Glatzová & Co

Partners: Vladimíra Glatzová, Martin Dančišin, Jiří Sixta, Jindřich Král, Libor Němec, Erik Kolan, Jan Veselý and Veronika Pázmányová
Number of partners worldwide: 8
Number of other lawyers worldwide: 45
Languages: Czech, English, German, Slovak

Firm Overview:
Since its foundation in 1994, Glatzova & Co. has firmly established a reputation for the technical excellence of its lawyers, their sensitivity to the commercial objectives of clients and their positive approach to legal issues. The firm offers real time advice on cross-border and domestic transactions and operations to businesses, financiers and governmental bodies.

Main Areas of Practice:  

M&A/Corporate:
For more than 27 years Glatzova & Co has advised on the most complex national and international transactions across all industries. Glatzova & Co. also seamlessly collaborates with international law firms on global transactions and manages complex deals involving different jurisdictions. The firm’s lawyers put themselves into their clients’ position when they are looking to sell the companies they have built over the years. The team sets up the appropriate structure and walks a client step by step through the transaction to a successful closing. And, when a client is looking to buy a company, Glatzova & Co. prepares a succinct and easily readable due diligence report that identifies the risks associated with acquiring the target and offers clear solutions. A team of dynamic and dedicated lawyers guides clients through all transactional phases and provides them with a high-level assessment of the legal risks without burdening them with unnecessary information.

Banking, Finance & Capital Markets:
Glatzová & Co. provides a full range of legal services in the area of banking and finance. Glatzova & Co. advises both lenders and borrowers on local as well as crossborder financial transactions, which include collaborating with international law firms and managing complex deals involving different jurisdictions. The firm also covers all areas of financial services regulation. Glatzova & Co. has strong know-how and a proven track record in regulatory matters. The firm represented its clients in numerous administrative proceedings (both licensing and penalty) before the Czech National Bank. The team, led by Martin Dančišin and Libor Němec, enjoys a high reputation with local and international finance institutions as well as with private investors. The firm has in-depth experience in acquisition and project financing as well as syndicated loans and consumer loans. In the past year the firm has also advised on a number of note programs, several of which were listed on the Prague Stock Exchange. Among its clients in this area are Raiffeisenbank, Komerčni banka, Všeobecnáúvěrová banka, ČSOB, KBC NV, J & T BANKA, a.s., SMART Capital Group, DRFG, and Natland Group.

Real Estate:
Glatzova & Co.’s real estate team has broad experience in complex real estate transactions (including the hotel industry, industrial sites and logistics), real estate finance as well as in providing complex legal support in real estate and infrastructure development projects. Glatzova & Co. advises its clients in complicated planning and building proceedings, including projects involving heritage protection. The team, led by partner Erik Kolan, has recently succeeded in several seemingly hopeless permitting cases and now represents a number of developers in similar processes. Glatzova & Co.’s clients include real estate developers such as HB Reavis, Landia Management, Discovery Group and Verdion. The firm also has a long-term relationship with Erste Group Immorent Czech Republic and has advised them on more than 15 projects. Erste Group Immorent Czech Republic, a subsidiary of Erste Group Bank AG, is part of a banking group focused on real estate financing and project development in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe.

Litigation & Arbitration:
Glatzová & Co. has extensive experience in representing clients in court proceedings and domestic and international arbitration proceedings in various fields of law, across all business sectors. The firm’s services include analysing cases from the perspective of substantive and procedural law, preparing a strategy for the case, and defending its clients’ rights before the courts. Although Glatzova & Co. has a high success rate, it always tries to guide its clients to reach an amicable settlement.

