Jindřich Vítek, Ph.D.

Jindřich Vítek is an attorney and founding partner at AK EGV. He specializes mostly in commercial law and public procurement. His clients have included the largest infrastructure management companies in the Czech Republic, leading corporations ranked among CZECH TOP 100, municipalities and leading healthcare providers.

Before ERHARTOVÁ VÍTEK & PARTNERS merged with Gürlich & Co, Jindřich has worked since 1996 for over eight years at one of the biggest Czech law firms, and started ERHARTOVÁ VÍTEK & PARTNERS together with his colleague Olga Erhartová in 2003.

Jindřich focuses mostly on legal areas where public law overlaps private, in particular commercial law and public procurement law. Jindřich has also focused recently on legislation related to transportation infrastructure.

In his role as an Arbitrator at the Arbitration Court of the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, Jindřich decides disputes arising mostly from commercial activities. He is also member of several appellate committees, specifically the Public Procurement Appellate Committee of the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition, the Appellate Committee of the Chairman of the Transport Infrastructure Access Authority, and the Appellate Committee of the Culture Minister.

Jindřich takes an active part in legislative activities, preparing and commenting on draft laws for individual government departments (Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Regional Development, Ministry of Transport) and preparing amendments for individual Members of Parliament of the Czech Republic. He is member of the Ministry of Regional Development’s expert group for the Public Procurement Act, and also teaches Public Procurement as a university lecturer. Jindřich also gives speeches and presentations to both private audiences and public administration and self-administration bodies. He was also member of the Civil Law Committee of the Legislative Council of the Government of the Czech Republic, and was member of the Appellate Committee of the Environment Minister.

Jindřich graduated from the School of Law at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 1998. He has been an Associate Lecturer at the university’s Commercial Law Department.

LANGUAGES

• Czech
• English

EDUCATION

• University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, School of Law, (Mgr. 1998, JUDr. 2008, Ph.D. 2012)

MEMBERSHIP

• Czech Bar Association
• Arbitration Court of the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic
• Public Procurement Appellate Committee of the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition
• Appellate Committee of the Chairman of the Transport Infrastructure Access Authority
• Appellate Committee of the Culture Minister
• Ministry of Regional Development’s expert group for the Public Procurement Act
• Commercial Law Department, School of Law,  University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

PUBLICATIONS

Author:

• Corporate Directors‘ Liability, Prague – Wolters Kluwer ČR, a.s., 2012
• When a Resolution of an LLC‘s General Meeting is Null and Void., Prague – Wolters Kluwer ČR, a.s., 2010
• Legal periodicals – Právník (“Lawyer”), Obchodní právo (“Commercial Law”) and epravo.cz.From 2000 to 2002 Jindřich was the editor of a regular special called “Legislation Pocket Book” at the “Profit” weekly.

Co-Author:

• Commentary on the Act on Measures to Reduce the Costs of Deploying High-Speed Electronic Communications Networks. 1st edition. Prague : C.H. Beck, 2017
• Securities Law. 1st edition. Prague : C.H. Beck, 2014
• Commentary on the Civil Code, General Provisions, (Articles 1 -654). 1st edition. Prague : C. H. Beck, 2014
• MERITUM Commercial Law, Prague: Wolters Kluwer ČR, a.s.