CZECH REPUBLIC Law and Practice Contributed by: Jan Kohout and Illia Antonov, PRK Partners
PRK Partners is a leading full-service law firm with over 100 professionals in Czechia and Slovakia. For more than 30 years, the firm has advised on many of the region’s largest and most complex transactions, combining local law expertise with an international perspective. Most of its clients engage in cross-
border activities, making the sanctions regime and its implications central to the firm’s comprehensive advice. PRK is the only Czech member of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading network of independent law firms, and a member of AFI, LMA, CVCA, ITECHLAW, INTA, Energy Law Group and Quantera Global.
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Jan Kohout is a partner at PRK Partners and advises a prestigious portfolio of international and domestic clients on complex financing, cross- border corporate mandates, and international trade, with expertise in
Illia Antonov is an attorney at law at PRK Partners focusing on corporate law, M&A, banking and finance, with niche expertise in sanctions law. He has wide experience with anti-money laundering and international sanctions
real estate, NewTech and industrial transactions. He co-heads PRK Partners’ Ukraine and China desks. His clients include major banks, corporations, high-net-worth individuals, and Tier 1 Czech banks; he also represents foreign clients from the EU, US and Southeast Asia in restructuring and distressed financing. International sanctions regulation is a cornerstone of his recent matters. Jan is a VIAC- registered arbitrator. Native in Czech and Russian, fluent in English and with communication skills in Spanish.
regulations, on which he frequently lectures. His pro bono work includes legal and educational support of non-governmental organisations and migration advice; he speaks frequently on East European countries. Joining PRK Partners as a legal student in 2013, he earned a master’s degree from Charles University in 2015 and was admitted to the Czech Bar Association in 2018. Illia is fluent in Czech, English, Ukrainian and Russian.
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