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Z/C/H Legal Offices

NÁRODNÍ 973/41
11000 PRAGUE 1
Czech Republic
Z/C/H Legal > The Legal 500 Rankings
Czech Republic > Real estate and construction Tier 3
Z/C/H Legal is a strong choice for advice on acquisitions, developments, construction agreements and real estate litigation. A distinguishing feature of the practice is its strength in retail sector transactions and leasing, Transactions make up a significant portion of the team’s advice, with it acting on behalf of a mix of developers and local municipalities. Radek Hladky and Jiri Ctibor co-head the group. David Pavlicek and Lukáš Žáček both offer key development expertise.Practice head(s):
Radek Hladky; Jiri Ctibor
Other key lawyers:
Testimonials
‘The firm covers all needed areas from a business point of view, so they can provide a complex service from A to Z, which is very important for us. You do not need to ask for different specialisations, as they are able to cover all of them. Even on international matters, they can always give proper advice directly or with their international partners.’
‘We work mostly with the partner of the company Mr Ctibor, who is really professional. He can give advice by thinking as if he was in your shoes. This is very important for the final decisions we have to make in the end.’
‘We have been cooperating with them for a really long time and we can confirm their qualities, especially as a matter of course, we take not only their high level of expertise but also the client approach combined with great flexibility in cases where it is really needed.’
Key clients
Impuls Leasing Austria
Bawag Leasing & Fleet
TREI Real Estate Czech Republic, Tengelmann Unternehmensgruppe
Intersport
Schachermayer
Bakker
Captain Candy
GOOD T ROOM, s.r.o.
Z/C/H Legal > Firm Profile
We provide comprehensive legal services to all clients who do business or intend to do so in the Czech Republic. We work in Czech, German, English and Slovak. Our lawyers are graduates of top universities and have experience in working abroad. We are comfortable working across the Czech, German and Anglo-Saxon entrepreneurial cultures and this is what makes us stand out from the crowd. It goes without saying that we provide the highest quality services on time, every time.
Our standards
- All of our lawyers possess top qualifications, based on ongoing training and team sharing experiences
- Efficient legal consulting, avoiding unnecessary steps, brief and comprehensive recommendations
- No time wasted, top quality service maintained
- Working 24/7 when required
- Deadlines honored
- Understanding the financial aspects of our clients‘ businesses
- Mutual trust
- Individual, client-centered service
- Protecting the client’s interests to retain good relationships with business partners
- Transparency of legal consultancy fees, conditions agreed in advance and a clear summary of legal acts performed
Tradition
We have been here for you since 2005. Over the years, our team has become strong with extensive know-how and a stable portfolio of clients. Thousands of contracts have been signed with our support, hundreds of transactions successfully completed, and dozens of judicial and arbitration proceedings have ended in success – our record speaks for itself.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Partner | Radek Hladky | Radek.hladky@zchlegal.cz | +420225020500 |
Partner | Jiri Ctibor | Jiri.ctibor@zchlegal.cz | +420225020500 |
Lawyer Profiles
Photo | Name | Position | Profile |
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![]() | Lukáš Žácek | Senior Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Ondrej Cala | Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Jirà Ctibor, LL.M., Ph.D. | Partner Jiri´s practice focuses mainly on Real Estate, M & A and… | View Profile |
![]() | Daniel Fridrich | Lawyer | View Profile |
![]() | Lenka Gomez Tomcalová | Senior Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Veronika Halalová | Lawyer | View Profile |
![]() | Jana Hladká Zilvarová | Partner Jana is responsible for the business development, management and marketing of… | View Profile |
![]() | Radek Hladký | Partner Radek’s practice focuses mainly on Banking, Financing including Leasing, M&A plus… | View Profile |
![]() | VladimÃr Lajsek, Ph. D. | Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | JaromÃr LoÅ¡ták | Lawyer | View Profile |
![]() | Tomáš Matejka | Lawyer | View Profile |
![]() | Vendula Nejedlá | Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Milan Paták | Senior Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Ing. David PavlÃcek | Senior Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Jana Süssmilichová | Senior Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Sylva Slezáková | Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Michel Suchý | Attorney | View Profile |
![]() | Lukáš Tománek | Lawyer | View Profile |
![]() | Petr Turek | Attorney | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Attorney-at-law : 14 Lawyers : 5 Experts for insolvency : 4 Paralegal : 9 Back office : 5Languages
English Deutsch French Spanish Russian Czech SlovakMemberships
TAGLaw - A Worldwide Alliance of Independent Law FirmsDiversity
Diversity can be perceived in different broad contexts. In our office, we always try to treat differences in the team with respect. We encourage the confidence and potential of individual team members and believe that this is the force that holds us together and drives us forward.
