Speakers
Tomáš Doležil, partner, JŠK
Tomáš focuses in his practice on M&A, private equity/venture capital, general corporate and TMT. He heads the Corporate/M&A practice group at JŠK and has worked on over 200 M&A projects internationally, regionally and domestically. Tomáš is a member of the Board and Chairman of the Tax and Legal Committee of the Czech Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (CVCA), which supports companies operating in the field of private equity and venture capital. He is also a member of the Appeals Committee of the Czech National Bank. In 2022, he was named by CEE Legal Matters as one of the five most active M&A dealmakers in the Czech Republic and is repeatedly listed in the prestigious Chambers & Partners Europe and Legal 500 rankings. Tomáš worked for many years in Linklaters and Clifford Chance in Prague, Frankfurt am Main and London.
Daniel Pospíšil, partner, JŠK
Daniel Pospíšil is a partner at JŠK, focusing primarily on banking and finance, where he represents both lenders and borrowers across a wide range of projects. His extensive experience has contributed to the successful completion of numerous high-profile Czech and international transactions, including advisory work in transactional insurance. A significant part of his portfolio also encompasses expertise in real estate law, collaborating with leading Czech investors and developers. Daniel provides valuable advice to major private equity funds and venture capital investors, making him an indispensable member of the JŠK team.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in 2015 and also holds a bachelor’s degree in international business from the University of Economics in Prague. Additionally, he studied at the United Nations International School in New York. Daniel began working at JŠK during his studies and completed his entire traineeship there.
Ivan Sagál, managing partner, Bird & Bird
Ivan Sagál is the Managing Partner of Bird & Bird’s offices in the Czech Republic and Slovakia where he heads the firm’s Czech and Slovak Corporate and Banking & Finance Groups. While his leading expertise lies in complex transactional related legal support, his extensive experience also includes advising clients on highly sensitive internal investigation cases, strategic risk management projects, and providing regulatory risk guidance in projects across a number of industry sectors.
Petr Suchý, partner, Deloitte Legal
Petr Suchý is a Partner at Deloitte Legal, based in Prague, and leads its Mergers & Acquisitions practice. He began his professional career in 1997 and has been with Deloitte since 2003. Petr specializes in corporate law, with a strong focus on mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate restructurings. As lead counsel, he has successfully negotiated and closed numerous high-profile M&A transactions for corporate clients across a wide range of industries, including financial services, energy and resources, construction and real estate, manufacturing, and more.
In addition to his legal practice, Petr also teaches and lectures on mergers and acquisitions at the law faculties of Charles University in Prague and Masaryk University in Brno. Within the global Deloitte Legal network, Petr serves as a member of the Deloitte Legal EMEA Corporate M&A Executive Committee and leads the Deloitte Legal Central Europe M&A Expert Group.
Jan Bakule, head of private equity and M&A CEE, Renomia Gallagher
Jan is a leading M&A insurance advisor focused on delivering M&A and Transactional insurance solutions across the CEE region. He supports dealmakers, private equity funds, and strategic investors in enhancing transaction value by mitigating legal and commercial risks through bespoke insurance structures.
With a strong commercial foundation and deep insight into the dynamics of cross-border transactions, Jan operates at the intersection of legal complexity and business strategy. His approach is highly collaborative, working closely with legal counsel, underwriters, and clients to ensure that insurance solutions are not only robust and compliant, but also strategically crafted to facilitate smoother, more competitive deals.
Jan’s work is driven by a clear mission: to make M&A insurance a practical, value-adding tool that empowers investors to execute transactions with confidence and clarity.
Stefka Nacheva, senior underwriter | W&I insurance | CEE specialist, WECOYA TRANSACTIONAL RISK SOLUTIONS
Since July 2025, Stefka has been part of WECOYA TRANSACTIONAL RISK SOLUTIONS GmbH, where she focusses on underwriting W&I insurance across the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region.
Stefka started her 9+ years underwriting career at DUAL, where she was previously responsible for overseeing and leading the CEE underwriting operations. Prior to her underwriting career Stefka worked at a leading consultancy firm and as legal professional at King & Spalding LLP, supporting complex cross border litigation projects.
Stefka is a German qualified lawyer and speaks fluently German, English, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
Michal Kandráč, senior legal counsel, Tripledot Studios
Michal is Senior Legal Counsel at Tripledot Studios, one of the world’s largest mobile gaming companies. He previously spent more than a decade at leading Czech law firms, advising major global and local clients across the technology, video game, and film industries, and has been repeatedly recognized as a Rising Star in the prestigious Managing IP rankings. A lifelong gamer, movie buff, and bookworm who can debate Star Wars trivia for hours.
David Reminek, legal director, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield Group
David is a Legal Director at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield Group where he started 16 years ago after having practiced law at two intellectual property law firms in Prague. In his current role, he covers all legal matters including real estate and lease law, corporate law, data protection and compliance. As a former lecturer, David is an internal trainer at URW and a member of the local management team. David holds degrees from the Charles University Law School (Mgr. and J.D.), University of San Francisco School of Law (LL.M) and City University of Seattle (MBA). David speaks Czech, English and German and has basic knowledge of French.
