Equity Partner
Leader of Intellectual Property
e-mail:
peroutka@peterkapartners.cz
phone:
+420 225 396 306
Area of Expertise
Litigation, Arbitration, Mergers and Acquisitions, Intellectual PropertyProfessional Background
Hynek focuses mainly on litigation and arbitration, corporate, banking and finance, public contracts, and intellectual property. Hynek’s 30 years of practice throughout Central and Eastern Europe spans multiple areas of law and a wide range of industries, allowing him to provide clear, pragmatic counsel on demanding domestic and cross border transactional and dispute mandates.Hynek has been with the firm since its establishment and became an Equity Partner in 2001. He is currently the Leader of the Intellectual Property practice at PETERKA PARTNERS, focusing mainly on litigation in this area.
In his litigation and arbitration practice, Hynek focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration of all types. He represents clients operating in a wide range of sectors, such as banking, energy and infrastructure, construction, machinery, automotive, air and road transportation, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, professional services, and luxury and retail. He has acted as a counsel in arbitrations under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, Vienna International Arbitration Centre and the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic.
In banking and finance matters, Hynek has advised and represented several Czech banks, including UniCredit in a number of cases involving defaulting export loans in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Slovakia, as well as in purely domestic matters, including litigation, arbitration, insolvency proceedings, debt restructuring, and legal due diligence related to export financing. He has also advised Škoda Auto, the largest Czech car manufacturer regarding its relationships with assemblers of Skoda cars from semi-knocked-down kits in Ukraine and Kazakhstan and dealers in these markets, financing banks, and an export insurance company, and has assisted RCI Banque with the establishment and running of a factoring scheme used for the financing of car dealerships within the distribution networks of Renault, Dacia, and Nissan in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
In the area of public contracts and utilities, Hynek has advised companies from Veolia Group with respect to several public concessions concerning the operation and maintenance of public water supply and sewerage networks and has worked on such matters in the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland; in addition, he has represented a Veolia subsidiary in litigation and arbitration related to a complex dispute over the validity of an asset deal and a lease of water infrastructure in a Czech regional capital.
In the area of intellectual property, Hynek advises on, and represents clients in, all aspects of IP creation, protection, exploitation, and the enforcement of clients’ IP rights, and defence against the intellectual property-based claims of third parties, and focuses especially on intellectual property related litigation. Among others, he has represented a Czech subsidiary of Mapa Spontex, a member of Newell Brands group, in a patent litigation before Czech courts and the Czech Patent Office, coordinated parallel proceedings in several European countries, and represented Krka, a Slovenian producer of pharmaceuticals, in a litigation before Czech courts over a utility design protecting the composition of a pharmaceutical product.
Languages
Czech, English, FrenchEducation
Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague, Czech RepublicLycée Carnot in Dijon, France