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Provided by Tomáš Richter
Tomáš Richter has close to 30 years of experience in private legal practice, having qualified as Czech advocate in 1998 and practised in Prague, with secondments to London and Frankfurt. He joined JŠK in 2021 after having spent 25 years at international law firms.
His current practice focuses on debt restructurings and other types of special situations, and on insolvencies, where he mostly advises and represents lenders, including in litigation originating from these situations.
Since 2005, he has been taking appointments as arbitrator in local and international arbitration proceedings.
Between 2001 and 2021, he taught the law of corporate financing at Charles University’s Institute of Economic Studies. Between 2011 and 2014, he held the chair in cross-border corporate insolvency law as a visiting professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
He co-shaped current Czech insolvency and restructuring law through having consulted to the government on its legislative proposals, including the 2006 Insolvency Act, litigated seminal cases before the insolvency courts and the Constitutional Court, and authored the leading treatise on Czech insolvency law.
Since the early 2010s, he has served on the group of private experts with whom the European Commission (DG JUSTICE) consults its legislative proposals in the fields of insolvency and restructuring law.
Czech Bar Association
International Insolvency Institute (member since 2015, member of the Board of Directors from 2019 to 2023)
INSOL Europe (member since 2008, chair of the Academic Forum from 2019 to 2022, honorary Council member)
Turnaround Management Association Czech Republic (founding member of the Czech national chapter since 2008, Vice President from 2008 to 2012, and from 2022 to-date)
Conference of European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (member since 2016)
Numerous law review articles, books and chapters in books, in the Czech Republic and abroad
Restructuring & Insolvency
Arbitration & Litigation
Provided by Chambers
Tomáš Richter is frequently instructed by major international creditors to advise on high value insolvency litigation. He has strong expertise in representing both secured and unsecured creditors and can do so flawlessly across sectors and in cross-border cases.
Provided by Chambers
Tomáš Richter is a widely recognised insolvency expert in the Czech Republic. He has good negotiation skills and is a very good litigator.
Tomáš Richter is one of the leading experts. He is extremely experienced and has an excellent understanding of the client's needs. He analyses situations brilliantly, not only from a legal perspective, but also from a commercial one.
Tomáš Richter is a widely recognised insolvency expert in the Czech Republic. He has good negotiation skills and is a very good litigator.
Tomáš Richter is one of the leading experts. He is extremely experienced and has an excellent understanding of the client's needs. He analyses situations brilliantly, not only from a legal perspective, but also from a commercial one.