Biography
Jan Pařík heads the Prague tax team of White & Case. He specializes in Czech corporate taxation, cross-border taxation, individual income taxation, and M&A and reorganization accounting and taxation. He has over twenty years of professional experience.
As a tax and accounting consultant, Jan has been involved at all stages of numerous LBO and private equity transactions, M&A projects, due diligence exercises and restructurings across various industries.
Jan has also gained experience in the completion of corporate and individual income tax returns, tax audit defense, financial modeling, utilities price regulation and finance.
He has cooperated with clients including leading local and international players, such as Avast (Gen Digital), Arx Equity Partners, Klépierre, Generali Real Estate, CTP, KGAL, Johnson Controls, BP Europe, MidEuropa, Rockaway Capital, Uber, CEZ, EPH, RWE, ING Real Estate, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Morgan Stanley.
Experience
Jan has recently provided tax advice to clients on the following matters:
- Advising TPG Real Estate on the €470 million sale to funds managed by Blackstone of CT Real Estate, a portfolio of ten logistics parks located in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This transaction is one of the largest real estate deals in Europe in 2024.
- Advising CVC Funds and EMMA Capital on their acquisition of 100% ownership of Packeta, a leading e-commerce logistics and delivery player in Czechia and Slovakia.
- Advising The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of Meopta Optika, a manufacturer of optical, opto-mechanical, and opto-electronic solutions headquartered in the Czech Republic.
- Advising The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of Tescan Orsay Holding, a leading manufacturer of electron microscopes and other high-tech scientific instruments, headquartered in the Czech Republic.
- Advising CETIN, a key member of the PPF Group, on complex tax issues related to the update of its €2 billion Eurobond programme, in connection with the Czech Republic's recent erratic amendments to the tax regime of Eurobonds.
- Advising Dr. Jiřina Lužová, a court appointed liquidation administrator of Sberbank CZ, a subsidiary of Sberbank (Europe), the largest liquidation/insolvency of a bank in the Czech Republic in two decades, including advice on the VAT regime of a transfer of bank assets.
- Advising Erste, Česká spořitelna, UniCredit, Société Générale and Komerční banka in connection with syndicated refinancing of CTP at €1.9 million, one of the largest real estate financings in the CEE region.
- Advising Fifth Wall on its Series A investment in Woltair, a Prague-based digital platform that aims to streamline the purchase and installation of sustainable energy solutions.
- Advising The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of Memsource, a leading Czech translation business, from its existing shareholders.
- Advising KGAL Investment Management, a company managing a fund of a well-known German insurance group, on acquisition of the DRN property in downtown Prague.
