Andrea Schelleová is quoted by Czech Press Agency
Achour & Hajek attorney Andrea Schelleová provided a statement to ČTK (Czech Press Agency) following the entry of a seventh company on the public contract black list kept by the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition. Introduced almost four years ago, the black list does not appear to have been very successful. In its […]
Achour & Hájek represents ZOMATO in acquisition of Lunchtime.cz and Obedovat.sk
Achour & Hájek recently acted for the Indian start-up ZOMATO in its acquisition of the Czech and Slovak online restaurant guides Lunchtime.cz and Obedovat.sk. The two websites focus on offering lunchtime menus of local restaurants updated daily, and are the most popular services of this kind in both the Czech and the Slovak Republics. The […]
Commentary on the use of mediation under Act No. 202/2012 Coll.
A new law on mediation in non-criminal settings – Act No 202/2012 Coll. on mediation and the amendment of certain laws (the Mediation Act) – has already been in force for six months. In April 2013, the first “registered mediators” were listed by the Ministry of Justice, having fulfilled all statutory conditions under the Mediation […]
New associate Denisa Marešová strengthens Achour & Hájek’s legal team
Denisa Marešová is a graduate of the Faculty of Law in Prague as well as the Masaryk University in Brno where she studied International Relations and European Studies. She also studied at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Before joining Achour & Hajek, she worked at Wilson & Partners law offices where she acted for […]
Achour & Hájek is a partner in a conference on directors of project-based companies
Achour & Hájek is a partner in the 4th annual conference on directors of project-based companies, the largest ever event of this kind. The conference will focus on recent issues surrounding projects and construction work as well as legislative changes that are now being tabled. JUDr. Andrea Schelleová will join the discussion as part of the […]
Anna Šafránková joins the team at Achour & Hájek
The legal team at Achour & Hájek has been strengthened by the addition of a new junior associate Anna Šafránková. Anna is a graduate of Charles University in Prague where she is currently completing her Ph.D. studies. Previously she undertook studies at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf based on a scholarship. Before taking up her post, […]
Achour & Hájek is a partner in a workshop on the estimated value of public contracts
Achour & Hájek is a partner in the workshop ‘The estimated value of public contracts’, which will be chaired by JUDr. Schelleová and JUDr. Poremská. The workshop will be held during the 5th conference on public procurement titled ‘No authority can exceed the limits of the law’. One of its goals is to explore current […]
New law on the transfer of rights as security
The new Civil Code (Act No. 89/2012 Coll.) contains rules on the transfer of rights as security that significantly extend the previous regulation under the old Civil Code (Act No. 40/1964 Coll., Civil Code). Despite lawmakers’ apparent efforts to make the concept of transfer of rights for security clearer and more certain, the new regulation […]
New minimum wage in 2015
In September, the Czech government approved a decree under which starting from January 1, 2015, the minimum wage will increase. As of the new year, the basic gross salary will be at least CZK 9,200 monthly instead of the current CZK 8,500. The hourly rate will also increase from the current CZK 50.60 per hour […]
Daniel Hájek is the author of a new volume – “Templates of commercial contracts and filings for businesses
Czech publisher LINDE PRAHA, a. s. has released a new volume titled “Templates of commercial contracts and filings for businesses” (VZORY OBCHODNÍCH SMLUV A PODÁNÍ PRO PODNIKATELSKOU PRAXI) whose author is Daniel Hájek. This publication, which features a collection of contract templates for practical use by businesses, comes in response to the new Civil Code, […]