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Salans
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
provisions). Also, sound economic and business reasons other than
just tax-saving are expressly required in certain kinds of
transactions by law and generally in most if not all transactions by
tax practice, in order to give rise to beneficial tax consequences of
Petr Kotáb
Salans
Platnérská 4
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 236 082 111
Fax: +420 236 082 999
Email: pkotab@salans.com
URL: www.salans.com
the same. With the exception of an advance notification of a taxneutral
merger, de-merger or corporate reorganisation, there are no
anti-avoidance advance disclosure rules.
Radovan Bernard
Salans
Platnérská 4
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 236 082 111
Fax: +420 236 082 999
Email: rbernard@salans.com
URL: www.salans.com
Petr Kotáb is a partner in Salans’ Prague office. He is also a
member of the Department of Financial Law of Charles University
School of Law in Prague, teaching taxation, financial markets and
banking, and has published extensively on these subjects, including
being the co-author of several university textbooks. He also lectures
at other universities and was a Visiting Professor at the University of
Connecticut School of Law. He was a member of boards of several
large Czech financial institutions and currently serves as chairman
of the Appellate Senate of the Czech National Bank. Mr. Kotáb
received both Master of Laws and Doctor of Laws degrees from
Charles University School of Law where he also attended
postgraduate studies in financial law. He speaks Czech, English and
Russian. He is a member of the Czech Chamber of Advocates,
Slovak Chamber of Advocates, International Bar Association and
International Fiscal Association.
Radovan Bernard is an associate in Salans’ Prague office. He is also
a member of the Company Law and European Law Department of
the University of Economics, Prague where he lectures on European
Law. In 1997 Mr. Bernard graduated from Charles University
School of Law in Prague, where he additionally did his postgraduate
work focusing on dematerialised securities. He has also completed
his baccalaureate studies at the Czech Technical University School
of Civil Engineering. Mr. Bernard specialises in tax, securities, real
estate, industrial building, commercial and corporate law, including
mergers and acquisitions. In addition to his native Czech, he speaks
English and Russian. He is a member of the Czech Chamber of
Advocates.
Salans is a full service international law firm with more than 20 offices worldwide. Reflecting the globalisation of
business, the firm represents clients from all over the world in a broad range of cross-border transactions and disputes.
At the same time, each Salans office provides a full spectrum of in-depth legal services for local law matters. The
combination of international capability and domestic expertise enables Salans to provide comprehensive services
matching the needs of global and local clients alike. The firm has around 800 lawyers of more than 20 nationalities,
qualified to practice law in each of the jurisdictions in which Salans is present. Each Salans office provides wideranging
expertise in such fields as arbitration, banking and finance, bankruptcy, commercial transactions, competition
law, employment law, intellectual property, litigation, M&A, property, securities, taxation, technology and
telecommunications.
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