Dentons has advised Ciklum on its acquisition of Czech-based software development company CN Group from Genesis Capital. Havel & Partners advised Genesis Capital on the deal.

Privacy pros are now celebrating the three-year anniversary of the GDPR, even as we are living through the current pandemic. It is, in fact, almost impossible to talk about privacy trends without touching on the COVID-19 crisis.

VGD Legal has advised Smarty Holdings on its acquisition of JRC Gamecentrum from Hamaga. Linkers Legal advised the seller and Havel & Partners advised the Ceska Sporitelna bank on acquisition financing.

Havel & Partners has advised Bohuslav Maska on the sale of M-Soft to Jawvivotek.cz. Dostal & Sorokac reportedly advised Jawvivotek.cz on the deal.

Havel & Partners has advised Central European Supermarkets on the acquisition of Flosman Holding s.r.o. from the Flosman family. Clifford Chance advised Ceska Sporitelna on financing the acquisition. Randa Havel Legal advised the Flosman family on the deal.

Havel & Partners has advised the Heluz family business on the acquisition of insulating glass manufacturer Izos. KPMG Legal reportedly advised the seller, Petr Aschenbrenner.

Havel & Partners has advised Compass Europe on forming a joint venture with Fipol Deniz Araclari ve Turizm Plastik Sanayi Ticaret AS. Ozderin Law Firm has reportedly advised Fipol on the deal.

Havel & Partners has advised Panara a.s. on an unspecified investment from Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG. CMS reportedly advised Alpla on the deal.

Havel & Partners has advised Masonite Czech Republic managers Pavel Satny, Lubomir Brousek, and David Krubner on their acquisition of 100% of shares in the Czech entity from Masonite International. Dentons advised the seller. 

On 31 January 2022, the “new” Regulation (EU) No. 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use and repealing Directive 2001/20/EC (the “Regulation“) will enter into force. After several delays (the launch was originally planned for 2015), the European Medicines Agency (the “EMA”) has confirmed to the Commission that the EU portal and the EU database, which were a prerequisite for the launch, are now fully functioning. At the same time, the EMA confirmed that the EU portal and database will be put into operation on 31 January 2022. As of this date, the Regulation will become fully applicable in all EU Member States.

Havel & Partners has advised British investment firm CapVest on Czech legal aspects of its sale of Valeo Foods to Bain Capital Private Equity. Weil, Gotshal & Manges reportedly advised the buyer.

Havel & Partners has advised shareholders Tomas Rutrle, Martin Lips, Yvona Parmova, Martin Slama, and Libor Malek on their sale of IT company Komix to the Cleverlance Group, a subsidiary of the Aricoma Group. Dunovska & Partners advised the buyers on the deal.

Havel & Partners, acting on behalf of T-Mobile Czech Republic, has persuaded the Regional Court in Brno to annul a decision of the Czech Competition Authority regarding T-Mobile Czech Republic's entrance into interconnection agreements with other mobile operators.

As of January 1, 2022, a deposit system for disposable beverage packaging will be introduced in Slovakia. Some disposable beverage packaging manufacturers and distributors will therefore have new obligations.

Is it possible to perceive some elements of the corona crisis positively? And is it possible that changes could take place that would have a positive effect on the Slovak legal market? I may be too optimistic, but I am convinced that the answer to both questions is “yes.”

Havel & Partners advised Hyundai Motor Czech s.r.o. on its entrance into financing agreements with Essox s.r.o. related to the importation and distribution of Hyundai vehicles in the Czech Republic.

Havel & Partners' Partner Frantisek Korbel, acting as a legal representative for the Ceske Radiokomunikace a.s. telecommunications company, has successfully appealed a Czech Supreme Court resolution to the Czech Constitutional Court in a dispute over the removal of the Petrov TV translator station from property owned by the defendant.

Havel & Partners has advised Sebre, Havel & Partners' Managing Partner Jaroslav Havel, and Sebre Managing Director Jan Kubicek, on the joint acquisition of a 50% shareholding in SousedeCZ, a company operating an online platform for digital communication of homeowner associations in residential buildings, from entrepreneurs Tomas Holomoucky and Tomas Sikora.