Bird & Bird offices in Prague and Bratislava were established as greenfield operations in 2008.
The Czech office operates under the leadership of a three-member team comprising Ivan Sagál, Head of the Banking & Finance Practice, Vladimír Nyč, Head of the Real Estate Practice, and Vojtěch Chloupek, Head of the Intellectual Property practice.
The teams serve Czech, Slovak, and international clients in all areas of business law such as Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Technology, media and telecommunication, Corporate/M&A, real estate, banking & finance, life science, public sector, energy & utilities and renewable energy.
We take pride in our young, enthusiastic and proactive team with deep understanding of the businesses in which our clients operate. This means being fully conversant with current business, market and technical issues in addition to possessing an in-depth expertise in the law and regulation of each relevant industry sector.
Both offices are a fully integrated part of the Bird & Bird network, co-operating effectively with other Bird & Bird offices, in addition to the close cooperation with the other CE offices in Budapest and Warsaw.
Ranking & Recognition
- The Prague office has been ranked second tier for TMT by Legal 500 EMEA, 2011, 2010.
- The credit crunch halted significant new entrants or lateral hires in the market in 2009, but newer arrival that opened in Prague in 2008 - the English firm Bird & Bird, s.r.o. is beginning to make an impact. EMEA Legal 500 2010, TMT, Rank 2.
- Leading law firm – IP, TMT, Chambers Europe, 2011
- Vojtěch Chloupek, leading trade mark practitioner, World Trademark
- Review, 2010 PLC Which Lawyer recommended, 2011
- Leading law firm – Trademark prosecution, Patent contentious, Czech Republic, Managing IP, 2011
- Leading law firm – Trademark, Slovakia, MIP, 2011
Quotes
"The spread and consistent quality of this team ensure it can run deals out of Eastern European centres such as Warsaw and
Prague, in addition to the busy hubs farther west.”
Chambers Global 2011
"The team acts as more than just lawyers – they help to develop business relationships with a long-term focus."
Chambers Europe 2011, TMT, Czech Republic
Sources report that the firm is “rapidly gaining strength” and delivers “high-quality, practical advice.”
Chambers Europe, IP, 2011
Vojtech Chloupek: “An expert who understands how law relates to business. He is direct and to the point.”
Chambers Europe, IP, 2011
"The firm is more and more recognised on the market."
Managing IP, 2011
The spread and consistent quality of this team ensure it can run deals out of Eastern European centres such as Prague and Warsaw, in addition to the busy hubs farther west.
Chambers Global, 2011
"We very much appreciated the quality of presentation; focus on issues that are key to us and practical advice concerning the course of a dawn raid investigation. Because we were satisfied with the overall presentation of the topic as well as the speakers, we decided to recommend this workshop to our colleagues at the Union of In-house Lawyers."
Jan Lescinsky, Head of the Czech Skanska legal team, 2010
“The capability of the team to efficiently synchronize advice in two seemingly unrelated legal areas was also praised by the client and resulted in the successful closing of the deal.”
Dalibor Lamka, Managing Director of Trikaya Real Estate on a recent transaction led by Vladimír Nyč and Vojtěch Chloupek involving Real Estate and Intellectual Property, 2010