Partners

JUDr. DANIEL WEINHOLD, Ph.D.

Daniel is the managing partner and head of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions group.

Daniel specialises also in banking and financial services, restructuring and transformations, litigation and arbitration, commercial and investment disputes and contentious tax issues.

Daniel has been involved in work for major international, Czech and Slovak institutions and companies including among others: ENEL, Vivendi/Veolia, Société Générale/KB, ChevronTexaco, General Electric, ČSOB(KBC), Citibank, UniCredit, Hachette, SABMiller/Pilsner Urquell, CME, Vodafone, Skanska, Agip, Mitsui, Coca-Cola, Vinci/Eurovia, Deutsche Bahn, News Corporation, ČS/Erste Bank, Czech Post, Textron and the Ministries of Defence (Czech), Finance (Czech and Slovak), Transportation (Czech).

Daniel is the author of the book "Statute barring and time limitation in commercial legal relationships" published by C.H.Beck, Prague, 2000 (Second Edition 2002, Third Edition 2009), co-author of Czech section of the International Comparative Legal Guides to Mergers & Acquisitions in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010, further he is the co-author of Corporate Governance 2009. He writes regularly in specialist and business press in addition to lecturing on various commercial law topics.

He contributed to various legislative initiatives.

Daniel speaks fluent English as well as his native Czech.

Pav Younis

Pav is a partner and head of the firm’s real estate group.

Pav specialises in real estate, mergers and acquisitions and real estate finance and joined the firm in 1998 after working in London and Hong Kong.

Pav advises a range of local and international real estate investors, developers and banks on corporate real estate and acquisitions, financing and leasing, disposal and leasing structural planning and acquisition and development finance for banks and borrowers. Pav’s clients include Lighthouse, ProLogis, Anglo Irish Banks, Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Scotland, Quinlan Private Golub and Red Group.

Pav also advises on mergers and acquisitions, corporate re-organisations and restructurings and liquidations mainly for inward investing multinational clients from the United Kingdom, the United States and Western Europe but also for local clients.

JUDr. Thilo Hoffmann

Thilo is a partner and head of the firm’s German Desk.

Thilo specialises in corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and assists multinational companies established in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He joined the firm in 2001 after working for Delegations of the European Commission in Central and Eastern Europe.

Thilo has advised a considerable number of leading international companies in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia, mainly from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France, but also local clients. His clients include among others Siemens, E.ON, Škoda Auto, Slovak/Deutsche Telekom, Bayer, Robert Bosch, Behr, Allianz, Hella, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, ACCOR, TTS, SPP, Verbund, Freudenberg, Remondis, RWE Systems, EnBW, Spar and PLUS Discount.

Thilo is a Steering Committee member of the project elaborating a study on the operation and impact of the Statute for a European Company (“Societas Europaea” - SE) in nearly all EU/EEA member states for the European Commission.

Thilo speaks fluent English and French as well as his native German and communicates in Czech and Spanish.

Mgr. Milan Polák

Milan is a partner and head of the firm’s dispute resolution and labour law group.

Milan specialises in corporate law, litigation and arbitration and oversees all labour law issues.

Milan joined the firm in 1998, since when he has been involved in work for major international and Czech companies including among others: AHI Group, Aral, Argus Capital, COLAS, Europa Möbel, Gardena, Gramofonové závody, OMV, Park Lane, Pioneer, Plzeňská energetika, Plzeňský Prazdroj, Shell, Wagon Automotive and Winslow Partners.

Milan is an arbitrator with the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, where he determines domestic and international arbitrations under both, the procedural rules of the local court as well as the internationally accepted UNCITRAL and ICC arbitration rules.

Milan is also a member of the expert committee established by the Czech Ministry of Justice in relation to re-codification of civil law and a contributor to the book "Aus- und Absonderungsrechte in der Insolvenz” published by Verlag für Rechts- und Anwaltspraxis, Berlin in 1999.

Milan speaks German and English as well as his native Czech.

Mgr. Ivan Sagál

Ivan is a partner and head of the firm’s banking and finance group.

Ivan specialises in banking and finance, real estate, mergers and acquisitions and has worked with the firm since 1996.

Ivan has been involved in a wide range of projects including transaction advice for acquisitions (Holcim, Enel, ICL/Fujitsu, EnBW, SIG), banking and financial law advice (ČSOB, ING/Nationale-Nederlanden Group, Erste Bank), real estate law advice (Lighthouse, Red Group, Bank of Scotland, Anglo-Irish Bank, Allied Irish Banks) and general corporate law advice (Ford, Hanson, Eurovia/Vinci Group, Schneider Electric, Vitana, IVAX, ChevronTexaco).

Ivan has also extensive corporate, commercial and administrative law experience.

Ivan actively participated in working groups of the Association for Capital Markets and has also gained significant international experience while working in the Banking & Finance Department of leading Scottish law firm.

In addition to his native Slovak, Ivan speaks fluent English and Czech.