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Advice to Passerinvest Group on Purchasing the Gamma Office Project15/09/22 / News
KŠB's team (Jiří Horník, Jakub Porod, Ivo Průša, Zuzana Slabá and Marek Hais) advised Passerinvest Group on the purchase of the Gamma office project in Prague's Brumlovka administrative centre, where the group has operated for a long time. The property was sold by Austrian real estate group IMMOFINANZ. With the purchase of the Gamma building, Passerinvest continues its strategy of acquiring office buildings in Brumlovka. More
KSB Advises the Largest Czech Real Estate Agency M&M reality in the Sale of 50% of its Shares09/09/22 / News
KSB's team (Dagmar Dubecká, Jakub Porod, Karolina Vosátková, Jan Černohouz and Simona Hornochová) provided legal and tax advice on the sale of a 50% stake in M&M reality holding a.s. The buyer is real estate group EHS, which has under its wings, among others, the Bezrealitky.cz platform, real estate agency Maxima Reality, and the Czech Real Estate Trust. More
KSB is once again included in the prestigious IFLR1000 ranking02/09/22 / News
In this year's IFLR1000 rating, as in previous years, KSB is recommended in all areas, i.e. banking and finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and insolvency, and project development. More
Advising Heureka Group on its Acquisition of Balíkobot29/08/22 / News
Heureka Group, a shopping advisor and price comparator that operates in the Czech Republic and eight other CEE countries, was advised by KSB’s team (Petr Kasík, Jakub Porod,Jaroslav Zahradníček, Tomáš Trávníček, Filip Řehák and Karolina Vosátková) on the acquisition of Balíkobot. More
Pavel Dejl becomes new managing partner of KSB05/08/22 / News
Pavel Dejl has become the new managing partner of Kocián Šolc Balaštík as of 1 August 2022, replacing Petr Kasík as part of the firm’s planned rotation. Together with Jiří Horník, Petr Kasík remains a member of KSB’s three-member management committee and both will continue to support the managing partner. More
Assisting JTZE a.s.04/08/22 / News
JTZE a.s. (J&T Zemědělství a Ekologie), a company belonging to the J&T Real Estate group, has completed the acquisition of a 100% stake in POLINE s.r.o., an agricultural enterprise in the Kolin region, through JTZE Sobětice s.r.o. The total amount of the cultivated land is more than 1900 ha. More
Advising Yeong Chin Machinery on Acquisition of Stake in TRIMILL02/08/22 / News
KSB's team led by Dagmar Dubecká and Ján Béreš advised Yeong Chin Machinery on the acquisition of a majority stake in TRIMILL.
TRIMILL was founded in 2000 and specialises in the development, design, assembly, commissioning, sales and service of machine tools for the machining of moulds and press tools. Yeong Chin Machinery Industries is a Taiwanese company founded in 1954 and specializes in manufacturing machine tools. More
Advising Ronaldsay on the Sale of Hampshire Green Point29/07/22 / News
KSB's team (Dagmar Dubecká, Helena Navrátilová and Ján Béreš) advised Ronaldsay on the sale of Hampshire Green Point, which developed and commissioned the Green Point project, an energy-efficient eight-storey office building in Prague 5. More
KSB assists Pražská plynárenská in obtaining financing21/07/22 / News
KSB (Ivo Průša, Sylvie Sobolová, Martin Krejčí, Josef Kříž, Jan Lasák, Tomáš Zach) assisted Pražská plynárenská in negotiating and concluding contractual documentation for obtaining financing for purchasing and ensuring gas to fill storage facilities for the next heating season. More
KSB advises architecture firm William Matthews Associates14/07/22 / News
KSB's team (Václav Rovenský, Dana Jacková and Tomáš Trávníček) is advising British architecture firm William Matthews Associates (WMA), which won the international design competition for the new headquarters of Správa Železnic (National Railway Administration - NRA) in Prague. More
Advising on the issuance of perpetual certificates to be included as Tier 1 secondary capital12/07/22 / News
KSB's team advised J&T IB and Capital Markets as the arranger of the issuance of subordinated unsecured income certificates without a maturity date (so-called “perpetual certificates”) issued by J&T BANKA and countable as Tier 1 secondary capital, the purpose of which is to increase regulatory capital, increase diversification of capital sources, and raise funds for the eventual repayment of previously issued instruments. The value of the issuance is EUR 100 million, with an option to increase by 100 %. More
Award for the most beneficial legal publication in the Czechia and Slovakia20/06/22 / News
The traditional awards for the most beneficial legal publications in the Czech and Slovak Republics were presented at a gala reception at the 29th Annual Karlovy Vary Law Days. This year’s award went to “Commentary: The Corporations Act”, with KSB partner Jan Lasák as the lead author. The publication’s other authors from KSB include Professor Jan Dědič, Martin Kubík and Josef Kříž. More
KSB Experts Co-Author Book on Competition and Public Contracts03/06/22 / News
Almost three dozen experts, including KSB partners Sylvie Sobolová and Pavel Dejl and associates Martina Parusová Zímová and Martin Vráb, contributed to the book titled “Competition and Public Procurement: Synergies and Intersections”, which was initiated by Petr Mlsna, Chairman of the Czech Competition Authority. The KSB authors contributed to the book with the topic of horizontal cooperation between contracting authorities. More
KSB’s team Advises on Mattoni 1873 Refinancing02/06/22 / News
Martin Krejčí and Ivo Průša provided full-service legal advice to Mattoni 1873 on refinancing its loans. More
Advice to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice27/05/22 / News
KŠB’s team (Martin Šolc, Jakub Porod, Ota Mach and Klára Dvorská) advised Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, one of the oldest private investment companies in the world, and its lead legal counsel Debevoise & Plimpton on the Czech aspects of acquiring Vialto Partners, a former Global Mobility business unit of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. More
KSB Ambassadors on the "Firms of the Future" Panel16/05/22 / News
Sylvie Sobolová and Petra Mirovská took part in a discussion on 5 May 2022 organised by financial news weekly Ekonom under the title "Firms of the Future". More
VGP leases warehouse space to Hella Autotechnik06/05/22 / News
Jiří Horník and Richard Hamran assisted VGP Group, a leading developer and owner of logistics parks, in leasing commercial space with a total area of more than 49,000 sqm in the VGP Park Olomouc. More
KSB Advises on PPF Real Estate’s and Karlín Group’s Joint Entry into Prague’s Residential Development Market27/04/22 / News
PPF Real Estate – PPF Group’s real estate division – is entering the residential property market in Prague in cooperation with Karlín Group. The agreement between the two companies includes development projects that involve a total investment worth CZK 4 billion. More
Dagmar Dubecká on the prestigious list of IFLR Women Leaders for the second time25/04/22 / News
The British rating agency IFLR1000, which compiles annual international comparative rankings of law firms, has included KSB partner Dagmar Dubecká in its Women Leaders list, as it did last year. More
KSB assisted with the Rockaway’s investment into Alkohol.cz22/04/22 / News
KSB's team (Václav Rovenský and Josef Kříž) assisted Alkohol.cz with Rockaway’s strategic investment, particularly in connection with due diligence and negotiating transaction documentation. More