HAVEL & PARTNERS M&A practice group, the largest and most experienced of its kind in Central Europe, has been joined by Petr Dohnal, attorney-at-law, as counsel. His primary responsibility will be to advise clients on acquisitions and restructuring projects. The firm has thus further strengthened its comprehensive services to companies facing economic difficulties in connection with the current crisis.
“I am very pleased to be able to welcome an experienced attorney, Petr Dohnal, who has joined our team as part of the firm’s strategic development plan. Before joining us, Petr worked for more than 12 years as an in-house lawyer in a leading Czech investment group”, said Jaroslav Havel, one of the founders and the managing partner of the firm. “By engaging Petr we have strengthened our excellent M&A practice group as well as our unique teams for finance, restructurings and insolvencies, which we have set up in response to the recent decline of the Czech economy and the ensuing serious financial difficulties of many companies. We currently offer them our comprehensive services with a view to finding and subsequently implementing the most economically efficient and risk-effective solution to their situation,” said Jaroslav Havel.
“This practice area currently belongs among our priorities; we enlarged the relevant practice group in September, engaging two restructuring and insolvencies experts, Jan Králíček and Vojtěch Šváb, and Elena Jarolímková, a seasoned financing and insolvencies specialist in the Bratislava office. We have also grown in Moravia, in terms of both personnel and expertise. We are thus fully prepared to assist clients throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the upcoming difficult time,” said Jaroslav Havel.
Petr Dohnal received his master’s degree in law from the Law Faculty of the Masaryk University in Brno, and then successfully passed the bar exam and was admitted to practice law. After graduation, he delivered legal advice on M&A, legal audits and insolvency proceedings in several law firms. Before joining HAVEL & PARTNERS, Petr worked as an in-house lawyer in the PPF investment group where he was instrumental in handling major corporate insolvency and restructuring cases, whether as a representative of creditors or as an advisor to the debtor’s management.
