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Rovenska & Partners Opens Doors in Prague

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Rovenska & Partners, led by Partners who left the Prague office of White & Case, has opened its doors on Wenceslas Square in Prague. 

The firm, which opened for business on September 1st, is led by Partners Barbora Rovenska, Petr Topka, David Padysak, and Jan Dziama, and Counsels Jiri Horak and Emil Fischer, all of whom worked together at the Horak & Chvosta law firm before it merged with White & Case in 2011. Rovenska explained to CEE Legal Matters that “we are excited and proud at the same time and are really looking forward to new challenges that this new opportunity is about to offer. We are delighted to work with our clients on their matters under very competitive conditions while providing an experienced team with a deep knowledge of various areas of law.”  

The new firm released a statement asserting that: “We believe that Rovenska & Partners is uniquely positioned to assist clients in various legal areas and to navigate them through their daily and most complex challenges based on our international and local knowledge. All our partners and lawyers have deep knowledge and long term experience with providing legal assistance to the clients not only in relation to international and cross-border transactions but also in connection to day-to-day operations of various kinds of businesses.” The statement also declared that “we focus on building and maintaining long-term partnerships with our clients. Doing so helps to understand the needs of our clients and challenges they face. We are proud to claim that many of our clients have relationships to our lawyers that began years ago and were strengthened through the term of mutual cooperation.”   

Barbora Rovenska specializes in intellectual property, unfair competition, personal data protection, advertising, labor law, and consumer competition. David Padysak specializes in real estate and construction law, business and corporate law, and litigation and arbitration. Jan Dziama focuses on corporate law, real estate, and disputes, and Petr Topka specializes in IP/IT and environmental law. 

Both Rovenska & Partners Counsels Jiri Horak and Emil Fischer left White & Case shortly after the 2011 merger with Horak & Chvosta (Fischer in 2012, Horak in 2013) to start their own practices, and are now rejoining their former colleagues. Horak, who helped establish the Prague branch of Noerr, Stiefenhofer & Lutz in 1990 before co-founding Horak & Chvosta (originally known as Horak Chvosta Vich) the following year, specializes in Corporate/M&A, insurance, restructuring, and real estate. Fischer focuses on commercial law, IP, civil law, insolvency, debt restructuring and collection, litigation, ADR, and criminal law.