There is a beautiful saying in Czech which goes like “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link”. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. We draw on the strengths and try to eliminate the weaknesses together. In supporting our differences, we can better leverage the potential of each team member and turn it into potential for the client.
As far as diversity in the gender sense is concerned, we are committed to the idea that the presence of women in a law firm is not only beneficial, but even necessary for success. Depending on their different life experiences, women may have a different perspective on the world, on a particular problem or issue, a different approach to problem solving and managing stressful situations, not only in front of a client or in court.
A Partner of our law firm, Mgr. Jana Hladká Zilvarová, has long supported the participation of women in law firms, including in leadership positions. In addition to her activities in thematically focused media projects, she devotes a lot of time to the precise setting of internal firm processes so that our firm is as accessible as possible to capable lawyers regardless of gender.
It is a matter of course that when one of the women goes on maternity/parental leave (which in the Czech Republic is up to 4 years), an individual plan is prepared for each of the expectant mothers. This is set by the woman herself and of course it is expected that it may change frequently and diametrically depending on the situation. This plan outlines, in a rough outline, whether the mother wants to work part-time during her parental leave, when she plans to return to her position, whether she wants to be included in email correspondence, whether she wants to be updated on her credentials and more. Our goal is that no woman should suffer, even if only by feeling that she is being disadvantaged because of her role as a woman or a mother. Equally commonplace with us is the option of parental leave for fathers, although no dads have taken advantage of it yet.
We also have a friendly and supportive approach to mothers (parents) of young children. At their request, we assign them an agenda that does not involve a high degree of flexibility and the associated overtime or weekend work. However, we try to maintain this setting for the rest of the team as well.
Our mission for the future is to further develop our company culture so that we can be a role model for others and help in our own small way to break the glass ceiling and jump over the pay gap.
Notable Cases
ZDR Retail Litoměřice s.r.o.
During the very busy and short pre-Christmas period, we helped our client (a real estate investment fund) to acquire a retail park with a total lease area of 11.923 square metres. The tenants of the retail park are main players in the Czech Republic and significant players world-wide (Ahold Group and OBI). At the same time, we re-negotiated the loan agreement with a bank financing the project. In addition to the usual issues regarding such a project, we successfully tackled the issue of the technical condition of the retail park: we helped our client to get very interesting provisions into the transaction documents strongly enhancing his position regarding this issue.
ZDR Retail Schwörstadt GmbH
We successfully support our client (a real estate investment fund) in its continuing expansion in Central Europe, this time in South-Western Germany near the German-Swiss border where our client acquired a retail park whose tenants consist of major retail players in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia or Poland. Throughout the acquisition, we managed a wide range of tasks from communication with a German financing bank, completion of a complex due-diligence process of the target to a successful negotiation and signing of the sales-purchase agreement thus ensuring a smooth execution of yet another significant foreign transaction for our client.
Kunstdepot gmbh
In the fall 2020, we supported our client (a real estate investment fund) in their first expansion to a German speaking country. The target was a unique property – depositary of the museum of modern arts Salzburg with a lease period of over 40 years outside of the beautiful town of Salzburg, Austria. We successfully helped our client in negotiating the contractual and financing documentation and providing supervision of the due diligence process resulting in a seamless transaction for both parties to the contract.
ZDR Retail Pula Beta d.o.o. and ZDR Retail Pula Omicron d.o.o.
During the second half of 2021, we assisted our client (a real estate investment fund) in his largest transaction to date and his first acquisition of a retail park in Croatia with a total value exceeding €70 million with more than 45 tenants including a majority of significant European retailers. We helped our client to review and assess potential risk connected with his expansion to Croatia and coordinated teams of legal, tax and advisors in Czechia, Austria and Croatia to ensure the whole transaction will go smoothly and without any issues. Furthermore, we assisted our client in dealings with the financing bank from Croatia.
- Real estate and construction