We are glad to announce that our Partner Andreas Ueltzhöffer has been asked by the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Economics Prague (VŠE) to serve for another four year turn as an external member of the Steering Committee of the faculty.

Andreas Ueltzhöffer is honoured by the offer and accepted the position. Being authorised to make strategic decisions, the Committee is an important body of the Faculty. It has 40 members of which 20 are the VŠE professors and another 20 are external members. Many of them teach at other universities or are in leading positions at various organisations and private businesses. The Governor of the Czech National Bank is among them. Andreas Ueltzhöffer acted as member of the Committee already in the years 2014-2018 and he teaches at the University of Economics intermittently.

Our GDPR team is advising the logistics and e-commerce sectors on GDPR issues. Please read Lucie Hladěnová´s recommendation on this recent hot topic. A report published by the May issue of the Logistic News monthly magazine is available HERE.

Is your e-shop fully GDPR compliant? For a consultancy please feel free to contact our GDPR team here: office@uepa.cz

Since April 2018, UEPA is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce ICC Czech Republic. Our lawyers will work with the ICC in particular in the areas of arbitration and ADR. This comes as a part of UEPA´s strategy to significantly expand its activities in the field of ADR.

UEPA partner Andreas Ueltzhöffer, then as the managing partner of the Prague office of Schaffer & Partner, was already in the nineties one of the founding members of ICC Czech Republic. In 2016, as a member of ICC Germany, he was directly appointed by the International Court of Arbitration as arbitral tribunal chairman and successfully concluded significant arbitration proceedings in a high-value case with prominent parties within 10 months of his appointment.

More information about our experience with arbitration and dispute resolution you can find HERE.

 

ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) is the only worldwide business organization that represents businesses in all parts of the world. The ICC was founded in Paris in 1919. Today among its members more than 6 million companies, chambers of commerce and business associations from more than 130 countries. The ICC National Committees helps entrepreneurs to communicate their interests and views to representatives of the highest authorities, institutions and governments, with whom the ICC has a consultant status at the highest level.

More information about ICC you can find HERE.

Due to the great success of previous residential real estate seminars, IBF (International Business Forum) is organizing in cooperation with KPMG a third annual seminar, this time entitled “Boom or Bust III: With record prices in the residential market, is the only way up?”. The seminar will provide an overview of the real estate market development in Prague and the Czech Republic over the last year, and will discuss future developments, especially with regard to the current record level of prices on the Czech market.

The seminar will also be lectured by our colleagues Mgr. Lucie Hladěnová LL.M. and Mgr. Jiří Skála, who will inform the participants about the content of the amendment to the Building Law, which came into effect on January 1, 2018, and will present the most significant changes in the field of zoning and building regulations with reference to the related legal regulations.

The seminar is held on April 10, 2018 from 8:30 am at KPMG headquarters, Pobřežní 1a, Prague 8.

More information about the seminar can be found HERE.