Pavelka

Mgr. Jan Pavelka, LL.M.

Partner

+420 733 677 768

jan.pavelka@pavelkapartners.cz

Jan Pavelka is the founding partner of Pavelka s.r.o., law office, with more than 15 years of experience.

Jan has on a long-term basis focused on corporate law, with an emphasis on transformations and divestitures, finance law, and international tax planning. He has been involved in numerous complex restructurings of major local as well as international holding groups of companies.

Apart from mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, legal advice on transactions with a strong tax aspect, and EU law, Jan also specialises in providing comprehensive legal advice to private clients and family business. His favorite discipline is the intergenerational handover of assets and architecture of trust funds.

Upon completing his studies, he worked for three years as a junior associate at Novák & Sabolová, a czech law firm associated with the Tacoma advisory group. In 2008 he joined the czech law firm Havel, Holásek & Partners, initially as a junior associate. In 2009, after passing the Bar examination, Jan became associate, and subsequently a managing associate. Until 2015, he worked there mainly in the corporate law department, especially in private and VIP clients of the office.

Since 2015 he has been working exclusively within Pavelka s.r.o., a law firm.

Membership in professional organisations

Czech Bar Association, reg. no. 12885

Association for the Support and Development of Trust Funds (a recognised trustee)Chairman of the Family Business Association

Chairman of the Family Business Association

Education

University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Law,
Plzeň (2005, Master of Laws – Mgr.)

Postgraduate course:
Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III,
Aix-en-Provence, European Business Law
(2008, Master of Laws – LL.M.)

Languages

Czech
English
German

Mgr. Ondřej Plánička

Partner

+420 776 767 551

ondrej.planicka@pavelkapartners.cz

Ondřej Plánička has been a partner at Pavelka s.r.o. law office since July 2016.

He specialises in corporate law, group restructurings, transformations and divestitures, and the related matters of acquisition, post-acquisition and corporate financing.

Ondřej has experience with projects in the Czech Republic and abroad. He has advised clients on complex cases of legal and tax structuring.

As part of advising private clients, Ondřej also handles the structuring and transfers of family assets, liability of managers, and manager incentive schemes.

Upon completing his studies, he worked as a junior associate at the international law firm Dentons. Later, in 2011, he joined PwC Legal where he worked for more than 3 years, initially as a junior associate, and after passing the Bar examination in 2014 as associate.

Membership in professional organisations

Czech Bar Association, reg. no. 15665

Education

Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague
(2011, Master of Laws – Mgr.)

Languages

Czech
English

Mgr. Barbora Masařová

Attorney

+420 739 664 697

barbora.masarova@pavelkapartners.cz

Barbora is a senior associate at Pavelka s.r.o. law office since June 2017.

Barbora specializes in transformations, sale and purchase of companies (asset / share deals) (M&A), Real Estate, Banking & Finance and Corporate Law. Barbora has been engaged in both domestic and international projects.

Barbora has more than 6 years of practice in structure and management of various types of local and international projects, joint ventures, share and asset deals, acquisitions, disposals and restructuring, including preparation and negotiation of transaction documentation, due diligence (specializing in energy and real estate), both sellers’ and buyers’ side, and related matters of acquisition, post-acquisition and corporate financing. Barbora has also advised banks and other financial institutions in real estate and corporate financing, including syndicated loan transactions.

Before Pavelka s.r.o. law office, Barbora worked in Clifford Chance, PwC Legal and Wilsons.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Czech Bar Association, reg. no. 16858

EDUCATION

Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague

LANGUAGES

Czech
English

Mgr. Karel Rada, LL.M.

ATTORNEY

+420 603 291 734

karel.rada@pavelkapartners.cz

Karel Rada has been an associate at Pavelka s.r.o. law office since May 2018. Karel specializes in the field of trust funds and related issues of administration, protection and intergenerational transfer of property. As part of his practice, he also focuses on corporate law, law of obligations and real estate law.

He has experience in the preparation and implementation of restructuring projects both within the Czech Republic and abroad, the construction of international holding structures and related legal and tax consultancy.

Prior to joining Pavelka s.r.o. law office Karel worked at Žižlavský law firm specializing in insolvency law, where he dealt mainly with insolvency proceedings and the related agenda.

Membership in professional organisations

Czech Bar Association, reg. no. 40510

Education

Charles University, Faculty of Law,
Prague (2014, Master of Laws – Mgr.)

Postgraduate course:
Eötvös Loránd University,
Budapest, European and International Business Law
(2017, Master of Laws – LL.M.)

Languages

Czech
English

Mgr. Bc. Matěj Sýkora

ATTORNEY

+420 731 613 195

matej.sykora@pavelkapartners.cz

Matěj joined Pavelka s.r.o., law office as a attorney in October 2019.

He specializes in commercial law and civil law, in particular obligation law, corporate law and M&A. He has also gained experience in the field of dispute resolution including arbitration proceedings.

He mainly focuses on group restructurings and related transformations (mergers, demergers) of business corporations, corporate governance of holding structures settings and implementations of management incentive schemes.

