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Advice to Jet Investment Group on Acquiring Likov27/11/23 / News
KSB's team led by Jan Lasák and Ján Béreš recently advised Jet Investment on expanding its investment portfolio. Jet Investment’s Jet 3 Qualified Investor Fund acquired a 70% stake in Likov, a successful Czech family-owned leading manufacturer of building profiles for external building insulation systems. More
Charity Concert of Good Will14/11/23 / News
The 28th Charity Concert of Good Will, which Kocián Šolc Balaštík has organised since 1995 to help support the Goodwill Committee - Olga Havel Foundation, took place on Sunday, 12 November 2023 traditionally at the Church of St. Simon and St. Jude in Prague’s Old Town. More
28th Charity Concert of Good Will11/10/23 / News
The 28th Charity Concert of Good Will, which Kocián Šolc Balaštík has organised since 1995 to help support the Goodwill Committee - Olga Havel Foundation, will take place on Sunday, 12 November 2023 at 19:00 at the Church of St. Simon and St. Jude in Prague’s Old Town. More
KŠB becoming member of Three Seas Legal Alliance05/09/23 / News
In recognition of the progress that is being made with the Three Seas Initiative we are pleased to announce that Kocián Šolc Balaštík became a member of a group of leading law firms from each country in the Initiative that have come together to support the Initiative and the needs of clients with regard to it. More
Assisting Webglobe in the acquisition of eBola.cz31/08/23 / News
The KSB team (Drahomír Tomašuk, Jana Guričová and Karolina Vosátková) assisted in another major IT acquisition. Our client, Webglobe, acquired the web hosting company EBOLA Czech, known under the brand name eBola.cz. More
KSB Advises on Establishing Tišina Endowment Fund28/08/23 / News
Vlastimil Pihera and Sabina Prokopová assisted in establishing and incorporating the Tišina Endowment Fund. The founders – Ivana Štefková, Barbora Dvořáková and Markéta Trubačová – aim to provide a platform for people who have experienced a significant upheaval in their lives and also for artists and creators who, for various reasons, cannot devote themselves to their work. More
KŠB Successfully Assists REMA System in Obtaining Authorization to Operate Collection System for Electrical Equipment28/07/23 / News
KŠB’s team led by Tomáš Sequens and Petra Mirovská was successful in assisting our long-standing client REMA Systém, a.s. with obtaining authorization from the Ministry of the Environment to operate a collection system for ensuring the obligations of manufacturers of electrical equipment under the new End-of-Life Products Act for all groups of electrical equipment, including solar panels, for which it previously did not have authorization. More
8th Annual Summer School of Commercial Law Recently Held25/07/23 / News
In cooperation with Masaryk University, KSB participated in the 8th Annual Summer School of Commercial Law. The summer school is attended by law school students not only from Masaryk University, but also from Palacký University and Charles University. The week-long event includes lectures by speakers from the Czech Bar, as well as from the judiciary and the academic environments, providing students with an exceptional opportunity to gain insight into various areas of the legal world. More
Assisting the Pražská plynárenská group with intra-group restructuring21/07/23 / News
The KSB team led by Jan Lasák assisted the Pražská plynárenská group with the intra-group restructuring and the creation of a new holding structure including, among others, the down-stream merger of Pražská plynárenská holding a.s. and Pražská plynárenská, a.s.
KSB Partner Tomas Sequens is one of the Faces of Sustainability27/06/23 / News
In cooperation with the Euro magazine, the Sustainability Project has been presenting Faces of Sustainability - the only Czech overview of sustainability experts since 2022. The 150 experts include representatives of the largest companies, government and non-profit sectors. KSB partner Tomáš Sequens is one of them. More
KSB authors contributed to a brand new edition of the monograph "Joint Stock Companies"23/06/23 / News
KSB partners Professor Jan Dědič, Jan Lasák and Vlastimil Pihera have contributed to the collective monograph "Joint Stock Companies" published by C. H. Beck. The publication deals with the legal regulation of a joint stock company from its foundation and formation, through the functioning of the company itself, its bodies and their members, including the rights and obligations of shareholders, the regulation of shares, the issue of share capital and its changes, to the dissolution of the company and its termination. More
KSB Helps Václav Havel Library Change Its Legal Form13/06/23 / News
KSB’s team, led by Vlastimil Pihera, has advised the Václav Havel Library on a rare change of legal form from a public benefit corporation to a foundation, while maintaining all of its ongoing activities and projects. More
KŠB Founding Partner Martin Šolc Inducted into the Czech Lawyers Hall of Fame13/05/23 / News
We are pleased to announce that KŠB founding partner Martin Šolc was inducted into the Legal Hall of Fame at yesterday's 17th Lawyer of the Year Gala. Each year, a prominent figure from the legal community is inducted into the Legal Hall of Fame for his or her lifetime contribution to Czech law. More
Drafting EU Growth Prospectuses for Avant Investment Group09/05/23 / News
KŠB’s team led by Vlastimil Pihera and Josef Kříž assisted Avant Financial Group in drafting two EU growth prospectuses. The company that controls Avant, a leading Czech investment company, will use the respective issues to finance its acquisition activities in order to further develop the group. More
Advising ARETE on the acquisition of an industrial site in Milovice28/04/23 / News
KSB's team (Jiří Horník, Jakub Porod, Zuzana Slabá) advised a long-standing client, the real estate investment group ARETE, on further expanding its portfolio of industrial sites. ARETE Group has long been focusing on real estate investments in the CEE region through its investment funds. It is currently investing through the 3rd investment fund ARETE INDUSTRIAL, whose portfolio now includes a newly purchased industrial hall near Milovice in Central Bohemia with an area of more than 8,000 sqm and additional land for future expansion with an area of over 22,000 sqm. More
Advising Sandberg Capital on Major Education Transaction24/04/23 / News
KSB's team led by Drahomír Tomašuk and Ján Béreš with assitance of Josef Novotný advised on another major IT and education transaction. This time, we advised our client Sandberg Capital on its investment in the Czech kindergarten management application Twigsee. More
KSB helps to establish the first Czech charity auction platform Dobrobot18/04/23 / News
After assisting with the establishment of new startup Flatform, KSB's team (this time Vlastimil Pihera, Lucie Kretková and Lubor Černý) recently helped in creating the first Czech charity auction platform Dobrobot, whose aim is to connect non-profit organisations, companies and donors through digital technologies and online auctions. It also offers non-profit organisations a tool to increase their income and supports their operations and development. More
Legal 500 recommends KSB in ten areas for 202318/04/23 / News
After being awarded in the Chambers Europe 2023 ranking, KSB is again among the top-ranked law firms in the Czech Republic, this time according to the latest publication "The Legal 500 EMEA 2023". We succeeded in the following ten out of eleven researched areas. More
Fundamental conclusions of The Court of Justice of the European Union04/04/23 / News
The Court of Justice of the European Union in its judgment of 2 March 2023 in Case C-477/21 made fundamental conclusions regarding the provision of uninterrupted weekly rest and uninterrupted daily rest to employees. The conclusions made are relevant for shift planning, especially if employees work in shift patterns, also in the Czech Republic. More
KŠB assists in developing new start-up Flatform30/03/23 / News
KŠB’s team (Vlastimil Pihera, Ota Mach, Josef Novotný and Jaroslav Zahradníček) was involved in the creation of new start-up Flatform. The platform gives prospective tenants a chance to rent an apartment or living premises without having to pay large security deposits and allows landlords to screen tenants and gives them higher damage coverage through the platform's financial guarantee. More