Lenka Štiková Gachová

Partner
CV
Projects
Awards and media
E-mail
lenka.gachova@havelpartners.cz
Practice Areas
Industry Sectors

Lenka specialises in competition law, state aid and significant market power.

She advises clients on cartel issues, abuse of dominance, merger control and state aid. Lenka represents clients in merger clearance proceedings and provides them with associated legal advice, represents businesses suspected of anti-competitive conduct, and advises clients on the competition aspects of their contemplated projects. She also frequently advises clients on compliance issues.

Before joining our law firm, she worked for eight years at the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition in various legal posts, inter alia as the director of the Manufacturing and Services Department, Competition Section, where she primarily focused on issues of dominance abuse and vertical agreements.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Czech Bar Association
Slovak Bar Association; European lawyer established in Slovakia since 6 March 2020

Languages
Czech, English
Education
  • Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Brno (2002), Mgr. (Master of Laws)
  • representing three leading banking companies in merger clearance proceedings before the European Commission
  • representing a distributor of audio-visual devices in administrative proceedings before the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition (NCA) in the matter of possible bid rigging agreement concerning the preparation and execution of projects
  • representing a collective society in several investigations and subsequent administrative proceedings conducted by the Czech NCA in the matter of possible abuse of dominance
  • comprehensive legal advice to the Czech Republic in investigations conducted by the European Commission in connection with possible state aid in the healthcare sector
  • competition audit of a leading foreign manufacturer of food products
  • day-to-day legal advice to a leading Czech financial services company, mainly on compliance issues and abusive conduct of undertakings
  • day-to-day legal advice to a leading European petrochemical group, mainly on abusive conduct of undertakings and concentrations between undertakings
  • representing a provider of postal services in administrative proceedings before the Czech NCA in the matter of possible abuse of dominance
  • representing a provider of postal services in preliminary investigation and administrative proceedings before the Slovak Antimonopoly Office in the matter of possible abuse of dominance
  • advising municipalities, and representing them before the Czech NCA, in a case of alleged distortion of competition by public administration bodies
  • advising a major multinational group engaging in retail sale of food products and convenience goods, and representing it before the Czech NCA in the matter of alleged abuse of significant market power
  • comprehensive legal advice to the Czech Republic in connection with an application for exemption of select energy operations from the obligation to award public contracts
  • day-to-day advice to an international manufacturer of tobacco products, especially regarding compliance
HAVEL & PARTNERS is the largest Czech law firm and the fourth largest law firm on the Slovak market. For the third time in a row, it was ranked as the largest law firm in the Intellectual Property and Competition Law categories.  In the TOP 10 largest law firms ranking, which is compiled by the […]
HAVEL & PARTNERS experts provided comprehensive legal advice to Ochranný svaz autorský (OSA), which administers the copyrights of Czech and foreign authors of audio and audio-visual recordings, in a dispute with the Office for Competition Protection (Office). The Office imposed a fine of CZK 10.7 million on OSA for alleged abuse of dominant position. The […]
HAVEL & PARTNERS, the largest Czech-Slovak law firm, won the main award in the International Law Firm category and also won the Competition and Health Law categories in the 11th annual Law Firm of the Year 2023 competition in Slovakia. In 11 other categories, it ranked among the top-ranked law firms. The official announcement of […]
In the TOP 10 largest law firms ranking, which is compiled by the SME daily and The Slovak Spectator according to combined measurable criteria, HAVEL & PARTNERS is the largest Czech law firm, the third largest regional law firm, and the fifth largest law firm active on the Slovak market. In addition, this year it […]
The Slovak Antimonopoly Office imposed commitments on Slovenská pošta. This conclusion means that after four years of investigation and administrative proceedings, the AMO has proceeded to an amicable solution in the form of commitments and has imposed no fine on Slovenská pošta. The AMO suspected Slovenská pošta of abusing its dominant position in the field […]
HAVEL & PARTNERS provided comprehensive competition law advice to refining and petrochemical company ORLEN Unipetrol in its representation before the AMO (the Slovak Antimonopoly Office). After a detailed analysis of local markets the Slovak Antimonopoly Office approved ORLEN Unipetrol's acquisition of control over OLIVA petrol stations without further conditions. The company was represented by our […]
In the 10th annual Law Firm of the Year 2022 competition, the largest Czech-Slovak law firm HAVEL & PARTNERS won the main award in the International Law Firm category, and also won the Best Client Service category for the third time in a row. In addition, it also defended its first place in the Competition […]
Another wave of internal promotions marks a follow-up to the largest Czech-Slovak law firm’s successful year. Existing partners Veronika Dvořáková and Ivan Rámeš become the firm’s shareholders, while counsels Lenka Štiková Gachová, Michal Smrček and Josef Žaloudek were promoted to partners as of 1 January 2022. An additional 12 lawyers of the firm at three […]

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