Firm Description

Kocián Šolc Balaštík (KSB) is a leading independent Czech law firm providing comprehensive legal and tax advice to domestic and foreign clients in all areas of commercial and financial law. With a team of nearly seventy lawyers and tax advisers operating in offices in Prague, Karlovy Vary and Ostrava, KSB is one of the largest law firms in the Czech Republic.

With over 20 years of experience advising on high profile international transactions, KSB has secured a strong reputation as a highly respected law firm, one which has been recognized repeatedly by independent rating agencies as a leading law firm in the Czech Republic. Its most prestigious awards include repeated recognition as the Law Firm of the Year in the Czech Republic for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (Who’s Who Legal Awards), the Czech National Law Firm of the Year 2008 (Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence), the Leading Law Firm of the Year 2008 in Czech corporate law (ePravo.cz), and the Leading Law Firm of the Year 2009, 2010 & 2011 in the fields of Czech company law and competition law (ePravo.cz).

In addition to recognition by international and domestic rating agencies, including Chambers Europe, IFLR1000, and PLC Which Lawyer, which have recognized KSB as a leader in the corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, environment and competition law categories, KSB is also ranked as one of the most experienced Czech law firms in the areas of litigation, telecommunications and media, restructuring, insolvency, energy and tax.