January 2017 - We are pleased to announce that Jitka Logesová, a Partner at Kinstellar’s Prague office, has been named a Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Anti-Corruption Committee. Jitka considers the appointment a great honour, as well as an appreciation of her work and activities in this area. During her term she will begin taking the lead on some Committee projects, including proposing and organising a regional anti-corruption conference in Central Europe.
Jitka is head of the firm-wide Compliance, Risk & Sensitive Investigations practice. She has led several corporate investigations – including cross-border matters – in various sectors, notably pharmaceuticals, construction, infrastructure, financial services and IT as well as advised multinational companies on their anti-corruption programmes. She has also represented a number of companies in criminal proceedings (under Czech law companies can be held criminally liable).
Jitka is member of ICC FraudNet (a worldwide network of asset recovery specialists). She was selected by Global Investigation Review’s independent research with clients and peers as being among the world’s leading investigations lawyers (www.WhosWhoLegal.com and www.GlobalInvestigationsReview.com). Jitka is a guest lecturer of the Business Ethics class at Anglo-American University in Prague. She has published numerous articles about compliance and corruption in CEE and in the Czech Republic specifically.
She has 20 years’ experience advising leading international groups, financial institutions, and other major investors on large-scale transactions in Emerging Europe, and she brings this expertise to her new role as part of the IBA’s Anti-Corruption Committee.
About the Anti-Corruption Committee
The Anti-Corruption Committee provides an international forum for practitioners to meet and discuss anti-corruption laws, compliance practices, enforcement trends and asset recovery issues. It facilitates the sharing of best practice and the regular communication of legal and other developments, including new legislation, case-law, prosecution guidance and government policy, as well as developments in civil society, the private sector and international organisations.
About the IBA
Established in 1947, the International Bar Association is the world’s leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. The IBA influences the development of international law reform and shapes the future of the legal profession throughout the world. It has a membership of more than 80,000 individual lawyers and more than 190 bar associations and law societies spanning over 160 countries and has considerable experience in providing assistance to the global legal community.