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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 field of real estate and growth capital. Recently, she has dealt especially with development and subsequent sales or acquisitions of shopping centers with the value of approx. CZK billions (including forward sale thereof), preparation of investment structures in real estate, negotiating joint-venture agreements between significant players on the real estate market, development of logistic and residential complexes, including securing title insurance, project financing, construction projects also according to the FIDIC regulations and all aspects of leases and other steps associated with completion of the projects by sale. Her expertise includes, among others, also the issue of investments in various industrial sectors, including car-manufacturing and chemical industry.

Tomáš successfully advised on multiple gross-volume contracts concerning energy, construction, transport, mining, etc. He recently advised on several start-ups in area of finance, technology and e-commerce for local as well as foreign clients. Tomáš also represents Clients of Konečná & Zacha before Courts and in Arbitrations.

Achim is in charge of the German section of Konečná & Zacha, Attorneys at Law and with his team focuses especially on advising German speaking clients (DACH).

Since 1998 Achim has been working as an attorney both in Munich and Prague. Recently, he has dealt with mergers and acquisitions and real estate transactions including financing. He also provides comprehensive legal aid in all areas of law to medium-sized companies, which run their businesses on the Czech market.

Petko’s work has been largely focused on corporate governance (including public-listed companies in financial services and energy in the EU), contracts and M&A matters, the latter with particular emphasis on due diligence, structuring advice and acquisition support.

His knowledge and experience in corporate tax, VAT and, generally, tax litigation helps for a wider perspective of the matters he is handling. Those include foreign investment in Bulgaria for businesses in fast-moving consumer goods, real estate, pharmaceuticals and IT / media. He has recent contributions to the process of amending and EU-harmonization of domestic law on corporate agenda and capital markets.

Andrei is a member of the Bucharest Bar and of the Romanian Union of Lawyers since 2003. During the first years of his career he has been focusing on Labour and Employment Law, providing assistance in both the private and public sector. He was involved in several EU-funded public administration reform projects where, together with a panel of international experts, has provided assistance with the design, development of legal framework and career system of Public Managers. Subsequently Andrei has gained experience in the M&A, corporate and real estate fields by assisting multinational companies such as a major multinational company for clinical studies or a top commercial centre developer.

In the last years, Andrei's relevant expertise includes advising international companies on labour & employment issues ranging from drafting of internal regulations, negotiation and amendment of high level employment agreements to collective dismissals and litigation. He has also assisted an international fund, a major Czech fashion online retailer and a well-known Taiwanese fitness equipment producer to acquire real estate portfolios and establishing presence on the Romanian market, providing extensive assistance on a large range of matters, from setting up corporate vehicles to negotiating and concluding commercial agreements and onboarding employees and related HR matters. Andrei is also assisting a major international fuels distributor and an international wine producer/distributor with development projects and debt collection cases, including litigation, as well as a major Chinese corporation with labour & employment advice for the Romanian market.

While out of the office, Andrei enjoys extensive bicycle rides and playing tennis. He also plays the guitar and spends his free time learning to play new instruments.

Ľuboš further specializes in liability issues, damage compensation, contractual penalty, defamation and international private law including CISG a CMR litigation.

Ľuboš is also listed as an arbitrator with the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic.

Besides dispute resolution Ľuboš has gained significant experience in providing legal services in the field of regulatory matters, especially in the area of data protection and public procurement, but also in several other regulated areas. He represents clients in administrative proceedings on a regular basis in front of public authorities as well as administrative courts.

Ľuboš is fluent in Czech, Slovak and English language and has a communicative knowledge of French.

Ľuboš is an author of various specialized articles particularly from the field of civil procedure and international business law. He is also a lecturer at private business university in Prague and an editor-in-chief of the law focused website eLAW.cz. Apart from his work, Ľuboš enjoys urban life, architecture various sport activities and spending time with his family. 

Tomáš specializes in commercial, civil and financial law with emphasis to the contract law field.

He is experienced also in legal due diligence in connection to real estate and corporate transactions.

He also participated in providing comprehensive legal services to the owner of retail centers (both in operation and under construction) in the Czech Republic, to the purchaser of a compound including historical buildings in Prague or to the seller of land plots in Prague for the purposes of construction of a residential building.

His specialization includes commercial and civil law, focusing in particular on the field of contract law and rental of business premises. He also participated in the provision of comprehensive legal services to major tenants of shopping centres and retail parks in both Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.

