Martin Kříž

Practice Areas

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.

Career

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.

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.

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.

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

Education

Awards