petrochemical company, the sale of a significant manufacturer of
automotive lighting technology to a French automotive component manufacturer,
including bank financing, and representing a Belgian multinational group in the
acquisition of a Czech paper company specializing in packaging.
+420 721 450 822
Petra Kinclová
Senior associate
Petra is an experienced attorney at PwC Legal with 15 years of experience with Czech
and international law firms. In addition to her legal studies, she also studied
geography and history at Charles University and international business at CIC in
Melbourne.
Prior to joining PwC Legal, she gained experience in the judiciary, where she
worked as an assistant judge in the commercial division. She provides legal
services to Czech and international clients in their business operations and
focuses on related commercial, employment, regulatory and competition law
matters. She has extensive experience representing clients before administrative
authorities and administrative and civil courts.
Petra speaks Czech, English, German and some French. Her main areas of focus
include corporate law, M&A, employment law and regulatory law.
Petra's most interesting cases include representing a major domestic lottery
operator in an investigation of an alleged cartel, including a local
investigation. She has also enjoyed advising a major international dairy
producer for several years on the Significant Market Power Act, setting up
supply contracts, negotiating with retail chains, communicating with the OJK and
training traders, including antitrust training. From an attorney and human
relations perspective, Petra has found negotiating and representing in a
whistle-blower case, dealing with golden parachutes, and representing in a
dispute over a transferred plant to have been the most interesting.
+420 733 355 781
Anna Kameníková
Associate
Anna is an attorney at law specialising in real estate and contract law. She has
been practicing law since 2012 and joined the PwC team in 2019. Prior to that,
she worked with leading Czech and international law firms and a leading Czech
developer.
Anna focuses on real estate, contract and corporate law. Some of the most
interesting cases she has been involved in include ongoing legal advice on the
development of an automotive manufacturer's site, the sale and leaseback of real
estate for an engineering company, the legal audit and acquisition of a
portfolio of shopping centres for a leading Czech real estate group, and
providing legal services to a development group focused on the construction of
residential developments, office projects and shopping centres, including
company conversions and property and facility management.
+420 733 355 781
Jaroslav Srb
Associate
Jaroslav is an attorney-at-law at PwC Legal, where he has been working since
2016.
Jaroslav graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, and
he also studied for one year at the Faculty of Law of the University of
Strasbourg. Prior to joining PwC Legal, he gained experience working for Czech
law firms and at the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the
Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Alongside Czech and English, he speaks French
and Japanese.
Jaroslav specialises in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and employment
law. Among his most interesting cases are the restructuring of a multinational
group that involved the demerger of major software companies. He has also been
involved in various domestic and cross-border mergers of major companies
operating, for example, in the engineering and services sectors. He has also
actively participated in conducting legal due diligence for numerous leading
Czech companies on behalf of foreign and domestic investors.
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703 185 656
Radim Hanák
Associate
Radim is an associate at PwC Legal who has been specialising in tax litigation for
more than eight years. His work includes representing clients before tax
authorities and administrative courts in tax matters, including disputes over
breaches of budgetary discipline (for example, repayment of subsidy funds for
breach of subsidy rules).
Radim started working in tax law as a student, and he has since used his
practical experience garnered from his rigorous doctoral studies on tax
administration and excise tax. During his career, he has been involved in tax
disputes with national and international scopes. In addition to tax law, he also
works in administrative and criminal law, with an emphasis on criminal tax
law.
Radim's most interesting cases include representing a major domestic metals
trader in a VAT dispute in a case where knowing participation in tax fraud was
alleged. He also represented a large international manufacturing company in a
withholding-tax dispute arising as a result of an additional transfer pricing
adjustment.
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732 736 002
Lucie Fuksová
Associate
Lucie is an expert in tax procedural law with more than twelve years of experience.
She has been a member of the PwC Legal team since 2017.
Lucie focuses on tax disputes, general litigation and legislative projects. She
is also involved in legal IT/IP projects. Her favourite issue is the principle
of prohibition of abuse of law.
In the past, she has worked in consulting companies and at the Ministry of
Finance of the Czech Republic, and she was an intern at the Supreme
Administrative Court. She has many years of experience representing clients in
tax disputes. For example, she has assisted clients in cases involving VAT and
potential negligent participation in carousel fraud. She has also represented a
leading pharmaceutical company in a dispute over the application of VAT and an
international logistics company in a dispute over the tax deductibility of
expenses.
