Michaela Koblasova Strenghtens the Weinhold Legal Team
16.01.2012Company: Weinhold Legal, s.r.o. advokátní kancelář
Prague (16 January 2012) - Weinhold Legal strengthened its expertise in arbitration and litigation with the arrival of senior attorney-at-law Michaela Koblasová.
Michaela came to Weinhold Legal from the Prague office of Baker & McKenzie. Before, she had worked with Mareš Partners and at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.
Milan Polák, the head of Weinhold Legal’s litigation and arbitration team, commented Michaela’s arrival: “Our litigation and arbitration practice is very busy nowadays, and we have recently won numerous new assignments in this area. Thus, I am glad to see a strong practitioner joining our team.”
Michaela graduated from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague (JUDr. degree). In 2003, she received her D.E.A. degree in International Private Law and International Commercial Law at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Apart from her native Czech, Michaela speaks English, French and German. Michaela is a member of the Czech Bar Association.
About Weinhold Legal Ever since the establishment of the Prague office in 1996 and the subsequent founding of the Bratislava branch office in 1998, the legal practice of Weinhold Legal has maintained a strong presence on the Czech/Slovak markets. The law firm currently boasts a team of almost fifty highly-qualified experts. Weinhold Legal has been ranked in the annual publication Book of Lists as one of the largest international law firms on the market today and has achieved an impressive rank in the leading law firm directories such as Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, PLC Which lawyer?, IFLR, etc. Weinhold Legal was selected by Corporate Intl. Magazine Global Awards as the Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year in the Czech Republic, 2010. Further, Weinhold Legal was selected as the "Private Equity Law Firm of the Year" by the UK magazine ACQ as part of its Law Awards 2011 and was also selected as the "Full Service Law Firm of the Year" for the Czech Republic by the UK magazine ACQ as part of its Law Awards 2011.
