Milan Polák
Partner
Labour Law
Dispute Resolution
Corporate Law
Milan is a partner and head of the firm’s dispute resolution and labour law group.
Milan specialises in corporate law and legal advice in litigation and arbitration. Additionally, he oversees labour law issues at Weinhold Legal. Milan joined Weinhold Legal in 1998.
Milan has been involved in work for major international and Czech companies including among others: Aral, COLAS, UniCredit Bank, Gardena, OMV, Pioneer, Plzeňská energetika, Plzeňský Prazdroj, Shell, Wagon Automotive, Winslow Partners, METROSTAV and Komerční banka.
Milan is mentioned among leading lawyers by Chambers Global a Chambers Europe in Dispute Resolution and Arbitration. Further he was recommended by the publisher Who’s Who Legal in the editions of The International Who´s Who of Commercial Litigators (2012-2015), as an expert in Dispute Resolution by the European Legal Experts and as a leading lawyer in Labour and Employee Benefits by the PLC Which lawyer?. Since 2010 Milan is recognised as an expert in the areas of Arbitration and Mediation, Labor and Employment Law and Litigation by Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer review publication in the legal profession. Milan was also ranked as an expert lawyer in Commercial Arbitration by The Legal Media Group Guides to the World´s Leading Lawyers (2017). He was also recommended by Chambers Europe in the area of Employment and by The Legal 500 in the area of Dispute resolution. Milan was ranked in the prestigious list of “Best Lawyers in the Czech Republic 2009” by the Prague Monitor magazine in the following categories: Labour and Employment, Arbitration and Litigation.
Milan holds a Master’s degree from the Law Faculty from Charles University in Prague and is admitted to the Czech Bar Association. Milan is also an arbitrator with the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic where he determines domestic and international arbitrations under both, the procedural rules of the local court as well as the internationally accepted UNCITRAL and ICC arbitration rules. He is a member of the Arbitration Panel in the Český svaz ledního hokeje and the Justice Board of The Champions Hockey League.
Milan is a contributor to the book “Aus- und Absonderungsrechte in der Insolvenz” published by Verlag für Rechts- und Anwaltspraxis, Berlin and publishes regularly in specialist press.
Milan was also a member of the expert committee established by the Czech Ministry of Justice in relation to re-codification of civil law.
Milan speaks German and English as well as his native Czech.
Customer testimonials
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UniCredit Bank
Weinhold Legal provided complex advice on numerous transactions related to structured financing, acquisition financing, refinancing, project financing and operating loans. The services included complex transaction advisory including assistance with termsheets, transaction structuring, pre-transaction due diligence, drafting and finalisation of loan and security documentation, perfection of security, assistance with review and fulfilment of conditions precedent and conditions subsequent. In addition to transaction advisory we provided our client with number of legal analyses and memorandums on specific legal areas and assisted the client in negotiation of contracts between the client and other domestic and foreign financial institutions.
Česká spořitelna / Erste Bank
Weinhold Legal provided comprehensive advisory services in many projects in acquisition finance, project finance and financial restructuring, including drafting loan documentation and security documentation according to the English, US and Czech law, transaction structuring and negotiations. Advisory to the client in various legal areas including regulatory. Weinhold Legal provided Česká spořitelna with legal services related to more than 20 corporate bond issues (including structured bonds and mortgage bonds) issued both, as stand-alone issues and under debt issuance programmes of the company, including the 10-Year Bond Issue Programme in the maximum amount of CZK 10 mld. in outstanding bonds and maturity of any single issue of up to 10 years – Weinhold Legal provided Česká spořitelna legal services in connection with its establishment. Further we assisted Česká spořitelna as the arranger of CZK 500,000,000 4.50% Subordinated Bond issue due in 2015 by Wüstenrot – stavební spořitelna (the first Prague Stock Exchange listed subordinated bond issue) and its Tranche No. 2 and 10-Year Bond Issuance Programme of the Fond (pojištění vkladů) up to a maximum of CZK 10 billion in outstanding bonds and maturity of any single issue of up to 10 years; etc. Further advice on numerous transactions.
UniCredit Bank
Weinhold Legal provided complex advice on numerous transactions related to structured financing, acquisition financing, refinancing, project financing and operating loans. The services included complex transaction advisory including assistance with termsheets, transaction structuring, pre-transaction due diligence, drafting and finalisation of loan and security documentation, perfection of security, assistance with review and fulfilment of conditions precedent and conditions subsequent. In addition to transaction advisory we provided our client with number of legal analyses and memorandums on specific legal areas and assisted the client in negotiation of contracts between the client and other domestic and foreign financial institutions.
Česká spořitelna / Erste Bank
Weinhold Legal provided comprehensive advisory services in many projects in acquisition finance, project finance and financial restructuring, including drafting loan documentation and security documentation according to the English, US and Czech law, transaction structuring and negotiations. Advisory to the client in various legal areas including regulatory. Weinhold Legal provided Česká spořitelna with legal services related to more than 20 corporate bond issues (including structured bonds and mortgage bonds) issued both, as stand-alone issues and under debt issuance programmes of the company, including the 10-Year Bond Issue Programme in the maximum amount of CZK 10 mld. in outstanding bonds and maturity of any single issue of up to 10 years – Weinhold Legal provided Česká spořitelna legal services in connection with its establishment. Further we assisted Česká spořitelna as the arranger of CZK 500,000,000 4.50% Subordinated Bond issue due in 2015 by Wüstenrot – stavební spořitelna (the first Prague Stock Exchange listed subordinated bond issue) and its Tranche No. 2 and 10-Year Bond Issuance Programme of the Fond (pojištění vkladů) up to a maximum of CZK 10 billion in outstanding bonds and maturity of any single issue of up to 10 years; etc. Further advice on numerous transactions.
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