Alica Koblovská, chief legal officer, ARETE
Alica is Chief Legal Officer at ARETE Group, an asset manager active across real estate and energy transition investments. She combines senior in-house and private equity experience with a background in top-tier legal practice, including roles at Kocián Šolc Balaštík and Bakala Capital.
Miroslav Svoboda, country leader, Deloitte Czech Republic
Miroslav Svoboda is a Country Leader and Partner in Deloitte Czech Republic. He is working in tax and economic advisory practices since 1993. He is an expert in Tax M&A and International Tax advisory services.
Miroslav specializes in transaction services, corporate income tax, international direct taxation and legal, tax and accounting implications of transactions and reorganizations.
He has gained his experience through cooperation with lawyers, advisors and auditors on projects involving mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and tax planning for private equity funds and both Czech and multinational companies engaged in international activities. Miroslav is a member of the Czech branch of the International Fiscal Association.
Petr Dědeček, partner | corporate finance, Deloitte Czech Republic
Petr leads the Corporate Finance team. Petr is an investment banking and M&A deals-oriented professional with over 25 years of experience in originating and executing transactions across a wide range of industries. Petr previously worked in senior positions at Erste Group and Patria Corporate Finance. Petr holds a Master of Science degree in the Czech Technical University in Prague (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering). Petr speaks Czech and English.
Martina Tesařová, head of legal and compliance, Twisto
Martina Tesařová entered the business world through legal advisory work, focusing on regulatory, compliance and risk matters for financial institutions. She later transitioned into fintech, joining Twisto initially as a part-time attorney before taking on leadership of the Legal and Compliance Unit. As the company grew, her role expanded beyond traditional legal advisory, and she became a board member responsible for AML/Fraud as well as business operations. Today, she brings a combination of legal, regulatory, strategic planning and operational expertise to her work.
Eva Svobodová, chief legal officer, FTMO
Joe Boswell, global editor GC Powerlist, Legal 500
Joe Boswell has been a part of Legal 500’s editorial team, specialising on the in-house legal community, for almost a decade. He now heads The Powerlist team, acting as chief editor for the over 40 separate editions of the GC Powerlist series which serve as The Legal 500’s flagship title celebrating the world’s top in-house counsel. He is also head of content for Legal 500 Events.
During the course of researching for the GC Powerlist series, Boswell has interviewed a vast number of world-renowned general counsel, chief legal officers, and legal directors about overcoming the challenges they face, their legal innovations, and how they see the general counsel role progressing in coming years. As well as this, he is a regular speaker at Legal 500 summits, roundtables, award ceremonies and other events, and often writes in-depth reports on business and legal issues.
Boswell graduated both the University of Sussex in The United Kingdom and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in The Netherlands.
Steering Committee
Christian Blatchford, general counsel, ENERGO-PRO
Christian is a solicitor specialising in M&A, projects and finance. He is included in the Legal 500’s GC Powerlist for Central and Eastern Europe and listed as an In-House Legal Business Frontrunner 2025 by Euro Magazine (CZ). While in private practice, Christian was recognised as a leading lawyer (highly regarded) in IFLR1000, noted in the Legal 500 EMEA (Commercial, Corporate and M&A), and featured in other international legal directories for his work on corporate and financial transactions.
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Richard Bacek, general counsel, Siemens Česká republika
Richard Bacek, general counsel Siemens Česká republika moved to Siemens in 2009 off the back of a highly impressive private practice career that saw him rise to the level of local partner with CMS Cameron McKenna. Over the course of his tenure with Siemens, his role has expanded, and he has responsibility for Slovakia and Romania as well as the Czech Republic.
Bacek has built the legal function around three core principles. Firstly, a clear distribution of responsibilities whereby each lawyer is a business partner for the defined business or corporate function. Secondly, motivating lawyers to take ownership of internal training of managers; creating and updating templates; and other user-friendly documents for the business. Thirdly, integrating and networking lawyers into international Siemens teams and thus motivating lawyers to be part of the global Siemens legal community via information visits to headquarters, participation in practice groups and other methods.
This model has allowed the team to be extremely flexible in dealing with the prominent issues, particularly in relation to regulatory changes, new products and ensuring company-wide compliance. Bacek sums up the key to excellent in-house support succinctly: ‘always look at the matter from a business perspective and do not provide legalistic advice. Rather, support the business effectively using whatever legal instruments are available’.
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Nadiya Bilous, general counsel CEEMEA, The LEGO Group
Nadiya Bilous is the general counsel CEEMEA, Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, for the LEGO Group, where she leads legal strategy, compliance and risk management across 100+ countries. A former board member in a Fortune 500 FMCG company, she brings two decades of experience navigating complex markets, driving public policy, security strategy and winning high-stakes litigation across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Repeatedly recognised as one of the Top Women in Law, Nadiya is an Aspen Institute, INSEAD, and LSE alumna, a German Marshall Fellow, and an advocate for people-centric leadership and high-performing teams. She has represented Eastern European business on global platforms including the World Economic Forum, Chatham House, and international investment forums.
Nadiya also leads advocacy for Dattalion, a women-founded volunteer initiative supporting Ukraine, is part of women empowerment initiatives, including Women Leaders for Ukraine and mentors emerging talent across multiple leadership programmes across the Globe. She has been a keynote speaker at multiple summits and forums, where she speaks about GC role in the evolving world, Empowerment and Resilience, as well as risk management on Boards and beyond.