Petr Kadlec is an equity partner at the largest Czecho-Slovak law firm HAVEL & PARTNERS. He specializes in contract law, public procurement law, competition law, including state aid and EU grants, technology and cybersecurity law, and energy law.
Petr has extensive experience with significant public sector projects – including major defense acquisitions by the Czech Ministry of Defense (since 2005) and frequently represents in procedures before administrative bodies and administrative courts in Czechia as well as before the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the EU.
Petr advises and represents in permitting procedures for exports of both dual use and military goods, software, and technologies in Czechia.
Petr is a member of the board of appeals of the Czech Energy Regulatory Office and a member of the board of appeals of the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency.
Petr initially joined HAVEL & PARTNERS in 2003 and rejoined the firm as a partner in January 2011, after he had served as an EU official investigating anticompetitive practices at the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission (DG COMP) in Brussels between 2007 and 2010.
In 2001, Petr was a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) diplomatic mission in Kosovo participating in the post-war reconstruction of public administration. Petr gained his first experience in the legal business as a paralegal in the Prague office of Hogan & Hartson (Hogan Lovells) in 1999.
