Hana Gawlasová joins Deloitte Legal as the Lead of the Digital and TMT Team

Prague, 12 April 2022 – The law firm Deloitte Legal gets a significant boost in the Digital and TMT (Technology Media Telecommunications) area. The firm welcomes one of the most experienced attorneys in the field, Hana Gawlasová, into its TMT team leadership. Ms Gawlasová has been practising top-level advocacy in the technology and telecom industry for twenty years, often with a focus on compliance, privacy, and employment law, among other areas. 

Jan Spáčil, Managing Partner at Deloitte Legal, says: “Our colleagues from Deloitte have been working with Hana for several years, so we have a lot to build on. Hana’s arrival moves our firm one step toward building complex client-oriented solutions in one of the most promising areas, which Digital and TMT undoubtedly is. We look forward to us and our clients benefiting from the pragmatic and practical approach to legal advisory services characteristic of Hana."

Martin Bohuslav, Managing Partner at Deloitte Legal, confirms it: “The Digital Team at Deloitte Legal and Deloitte as such gain experience and expertise with Hana’s leadership and that perfectly rounds out the portfolio of our services so that we can be clients’ first choice in Digital and TMT. I am glad that I am handing over the leadership of the Digital Team to Hana.”

Hana Gawlasová adds: “My legal advisory services in the field of digitalisation, TMT, and cybersecurity have significant technological overlap. Partnering up with Deloitte Legal is a perfect opportunity to offer legal-technological solutions to clients, which provides a crucial benefit and added value to clients at a time of an ongoing digital transformation of the public and private sectors."

Hana Gawlasová comes from the Squire Patton Boggs global law firm where she had been a partner since 2014. She had spent her previous career in Linklaters and Kinstellar law firms. Since last year, Hana has been a substitute member of the Board of Directors of the Czech Bar Association, a member of the opinion platform Rozumné právo (Reasonable Law), and a mentor in the MyOdyssey programme for women managers.

Petra Věžníková comes to Deloitte at the same time as Hana Gawlasová. She is an attorney specialising in telecom and cybersecurity. 

About Deloitte Legal 

Deloitte Legal is a law firm belonging among the most prestigious law firms in the Czech Republic thanks to its high standard of providing legal services and expert linguistic, personal, and technological background. Our team has more than 80 experts with extensive legal qualifications. We offer legal services through our offices in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Hradec Králové.