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Josef Donát, holder of the prestigious ICT Lawyer of the Year award, is the head of the ICT Law specialization at ROWAN LEGAL, an arbitrator and a registered mediator.

In his practice, he has long been involved in large-scale projects in the field of the legal aspects of digitalization, electronic identification, cloud computing, cybersecurity and delivery of information systems.   The team under his leadership is responsible for the creation of the BankID project, which is the most important electronic identification system in the Czech Republic. His other major projects include the preparation of the implementation of the so-called gigafactory for Škoda Auto or the transformation of the state enterprise Česká Pošta.

Josef Donát represents major multinational ICT companies, especially in relations with programmers in software development, he also collaborates on drafting license terms for computer programs and provides support to clients in negotiating contracts worth hundreds of millions of crowns. He provides expert advice to private and public sector clients in tenders and procurement procedures for supplies and services in the field of ICT and is also significantly involved in legal support for dynamic technology start-ups, where modern technology and innovation place significant demands on the right legal qualifications. Recently, he has been working on projects in the field of artificial intelligence, both by consulting for clients and by internal deployment for other innovative services offered by the law firm.

Josef has co-authored several commentaries on data protection laws, eGovernment and cybersecurity and regularly lectures at universities and international conferences.