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Provided by Martin Kříž
Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Foreign Investment and Merger Control, Insurance & Reinsurance, Finance.
Martin Kriz has a corporate, corporate finance and insurance practice. He has been involved in numerous mergers and acquisitions (including their regulatory clearances), joint ventures, fund raisings and financings in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and also in other Central and Eastern European countries. His M&A practice focuses particularly on the energy, technology, real estate, industrial manufacturing and finance sectors. Martin is listed and recommended as a leading practitioner, both in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, corporate law, and outsourcing in numerous directories and publications, including Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 Europe, Legal Experts, and Best Lawyers.
Martin worked as a foreign associate at Slaughter and May in the City of London between 1999 and 2000. With that exception, he has been working at PRK Partners since 1996. Martin became a partner at PRK Partners in 2001.
• attorney at law of the Czech Bar Association
• attorney at law of the Slovak Bar association
Martin splits his working time between Prague and Bratislava, where he is the co-head of our Slovak office.
Engie, Ringier Axel Springer, RWE, Societe Generale, Taiwania Capital, UNIQA and many others.
• Legal advice to XXXLutz Deutschland on its acquisition of the Porta Group from Porta Westfalica.
• Legal advice to RWE on the sale of its subsidiary RWE Gas Storage CZ to the CEPS state-owned electric power transmission system operator.
• Representing Engie on numerous acquisitions of Slovak and Czech district heating and facility management businesses.
• Representing Ringier Axel Springer on numerous acquisitions and divestments of internet media and online businesses.
• Legal advice to the shareholders of Czech ticketing portal GoOut on its sale to the Piletilevi Group.
• Expertise in translating law into the local Czech and Slovak market, expertise in regulatory matters, particularly in the insurance and financial services sectors.
• Czech
• Slovak
• Czech
• English
• Slovak
• Russian - passive knowledge
• French - passive knowledge
Warwick Business School, United Kingdom
MBA
Comenius University School of Law, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
JUDr.
Charles University Prague, Faculty of Law, Czech Republic
Mgr.
Band 4
Chambers Europe - Corporate/M&A
2025
Highly regarded
IFLR 1000 – Corporate/M&A
2024
Leading individual
Legal 500 EMEA - Commercial, corporate and M&A
2024
Provided by Chambers
2 items provided by PRK Partners
PRK Partners advised RWE on the sale of its gas storage business in the Czech Republic
PRK Partners advised RWE, Germany's largest power producer, on the sale of its subsidiary RWE Gas Storage CZ, s.r.o. (now Gas Storage CZ, s.r.o.) to the state-owned operator of the electric power transmission system ČEPS, a.s.
PRK Partners played a key role in the recent major Bezvavlasy transaction
Law firm PRK Partners represented by partner Martin Kříž, associate partner Tomáš Bureš, and senior attorneys Martina Javorová and Jan Ditrych played a key role in the recent major Bezvavlasy transaction.
PRK Partners advised RWE on the sale of its gas storage business in the Czech Republic
PRK Partners advised RWE, Germany's largest power producer, on the sale of its subsidiary RWE Gas Storage CZ, s.r.o. (now Gas Storage CZ, s.r.o.) to the state-owned operator of the electric power transmission system ČEPS, a.s.
PRK Partners played a key role in the recent major Bezvavlasy transaction
Law firm PRK Partners represented by partner Martin Kříž, associate partner Tomáš Bureš, and senior attorneys Martina Javorová and Jan Ditrych played a key role in the recent major Bezvavlasy transaction.
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