PRACTICE AREA
Mergers and Acquisitions
PRK's M&A Practice has built strong recognition over the years, as reflected in the numerous national and international awards the firm has received. Our legal expertise, language skills and broad legal experience have enabled us to help negotiate, structure, document and execute hundreds of deals for local and international clients over the past two decades.
We offer legal support and assistance in due diligence procedures, mergers, acquisitions, transformations and restructurings in the Czech and Slovak markets. Close cooperation with local and international experts from other jurisdictions means we are able to protect our clients’ interests effectively.
We represent strategic investors, private equity firms and family offices both on the sell and buy sides. Our clients include large national and multinational corporations in sectors such as finance, banking, automotive, transport, food, real estate, manufacturing, hotel and pharmaceuticals.
Our regular involvement in competitive auctions gives us a well-rounded commercial perspective. We draw on our deep understanding of key economic sectors to provide relevant and timely advice. Over the years, we have also become a partner of choice for a number of international law firms that need a strong local partner with a commercially-focused approach to assist on multinational transactions involving a significant Czech or Slovak component. We advise on all local aspects of the transaction, ranging from due diligence and alignment of acquisition documentation on local law requirements to assistance with local closing deliverables.
Our competition and regulatory teams are ready to help secure requisite local approvals in a cost-effective manner. Our reach is not only local, but also regional. We have acted on a number of acquisitions involving multiple targets in the region.
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Mergers and Acquisitions
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References
Mergers & Acquisitions / Artificial intelligence and digitalization
The founders of start-up Taikun Cloud, a pioneering platform for Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure automation, on the sale of the company to US-based technology leader Cloudera, a major portfolio company of global private equity firm KKR.
Mergers & Acquisitions
JTEKT Corp. on the carve-out and sale of one of its Czech subsidiaries as part of the divestment of its European bearings business in an auction process.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Messrs. Jiří Zima and Daniel Janků, the founders of NICEBOY s.r.o., one of the best-known Czech brands of consumer electronics and household appliances, on the sale of the company to Czech investment group Anacot Capital.
Mergers & Acquisitions / Media & Marketing
GoOut and its majority owner Piletilevi PLG on the acquisition of Ticketstream and Ticketportal from media group Mafra (Kaprain Group). Those acquisitions significantly strengthened our client's position as one of the key players on the ticketing markets in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Central Europe.
Mergers & Acquisitions / Media & Marketing
BB global a.s., a joint-venture of J&T Arch Investments, on the acquisition of a majority stake in BigBoard Praha, the leading outdoor advertising operator in the Czech Republic, from the JOJ Media House group.
