Our client, a prestigious international law firm’s corporate team in Prague is expanding and is looking for a senior lawyer specialized in Mergers & Acquisitions.
Profile:
- Czech law degree and bar membership;
- 6+ years of relevant work experience at an international or leading Czech law firm;
- Outstanding reputation in corporate/M&A;
- Ideally, you are native/bilingual in Czech, fluent in spoken and written English;
- Your business development and client relationship management skills are well honed;
- You have excellent project management, communication and interpersonal skills;
- You have an eye for detail and you are proactive to suggest improvements.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced attorney to join a growing team and work in a dynamic atmosphere while enjoying the benefits and resources of a sophisticated law firm.
A counsel/partner with associates or a team could be considered, however your portable would need to be at a level to justify/sustain hiring your team. If you are already a local partner, please feel free to engage in a discussion to see whether this firm could be right for you.
Please contact for a confidential discussion the consultant below via email.
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Our clients, well regarded international law firms in Prague, are seeking Real Estate Partners, in two cases to lead the practice. Partners are welcome to come solo or with teams.
The role is focused on actively counseling investors, lenders, developers, landowners, tenants, buyers and sellers in a competitive Real Estate environment, which includes navigating multi-jurisdictional issues. You should bring strong, established local and regional experience and know-how and cover the complete range of real estate services to clients, from development joint ventures, structured investments, acquisitions, and disposals to planning and construction services.
It is also appreciated if you have real estate leasing, project finance, acquisition and disposition, development, construction, and dispute resolution experience in RE.
These are excellent opportunities for seasoned partners or up and coming counsels to play a leading role.
Our clients require candidates having the following assets:
- Czech-qualified;
- Reputation in Real Estate ranked in Legal500 or Chambers & Partners; if a Counsel listed as “one to watch”, “Up and coming”, etc;
- At least 10 years+ of relevant experience in Real Estate in a leading international or Czech law firm;
- Portable commensurate with what a leader would deliver (if you are seeking to head the practice). For counsels a partial book of business which shows a 3 year upward trend combined with a good potential client network/contacts would be evaluated;
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken;
- Client focused, stress resilient, and known for providing high quality advice.
Please direct any inquires regarding this position, in complete confidence, to the consultant below. Thank you.
Our client is a highly regarded international law firm, recognised for advising both local and international clients on complex and high-value transactions. As part of its continued growth, the firm is looking to recruit an Associate / Senior Associate with 5+ years of experience post-qualification to join its Banking, Finance and Restructuring team. This role offers the opportunity to work with a dynamic team on high-profile transactions for a global client base.
Your key responsibilities will be drafting, reviewing, negotiating and executing a broad range of financing documents. This includes transaction management where you will work closely with partners, counsels and clients to ensure transactions are organized, documented and completed efficiently and effectively. You will coordinate with other practice areas and offices to provide comprehensive legal services to clients and manage and mentor junior associates and trainees. Depending on your seniority, you will contribute to business development activities, including client presentations and pitch documentation, and stay abreast of legal developments in finance law and contribute to the firm’s knowledge management.
The successful candidate will be a qualified Czech lawyer trained at a leading domestic or international law firm, with solid experience advising on banking, finance and restructuring matters. You should be able to handle complex legal issues and transactions and have the ability to listen to clients and work proactively on their behalf. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment. Proficiency in English is required. The ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines is important at this level as well as being proactive, self-motivated, and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
This is an excellent opportunity to work on a wide range of sophisticated, cross-border matters and top clients and to progress your career within a growing international platform.
Please direct any inquiries regarding this position, in complete confidence, to the consultant below. Thank you.
Our client is looking for a TMT Partner to join their team in Prague. This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned lawyer to join a prestigious firm and lead a growing practice area.
The successful lawyer will draw from his/her extensive experience to provide legal advice on cutting edge technology transactions across Prague and CEE, offering insight on a wide variety of technology transactions including: licensing, outsourcing, software technology development, and professional services (reseller and distribution) agreements, cross-border technology transfers, regulatory e-commerce, media and entertainment deals, data security and privacy matters, M&A and financing transactions or other complex procurement projects.
Requirements:
- We are seeking a Counsel / or a Partner with 8-10+ years PQE gained within a top-tier international law firm and/or having had such training before going in-house and now could be at a technology company.
- You must be qualified to practice in Czech Republic.
- The right candidate will have experience across the spectrum of TMT work, but with an emphasis on large-scale IT procurement and outsourcing, digital transformation programs, technology-focused tendering, technology procurement and licensing.
- Corporate experience of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures (M&A and JV´s) in the technology sector would be extremely beneficial.
- You will have strong regional experience and be able to demonstrate a good understanding of issues faced by clients in the developing digital economy.
- Strong skills in management and communication.
This is a long-term position and would suit a dynamic and outgoing personality. An ability to work independently and as part of a team are important attributes.
Please contact for a confidential discussion the consultant below via email.
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Our client is seeking an accomplished Czech tax expert – at Partner level or a senior tax professional on the cusp of partnership to lead and further develop a transactional tax practice within a well-respected regional law firm. This is a rare opportunity to build and shape a tax offering with full strategic support from firm leadership.
In this role, you will advise clients across all phases of complex transactional matters. You will guide them in structuring and executing transactions in a tax-efficient manner while balancing commercial drivers and tight deal timelines. The work spans entrepreneurs to multinationals and covers the full transaction life cycle, from planning through completion.
You will be involved in structuring deals from both local and international tax perspectives, including cross-border acquisitions, mergers, reorganisations, spin-offs, and restructurings (including those involving distressed entities). A strong grounding in tax structuring, transaction taxation, tax proceedings, restructuring, and tax risk assessment is essential.
