Michal Smrček has expanded the insurance advisory group of the largest Czech-Slovak law firm HAVEL & PARTNERS in the position of counsel. In a team led by the firm’s partners Pavel Němeček and Jan Topinka, which provides legal advice to major Czech and multinational insurance companies and banks, Michal will provide comprehensive legal advice, including addressing complex damage claims, representing clients in court, as well as compliance and internal investigations.

Our team has extensive experience in providing legal services to clients in the field of insurance, whether insurance companies or insurance and reinsurance intermediaries, and we are one of the preferred legal counsels to, among others, the Czech Insurance Association and the Czech Insurers’ Bureau. Strengthening the insurance advisory group is part of our firm’s strategic development plan. Therefore, I am very pleased to welcome Michal Smrček, who has more than ten years of experience in this field, as part of our staff expansion,” comments Jaroslav Havel, the firm’s founder and managing partner.

Michal earned a Master’s degree in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, and after graduating he gained experience as a lawyer in several major insurance companies, a pension company, and as an attorney-at-law. Michal also worked in the legislative section of the Czech Insurance Association and was, among other things, chairman of the Corporate Governance Commission and a member of several other commissions in insurance companies. Prior to joining HAVEL & PARTNERS, as a senior manager of the legal department, he advised companies’ boards of directors both on common issues and major international projects. Michal was responsible for implementing key legal changes into companies’ internal processes. Furthermore he acted as the main contact person with the Czech National Bank (CNB) and was responsible for the coordination and implementation of corrective measures within the CNB’s inspections. Michal Smrček and his team also achieved the highest protected value in the history of Allianz pojišťovna within the management of the Insurance Fraud Investigation and Prevention Department, and taking into account the market share, it was also the highest protected value in the entire insurance market.