Adam Němec is a Managing Associate in the Prague office. He focuses on competition law, M&A and life sciences.

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE ADVISING

M&A and Corporate

• NEURAXPHARM GROUP on the acquisition of Farmax, a CNS-specialty pharmaceutical company in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary
• CANAL+ GROUP on the acquisition of M7 Group, one of the largest independent pay-TV operators in Europe, operating in Benelux, Germany and Central Europe
• APPLOVIN CORPORATION, a US mobile game specialist and the world's third largest mobile advertising network operator after Google and Facebook, on the acquisition of Geewa, a major Czech mobile game developer based in Prague
• STADA ARZNEIMITTEL on the post-acquisition integration of Walmark, a leading manufacturer of consumer health products in Central Europe in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia
• TRELLEBORG, a Swedish industrial giant, on the USD1.25 billion acquisition of ČGS Holding, a leading supplier of specialty tires and engineered polymer solutions, and its subsidiaries Mitas and Rubena

Competition & State Aid

• E.ON on the Czech competition law aspects of its EUR 43 billion asset swap with RWE, including a Europe-wide merger clearance procedure related to the acquisition of Innogy and the related remedy processes
• GENERALI GROUP, the largest insurance company in Italy and the third largest in the world, on the creation of a strategic partnership with UniCredit for bancassurance products in CEE
• CPI PROPERTY GROUP on a number of merger control proceedings before the Czech Competition Office and on various other merger control and antitrust issues, e.g. in relation to the acquisition of the Futurum shopping centre in Hradec Králové
• JOHNSON & JOHNSON on various competition law issues regarding the distribution of their products in the market, as well as competition and compliance trainings on various issues
• NEXEN TIRE CORPORATION on state aid issues related to its investment in the Czech Republic

EDUCATION

• 2007 – 2012: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Law, Master of Law (Mgr.)
• 2007 – 2010: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bachelor of International Relations and Political Science (Bc.)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Czech Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Czech, English, German, Hungarian