Michael Mullen

Michael Mullen is a partner of Havel, Holásek & Partners. His clients include nearly 30 Fortune 500 companies, corporations listed on foreign stock exchanges, private equity funds and manufacturing, real estate and pharmaceutical companies. Michael specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity / venture capital, real estate law, legal audits and legal due diligence investigations, unfair competition, energy and healthcare.

Typical projects Michael Mullen manages include advisory to major Czech and international companies and private equity funds on acquisitions and divestitures and purchase and sale of companies, real estate, and assets including advisory on the financing of these transactions. In addition, Michael regularly advises foreign companies on their entry into the Czech market.

Michael leads the firms Anglo-American practice serving clients from Anglo-American Jurisdictions.

Before joining Havel, Holásek & Partners in 2003, Michael worked for more than seven years with leading international law firms, such as Altheimer & Gray and White & Case, in Chicago, Prague, Istanbul and Bucharest.

Recommendations of international publications

The prestigious international rating publications PLC Cross-border, European Legal 500, IFLR 1000, Chambers Global, European Legal Experts and Global Law Experts recommend Michael Mullen as a leading legal expert for mergers and acquisitions and commercial and corporate law, and some of them also for real estate law. Michael Mullen has published numerous articles on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and banking and finance, both in Czech and foreign legal periodicals.

Transactions 

 Michael has acted as the lead counsel or has been instrumental in a number of major transactions executed in the Czech Republic in recent years, including:

• privatization of the Czech Republic’s largest savings bank
• privatization of the Czech Republic’s largest aircraft manufacturer
• contemplated privatization of Czech Airlines
• acquisition of a minority shareholding in the largest TV operator in Central Europe
• acquisition of the largest Czech producer of food supplements
• issue of listed debentures in an amount exceeding EUR 500 million

Membership in professional associations

• Czech Bar Association
• Illinois and New York Bar Associations
• International Bar Association
• The Czech Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
• Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce
• Board of the Fulbright Commission
• Board of the  University of Pittsburgh in Prague (MBA)