BIO

Martin Šlampa is an attorney specialising in litigation and a registered mediator. He represents clients in a wide range of commercial disputes as well as in administrative proceedings and proceedings before administrative courts. He also focuses on representing clients in tax disputes with the tax administration.

Martin began his professional career as an assistant to Judge Jan Passer of the Supreme Administrative Court (currently a judge of the Court of Justice of the EU). Subsequently, he worked for six years at HAVEL & PARTNERS as a trainee, associate and then senior associate. There he was part of the litigation team and represented clients in, among others, disputes arising from contracts for works (including multi-million dollar arbitrations concerning major investment units), protection against unfair competition, damages claims for breach of competition law, corporate disputes between shareholders and many others. Martin also participated in the development of the practice of representing clients in tax disputes with the tax administration and successfully defended clients' rights in the area of income tax, VAT and excise taxes.

Subsequently, he worked as a head of the legal department at České přístavy, a.s. and as a senior counsel at the Ostrava steelworks, where he dealt mainly with contractual matters and disputes arising from commercial and energy law. After returning to the bar, he joined forces with FORLEX to further develop the litigation agenda, including administrative court proceedings and tax disputes.

SPECIALIZATION

• Dispute agenda in commercial and civil matters
• Administrative law and administrative court proceedings
• Tax disputes
• Construction law

PROFILE TRANSACTIONS AND ADVISORY PROJECTS

• Representing a global Big Tech company in a dispute over damages for abuse of dominance
• Representing an international sports organization in a dispute over internal financial regulation
• Advising and representing a client in a complex corporate dispute involving shareholders of an engineering company
• Representing a major manufacturing company in an international arbitration against a supplier of an investment unit
• Representing a leading Czech bank in a dispute with the tax administration (dispute over the deductibility of a donation worth over CZK 1 billion)
• Representing an international insurance company in a dispute with the customs administration over excise duty guarantee