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KSB advised Czech game development studio Warhorse on the initial crowdfunding for the project and on the legal aspects of the game’s development, including the licensing arrangements with the software developers.

As a fan of both music and talent, KŠB is proud to be a sponsor of world-renowned Czech pianist Tomáš Kačo’s concert on 22 February 2018 at one of the most famous concert halls in the world – Carnegie Hall in New York City.

ELSA, the largest independent association of law students in the world, recently organized the sixth annual Contract Competition in cooperation with KSB. 

In October 2017, Martin Šolc – KŠB partner and current International Bar Association President – delivered the welcome address during the opening ceremony of the IBA Annual Conference in Sydney.

KŠB advised its longstanding client ENERGO-PRO on a bond issue of EUR 370 million worth of Eurobonds which were accepted for trading on the GEM regulated market on the Irish Stock Exchange. The Eurobonds will fall due on 7 December 2022 and have a fixed coupon of 4,000% p.a. The issue priced was 100%. 

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of our clients, business partners and friends who attended and supported the 23rd Annual Charity Concert of Goodwill held by our law firm on Sunday 26 November in the Church of St. Juda in Prague 1 to raise money for the Goodwill Committee – Olga Havel Foundation. Proceeds from the concert will be used to support the Foundation’s selected projects, such as the “Senior” project, which assists organizations catering to our fellow senior citizens, as well as projects to help children with cerebral palsy and to provide scholarships to help socially disadvantaged children study.

At the beginning of November, Hospodářské noviny published Jaroslav Kramer’s interview with KŠB Managing Partner Dagmar Dubecká.

On Tuesday 31 October, DEZA, a.s., a member of the Agrofert Group, acquired Polish chemical company Petrochemia - Blachownia S. A. after two years of negotiations with the former owner BorsodChem Zrt.

KŠB once again supported the annual Fintech (r)evoluce conference held by Economia. The conference was held in the Czech National Bank’s Conference Centre on 25 October 2017 for the fourth time.

In its October edition, monthly legal magazine Právní rádce published its third annual overview of significant women in Czech law and named KŠB Partners Dagmar Dubecká and Sylvie Sobolová among the other 127 distinguished female attorneys, notaries, judges, prosecutors and in-house lawyers. 

KŠB Partner Prof. Jan Dědič was a guest speaker at this year’s Karlovarské právnické dny Conference. Prof. Dědič spoke on the topic of directors representing legal entities with a particular focus on violation of the four-eyes principle.

KŠB recently won a promotion dispute over garlic drops for manufacturer Allivictus.

United Bakeries Group, which sells bakery products under the “Delta” and “Odkolek” brands, lost final decision in dispute with KŠB client Agrofert.

KŠB advised Energo-Pro Group on the purchase of 100% of the shares in Turkish Murat Nehri, which owned Alpaslan 2, an unfinished dam and hydropower plant in south-east Turkey.

Martina Parusová-Zímová is the co-author of the 2nd Edition of the International Franchise Handbook, published by DWF Germany Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, in which she wrote a section on Czech franchising legislation and regulation.

This topic is discussed in an article written by KŠB counsel Drahomír Tomašuk and KŠB associate Jaroslav Zahradníček’s in CEE Legal Matters. 

Martin Šolc was the winner of the Market Maker award for the Czech Republic at the 2017 General Counsel Summit in Warsaw for his significant contribution to the Czech legal market. In addition to receiving this first-ever award from CEE Legal Matters, Martin - a founding partner of Kocián Šolc Balaštík (KŠB) - is also the first representative from Central and Eastern Europe to lead the International Bar Association (IBA), the largest worldwide organization of lawyers.

KŠB represented the contractor of a North Bohemian powerplant in a dispute with the customer over payment of the contractor’s fee. The dispute also involved the customer’s claim for a contractual fine and fee under an alleged contract for work and executive personnel. KŠB won the dispute and defended the client against the other party’s claims both before the first instance regional court and the high appellate court. 

Kocián Šolc Balaštík (KŠB) was named Law Firm of the Year in the Czech Republic for a fourth time by renowned British legal rating agency Chambers & Partners in London last Friday. 

Two attorneys and one junior lawyer join the ranks at Kocián Šolc Balaštík (KŠB) today: German lawyer Rainer Frank as a counsel, Pavla Veselková as an associate, and Petra Dosoudilová as a junior lawyer.