Sokol, Novák, Trojan, Doleček a partneři, advokátní kancelář

Managing Partners: Tomáš Sokol, Lukáš Trojan, Martin Doleček, Jiří Novák

Number of Equity Partners: 7

Number of Non-Equity Partners: 8

Number of other Lawyers: 26

Offices: Prague, Bratislava

Languages: Czech, Slovak, English, German, Spanish, Russian

Firm Overview

The beginnings of our law firm go back to 1992, when the law firm Brož & Sokol & Novák was founded and has since become one of the leading Czech law firms, collecting tens of years of experience and expertise in various fields along the way. In 2023, Brož & Sokol & Novák and Trojan, Doleček & Partners another major Czech law firm, decided to merge, and thus Sokol, Novák, Trojan, Doleček & Associates was born. After our merger, we are able to share knowledge and know-how amongst many of the national capacities and leading experts in various legal fields, which allow us to provide our clients with first-class legal advice tailor-made to the specific needs of the individual clients across various industry sectors.

Our clientele varies from individuals with different business and political backgrounds, to companies and corporations, both domestic and international, which represent the major players in their respective fields of business.

Main Areas of Practise

·Administrative procedure

·Arbitration

·Civil litigation

·Commercial and Consumer Law

·Compliance

·Competition Law

·Corporate Law, M&A

·Criminal Law

·Employment

·Energy

·ICT

·Insolvency and Restructuring Law

·Litigation / Dispute resolution

·Public Procurement Advisory

·Projects & Energy

·Real Estate and Construction

·Tax

·Telecommunication, Media & Technology

Civil litigation / Dispute resolution

Thanks to its lawyers with more than 30 years of experience, SNtdpA belongs amongst the most sought-after law firms in the area of high-value civil litigation on the Czech market. We deal with various kinds of disputes, including contractual disputes, damages claims, commercial or shareholder disputes, across numerous industry sectors (real estate, transportation, banking, telecommunications etc.). The value of these disputes and arbitrations, that often have precedential significance, regularly exceeds hundreds of millions of Czech Crowns. A part of our activity also consists of debt recovery for several banks.

Key clients: Vodafone Czech Republic a.s., KKCG Industry B. V., ČEZ, a.s., UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, a.s., MND a.s., PPF Bank a.s., PRIMOCO UAV SE, České dráhy a.s. (Czech Railways), mBank S.A., organizační složka

Contact person: Martin Doleček ([email protected])

Corporate Law, M&A

SNtdpA is also highly demanded law firm thanks to the expertise and experience of all members of our corporate law department. Aside from regular “day-to-day” corporate law agenda, we have considerable experience in the field of M&A. Our lawyers took part in major high-value transactions with clients from numerous industry sectors, some of which were conducted across multiple jurisdictions.

Key clients: KKCG Industry B. V., KKCG a.s., PPF Bank a.s., Vodafone Czech Republic a.s., SUEZ International S.A.S, SUEZ Water CZ, s.r.o., STV Group a.s., Czech Volleyball Federation, Czech Rowing Federation

Contact person: Jiří Hron ([email protected])

Compliance

SNtdpA remains one of the most prominent players in the area of compliance and provides reliable end-to-end legal advisory regarding the preparation, implementation and enforcement of compliance management systems (“CMS”) with focus on criminal and competition law compliance aspects. Our lawyers also have extensive experience with internal investigations, including investigations conducted in major private and state-owned companies. Given that our firm is a leading expert in white-collar crime defence and criminal liability of legal entities, we can offer our clients not only theoretical knowledge of CMS, but also practical experience of how these compliance systems are evaluated in practice by public authorities.

Key clients: ČEZ a.s., ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION a.s., České dráhy, a.s. (Czech Railways), ČD Cargo, a.s., KKCG, a.s., Czech Athletic Federation

Contact person: Lukáš Trojan, ([email protected])

Competition Law

Our lawyers provide full legal support to our clients not only with “day-to-day” competition law advice, but also with advisory regarding horizontal and vertical agreements, abuse of dominant market position, and M&A agenda, even in specific market sectors (such as telecommunications, construction, transportation or sport). This includes the initial consultancy with issues arising under the domestic law as well as under the EU law, the preparation of relevant contractual documentation and legal representation before domestic and EU authorities.

Key clients: Vodafone Czech Republic a.s., Metrostav a.s., České dráhy a.s. (Czech Railways), STV Group, SUEZ International S.A.S, SUEZ Water CZ, s.r.o.

Contact person: Jiří Hron, ([email protected])

Criminal Law

The criminal defence department of our law firm, which has achieved a dominant position in national legal markets, has gained experience and outstanding reputation in defending clients throughout the years, especially those accused of the sc. white-collar crimes (influencing of public procurement, wide-scale fraud, including subsidy and tax frauds, bribery, money laundering or harming of financial interests of the European Union). The alleged damages usually reach hundreds of millions, or even billions of Czech Crowns. We have also successfully represented our clients in international arrest warrants cases.

Key clients: Metrostav a.s., České dráhy a.s. (Czech Railways), prominent private individuals, former and current government officials

Contact persons: Lukáš Trojan ([email protected]), Tomáš Sokol ([email protected])

Public Procurement Advisory

Our lawyers have extensive experience handling all legal agenda concerning public procurement – this includes preparation and organisation of tenders for public contracts and other types of complicated and high-value tenders, preparation of complete procurement and contractual documentation, as well as legal representation of tenderers during the tender procedure or legal representation of clients in the protection against violations of public procurement rules, both before courts and administrative authorities.

Key clients: STV Group a.s., Czech Rowing Federation, Czech Olympic Committee, Metrostav a.s., Ostrava Waterworks and Sewerage Company, a.s., Water Management Company Benešov a.s.

Contact Person: Lukáš Nezpěvák ([email protected])

Real Estate and Construction

SNtdpA offers expert legal advice in real estate, development and construction. We routinely advise major domestic and international real estate developers and construction companies, but also private real estate investors, as well as landlords and tenants. Our lawyers have extensive experience in the full legal coverage of large commercial and residential development projects (including projects with international aspects), as well as private and commercial lease agreement negotiations and preparation. A natural part of our legal services is representing clients in negotiating financing for construction projects and advising on the appropriate structuring of groups of companies owning real estate, including tax considerations.

Key clients: UBM Development Czechia s.r.o., Cape Smokey Holding Ltd., Vodafone Czech Republic a.s., M2 Real Estate a.s., CRESCON a.s., Primoco UAV SE, National Olympic Water Sports Centre, z.s., Centrum pohybové medicíny Pavla Koláře, a.s. (Pavel Kolář Centre for Movement Medicine)

Contact Person: Lucie Ježková ([email protected]), Marek Bilej ([email protected])

Telecommunication, Media & Technology

The TMT agenda remains one of our core focuses, as evident from numerous national awards of SNtdpA from this area.Due to this specific and ever-evolving nature of this field, our lawyers are able to come up with unconventional and innovative first-class solutions that will suit the clients’ needs. Our team offers broad industry expertise, including legislative implementation, compliance issues, contractual matters, mergers & acquisitions in TMT field, as well as legal representation of clients before public authorities (Czech Telecommunication Office), with particular emphasis towards telecom operators.

Key clients: Vodafone Czech Republic a.s., KNOWLIMITS Group a.s., SUEZ Water CZ s.r.o.,

Contact person: Martin Doleček ([email protected])

Czech Republic – Prague office

Na strži 2102/61a, 140 00 Prague, Czech Republic

web: www.sntd.eu

tel: + 420270005533, +420224941946