In the Law Firm of the Year 2024 competition, HAVEL & PARTNERS received the main award in the Domestic Law Firm of the Year category and was ranked among the most recommended firms (top tier) in all categories in which it competed. It also won the Best Client Services category for the eighth time. The firm won the first place for the fifth time in the Mergers and Aquisition category, adding victory in the Intellectual Property category for the second time. HAVEL & PARTNERS became the absolute winner of the competition for the fifth time in a row and won a total of 4 awards.
The Law Firm of the Year competition in Slovakia has also brought significant success to HAVEL & PARTNERS, where the Slovak office followed up on the Czech triumph and ranked among the best rated law firms. We won the main award in the International Law Firm category for the 4th time (2022–2024). We won the Merger and Aquisition category and we defended again first place in the Competition category (2022–2024).
In 2020–2022, HAVEL & PARTNERS was awarded the best law firm operating in the Czech Republic in the Chambers Europe Awards, the international ranking of law firms by the prestigious British rating agency Chambers and Partners. HAVEL & PARTNERS has been also shortlisted for the Chambers Europe Awards 2021 as one of ten best performing law firms for Pro Bono work.
We received the prestigious Lexology Index Awards (former Who’s Who Legal Awards) as the best law firm in the Czech Republic in 2018–2023.
As part of the Global Awards announced by Corporate LiveWire, HAVEL & PARTNERS was recognized as the best law firm of the year in the Czech Republic (2018).
According to the ranking agency Mergermarket, our office has been the No. 1 Legal advisor in the Czech Republic, based on the overall number of mergers and acquisitions undertaken during the past twelve years (2010–2022).
EMIS DealWatch rated us from 2010 to 2022 as the leader based on the number of transactions successfully closed in the Czech Republic.
According to the Refinitiv awards, HAVEL & PARTNERS is the best law firm in mergers and acquisitions in Eastern Europe (2019).
HAVEL & PARTNERS was named the Best Law Firm in the Czech Republic in the M&A category based on the annual International Advisory Experts awards (2018, 2019).
According to the M&A Today Awards global survey, our office is the No. 1 law firm for mergers and Acquisitions in Slovakia from 2013 to 2018.
In 2019–2025, our law firm was included in the release of the reputable international ranking World Trademark Review 1000 which, on an annual basis, maps the leading IP and trademark practices and practitioners in more than 80 jurisdictions around the globe.
In 2018, our firm was awarded by Acquisition International magazine as the best law firm for real estate and construction in the entire CEE region. In the following year 2019, this prestigious magazine named HAVEL & PARTNERS the Best Law Firm of the Year in the M&A category in Central Europe.
