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Hana Gawlasová joins Deloitte Legal as the Leader of the Digital and TMT Team in the Czech Republic
Prague – 12 April 2022 – Deloitte Legal boosts its Digital and TMT (Technology Media Telecommunications) practice with the addition of Hana Gawlasová, one of the most experienced attorneys in the field. Hana joins as a partner and will lead Deloitte Legal’s Digital and TMT team in the Czech Republic. She has over twenty years of legal advisory experience in the technology and telecom industry, often with a focus on compliance, privacy, and employment law, among other areas.
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.
– said Jan Spáčil, Managing Partner at Deloitte Legal
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.
– confirmed Martin Bohuslav, Managing Partner at Deloitte Legal
In an increasingly digital world, clients turn to us for business-focused solutions that combine legal, technical and industry knowledge. Hana’s experience perfectly complements our multidisciplinary approach and will be of huge benefit to clients in both the Czech Republic and Central Europe.
– commented Simina Mut, Deloitte Legal Central Europe leader
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.
– commented Hana Gawlasová
Hana Gawlasová comes from the global law firm Squire Patton Boggs, where she was a partner since 2014. Prior to that, she worked at the law firms Linklaters and Kinstellar. 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.
The team will be further reinforced with the addition of Petra Věžníková, an attorney specialising in telecom and cybersecurity.
About Deloitte Legal
Deloitte Legal is 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 legal professionals with extensive legal qualifications. We offer legal services through our offices in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Hradec Králové.
Deloitte Legal Central Europe is an integral part of the global Deloitte Legal Network with over 2500 legal professionals, who operate in more than 70 jurisdictions. With a team of over 350 legal professionals, operating in 24 offices, we help clients to address complex, cross-border issues throughout Central Europe.