Havel & Partners – Czech Republic
Biography
HAVEL & PARTNERS, with offices in Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Pilsen, Olomouc, and Ostrava, has a team of 320 lawyers, tax advisors and patent attorneys, approximately 200 associates and 500 employees in total, and is the largest independent law firm in Central Europe.
Our clients include large international companies, leading Czech and Slovak firms, including strategic state-owned companies and public sector authorities, as well as medium-size businesses, individual entrepreneurs, and investors. We advise approximately 150 of the largest Fortune 500 global companies, almost 50 of the Czech Top 100 companies and 20 of the TOP 100 Slovak companies. HAVEL & PARTNERS currently provides its services to more than 3,000 clients
We are a business-oriented law firm with a pro-active approach. With a team of highly qualified lawyers, our top priorities include client care and time flexibility. We take an individual and personal approach to each client and in finding a proper solution for their needs. We strive to provide services with high added value, to create excellent and lasting business relations with clients, and to provide services in a manner exceeding our clients‘ expectations. Our lawyers are sought by clients for their comprehensive legal and tax advice, strategic thinking, and their desire to succeed, as well as for their ability to complete our clients’ transactions successfully and effectively assert their business interests.
We offer services at the highest international standard of quality for the provision of services, flexibility, and take a creative and business-oriented approach to resolving clients‘ legal issues while strictly adhering to the traditional principles and values of the legal profession (i.e. eliminating conflicts of interest, maintaining the highest standards of confidentiality, etc.).
We provide legal and tax services in Czech, Slovak, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian.
Technology experience
Technology law is one of the most important areas of focus of HAVEL & PARTNERS. Our firm has 9 partners and a total of 45 experienced lawyers dedicated to technology law, including patent attorneys. We have the largest team focused on technology law on the Czech and Slovak markets and it is not only thanks to this that we are able to handle the most comprehensive projects with overlaps into all legal and tax practice areas. We work for the largest technology giants and international investors, financial institutions, public authorities, as well as local IT companies, start-ups and early-stage entrepreneurs. We are technology enthusiasts who always look at our clients’ needs comprehensively and in context.