Both theoretically and practically, Matěj also deals with intellectual property law, focusing on copyright law. He is also a co-author of publication “Selected Issues of Art Law” (Masaryk University Brno, 2017).

Before he joined Pavelka s.r.o., law office, Matěj worked as a law clerk in law firm BBH.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Czech Bar Association, reg. no. 41524

EDUCATION

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts (Bc.)
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law (Mgr.)

LANGUAGES

Czech
English

Ing. Adam Hrazdíra, M.A.

+420 773 905 191

adam.hrazdira@pavelkapartners.cz

Adam Hrazdíra works at the law office Pavelka s.r.o. since October 2020 as a strategic advisor.

He focuses mainly on consulting in the field of transformations, sale and purchase of companies (M&A), economic analysis, preparation of indicative valuations of companies and complex restructuring of companies.

Adam has more than 5 years of experience in advising company owners on the issues of protection and intergenerational transfer of property. He has completed dozens of restructuring projects. Another area he deals with is trust funds.

Prior to joining the law office, he worked for the consulting company ČSOB Advisory, at the risk department of Komerční banka and at the law office Rakovský & Partners.

EDUCATION

University of Economics, Prague, major International Trade (2015, Ing.)
EGEI Economics of Globalization and European Integration (2015, M.A.)
(study in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Italy)

LANGUAGES

Czech
English
German

Mgr. Tomáš Pitra

JUNIOR ASSOCIATE

+420 728 193 219

tomas.pitra@pavelkapartners.cz

Tomas Pitra is a part of our team since May 2019.

He specialises in civil law, in particular in the area of the law of business corporations and mergers and acquisitions. He gained his experience especially during his four year practice in Havel & Partners, where he worked as a legal assistant of corporate law and acquisition teams.

He has been engaged in numerous local and international acquisition projects carried out by both private and public subjects. He also participated on investigation and forensic audit projects of multinational corporations.

LANGUAGES

Czech
English
French

Mgr. Karolína Denemarková

JUNIOR ASSOCIATE

+420 722 749 789

karolina.denemarkova@pavelkapartners.cz

Karolína joined Pavelka s.r.o., law office in September 2017 as a legal assistent. After successful graduation in autumn 2019 she became a junior associate.

Karolína specializes in law of obligations, litigation, corporate law and intellectual property law.

Before Karolína joined Pavelka s.r.o. she earned work experience during her two-year practice in law and mediation office Purkyt & Co. where she focused mainly on civil and restitutional disputes. After that, she became a paralegal in law firm KF Legal s.r.o. where she concentrated on civil, corporate and environmental law.

EDUCATION

Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague

LANGUAGES

Czech
English
German

Mgr. Eva Ďurišová

JUNIOR ASSOCIATE

+420 776 033 449

eva.durisova@pavelkapartners.cz

Eva joined Pavelka s.r.o., law office, in June 2020, as a junior associate.

Eva focuses mainly on corporate law. She also deals with civil law, especially contractual agenda.

Before joining the law firm Pavelka s.r.o. she worked in the law firm Hartmann, Jelínek, Fráňa a partneři, where she worked as a junior associate in a team specializing in corporate law.

EDUCATION

University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Law, Plzeň

LANGUAGES

Czech
English
French

Mgr. Daniela Radikovská

JUNIOR ASSOCIATE

+420 775 975 412

daniela.radikovska@pavelkapartners.cz

Daniela joined the Pavelka s.r.o., law office, in July 2018 as a legal assistant, when she returned from Netherlands where she was a part of study program on HAN University of Applied Sciences.

Daniela successfully graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in September 2020 and continues at the Pavelka as a junior associate. At the same time she studies at University of Economics where her field of study is Accounting and taxation. In the future she would like to focus on the area of taxation.

EDUCATION

Charles University, Faculty of law, Prague

University of Economics, Faculty of Finance and Accounting, Prague

LANGUAGES

Czech
English

Adam Karczub

Paralegal

+420 734 310 327

adam.karczub@pavelkapartners.cz

Adam joined our team in March 2020 and works as a legal assistant. Since September 2019, Adam is a student at the Faculty of Law of University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

During his years of studying he would like to use the opportunity of Erasmus+ program, within which he wants to study at Yeditepe University in Istanbul.

Among his interests belong legal problems related to migration and minorities in Europe.

In the future, he plans to devote himself to commercial and pharmaceutical law.

EDUCATION

Faculty of Law, University of West Bohemia

LANGUAGES

Czech
English

Jakub Šanda

Paralegal

+420 724 521 623

jakub.sanda@pavelkapartners.cz

Jakub Šanda joined the Pavelka s.r.o., law office in April 2020 as a legal assistant. Jakub is a student at Faculty of law, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen since September 2018.

He has already worked as a paralegal in a small law firm in the centre of Prague where he gained more than a year of experiences.

In his legal practice he would like to focus on commercial law and civil law.

EDUCATION

Faculty of law, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

LANGUAGES

Czech
English