About Us

We are a modern law office that provides a comprehensive legal service in all areas of civil and commercial law, with a focus on real estate and construction law, corporate law, and cultural heritage and art law.

Our vision is based on our core values:

We support innovations: Our approach is innovative – we want to provide our clients with high quality legal services but at the same time we are dedicated to helping the clients to open their businesses and private equity to new horizons and new trends and global movements taking place in today’s fast-changing times and help them to structure and manage these changes.

Excellent knowledge: We have an excellent understanding of the local legal and business environment and can effectively reflect the specificities of such environment while providing the legal services.

Personalized client-oriented approach: We follow a client-oriented, pro-active and business support approach that means that we listen carefully to you, take care of your needs and goals, comply with your core values and standards, respect your traditions and provide the services with a particular attention to your mission and business approach.

Complete service: On top of that, we combine experience from international and Czech law firms with a personalized approach to the client’s needs. We are here to assist you in achieving your personal and business goals and to help you with the smooth legal implementation of your projects.

International coverage: Located in Prague, the Czech Republic, we combine experience from international and Czech law firms while maintaining international standards. We cooperate with several law offices within CEE and around Europe, and through such cooperation we can oversee your project for you anywhere in Europe. We speak Czech, English and French.

We love what we do, and we do it with passion.

Services

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION LAW

We advise our clients on various real estate matters, including real estate corporate transactions, lease of commercial properties, as well as on planning, construction, management and disposal of complex development projects.

We have considerable expertise in providing legal services to private clients, high net worth individuals and family offices on all aspects of their real estate investments, including residential properties.

How can we help you?
  • Due diligence
  • Transactions (acquisitions and divestments)
  • Leasing of commercial properties
  • Structuring of the transaction
  • Construction law and procedure
  • Work contracts
  • Residential properties

ART LAW

We provide a complete range of art related legal services for artists and galleries, as well as private collectors, other professionals within the art market, and institutions and museums. We combine our profound knowledge of the art market with legal expertise to ensure that we obtain the best results for the client.

Daniela Kozáková is the first Czech member of PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the International Art Market).

How can we help you?
  • Purchase and sale of works of art
  • Loans of works of art for exhibitions
  • Art collection management: title issues,
  • Contracts for artists, collectors, dealers, and auction houses
  • Insurance and transportation of works of art

COMMERCIAL LAW AND CONTRACTS

We advise on a range of commercial law agreements, from complex agreements to a more common agency, mandate, commission, or lease agreement.

We believe that carefully drafted commercial agreements are a must for profitable investment. By such agreements you can mitigate the risk of non-performance and a potential dispute.

You may wish to contact us if:
  • you would like to invest in a commercial company or start-up.
  • you wish to conclude the commissary, agency, lease, sale, or any other type of commercial contract and need strong legal support in its drafting and negotiating.
  • you wish to create a joint venture with your commercial partner.
  • you wish to sell or buy a business or company

CULTURAL HERITAGE

We advise on various cultural property related issues, such as administrative procedures regarding the export of cultural goods, the Czech Republic’s pre-emptive right to the cultural monuments (either movables or real estate), various obligations of the owner of the cultural goods and cultural monuments, restitutions and related issues.
You may wish to contact us if:
  • your property is culturally protected, and you would like to know your rights and obligations in this respect.
  • you need to import and export an artwork or collection into/from the Czech Republic and need a legal review of this.
  • you are organizing an art show or art event and need reliable assistance with all related legal issues

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION LAW

How can we help you?

- Due diligence
- Transactions (acquisitions and divestments)
- Leasing of commercial properties
- Structuring of the transaction
- Construction law and procedure
- Work contracts
- Residential properties

ART LAW

How can we help you?

- Purchase and sale of works of art
- Loans of works of art for exhibitions
- Art collection management: title issues,
- Contracts for artists, collectors, dealers, and auction houses
- Insurance and transportation of works of art

COMMERCIAL LAW AND CONTRACTS

You may wish to contact us if:
- you would like to invest in a commercial company or start-up.
- you wish to conclude the commissary, agency, lease, sale, or any other type of commercial contract and need strong legal support in its drafting and negotiating.
- you wish to create a joint venture with your commercial partner.
- you wish to sell or buy a business or company

Team

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Daniela Kozáková
Attorney-at-law, Partner

Daniela is an experienced attorney-at-law focusing on real estate and commercial law. In addition, Daniela has considerable long-term experience in art law and cultural heritage. Daniela has an excellent understanding of the local legal and business environment and is capable of effectively reflecting the specificities of such an environment while providing legal services:

  • Daniela has more than 15 years of significant legal expertise and experience in all fields of commercial law. Over the years, she has worked for several international law firms and spent ten years working for the largest law firm in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
  • In the area of real estate and construction law, Daniela has lead or been involved in various important transactions and projects in the area of acquisitions including the due diligence of real estate areas, development, lease and asset management of commercial centers, offices, industrial and logistic premises as well as residential properties. With the latter, Daniela provides legal services to high net worth individuals and other private clients when acquiring or selling such property.
  • Daniela further provides art law and cultural heritage legal services for collectors, private galleries and other professionals within the art market, institutions and museums, involving the authenticity and provenance issues, including due diligence, representing them in acquisition of the works of art, dealing with issues related to their insurance, advising on various loans of art either private or institutional, and advising on cultural heritage issues.

Membership

  • Daniela is a member of the Association for Real Estate Market Development in Prague that is the association of the leaders of the Czech real estate market.
  • Daniela is also a member of PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the International Art Market) a multi-disciplinary networking platform for renowned professionals advising the global art market.
  • Daniela is a member of Czech Bar Association.

Education

  • Daniela holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague.
  • Daniela also studied private international law at Utrecht University.
  • Daniela completed the Finance and Art Market program at Sotheby’s Institute in London.
  • Apart from her native Czech she also speaks English and French.

Address:

DK Legal
Salvátorská 931/8,
110 00 PRAHA 1
Czech republic

 

Mgr. Daniela Kozáková

© 2020 DK Legal. DK Legal is only a business name. Legal services are provided by Mgr. Daniela Kozáková, attorney-at-law.

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