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ROWAN LEGAL gained yet another IT law award, affirming its impressive position in this field in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The company LONGEA s.r.o. which was specialised in tax and accounting has integrated into ROWAN LEGAL advisory group.

We have launched a new corporate website in July, which is simpler and more user-friendly. It also reflects modern trends in creating web presentations. It is available in Czech, Slovak and English.

ROWAN LEGAL is the winner of yet another prestigious legal award in relation to its IT practice and has been chosen by the renowned Corporate INTL magazine as the IT Law Firm of the Year in the Czech Republic.

ROWAN LEGAL, law firm, is the winner of the Law firm of the year 2010 award in the category of Information Technology Law, organised by epravo.cz. In Intellectual Property and Public Procurement, ROWAN LEGAL was ranked among top five firms in the Czech Republic.

Co-organised by KVIFF and ROWAN LEGAL, the annual ROWAN LEGAL FESTIVAL CUP took place at the 45th Karlovy Vary International Festival for the third consecutive time.

ROWAN LEGAL, Law Firm, has become one of the partners of the conference on Interdisciplinary Aspects of Introducing IT Systems. Organised under the auspices of the T-SOFT ETERNITY Foundation, the conference is scheduled for 30 September, 2010 and its venue is Hotel Praha in Prague. Martin Maisner, Partner in ROWAN LEGAL, is on the speakers list.

On 1 July 2010, ROWAN LEGAL joined IT CLUSTER – a unincorporated association of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Chosen as the 2010 winner of the prestigious Corporate INTL Magazine Global Awards, ROWAN LEGAL has been named the Information Technology Law Firm of the Year in the Czech Republic and Dispute Resolution Adviser of the Year in the Czech Republic.

A well-acclaimed international competitor, ROWAN LEGAL, joins the group of Czech law firms with an exceptionally strong position in the TMT field (Technology, Media, Telecommunications).

ROWAN LEGAL has been recommended by Legal 500 EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) in the categories of: Corporate and M&A; TMT; and Banking, Finance and Capital Markets. In the category of Corporate and Commercial, incl. M&A, the recognition of ROWAN LEGAL additionally applies to the Slovak Republic.

ROWAN LEGAL, law firm, took part in 12th Q-2010 International Scientific Conference taking place on 29-30 April 2010 in Holiday Inn of Žilina, Slovak Republic, on “Preparing, Constructing and Financing Road and Highway Network”. Organised by the University of Žilina, the event was held under the auspices of the Slovak Minister of Transport, Post, and Telecommunications, Ľubomír Vážny, the Slovak Minister of Education, Ján Mikolaj, and the rector of the University of Žilina.

The agenda of the Public Procurement Conference held on January 27-28, 2010 in the Austria Trend Hotel in Bratislava included active contributions of the legal experts of ROWAN LEGAL, Law Firm.

In January 2010, ROWAN LEGAL welcomes two Senior Associates with international education and experience. Specialists in ICT Law, Zbynek Loebl, LL. M. and Jiri Cerny, LL. M. will strengthen one of the main specialisations of ROWAN LEGAL.

The Brno office of ROWAN LEGAL has moved. As of December 1, 2009, the new address is Květná 34, Brno - Pisárky, Czech Republic. Opened in 2007, the Brno office of ROWAN LEGAL has been dynamically evolving since, resulting in a need to move to larger and more representative premises.

Martin Maisner has been listed in Who is Who of Professionals 2009 published within International Who is Who Society and Madison Who's Who informing the experts and general public about achievements of individuals in various sectors and professional activities.

Listed in this year's edition of Which Lawyer - published by Practical Law Company of London - ROWAN LEGAL, Law Firm, has been recommended as a law firm to work with within the outsourcing and IT law sector.

ROWAN LEGAL, Law Firm, has become a partner of the RWE Volejbal Brno Team. Providing its services in the region for three years, ROWAN LEGAL runs an office in Brno with ten lawyers; in July, the law firm opened a new office in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

ROWAN LEGAL, Law Firm, has become a partner of a prominent conference organised by the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in May 2010. The conference will be attended by two representatives of the ROWAN LEGAL Arbitration Team, Martin Maisner and Miloš Olík.

ROWAN LEGAL, Law Firm, has supported the performance of The Valley of Dry Bones by Vladimír Franz at the 16th ... Příští vlna/Next wave ... Festival held in Prague, Czech Republic, in seven days starting on October 6, 2009.

On October 8, 2009, the Nordic Chamber of Commerce organised a "Pitfalls of Data Inboxes for Businessmen"business breakfast at which the participants had an opportunity to engage in a discussion with Marek Šimka and Tomáš Nielsen of ROWAN LEGAL, Law Firm, on data inboxes and their impact on Czech companies and their authorised representatives.

Martin Maisner, a partner of ROWAN LEGAL and Vice President of the Czech Society for Systems Integration, has awarded three companies assessed within the TOP Ten System Integrators programme - IBM Czech Republic, Logica Czech Republic and NESS Czech.

Martin Maisner of ROWAN LEGAL, Law Firm, has taken an active part in the "Information Technologies in Practice 2009" conference, giving a presentation on the Current Issues of Law Application in IT.

Supported by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) reviews a globally-acclaimed publication - ICCA Handbook on Commercial Arbitration. The Czech national report for the handbook is to be drafted by Miloš Olík, an expert in international arbitration and leader of the arbitration team of ROWAN LEGAL, an international law firm with offices in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

The team of lawyers at ROWAN LEGAL, law firm, welcomed a new member, Martin Šubrt, LL.M. - an expert in banking and financial law. Prior to joining ROWAN LEGAL, Martin Šubrt worked at well-known global institutions such as ABN AMRO BANK and The Royal Bank of Scotland in London where he worked mainly on syndicate funding, securitisation, and financial derivate projects.

For the second year in a row, the law firm ROWAN LEGAL has co-hosted, along with the organisers of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the official festival golf tournament played under Stableford rules.

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