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Weinhold Legal advises Bohemia Sekt on sale of its liquor business to Stock Plzeň

Weinhold Legal provided comprehensive legal assistance to Bohemia Sekt, one of the leading producers of sparkling wines and still wines in Central and Eastern Europe, in connection with the sale of its liquor business to Stock Plzeň, the market leader in the Czech Republic producing the finest traditional spirits and bitters.

Our complex legal services included among others advice on transactional structure and negotiating contractual documentation governed by Czech law.
The Weinhold Legal team was led by partner Ondřej Havránek, in cooperation with Dalibor Šimeček and Václav Smetana, attorneys-at-law, and others.
Ondřej Havránek commented on the transaction: "We are pleased to assist in such a prestigious transaction where both parties are market leaders with high reputations."

About Weinhold Legal

Ever since the establishment of its Prague office in 1996 and the subsequent founding of the Bratislava branch in 1998, the legal practice of Weinhold Legal has maintained a strong presence on the Czech and Slovak markets. The law firm currently boasts a team of more than forty highly-qualified experts. Weinhold Legal has been highly ranked in international client guides to the best law firms on the market today, among them Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, and IFLR.

In 2005-2016, Weinhold Legal has been ranked among Top 7 M&A legal advisors in the Czech market by volume (i.e. a number of deals) in the Mergermarket legal advisors league tables for M&A transactions. In Q1 2013, Weinhold Legal was ranked 7th and in Q1 2014 the firm has been ranked 8th by deal value for the whole Central Eastern European region (which includes also numerous CEE jurisdictions and Russia). The tables are based on global M&A transactions of over US$ 5m; for deals where the stake transfer is below 30%, the minimum deal value for inclusion increases to US$ 100m.
Weinhold Legal was named “Law Firm of the Year” for the Czech Republic in the Corporate Intl. Magazine Awards 2015 and the “Arbitration and Litigation Law Firm of the Year” for the Czech Republic in the Global Awards 2015 announced by the British magazine ACQ. Weinhold Legal joined EY effective 1 September 2015. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.weinholdlegal.com.