Adéla Havlová is an attorney-at-law cooperating with Havel & Partners as Of Counsel. She specialises in the public sector, real estate and construction law, expropriation issues, corporate law, and commercial law. She joined our law firm in 2006 and is currently instrumental in providing legal services to German-speaking clients. Prior to joining our law firm, Adéla worked at Wolf Theiss, a leading Austrian law firm in Prague and Vienna, for seven years.
In her public sector practice, she focuses on public procurement and concessions, PPP projects and state aid; the areas of her particular focus include mainly transport (from infrastructure construction to public services in passenger transport), and IT, healthcare, plant equipment acquisitions, construction, insurance, banking and financial services, as well as media and other professional advisory services. She advises public and sector contracting authorities throughout the preparation and organisation of procurement procedures under the Public Procurement Act, including centralised and joint awarding, the granting of framework contracts and options, negotiated procedures with suppliers, support in compliance with publication duties, and addresses other issues related to public procurement implementation. Likewise, she advises suppliers in connection with their participation in public procurement procedures and assists them in contract negotiations and in subsequent objection and review procedures before the Czech competition authority and administrative courts. In addition, Adéla provides partial legal opinions and support in administrative review and court proceedings.
Adéla Havlová regularly lectures at professional conferences, seminars, and continuing education programs in the field of public procurement, including the LL.M. program at Charles University and the MBA program at Pan-European University. She also contributes to specialist publications. Her work draws on sources and expertise from other EU member states, most notably Slovakia, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Croatia, and Poland, as well as from the United Kingdom.
She is a regular author of articles in relevant industry publications and speaker at professional conferences.
In addition to her legal practice, Adéla is also actively involved with the Czech Public Procurement Association (AVZ), where she has been a member of its Executive Committee since 2012 and has served as its Vice‑Chair since 2021. She actively participates in undertakings of other interest groups, in particular the Infrastructure Development Association (ARI), which she has represented since 2013 as a member of the Ministry for Regional Development’s expert group for amending the Public Procurement Act. She has also been involved in efforts to modernise the legal framework through the Rozumné právo Platform (2020–2024) and, between 2019 and 2024, through the Responsible Public Procurement (OVZ) Platform affiliated with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Institute of Responsible Public Procurement. Building on this work, she went on to serve as an advisor to the Ministry for Regional Development’s team on the Czech Republic’s National Public Procurement Strategy project, which was awarded Civil Service Achievement of the Year 2023 in the Excellent Cooperation category. At the FSA Awards—recognizing leading figures in corporate purchasing and public procurement at the international eBF conference—she received first place in the FSA MASTER PUBLIC category. Adéla Havlová also served as a member of the Appellate Commission of the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition between 2014 and 2023.
Since 2014 the Who’s Who Legal: Government Contracts (formerly Public Procurement) has ranked Adéla as among the leading public procurement experts in the Czech Republic. In 2024 Adéla has been named a winner of the ‘Government Contracts’ award at the Lexology Client Choice Awards, which recognises individuals around the world who stand apart for their excellent professional services. Adéla is the only Czech legal professional to have won this award.