Recently, her exposure of an improper procedural approach by the tax authorities
saved a client tens of millions of Czech crowns without the dispute having to be
adjudicated in court.
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721 540 092
Martina Sedláčková
Associate
Martina Sedláčková is a lawyer specialising in corporate law, M&A transactions, and
start-ups. She has been working at PwC Legal since 2021. Prior to joining PwC
Legal, she gained experience in both Czech and international law firms, focusing
primarily on corporate law, M&A and contract law.
Martina speaks Czech, English, and Spanish. She is a graduate of the law
faculties of Masaryk University in Brno and Palacký University in Olomouc.
Her main areas of focus include mergers and acquisitions, corporate law,
contract law, and real estate transactions.
Among her most interesting cases are providing legal advice and conducting
analyses of business plans and start-ups for various international clients. She
also assisted in drafting a joint venture agreement for a significant
international tire manufacturer. Martina has provided comprehensive advice in
connection with domestic and cross-border mergers of various companies and has
prepared various multinational framework agreements.
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734 353 808
Miloš Sochor
Senior associate
Miloš is an attorney-at-law at PwC Legal with more than fifteen years of experience
in providing legal services.
He gained professional and practical skills in public law during his practice in
tax administration, especially in the fields of administrative proceedings and
litigation.
Miloš specialises in labour law, legal compliance, corporate law and contract
formation. Miloš has advised on multiple international transactions and worked
on resolving subsequent matters, including registrations and other relations
concerning public authorities. His clients are local and international
manufacturing companies, especially in the automotive industry and companies in
the retail sector.
His most interesting cases include the complex arrangement of the corporate
structure, including contractual relations, in connection with the establishment
of a company and the transfer of a plant for a client doing business in the
field of information and communication technologies. He also provided labour law
consultancy for a major domestic car manufacturer, advised in the fields of
labour law and employment agency registration, and provided comprehensive
analysis and implementation of the GDPR. In addition, he represented
internationally operating companies in proceedings at the Office for the
Protection of Competition.
+420
734 691 462
Petr Glogar
Senior associate
Petr Glogar is an attorney-at-law at PwC Legal with more than 15 years of
professional experience. Prior to joining PwC Legal, Petr worked as an in-house
lawyer focusing on commercial law, employment law, money laundering and lottery
law.
Petr focuses his practice on employment and labour law projects, corporate
governance, business sales and M&A employment aspects, due diligence, management
and mandate agreements, concurrence of functions and personnel topics related to
the delegation system and corporate governance structure. He is also heavily
involved in advising on trade union negotiations and collective bargaining.
Petr has represented clients in administrative and judicial proceedings and in
negotiations with state authorities, particularly on labour law and employment
issues.
Petr also deals with new areas of employment-related regulation, such as
whistleblowing and the gig economy.
Petr's most interesting projects include reviewing and setting up the shift
operations of a major car manufacturer in the Czech Republic, analysis of agency
employment with recommendations for a car manufacturer in the Czech Republic,
and setting up a system of cooperation between employees and contractors at a
leading brewery.
+420
737 274 550
Lenka Michalcová
Senior lawyer
Lenka's practice focuses on IT law, including cybersecurity, digitalisation,
intellectual property, and data and privacy protection. She joined PwC Legal in
2022.
Prior to joining PwC Legal, Lenka led the legal department of a group of
companies, including one of the largest independent digital agencies in Europe
and a renowned marketing agency. From her previous practice, she has a deep
understanding of the processes and pitfalls of software development.
In addition to her legal studies, Lenka graduated from the Faculty of
Informatics and Management at the University of Hradec Králové, majoring in
Applied Informatics. In the field of intellectual property, Lenka is accredited
to provide IP Scan services.
Lenka has extensive experience in preparing and negotiating contracts in the
field of agile software development and service support. She has also worked on
many projects in the area of data protection, including complex GDPR
implementation, drafting policies and setting up a CCTV system. In the area of
cyber security, she has designed a methodology for evaluating vendors according
to the Cyber Security Act and the ISO 27001 and ISO 27002 standards.
