Peterka & Partners, Prague Opens Kiev Office
Kiev June 15, 2006 – PETERKA & PARTNERS, LLC, a Prague-based law firm, is opening an office in Kiev today.
The law firm’s Kiev branch is its second international office. Peterka & Partners opened an office in Bratislava in 2001. At that time, it was the first Czech law firm to operate an office in the Slovak Republic.
The Kiev office, which will employ 10 lawyers, is headed by Monika Hoskova
and Alexander Poels, LL.M.
“By taking this unique step in the Czech legal market, Peterka & Partners is
responding to current economic trends and to the needs of both present and future clients whose business activities turn towards Eastern Europe,” Hoskova said.
“Coming to Kiev is another step in our foreign expansion,” commented Ondrej
Peterka, Managing Partner of the firm. “With our team of 60 highly qualified lawyers and tax advisers, our law firm will rank amongst the most significant law firms in Central Europe.”
The firm’s Kiev team will work in collaboration with its offices in Prague and
Bratislava to provide complex legal services. The Kiev branch specializes in mergers and acquisitions, real estate, corporate and general commercial law and labor law.
Hoskova graduated from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague
and admitted to the Czech Bar in 2005. She has worked with Peterka & Partners since 2000. She is fluent in Czech, English and French and has good knowledge of Slovak, Russian and Ukrainian. She specializes in commercial law, real estate, bankruptcy and labor law.
Poels has received Master of Laws degrees from the Faculty of Laws of Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium and from the University of Iceland’s Faculty of Law in Reykjavik. He has worked with Peterka & Partners in Bratislava almost two years prior to moving to Kyiv. He is fluent in English, French and Dutch and has good knowledge of Spanish, German, Russian and Ukrainian. He focuses mainly on EU and International commercial and company law.
The Kiev office of Peterka & Partners is located at Bohdana Khmelnytskoho
17/52-A. The telephone number is 581 1120. The firm’s Internet address is
www.peterkapartners.com
PETERKA & PARTNERS LLC
Bohdana Khmelnytskoho 17/52-A
(UA) 01030 Kiev
tel.: +380 44 581 11 20
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