Associate members

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.

EY is one of the world’s leading providers of professional consulting services in the field of audit and tax, transactional and corporate consulting. Our goal is to contribute not only to the development of the business environment but to human society as a whole.

HAVEL & PARTNERS (until 31 December 2017 as Havel, Holásek & Partners) was established in 2001 by experienced lawyers from leading international and Czech law firms and became gradually the largest law firm in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and the fastest-growing law firm in the CEE region. Havel, Holásek & Partners is constantly strengthening its position on the legal services market in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Chubb is the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. As an underwriting company, we assess, assume and manage risk with insight and discipline. 

JŠK is a mid-sized law firm providing services for clients in all areas of commercial law, especially in M&A, banking & finance, insurance, construction, real estate and energy. The firm has been operating in the Czech market for more than 18 years, and its clients include respected banks, insurance companies, private equity funds and multinational corporations, as well as mid-sized companies and individual investors.

JŠK is a member of PONTES, a unique network of similarly specialised law firms, which includes firms from Central and Eastern Europe. PONTES members currently operate in Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Sofia, Vienna and Warsaw.

Komerční Banka, a.s. is one of the leading banking institutions in the Czech Republic and in the Central and Eastern European region. Through banking advisors, direct banking and respective specialists, Komerční Banka, a.s., provides clients with payment services, trade financing, leasing, factoring, operational and investment financing, structured and acquisition/leveraged financing, club/syndicated financing, project financing, asset management, and capital market services, financial advisory and other services depending on individual client needs.

Kocián Šolc Balaštík (KSB) is an independent Czech law firm that has been providing comprehensive legal and tax services to domestic and foreign business entities in all key areas of commercial and financial law for more than thirty years. Within PE/VC, KSB regularly assists both investors (including Czech and international funds) and start-up companies and their founders.

With a team of nearly seventy legal and tax specialists based in Prague, Karlovy Vary and Ostrava, KSB is one of the largest law firms in the Czech Republic. Since its establishment in 1990, KSB has focused not only on finding the best solutions for its clients, but also on professional ethics and long-term relationships as well. Over the years, KSB has advised on many major international transactions and has become a respected law firm which has been recognized repeatedly by international rating agencies (Chambers & Partners, Legal500, IFLR1000) as one of the leading law firms in the Czech Republic.