Jaroslav Baier

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Jaroslav Baier specialises in acquisitions (including distressed assets), joint-venture structures, and company and business restructuring.

His practice focuses primarily on venture capital and private equity, including investments in start-ups and (bio)tech companies. Jaroslav himself is also the co-founder of a start-up and has a great understanding of the challenges faced by their founders. Jaroslav is a regular lecturer for start-ups and their investors, runs his own blog and participates in various events within the Czech venture community.

Jaroslav also has extensive experience in developing incentive schemes for top management and key employees of start-ups (ESOPs), forming holding structures abroad and also advising on the foreign expansion of Czech companies. He is currently a manager of the expansion of two Czech start-ups into the EU and further into the world.

Last but not least, Jaroslav is also involved in acquisitions and sales of distressed assets, having previously participated in the restructuring of one of the major engineering groups in the Czech Republic and the pre-acquisition restructuring and subsequent sale of a leading Czech aircraft manufacturer. Before joining our firm in 2022, he worked for several years for a Czech boutique law firm specialising primarily in M&A and advised one of the most prominent Czech private equity groups. Prior to that, he worked for a number of years in the Czech office of an international magic circle law firm.

Membership in professional associations

Czech Bar Association

Languages
Czech, English, German
Education
  • Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague (2021), JUDr. (Doctor of Laws)
  • Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague (2010), Mgr. (Master of Laws)
  • Europa-Institut, Universität des Saarlandes, obor evropské právo, (2014), LL.M.
  • Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Zürich, Erasmus programme (2009)
  • acquisition of a group of global companies based in Cyprus that trade in financial assets (buy side)
  • investment in a Czech biotech start-up by a leading European pharmaceutical company (target)
  • sale of MZ Liberec, a.s. to a major Czech business group (sell side)
  • sale of AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s. to a Hungarian-Czech consortium (sell side)
  • a minority investment in a odds development start-up for the esport company RTSmunity
  • restructuring of Vítkovice a.s. Group
HAVEL & PARTNERS, along with its venture capital experts, represented Central European deep tech fund Tensor Ventures and Elevator Ventures, the Austrian corporate VC fund of Raiffeisen Bank, in their investment in Czech fintech startup Wultra. The legal advice was provided by managing associate Josef Bouchal acting as the team leader, along with associate Jiří […]
HAVEL & PARTNERS in Slovakia assisted Photoneo in a unique and unprecedented transaction. This deal secured financing for Brightpick, a division focused on developing automated robotic systems, combining debt and equity financing totalling $12 million. The team, led by partner Jaroslav Baier and comprising associates Kristína Saktorová, Miriama Podskubová, and junior associate Róbert Košala, negotiated […]
The law firm HAVEL & PARTNERS was instrumental in completing one of the largest and, in terms of its structure, most exceptional deals combining fund structuring and venture capital that took place in the Czech Republic this year. We represented Tomáš Čupr’s Rohlik Group in the formation of a unique investment fund Rohlik Growth SICAV, […]
Slovak law firm HAVEL & PARTNERS advised the Slovak state-owned joint stock company Slovak Investment Holding (SIH). SIH has recently become a major investor in InoBat, a company specialising in the research, development and manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles. SIH provided InoBat with an equity investment of EUR 12 million, or approximately CZK 303 […]
HAVEL & PARTNERS represented Česká spořitelna Seed Starter, one of the shareholders in Investown Technologies, in connection with the entry of a new investor into the company, which operates an online crowdfunding application for real estate projects. Comprehensive legal support for Seed Starter throughout the transaction, including negotiation of the contractual documentation, was coordinated by […]
HAVEL & PARTNERS traditionally announces internal promotions at the beginning of the second half of the year. Ondřej Florián, the partner responsible for leading the firm’s corporate and private client services team, becomes an equity partner as of 1 July. Kateřina Slavíková, Jaroslav Baier, Ondrej Čurilla, Petr Opluštil and Miroslav Vozáb have been promoted to […]
Jaroslav Baier, a lawyer with long-term experience in venture capital and private equity, has joined HAVEL & PARTNERS as a counsel and will significantly strengthen the team of the largest Czech-Slovak law firm focused on these areas. Jaroslav specialises in investments in start-ups and (bio)technological companies, as well as acquisitions (including distressed assets), joint-venture structures, […]

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