The projects of the development company Sekyra Group have a long-term vision. In cooperation with leading architects, including the world-renowned architect Eva Jiřičná, Sekyra Group is developing new modern and functional residential districts that give cities a modern look and improve people’s quality of life. This company has been our client for more than ten years. In that time, we have been involved as its legal counsel in all major projects.
Sekyra Group has specialised in real estate investment and the development of commercial and residential properties since 1996. The company has been one of the few developers that weathered the global real estate crisis and to date has built a total of 7,000 apartments and a number of representative buildings in Prague, including headquarters for companies such as Nestlé, T-Mobile, and the IT Centre of Česká spořitelna.
“In our projects, we are significantly changing the existing urban planning design of the capital city and therefore need comprehensive solutions to often complex, large-scale, long-term and untested issues in practice. We are happy to be able to confidently approach the professionals at HAVEL & PARTNERS in our search for the right answers,” said Leoš Anderle, CEO of Sekyra Group.
Since 2011, our law firm has been involved in the preparation and implementation of all this developer’s major projects. “This is long-term transactional and project work. We provide comprehensive legal services regarding real estate and construction, from the negotiation of land purchase through the permitting process to the actual construction of buildings. We also arrange financing for individual projects. But we also help, for example, with addressing the issues of distressed assets,” said managing partner Jaroslav Havel.
We are also cooperating with Sekyra Group on the largest real estate project in the modern history of Prague – Smíchov City, where a new district is being developed on the site of a neglected railway station area, which is to be a symbol of the transformation of the 21st century city. Quality public space will be created not only by a nearly one-kilometre-long pedestrian boulevard, but also by parks and a community centre.
As legal counsel, we are also involved in other key investments, such as the new Rohan City district in Prague’s Karlín district, where a 20-hectare green centre of the metropolis is being developed in close proximity to the Vltava River. And last but not least, we are also assisting Sekyra Group in the preparation of the Žižkov City project, where a residential area with 3,000 apartments will be built on the land of a former freight yard.
“Through cooperation with Sekyra Group we can participate in the cultivation of selected city districts. These are extremely interesting projects for us, where we appreciate their ambition to turn neglected industrial locations into modern functional districts with complete civic amenities, which are then among the most desirable locations in the metropolis,” added the firm’s partner Václav Audes.
