Martin Kříž

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Foreign Investment and Merger Control, Insurance & Reinsurance, Finance.

Career

Martin Kriz specializes in corporate law, corporate finance and insurance practice. He

has been involved in multiple 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.

Throughout his career, Martin has successfully advised on high-profile M&A transactions,

such as advising XXXLutz Deutschland on its acquisition of the Porta Group headquartered

in Porta Westfalica, as well as providing legal counsel to RWE on the sale of its subsidiary

RWE Gas Storage CZ to state-owned electric power transmission system operator CEPS.

He also represented Engie in numerous acquisitions of Slovak and Czech district heating

and facility management businesses and advised Ringier Axel Springer on various

acquisitions and divestments of internet media and online businesses. Additionally, Martin

provided legal advice to the shareholders of Czech ticketing portal GoOut on its sale to the

Piletilevi Group.

Martin holds law degrees from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague and

Comenius University Law School in Bratislava, as well as an MBA from Warwick Business

School in England. He has been with PRK Partners since 1996, except for a period between

1999 and 2000 when he worked as a foreign associate in a leading law firm in the City of

London. He became a PRK partner in 2001.

Martin is fluent in Czech, English, and Slovak, and has passive knowledge of Russian and

French. He is an attorney at law with both the Czech Bar Association and the Slovak Bar

Association. Martin splits his working time between Prague and Bratislava, where he is the

co-head of our Slovak office.

Professional Memberships

• attorney at law of the Czech Bar Association

• attorney at law of the Slovak Bar association

Personal

Martin splits his working time between Prague and Bratislava, where he is the co-head of our Slovak office.

Clients

Engie, Ringier Axel Springer, RWE, Societe Generale, Taiwania Capital, UNIQA and many others.

Industry Sector Expertise

• Expertise in translating law into the local Czech and Slovak market, expertise in regulatory matters, particularly in the insurance and financial services sectors.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

• Czech

• Slovak

Languages Spoken

• Czech

• English

• Slovak

• Russian - passive knowledge

• French - passive knowledge

Work Highlights

• 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.

Education

Awards