HAVEL & PARTNERS has provided comprehensive legal advice to Petr Kotvas and Hellen Berends on the sale of their 100 percent interests in IRE, s.r.o. and Best Expo s.r.o. These companies are designers of exhibition stands and residential and commercial interiors across Europe.

Both companies were acquired by the Continuum search fund via Beire Acquisition s.r.o. as its first transaction in the Czech Republic. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed by the parties.

The transactional advice on the part of the sellers was provided by HAVEL & PARTNERS’ M&A team managed by Václav Audes, a partner of the law firm, and Veronika Filipová, an attorney-at-law, working closely with the sellers’ transactional and financial adviser OMEGA, managed by Jan Skřička.

The purchaser was represented by Kocián Šolc Balaštík under the management of the firm’s partner Christian Blatchford.