Movers & Shakers: Weinhold partners Havránek

Weinhold Legal has appointed Ondřej Havránek its newest partner, bringing the total partner team to five.

Havránek is an attorney at law who focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and restructuring in the Czech Republic. He is also an active member of Weinhold Legal's German desk and joined the firm in 1999.

He has specialized in litigation and arbitration, representing the country in international investment arbitrations and a number of significant Czech companies in court disputes with minority shareholders. He has also advised clients on real estate acquisitions.

Havránek graduated from the Prague University of Economics in 1997 and from the Law Faculty of Charles University in 1999, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 2002.

Pavel Škraňka, 39, a partner in the audit department of the Czech office of Mazars consulting company, has been named a partner in Mazars' international network.

Škraňka has been working in the company for more than 12 years. He is responsible for leading a team and implementing transaction consulting projects.

He is the third international partner in the local branch of Mazars. The international partners of the Mazars network are named once a year at the general meeting, which took place last year at the beginning of December in Prague. The total number of Mazars international partners exceeds 730. Partners manage offices in more than 61 countries and lead teams of more than 13,000 employees.

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