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605 595 436
Alena Larionova
Senior lawyer
Alena is a public procurement expert with more than 11 years of experience. During
this time, she has been actively involved in the consultation and implementation
of several hundred tenders and contracts in a wide range of industries,
including vehicle procurement, IT equipment, software, consultancy and
construction. She also has experience in the procurement and control of large
projects. Prior to joining PwC Legal, Alena worked at the Managing Authority of
the Integrated Regional Operational Programme at the Ministry of Regional
Development, where she was responsible for the correct setting of procurement
conditions and their subsequent control for over 40 staff and approximately
6,000 beneficiaries and applicants. Alena is able to communicate in Czech,
English and Russian.
Alena's most interesting projects include advising on and administering
approximately 50 interconnected tenders and contracts in 27 countries, drafting
tender documents, including the draft contract for the public procurement "IROP
Financial Instrument" with an allocation of approx. EUR 77.8 million, and
controlling the procurement procedures under the National Electronic Facility of
approx. EUR 18.5 million.
+420
703 182 312
Olga Kaizar
Associate Partner
Olga Kaizar has been with PwC Legal since autumn 2023. Prior to joining PwC Legal, Olga led Deloitte
Legal's Real Estate team as well as the Environmental team.
Olga has over 20 years of experience advising on international real estate transactions across
European jurisdictions. These services and the experience Olga has acquired cover all aspects of
real estate legal advice: Comprehensive transactional advice, both domestic and international, in
logistics, hotel, office buildings, shopping centres and parks, manufacturing and rental housing);
real estate financing (transactional/construction); public and construction law, including
procedural law and representation in individual proceedings, comprehensive legal services for
construction, legal services in insolvency and other proceedings relating to the real estate sector,
legal services relating to rental housing and leasing of office and other commercial premises.
Olga has also gained international experience in providing legal services in environmental law,
taking into account all European regulations.
+420
602 344 681
Marc Müller
Managing Associate
Marc Müller is a senior associate at PwC Legal in Prague. Prior to joining PwC Legal, he was a
partner at a leading international law firm, where he led the energy team.
With many years of experience as Head of the Legal Department, Managing Director and Vice Chairman
of the Board in the energy sector, he provides leading services in the field of energy law. Marc
also specializes in compliance & corporate governance, public procurement and advises our Czech
clients on business activities related to their expansion into Germany.
Prestigious international rating publications such as Legal500 and WhosWhoLegal recommend Marc as a
leading expert in litigation and energy law.
+420
605 417 696
Martina Brůnová
Associate
Martina Brůnová is an attorney at law with 8 years of experience in advocacy, where she mainly takes
care of private clients and provides related legal services, especially in the field of estate
planning, asset protection, family law and inheritance law.
Prior to joining PwC Legal in 2023, she worked for one of the largest Czech law firms and as an
independent attorney.
Martina is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague and a member of the
Czech Bar Association and the Union of Family Lawyers.
+420
733 591 587
Klára Zikmundová
Junior Associate
Klára is a junior lawyer. During her studies, she spent one semester at Hamburg Law
School, where she focused on German private law. After graduating from the
Faculty of Law of Charles University in 2018, she worked in a Czech law firm,
specialising primarily in litigation. She joined the PwC Legal team in 2021.
Klára is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Civil Law Department of the Faculty of
Law of Charles University, where she is focusing on non-pecuniary damages and
the legal aspects of artificial intelligence. As part of her doctoral studies,
she completed a research stay at the University of Melbourne.
In her current legal practice, she specialises in corporate law, labour law, and
civil liability and compensation for damages.
Among her most interesting projects are the restructuring of a development
group, legal due diligence of an international transportation company with a
focus on employment, and the transfer of a company including the preparation of
transaction documentation.
+420
251 152 611
David Pavliš
Intern
David has been a member of the PwC Legal team since January 2022.
His main areas of work include commercial law, corporate law, mergers and
acquisitions, litigation and human rights. During his undergraduate studies, he
worked as a paralegal in several law firms where he gained valuable
experience.
His expertise was recognized during the Human Rights Moot Court competition,
where in 2018 he and his team took 3rd place in the national final.
+420
604 164 979
Maciej Górski
Intern
Maciej has been a member of the PwC Legal team since November 2022. He is a 5th year
student at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague.
