Barbara Kusak is a Partner in the Prague office and the co-head of the local M&A, Corporate and Private Equity service line.

Barbara has more than 20 years of experience advising on complex national, cross-border and multijurisdictional M&A transactions (including real estate transactions) and has advised both strategic and financial investors on buy-side and sell-side transactions across various sectors, including financial services, manufacturing industries, automotive, healthcare, and consumer products.

She has gained extensive experience in leading and coordinating large international teams in the CEE region and beyond and has gained a reputation as a commercially minded and pragmatic deal maker.  

I have known and appreciated Barbara for many years. She is always extremely responsive, competent and pragmatic. This saves an enormous amount of time and nerves, and leads to very good results again and again.

Barbara Kusak is the guarantee of the quality of the work. I trust her judgement on selecting the appropriate team to look at everything and have everything done diligently.

She is not just technically skillful, but she also has the experience to stand behind market practice and know what is an acceptable level of risk.

Chambers Global, 2024 / Legal 500, 2024

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE ADVISING*

M&A 

• MAGNA AUTOMOTIVE EUROPE on its acquisition of the Czech OEM supplier Klein automotive
• BAUER MEDIA GROUP on the sale of its Czech and Slovak publishing business to Mafra; on the preceding acquisition of a leading Czech OCP company NetBrokers Holding (srovnejto.cz, epojisteni.cz); and on the sale of its Czech direct marketing business to Warsaw stock exchange listed company R22
• DAIMLER on its investment in ride-hailing operator Taxify (now Bolt) in a USD 175 million financing round (lead and coordination Estonia, CEE, France, Africa)
• ALLIANZ REAL ESTATE on the establishment of a joint venture with the publicly listed project developer VGP involving a real estate portfolio (existing and under development) in Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia
• DNATA (Emirates group) on its acquisition of the Czech specialist aviation services company Air Dispatch, operating on the Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava airports

Private Equity

• ESPIRA INVESTMENTS on the sale of the Czechia based call center operator ICON Communications to yoummday
• BBA CAPITAL PARTNERS on the acquisition of a stake in the Czech company Quinta-Analytica, a leading clinical research company, from Genesis Private Equity Fund III
• BC PARTNERS on Czech and Slovak aspects of its USD 1.9 billion sale of portfolio group synlab to Cinven as well as on the previous add-on acquisition of a leading Czech provider of laboratory diagnostic in human genetics Chambon
• APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT on the acquisition of several real estate/logistics companies in CEE
• NEXT WAVE VENTURES on the acquisition of Petainer, the Czech producer of high performance packaging solutions
• OAKTREE on its acquisition of the foreign spirits business of Eckes, including leading Czech spirits producer Stock Plzeň

*Experience prior to joining Kinstellar.

EDUCATION

• 1995: Maximilian University Munich, Germany, Faculty of Law
• 1993: University of Paris XIII, France, Faculty of Law
• 1992: University of Passau, Germany, Faculty of Law

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

• Czech Bar Association (Advokát/Attorney-at-Law)
• Munich Chamber of Lawyers
• Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht (German Antitrust Lawyers' Association)
• International Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Czech, German, English