Radka Konečná

Practice Areas

Real estate

Corporate, M&A

Banking and finance

Projects & structuring

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Career

Professional Qualifications & Regional Reach:

Radka is a highly respected attorney admitted to the Czech Bar Association and the Slovak Bar Association. Her cross-border expertise is further underscored by her registration as a foreign attorney with the Bulgarian and Romanian Bar Associations, allowing her to provide seamless regional counsel.

Core Transactional Expertise:

Renowned for her deep expertise in real estate, investment, corporate law, and M&A transactions, Radka is recognized as a definitive "go-to" lawyer in these domains. She has played a pivotal role in structuring and executing some of the most significant real estate investment transactions in the Czech Republic, including high-value financings and complex investment structuring.

Strategic Cross-Border Leadership:

In her leadership role, Radka heads the CEE Real Estate and Investment Practice across all regional offices of Konečná & Zacha. She is frequently engaged in high-end investment financings, often collaborating with—or representing clients against—leading global law firms, demonstrating a sophisticated ability to navigate complex cross-border transactions with precision.

Arbitration & Dispute Resolution:

Beyond her transactional practice, Radka serves as an arbitrator with the Arbitration Court of the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Czech Agricultural Chamber. She is frequently appointed as the tribunal’s chair in high-stakes investment, construction, and commercial disputes—a role that further reinforces her reputation as a leading legal expert.

Market Recognition & Awards:

Radka has earned consistent praise from Chambers and Partners (ranked since 2006) and Who’s Who Legal. Her professional excellence was honored with the prestigious All Stars Award in the TOP Partners ranking by Euro Weekly in 2024—a distinction granted only once in a career for outstanding lifetime achievement.

Summary of Impact:

With unparalleled expertise, strategic insight and leadership, Radka Konečná remains a key figure in the CEE legal market, continuously shaping the landscape of real estate and investment law at the highest level.

Career path:

1) 1996 - 1997 Law Firm Burns Schwartz Position held: Junior Lawyer;

2) 1997 - 2000 Law Firm Tomsa & Spol. Position held: Attorney;

3) 2000 - 2011 Konečná & Šafář, s.r.o. Position held: Partner;

4) 2012 - onwards Konečná & Zacha, s.r.o. Position held: Partner.

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Professional Memberships

State Exams in English and Russian Languages and appointment to the position of Sworn Translator for the said languages in 1993

Member of Czech Bar Association (Czech Attorney)

Member of Slovak Bar Association (Slovak Attorney)

Member of the Bucharest Bar Association (Foreign Attorney)

Member of Bulgarian Bar Association (Foreign Attorney)

Member of Association for Real Estate Development (ARTN)

Arbitration Court att. to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic

Board Member of Czech – Romanian Chamber of Commerce

AFI (Association for Foreign Investment) - member through Konečná and Zacha, attorneys at law

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Personal

Happy wife and mother of two kids.

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Experience

Together with her real estate team, she represents a number of multinational corporations and foreign investment funds in their investments in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, particularly in the areas of real estate and growth capital. Recently, she has been working primarily on the construction and subsequent sales or acquisitions of shopping centers worth billions of crowns (including their forward sales), the preparation of real estate investment structures, the negotiation of joint venture agreements among major players in the real estate market, the construction of logistics and residential complexes—including securing title insurance, project financing, and construction in accordance with FIDIC rules—as well as all aspects of leasing and other steps related to the completion of projects through sale. Her expertise also includes, among other things, investments in various industrial sectors, including the automotive and chemical industries.

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Expert in these Jurisdictions

Konečná & Zacha, law firm, has branches in the following countries of CEE:

- Czech Republic

- Slovakia

- Romania

- Bulgaria

Radka actively works with clients on projects related to Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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Work Highlights

Real estate:

- Representing developers or investment funds in the acquisition/sale of shopping centers valued at CZK 1–3 billion

- Representing developers in connection with the development of satellite towns in the suburbs of Prague valued at CZK 5 billion, as well as approximately 300 apartments in

- Pardubice and approximately 270 apartments in Mladá Boleslav valued at CZK 360 million

- Representing developers in forward sales of upcoming projects

- Legal advice on the construction of logistics centers, residential complexes, shopping centers, industrial zones, and office buildings (in accordance with FIDIC conditions)

- Legal advice on the renovation of apartment buildings in Prague (including in the historic city center)

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Corporate:

- Establishment of a comprehensive corporate structure for a major Czech construction group

- Increase in the share capital of a leading global telecommunications operator by more than ten billion crowns

- Establishment of a holding structure for one of the largest engineering groups in Central and Eastern Europe

- Comprehensive contractual package for the redevelopment of one of the largest industrial complexes in the Czech Republic

- Structural support for large-scale joint venture projects in the construction industry

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Energy:

- Representing a domestic energy group in the development, financing, and sale of several photovoltaic power plants

- Representing a domestic energy group in the development, financing, and sale of several wind power plants (involving investments of CZK 800 million)

- A pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant project with a capacity of 1,000 MW involving investments exceeding CZK 25 billion

- Representing technology suppliers in the energy sector

- Representing a major domestic group operating in the field of gas sales and storage

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M&A:

- Sale of one of the leading Czech manufacturers of electrical equipment to a global industrial conglomerate

- Advising a foreign private equity fund focused on the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises on acquisitions, subsequent development, and divestitures of investments in small and medium-sized enterprises in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

- Acquisition and restructuring of a leading travel agency in Central and Eastern Europe

- Acquisition, restructuring, and subsequent sale of a Czech retail network to one of the largest global telecommunications operators

- Execution of a merger-by-combination involving the revaluation of the dissolving companies and the equity of the successor company in the amount of nearly CZK 1 billion

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Industry Sector Expertise

Real estate

Corporate, M&A

Banking and finance

Projects & structuring

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Languages Spoken

English, Czech, Slovak, Russian

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Education

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