As part of a significant transaction on the premium print media market, the HAVEL & PARTNERS law firm provided comprehensive legal advice to the Premium Media Group publisher when acquiring a new periodical, Art Antiques, which focuses on contemporary art, art history, design, artistic handcraft, antiques, and architecture.

A team of experts led by partner Václav Audes that was composed of senior associate Tomáš Navrátil, associate Josef Bouchal and junior associate Soňa Stará provided transaction advisory to and prepared the transactional documentation for Premium Media Group.

The Art Antiques magazine, which is published ten times annually, is to be included in the portfolio of premium print magazines of the Premium Media Group publisher alongside Estate, ARCHITECT+, Premium Golf, Premium Ski, Premium Brno, and Art of Living. The magazine is a good fit for the publisher’s portfolio, and the acquisition is another logical step in the further development of the Group.

“The cooperation of magazines like ARCHITECT+, Art of Living, which focuses on art and design, and Art Antiques for more expert audiences makes sense both in terms of content with partially overlapping topics and in relation to our business partners. We take it as an opportunity to merge the Art Antiques distribution with the model of direct distribution of our other magazines to clients with high demands, and we believe it will help the magazine and the whole publishing company advance,” said Štěpán Dlouhý, Premium Media Group’s CEO.

The first Art Antiques issue is to come out under the publisher in September 2021. In connection with the acquisition of the magazine, Premium Media Group purchased additional related publications such as yearbooks as well as the web portals artantiques.cz and artplus.cz.