In IT law he focuses primarily on the legal aspects of the life cycles of information systems, web applications, mobile applications and other computer programmes. He also deals with domain names and domain-related disputes.

Tomáš has been involved in numerous complex cross-border projects entailing technology transfers, development, production and supplies of various products and computer programmes. He has participated in projects of private corporations as well as public authorities.

Besides graduating from the Law Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno, Tomáš majored in System Engineering and Informatics at the Brno University of Technology. He also studied at the Northumbria University in Newcastle, England.

Before joining Havel & Partners in 2017, Tomáš worked at a Czech law firm where he primarily focused on dispute resolution agenda.

Membership in professional associations

Czech Bar Association

Languages
Czech, English

Education

University of Technology in Brno, Faculty of Business and Management (2017), Ing. (Master of Science)
Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Brno (2016), Mgr. (Master of Laws)
University of Technology in Brno, Faculty of Business and Management (2014), Bc. (Bachelor of Science)
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (2015), Erasmus+ programme

advising a multinational IT company on the implementation of information systems at Czech and Slovak banking institutions
advising a multinational retail chain on the implementation of several information systems
advising Czech companies in the development and launch of several online projects
advising multinational companies on unfair competition, protection of the corporate name and of intellectual and industrial property
conducting domain-related disputes on behalf of multinational companies
advising a global manufacturer of firearms on a technology transfer and on a configuration of their global distribution model
advising Czech and multinational companies in the engineering and automotive industries
advising an international lease company operating railway wagons
legal advice to a Czech company manufacturing railway wagons

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Pavel Ondrák and Petr Vohnický promoted to counsel, Jiří Nečas takes up a new position of Legal Technologist

The beginning of the year at HAVEL & PARTNERS is traditionally associated with internal promotions, with a total of 15 lawyers promoted to senior positions as of 1 January 2024. Pavel Ondrák and Petr Vohnický now work at the counsel level and the firm is also filling the position of Legal Technologist for the first […]

Publications and newsletters

MiCA Regulation and its impact on crypto-assets

Authors: Robert Nešpůrek, Pavel Amler, Tomáš Chmelka In recent years, European lawmakers have been attempting to respond to the current technological situation in the society through various legislative packages, and thus the emerging cryptocurrency boom cannot have escaped them either. It was merely a matter of time before the declared draft regulations and directives get their final tuning […]

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Legal advice to the pharmaceutical company Roche in successfully resolving a domain dispute

A team of specialists from HAVEL & PARTNERS helped Roche, a leading multinational manufacturer of specialised medicinal products, win a dispute over a Czech domain name having the name of one of those medicinal products. Based on the award of the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber […]

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Technology news and law

Authors: Robert Nešpůrek, Pavel Amler, Tomáš Chmelka Regulation eIDAS 2.0 and the personal wallet – what is it about? At the beginning of summer 2021, the European Commission published a proposal to revise the eIDAS[1] Regulation, nicknamed eIDAS 2.0, in which the European Commission proposes significant changes to the Regulation, in particular in the field […]

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TECHNEMBER or technology news and law

Authors: Robert Nešpůrek, Pavel Amler, Tomáš Chmelka Art in the crypt? What does NFT stand for? Let's start with one of the most interesting and still relatively unexplored phenomena of the crypto world known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The fundamental difference between NFTs and other popular crypto assets, typically fungible crypto assets (cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin, […]

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Comprehensive advice to an Austrian fund on an investment in the Czech payment service Twisto

By providing comprehensive legal advice to the Elevator Ventures fund, the law firm HAVEL & PARTNERS ensured the entry of this Austrian investor into the Czech company operating Twisto payment services. Elevator Ventures Beteligungs, a venture capital fund of Vienna-based Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), has acquired a minority stake in Twisto payments a.s. M&A advice […]

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