Thanks to top experts, their superior language skills, exceptional know-how and a wide network of international contacts that we have been building for two decades, we offer comprehensive support to firms and entrepreneurs with an international focus, while also being a long-term strategic partner to international clients expanding their businesses to the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Building a firm with an international reach was the clear vision of its founders from the beginning. Indeed, all of them originally worked for top global law firms, as well as some others who joined the team. “We got our first international jobs thanks to working closely with the global consultancy firm Deloitte, but from the start we have also been systematically building close personal ties with key foreign and international partner law firms in dozens of countries around the world. We wanted to become the first choice for them in cases where their clients need to invest or do business in the Czech Republic and Slovakia or in Central Europe," said Jaroslav Havel. "Only in the period from 2003 to 2008 alone, we made hundreds of business trips around the world on a regular basis including weekends," he added.
This approach has paid off for HAVEL & PARTNERS. Today we have the most comprehensive international support available to Czech and Slovak law firms. We work closely with leading international law firms in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and Australia. Our clients thus have access to international and local knowledge and expertise through more than 90,000 lawyers in approximately 160 countries worldwide.
HAVEL & PARTNERS offers the widest possible international support. More than 70 percent of our cases involve an international aspect.
750 transactions worth CZK 750 billion
Our firm offers the largest possible international support. More than 70 percent of our cases involve an international aspect. We provide foreign clients with comprehensive legal and related tax services in international mergers and acquisitions as well as advice on the creation of international corporate structures, including specialized advice in other legal and business practice areas. Over the last 15 years, we have carried out over 750 transactions worth more than CZK 750 billion.
Comprehensive support
HAVEL & PARTNERS has also become a sought-after partner for top international and foreign law firms that do not have a branch in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, or CEE countries; for example, it represents 8 out of the 10 most prestigious internationally operating US law firms.
Our services also include highly specialised legal and tax advice for clients expanding abroad. We offer expert support to firms exporting goods or services or entering international capital markets. We can advise clients on how to deal with business regulations in other countries. We understand export finance and insurance as well as the protection of investments abroad. We also represent clients in international arbitrations before prestigious international arbitration tribunals or in judicial and insolvency proceedings abroad.
12 languages
We provide legal and tax advice in 12 languages while being able to deliver high-quality services virtually around the world. On a nearly monthly basis, we now advise clients on investments and business transactions in CEE countries, Germany or Austria, Silicon Valley technology investments in the USA or various transactions under UK law. To mention some less common transactions, we represented, for example, Czech entrepreneurs entering the United Arab Emirates market or a Czech gas pipeline supplier in a dispute concerning the reconstruction and completion of a project in North Africa. In India, we advised a major supplier of components for aircraft engines and steam turbines. We have acted for clients in a complicated succession case in Australia, a major business dispute over an investment in the British House of Lords, and an investment in silver mines in the Philippines. So far, we have assisted clients in nearly 110 countries around the globe.
