For the third time in a row, HAVEL & PARTNERS has been included in the renowned international ranking World Trademark Review 1000, which annually monitors major law firms and individual experts in the field of intellectual property and trademarks in more than 80 countries. Our law firm is also mentioned in the prestigious ranking of the world’s most influential leaders and specialists - Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders in the areas of Information Technology, Telecommunications and Media, Privacy and Data Security. Our media and media services team then achieved the highest possible rating given to law firms active in the Czech Republic according to the prestigious global rating Media Law International.

The international ranking World Trademark Review 1000 mentions HAVEL & PARTNERS together with partners Robert Nešpůrek and Ivan Rámeš and senior associate Tereza Hrabáková in its publication of the best specialists in the field of intellectual property and trademarks. With 15 experienced lawyers, our law firm has the largest advisory group specialising in this field on the Czech and Slovak markets.

“This success is proof of our exceptionally high-quality and long-standing work in the field of intellectual property law and trademarks, with last year our practice being dominated by transactions involving intellectual property rights and a number of large IP disputes. Not only thanks to this, but also thanks to our satisfied clients and long-term cooperation with foreign law firms, the volume of work in the field of IP advising is constantly increasing, and thus goes hand in hand with the constant expansion of our IP team,” said Robert Nešpůrek, the firm’s partner responsible for the intellectual property law practice.

Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders is another of the prestigious global ratings that has included our firm’s experts in the list of the world’s most influential leaders and specialists in the area of IP and IT law. The publication mentions our firm’s partners Robert Nešpůrek and Jan Diblík together with counsel Richard Otevřel. The area of technology law and intellectualproperty law is one of our mostimportant practices involving a total of more than 30 lawyers.

Thanks to their innovative approach, extensive experience and unique know-how in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, they are also pioneers in the legal fields of the future and regularly actively participate in the preparation of new laws (such as the Banking Identity Act or the Digital Services Right Act).

Our firm was also ranked among the best law firms for media law in the Czech Republic by the international guide to global media law leaders Media Law International. According to the guide, clients especially appreciate the professionalism and quality of expertise of HAVEL & PARTNERS in this area.

“The Media Law International award confirms our leading position among legal service providers advising on media and media services. Thanks to the concentration of excellent lawyers with detailed knowledge of the media market and the broad specialisation of our law firm, we are able to help clients with even the most demanding projects,” commented firm partner Václav Audes who leads, together with Robert Nešpůrek, the specialised media law team consisting of more than 15 lawyers, on another award received by HAVEL & PARTNERS.