20. 1. 2025
Jan Valíček Promoted to Managing Associate at Giese & Partner
We are pleased to announce that our colleague Jan Valíček has been promoted to Managing Associate at Giese & Partner.
Jan started working with our firm as junior lawyer in 2012 straight after having graduated from the School of Law at Charles University in Prague. In 2015 he was admitted to the Czech Bar. In his practice Jan specializes in corporate law, M&A, real estate projects, project financing and employment law.
Jan has earned this promotion due to his commitment over the years and an extraordinary work performance on many significant cross-border transactions. We are happy to have him on our team and look forward to our continued success together!
Neuigkeiten & Publikationen
Conflicts of Interest: A Three-Layer Problem with Real Money at Stake
Babiš’s conflict-of-interest problem is not just politics – it is a three-layer legal framework, with the sharpest impact coming from the pub-lic-money firewall in Sections 4b and 4c. We explain why shifting Agrofert into trust-type structures still raises doubts, and why the Hartenberg arm remains a key part of the story. A brisk read on the limits of Czech legislation and why the European Commission’s next steps may keep this issue alive.
A Cabinet Minister: To Be or Not To Be?
A Czech ministerial nomination turns into a constitutional stress test: can the President refuse the Prime Minister’s pick in a parliamentary system? The Filip Turek saga - ending in a “government commissioner” workaround - raises hard questions about institutional boundaries, incompatibility rules, and the rule of law.
The Digital Hallucination: A CZK 25,000 Lesson in AI Legal Ethics
Constitutional Court penalizes an attorney for submission based on "hallucinated" AI-generated content.