Tomáš has expertise in international investment law and in related aspects of EU law. Before practising as attorney, he worked for the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, where he took part in negotiation of bilateral investment treaties. He is the author of the book titled “International Investment Agreements and EU Law”, which was published in Czech and English language versions, and is a member of the Czech Society of International Law.   

He is registered with the Czech Bar Association and is an attorney cooperating with the Prague-based office. His principal areas of practice include real estate acquisition projects and financing. He also advises clients on regulatory matters.

Tereza is part of the Dispute Resolution team and also works with the Employment and Labour team. She also focuses on construction law issues, in particular due diligence in connection with real estate transactions as well as negotiating of construction-related contracts. In addition to the above, Tereza also has extensive regulatory and compliance knowledge.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague and attended several courses at the Leiden Law School, Leiden University in the Netherlands as LLP Erasmus student. Tomáš also completed internship programme organized by the Municipal Court in Prague.

Tomáš specializes in litigation. He also advices on all aspects of real estate law, labour and employment law, personal data protection matters and contractual law. Tomáš participates in pro bono activities of Konečná & Zacha.

Simona worked for several years in one of the significant regional law offices, where she provided advice to clients primarily in the field of real estate and commercial law. She was also a part of in-house law team of leading Prague developer for two years. Her specialisation includes commercial and civil law, focusing in particular on the field of contract law and rental of business premises. Simona works also with corporate law teams.

Rossen has insolvency and restructuring expertise and handles all kinds of insolvency matters. He has successfully represented both creditors and debtors in litigations in insolvency court.

He also assists clients during judicial procedures for enforcing court decisions on regular basis. Rossen Lachev has also developed a strong practice in corporate finance and related strategic matters, during which his clients appreciate especially his business-oriented approach for satisfying their needs.

Rossen Lachev advices individuals and corporations on a variety of general corporate matters, including governance, joint venture, recapitalization, restructuring transactions, securities law and regulatory matters.

Martina focuses primarily on real estate law, merges and acquisitions as well as common legal advisory to clients concerning commercial and civil obligations law, corporate law and intellectual property law.

Julie focuses mainly on real estate, banking & finance, corporate, M&A, and personal data protection. In addition, she is also participating in providing complex legal services to owners of retail centers and office buildings (both in operation and under construction) in the Czech Republic. Julie is often responsible for negotiation and drafting lease documentation and contracts related to the construction and financing of various real estate projects. As a part of her work for clients, she also provides legal advice on regulatory issues, especially in areas where the Czech National Bank exercises supervision

During her practice Martina has been advising in various areas of civil, commercial and administrative law. She gained extensive and significant experience namely in Banking and Financing, Real Estate and M&A. Martina has been advising banks and other financial institutions as well as investors with project, acquisition and real estate financing. Martina regurarly represents our clients also in acquisitions namely in real estate and industry.

Our clients appreciate her orientation in different fields of law, accuracy and reliability, assessment of matters in their full context without missing out details.

Eva focuses mainly on real estate, banking & finance and corporate, including in particular legal due diligence in connection to real estate and corporate transactions

Nora focuses primarily on real estate and corporate law, including in particular legal due diligence in connection to real estate and corporate transactions. In addition, she has also participated in providing complex legal services to owners of retail centers and office buildings (both in operation and under construction) in the Czech Republic. Last but not least, Nora has also comprehensive knowledge in the field of data protection legislation. 

Specialising in Labour law, Florin assisted a significant number of clients with numerous complex employment matters, dismissal procedures, as well as with respect to day-to-day employment issues such as execution of individual employment agreements, negotiations for mutual termination, non-compete clauses etc. He has also assisted a significant number of clients in Labour law due diligence.

He has experience in corporate law, including due diligence processes and drafting of the transaction documents, resolutions, structuring of shareholders’ agreements.

Florin has been involved in a significant number of projects involving debt collection. He assists creditors within procedures ranging from litigation, enforcement of credit titles and up to insolvency procedures.

Another area of expertise covers Intellectual Property law. He assists various clients onto both the aspects of IP non-litigation issues, and on IP litigation issues regarding trademark infringement and counterfeiting, copyrights, domain name disputes, as well as registered design and the enforcement of other various IP rights against third parties.

Apart from his work, Florin enjoys winter sports, tennis, cycling, to discover different cultures and their history, board games and escape room puzzles.