Corporate Law Firm of the Year Contact

Richard Gürlich, attorney at law Politických vězňů 19, 110 00 Prague, Czech republic Tel: +420222101591 Fax: +420222101590 Email: info@akrg.cz Website: www.akrg.cz

Partner & Firm Profile

The law office GÜRLICH & Co was founded on 1st February 2002. All members of the firm are experienced lawyers possessing outstanding professional expertise in various branches of law.

On a case to case basis, we would invite for cooperation many other external specialists and free-lance lawyers. This law firm is fully capable of offering legal services to both individuals and legal entities in almost all fields of civil and commercial law, all over the territory of the Czech Republic. We are

capable of providing legal services in the Czech and English languages.

In the event of cross-border transactions and litigation, this office hires its cooperating international law offices as well as external foreign lawyers. Still, this Law Firm remains a purely Czech legal office free of any financial or other influence exerted by foreign and/or local nationals. This allows the firm to provide its services in compliance with law, professionally and independently.

Strategic Consulting Firm of the Year Contact

Advention Business Partners 6 rue Anatole de La Forge – 75017 Paris

Alban neveux (Managing director) Email: alban.neveux@adventionbp.com Tel: +33 6 10 94 33 39 Website: www.adventionbp.com

Firm Profile

Advention Business Partners is a strategy consulting group that helps boards and senior management address complex issues in areas including corporate strategy, business unit strategy, performance improvement, turnaround/ restructuring, transaction services and commercial/strategic due diligence.

Advention Business Partners currently employs sixty professionals in its international offices (Dubai, London, Munich, New York, Paris and Shanghai). Clients come from a number of sectors and include global clients, small/ middle- sized businesses and private equity firms worldwide.

Alban neveux

Alban is the Managing Director of strategy consulting firm Advention Business Partners. He is involved in a variety of industries on a number of issues ranging from corporate as well as business strategy, sales and marketing strategy as well as M&A and corporate restructuring. Alban is particularly active in a number of industries which include consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, utilities and high tech. Clients include large corporations as well as medium-size businesses and private equity funds.

Alban’s professional experience prior to Advention Business Partners includes fifteen years in strategy consulting with Bossard-Gemini Consulting and then as Associate Partner with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

Alban is a graduate of ESCP Europe (Paris Graduate Business School), IEP Paris (Paris Political Science Institute) and holds an MBA from the Drexel University of Philadelphia.

Advention Business Partners has a reputation for long-term relationships with its clients, valuable independence and acute business sense.

As a strategic advisor, Advention Business Partners works with its corporate clients to develop efficient corporate and business unit strategies resulting in increased competitive advantage and greater shareholder value. Advention Business Partners assists its clients in the management of their corporate portfolio to long-term value creation, and in their business unit strategy which includes knowing what business to be in, understanding the sources of competitive advantage in that

business, and developing a plan to capture sustainably a relative advantage over competition

Advention Business Partners is also very active with its private equity clients at every point of the transaction process. Services range from acquisition screens, commercial/strategic due diligence as well as post-merger management. When analyzing an investment, Advention Business Partners goes through a rigorous and systematic analytical process in order to provide its clients with a clear advice regarding a “go / no go” decision and the impact on valuation.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic advisory services to corporations • Corporate & business unit strategy • Growth strategy • Performance improvement: Structure & organization, Operational efficiency, Change management, Turnaround strategies

• Transaction support: Strategic reviews , Assistance in mergers & acquisitions

Finance Monthly GLOBAL AWARDS 2013 17 Areas of expertise

• Commercial Transactions • Civil Law • Intellectual Property

• Corporate Law and Business Law, Public Procurement

• Labour Law • Real Estate • Litigation Insolvency

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