We are seeking candidates with 8+ years of experience as a tax professional and/or lawyer, ideally with a proven ability to generate business, maintain strong client relationships, and deliver high-value strategic advice.
A portable book of business and active relationships with key market players and referral sources will be highly regarded. Senior professionals with a growing client base and a demonstrated upward trajectory are also encouraged to apply.
The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial, commercially minded, and genuinely motivated to invest in building a market-leading tax practice.
For a confidential discussion, please contact the consultant listed below via email.
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Top international law firm seeks a qualified corporate/M&A lawyer for its Prague office.
Our client, a prestigious and highly ranked international law firm is looking for a qualified corporate/M&A lawyer with native level English skills who holds an Irish, UK or Australian law degree to strengthen its Prague office’s outstanding corporate team.
The successful candidate will be a dynamic corporate lawyer with 4-8 years of relevant experience and with a keen interest in cross-border transactional work. A Czech corporate lawyer who has worked abroad and wishes to return to Prague would be appreciated. Candidates with M&A experience in complex transactions gained at reputable international law firms from Ireland, UK or Australia with Europe experience who desire to live and work in the beautiful city of Prague would also be well received.
You should be a commercially-minded team player, with a demonstrated ability to work proactively as part of a high-caliber team. You should be accustomed to providing top legal services in a focused and efficient manner. Your training will have been gained at a leading international law firm, where strength of experience and consistency of approach are considered key to ensuring clients achieve their goals.
If you are interested in this great opportunity, please send your CV in English in complete confidence to our consultant below.
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Our client, a leading law firm with global presence has a substantial sized award-winning Life Sciences team with deep expertise across disciplines. They are seeking a lead lawyer for the Life Sciences practice in Prague. This hire will advise clients in the sector on all their legal needs, including litigation, regulation, compliance and investigations, IP strategy and enforcement, data privacy, M&A, and licensing and distribution
You will play a key part in strengthening and building relationships with pharma, biotech, medical device, and diagnostics clients along with incorporating your own portable into our client portfolio. If joining as a counsel you should have minimum of portable business. We also welcome partners to enquire if they have a robust book of business.
The future partner will have a solid background in health care/life sciences transactional and regulatory matters and be able to advise on all aspects of business activities including the requirements for production, registration and approval in the pharma and biotech sector. This firm requires at least 10 years of overall law firm experience from leading Czech or international law firms. At least 6 years of such experience should have been gained in Life Sciences practice — during which time you will have become known for your leading reputation in the Czech market. You will have outstanding command of English as well as fluency in Czech both written and oral and you should be a Czech qualified lawyer.
Please contact for a confidential discussion the consultant below via email.
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We are currently working with an international law firm in Prague seeking a Czech native-speaking Transactional Tax Specialist to join its growing tax practice.
The team advises on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, with a particular focus on VAT, transactional structuring, reorganizations, and M&A-related tax matters. This is an opportunity for an experienced tax professional who understands how transactions are structured and executed, and who can identify and address the key tax issues arising throughout the transaction lifecycle.
About You
You should be capable of addressing the specific tax matters (in particular in VAT area) in relation to acquisitions and disposals (both share deal and asset deal), tax structuring exercises, changes in and development of business and operational models (both domestic and cross-border), reorganizations and restructurings (both on company and group level), financing and financing-like services, mergers, demergers, and cross-border transformations.
You shall be able to identify tax adversities, opportunities, and risks within transactions and propose suitable solutions or ways forward (in particular in VAT area).
You should possess general understanding of the transactional process (e.g. structuring for a transaction, general principles of purchase price calculation, tax DD and transposition of findings into SPA, and post completion integration).
Main Duties
- Transactional advisory in the area of corporate income tax, VAT, and accounting matters and aspects
- Development of the practice with the aim of having a 3-4 member team capable of doing cross-border structurings, DDs and other support/products relating to transactions, and litigations
- Advising Czech and international clients on transactional and structuring matters
- Collaboration with international colleagues on broader cross-border projects
Requirements
- Master’s Degree (preferably in taxation)
- Certified Tax Advisor
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience
- Good knowledge of VAT, knowledge in other taxes and/or customs is an advantage
- General understanding of the transactional process
- Fluent in Czech and English
- Adaptable to business needs and different business cultures
- Problem-solving and decision-making aptitude
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to operate under pressure and tight deadlines
- Ability to set priorities in your area of responsibility and meet deadlines
The firm offers flexible working arrangements, combining office and home working, and the opportunity to work on sophisticated international transactions within a collaborative environment.
For a confidential discussion, please contact the consultant below via email.
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Our client, a prestigious global Big4 Law Firm, seeks a highly motivated Junior Associate with a minimum of 3 years experience to join their team in Prague.
You will have the chance to work on important projects and gain rich practical experience on data protection and personal data, IT and intellectual property protection by interacting with clients and law firms from all around the globe.
The law firm provides Junior Associates with an active mentoring programme allowing you to learn how to practically apply the law to business cases, interact with authorities and courts in the Czech Republic, use your language skills when working with international clients.
Key requirements:
- Experience in data protection or privacy, but also a generalist who has a passion for these areas and a desire to dive deeper into them,
- Czech University Law degree,
- Excellent knowledge of English and Czech language (knowledge of other foreign languages is an advantage),
- At least 3 years post-graduation experience, completed bar exams are not a requirement (but can be an advantage),
- Strong analytical, argumentation and communication skills,
- Independence, responsibility and the ability to carry out tasks to a successful conclusion.
Please contact for a confidential discussion the consultant below via email.
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