Before joining PwC, he worked as paralegal in multiple law firms where he
specialised mainly in corporate and employment law, with overlap into other
legal fields. As part of his studies, he participated in a number of
competitions, including school and international moot courts, and successfully
defended his student research project.
Maciej speaks Czech, Polish, English, French and Spanish.
His main areas of expertise include competition law, employment law, corporate
law and capital market law.
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604 162 026
Jana Jurová
Junior Associate
Jana is a junior lawyer. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University
in Brno in 2018. As part of her studies, she also spent a semester at the
Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen. In addition to her law studies, she
also studied International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of
Social Sciences of Masaryk University. After her studies, she worked as a
corporate lawyer for a company in the transport sector. She focused on B2B
contractual agenda, public procurement, grants and loan documentation. She
joined the PwC Legal team in 2023.
Jana's most interesting projects include the review of security institutes for
the issuance of bonds, preparation of projects for obtaining subsidies under the
Operational Programme Transport of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech
Republic and work on legal due diligence.
+420 604 162 732
Jiří Brabec
Associate
Jiří joined PwC Legal in August 2023.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University and also studied at
the University of Helsinki, Finland. He started his career in public
administration, namely in the Ministry of Finance. He has worked as a attorney
in leading law firms in Prague, most recently in the international law firm
Eversheds Sutherland.
His practice focuses on real estate law (including financing) and commercial
law, in particular contracts and mergers and acquisitions, as well as
litigation.
Among the most significant cases he has been involved in is the purchase of a
hotel in Prague for approximately CZK 300 million using loan financing,
including the subsequent refinancing of this loan. For a client involved in
clinical trials, he handled the sale of a group of companies to a foreign
investor for approximately CZK 150 million. Jiří was also involved in a
transaction involving the sale of a minority stake in a leading provider of
assisted reproduction services.
+420 733 678 859
Petr Syrovátko
Associate Partner
Petr is a Partner (attorney-at-law) and leads the Tax Controversy & Dispute
Resolution practice in the Prague office of PwC Legal.
Petr focuses on tax litigation, commercial disputes, and arbitration as well. He
has participated in numerous cross-border lawsuits in the CEE region and has
successfully advised clients before various courts and arbitral tribunals. He
also has considerable experience advising on the general law of obligations,
restructuring and insolvency, real estate law and has participated in many M&A
transactions.
Before joining PwC Legal, Petr acted as head of the local dispute resolution
practice in Prague office of Deloitte Legal and Wolf Theiss. Petr is listed as
arbitrator on the list of the arbitrators led by the Arbitration Court attached
to the Czech Commodity Exchange and the Arbitration court attached to the Czech
Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic as well.
Petr graduated from Charles University Law School in Prague (JUDr. and Ph.D.)
and received a LL.M. from the University in Passau in Germany. He is a member of
the Czech Compliance Association and the Czech Bar Association as well. Petr can
support his clients in Czech, English or German language.
Main practice: Tax litigation, Commercial and Civil litigation, Arbitration,
Administrative proceeding and litigation case management
Interesting cases: Representing Czech Export Bank in numerous local
arbitrations, Representing EGAP in the pre-litigation phase of the dispute and
enforcement proceeding, Representing FAST/SENCOR in numerous international
insurance disputes, Advising Škoda Transportation in the claim recovery dispute
in connection with the breach of the contractual obligations
+420 730 130 919
Marc Müller
Managing Associate
Energy Law, Compliance & Corporate Governance, Public Procurement
Miloš Sochor
Senior associate
Compliance, Administrative Law, Labour Law, Litigation, Corporate Law
Petr Glogar
Senior associate
Labour Law, Personnel Topics, Whistleblowing and Corporate Governance, Administrative Law, Corporate Law
Martina Brůnová
Associate
Corporate Law, Structuring and Asset Protection, Succession Planning, Trust and Endowment Funds, Family Law
Jana Jurová
Junior Associate
B2B Contractual Agenda, Public Procurement, Grants and Loan Documentation
Klára Zikmundová
Junior Associate
Corporate Law, Labour Law and Civil Liability and Compensation for Damages
David Pavliš
Intern
Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation, Human Rights
Maciej Górski
Intern
Competition Law, Employment law, Corporate Law and Capital Market Law
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