Daniel Hájek invited to contribute to international handbook Financing Company Group Restructurings
Daniel Hajek, a founding partner at Achour & Hajek, has been asked to write a section of the expert guide Financing Company Group Restructurings: Pre- and Post-Commencement Group Insolvency Financing in National and International Practice. The guide will feature work from leading insolvency and corporate finance practitioners, academics and judges from key international trade jurisdictions. They will collaborate to produce […]
Michaela Poremská joins the team at Achour & Hájek
Achour & Hájek is pleased to welcome JUDr. Michaela Poremská Ph.D., LLM. Michaela is an expert in the field of public procurement who focuses particularly on the issue of electronic procurement. Between 2006 to 2010, she worked as a lawyer and then as Head of Procurement at the Rectorate of Masaryk University in Brno, where […]
The Legal 500 Edition 2014 named Achour & Hájek as a recommended law firm
The Achour & Hájek Real Estate Practice has been recognized among top Czech law firms by Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa 2014 Guide. The Guide in The Real Estate and Construction Law also recommends one of the partners Gabriel Achour. The annual Legal 500 series recommends firms and lawyers by specific "work areas" […]
Andrea Schelleova speaks at conference on monitoring and data protection
Associate Andrea Schelleova recently spoke at a conference titled "Monitoring and the protection of data and personal details", whose main themes were laws on workplace monitoring and risks to the security of company data. The event focused on concerns around central data storage, company law compliance and data retention. Andrea presented a paper analysing issues […]
Achour & Hájek in ELSA Olomouc “Job Fair Kontakt 2014”
Achour & Hájek took part in “Job Fair Kontakt 2014”, a student job fair held in the Czech city of Olomouc. Hosted by the Faculty of Law of Palacký University, this special event for law students and graduates was organised by the European Law Students' Association (ELSA) Olomouc. Its purpose was to bring future lawyers […]
Bid price extremely low for the D1 highway
The Office for the Protection of Competition ("OPC") recently found that part of the bid made by two construction companies to construct a section of the D1 highway was extremely low. The companies' winning bid had quoted a price of only CZK 1,- for the supply of software and computers to a roadside dispatch centre. […]
Gabriel Achour elected as a member of the Administrative Board of the Association for Development of the Real Estate Market
Gabriel Achour, founding partner of Achour & Hájek, was elected for the next term as a member of the Administrative Board of the prestigious Association for Development of the Real Estate Market (in Czech Asociace pro rozvoj trhu nemovitostí) (ARTN) (www.artn.cz). Members of ARTN are active in all areas of the real estate market – […]
New associate Tereza Dočekalová strengthens Achour & Hájek’s legal team
Tereza Dočekalová is the latest addition to the team at Achour & Hájek law offices. Tereza is a graduate of the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague. She also completed studies in the Erasmus programme at the University of Helsinki, where she focused especially on international and European law. Tereza has extensive experience in financing, […]
Achour & Hájek is a partner in a conference on practical risks surrounding the new Public Procurement Act
Achour & Hájek will be a partner in the upcoming conference “Practical risks surrounding public procurement on the eve of the new Public Procurement Act”. As well as highlighting solutions to current problems and risks for contracting authorities and bidders, the conference will look at alternative perspectives on public procurement. Speakers will give advice and […]
Ministry of Regional Development announces technical amendment before the new Public Procurement Act
Czech Minister for Regional Development Věra Jourová has said a technical amendment to the current Act on Public Procurement should take effect from 1 January 2015. The amendment will precede the adoption of the new Public Procurement Act, which is expected to come into force by 1 January 2016. The purpose of that new statute […]