Ladislav Drha
Main areas of expertise
criminal law, French law, court disputes, property law,
commercial law, M&A
Education
- Faculty of law of the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen (Mgr.)
- Université Toulouse 1 – Capitole in France (university diploma in EU law)
- Université Toulouse 1 – Capitole in France (master's degree in international,
European and comparative law with a focus on competition)
Earlier practice and internships
In 2007-2012 he was active with the Association for
International Affairs, an NGO promoting research and education in the field of
international relations. From 2011 until 2015 he was part of the team of Mgr. Luděk
Vrána and JUDr. Robert Pelikán, Ph.D., later Czech Minister of Justice. In 2014 he
passed an internship at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg,
namely with the chambers of General Court President Marc Jaeger. Since 2016 he has
been running his own law firm.
Referencess
Ladislav appeared as the defending counsel in many criminal
procedures with a particular focus on property, economic and drug-related crime. In
cooperation with his French colleagues, he represented engineering and transport
companies in court disputes in France, mainly in the area of commercial and
competition law, insolvency and arbitration. The value of such disputes amounted to
tens of millions of euros. He also assisted commercial, investment and production
companies in entering the French market. Ladislav Drha also gained experience in
representing clients before the European Commission and the European Court of
Justice in Luxembourg. He assisted in the realization of several development
projects and property transactions totalling hundreds of millions of Czech crowns.
He renders comprehensive legal service to several investment entities in the field
of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions, and represented them in proceedings
before the Czech National Bank, where the value of the transactions in question
reached billions of crowns.
Language of service provided
Czech, French, English