Restructuring & Insolvency:
Glatzova & Co. has broad experience with insolvency and restructuring under the new Czech insolvency law. The firm advised a major creditor in one of the first reorganizations allowed under this new law. Glatzova & Co. has represented its clients in creditor committees in a number of insolvency proceedings and has in-depth experience in creditor management of bankruptcy estates. The firm’s lawyers are also experienced in acquisitions and sales of property from bankruptcy estates. In the past year the firm has advised on the restructuring of banking/private equity debts in reaction to the COVID- 19 pandemic and related state aid. Glatzova & Co. has actively participated in almost all major insolvency proceedings in the Czech Republic in the past 10 years, including OKD, Vítkovice Power Engineering, Vítkovice Gearworks, Papcel, Oleo Chemical, Thomas Cook, PSJ, and many others.

Labour:
Glatzová & Co. is known for its excellent services, provided across the full spectrum of labour law and related legal services for clients operating in various areas of business. One of the specific sectors the firm operates in is the automotive industry. Glatzova & Co. provides comprehensive labour law, employment, and data protection advice to a number of significant clients, including: FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Mazda Motor Logistics, Renault Trucks Czech Republic, International Automotive Components Group, Auria Solutions, and Tiberina Automotive. Specific issues for these clients include labour law aspects of engaging non-Czech managers, implementing global policies, and global management of their companies. Glatzova & Co. represents several leading companies, including: Take-Two Interactive/2K Czech, OLX, Showmax, Travelex, Moody’s, Hypoteční banka, ČSOB Pojišťovna and Raiffeisenbank, and provides them with advisory services on specific issues related to employing experts in these two high-profile sectors. The firm also advises on non-competition, confidentiality and non-solicitation matters, data protection, and protection of copyrights. It also advises many individuals and managers when negotiating the conditions of their employment or employment termination or claiming rights against companies.

Energy & Utilities:
Glatzova & Co. is a trusted adviser to both the public and the private sector on virtually every aspect of energy law, including construction/development of power plants, regulatory, antitrust/competition, complex transaction and litigation issues. Its key expertise is in the area of renewable energy sources. Glatzova & Co. has advised major banks on financing and refinancing projects (e.g. Raiffeisenbank, Komerční banka, Erste Group Immorent), as well as investors on development and regulatory issues when developing and operating facilities, completing extensive M&A transactions when purchasing and divesting (e.g. Pražská energetika and DRFG), and litigating in numerous administrative and civil law matters (including investment treaty arbitration) including regulatory aspects of the renewables support scheme (e.g. Mondi Štětí, Solar Černilov and numerous operators of solar power plants).

Competition & Antitrust:
Glatzova & Co. has extensive experience in all areas of competition law, including antitrust clearances, disputes related to abuse of a dominant position, subsidies and state aid, and advises on issues related to cartel agreements, including block exemptions and leniency programmes. The firm’s lawyers also provide clients such as the Ford Motor Company, Mazda, Jaguar, and Jaguar Land Rover Austria with ongoing advice on competition law (vertical agreements) and represent them in proceedings at the Czech Antimonopoly Office and the courts.

Key Clients:
Bauer Technics, BigBoard Praha, Bohemia Properties, Cement Hranice, Crestyl, Discovery Group, Centropol, DRFG, ČSOB, EC Financial, Ford Motor Company, Loomis Czech Republic a.s., Hypoteční banka, KKCG Group, KOVOŠROT GROUP CZ, Landia Management, Natland, Mazda, Moody´s, MVV Energie CZ, Pale Fire Capital, , Preciosa Group, Raiffeisenbank, Reflex Capital, Renomia Group, Solar Ostrov, Take- Two Interactive/2K Czech, SEVA-SEED, spol. s.r.o., Showmax, Thomas Cook, Travelex, Y-SOFT, etc.

Offices:  

Czech Republic: Betlémský palác, Husova 5, 110 00 Prague 1
Tel: +420 224 401 440
Fax: +420 224 248 701
Email: [email protected]

Slovakia: Hviezdoslavovo námestie 25, Bratislava
Tel: +421 232 335 333
Fax: +421 232 335 330
Email: [email protected]