1. 6. 2021
Dear Clients, Business Partners, Colleagues,
It was exactly 20 years ago today when, together with four other colleagues and with the support of the international consulting firm Deloitte, we launched a new project and established our own law firm. From the outset, we have been a very ambitious start-up, taking inspiration from the best law and consulting firms in the world. Yet we never dreamed that 20 years later we would be the largest and most successful independent law firm in Central Europe, with nearly 500 employees, considerable international reach, a billion-dollar turnover, 2.5 thousand clients from all over the world, and all imaginable local and international legal awards in trophy cases decorating our offices.
Thank you to everyone who has been and is still part of this success story. Clients, business partners and refereeing foreign law firms whose high demands but also trust and extraordinary loyalty in working with us, constantly motivate us to take on new challenges and always be one step ahead of the competition. At the same time, I would like to thank all our colleagues who contribute to the firm’s success and continued growth and development through their unique talents, strategic thinking and creativity, but especially through extraordinary work and dedication, perfect teamwork and, last but not least, long-term loyalty to the company and superiors.
We highly appreciate the professional respect paid by our competitors, the leading Czech and Slovak lawyers, without whose high-quality collegiate contribution we could not have completed most transactions and other legal cases, and thanks to whose votes we have won numerous local and international awards.
I look forward to continuing this extraordinary story and believe that we are still a very young firm that, although a Central European leader, still has much to learn and that the greatest successes are yet to come!
I am convinced that constant development, growth, self-education and innovation will remain a hallmark of our law firm for the next 20 years at least.
Jaroslav Havel
Managing Partner