Martin Lukas Bio

Martin is a partner at Weinhold Legal and head of the firm’s IT and IP group (TMT). Martin began to work at Weinhold Legal in 1998 and since that time has participated in a number of major projects in the areas of corporate law, M&A, litigation and arbitration, IP/IT law, competition law and public procurement. He has been involved in work for major international and Czech institutions and companies including among others: Lagardére Travel Retail, Resistant AI, GATE4AD, ThreatMark, Renomia, Veselá věda, Any Desk, Valentus Ltd, Sighttex, Billigence, Adobe Systems, LAMA ENERGY GROUP, National Medical Verification Organisation, SODEXO, Chropyňská strojírna, Angelini, NOVAVAX, Bona, ČEPS, SOLAR MARKET, Eurovia, Wienerberger, Volný.cz, Lorenc Logistics. Martin has participated in several legislative initiatives, inter alia, co-operated on a project that produced a study for the European Commission, which examined the implementation and functioning of European companies („Societas Europaea“ – SE) in Member States of the EU/EEA, and was also a member of the expert working groups for local development in preparing amendments to the Public Procurement Act. Martin has been named in leading international legal referral lists and yearbooks such as Legal 500 (in the area of telecommunications, media & technology), European Legal Experts (in the areas of IP, IT, telecommunications and publications), Media Law International (in the area of media law) and PLC Which lawyer? (as a leading lawyer in the area of media & telecommunications and environmental law with regard to renewable energy sources). Martin is ranked by Managing Intellectual Property IP STARS, the leading specialist guide to IP firms and practitioners worldwide as the Global IP Star (2016-2020) and Trademark star (2020-2023) for the Czech Republic. Martin graduated from Prague’s University of Economics in 1998 and from the Law Faculty of Prague’s Charles University in 2000. He is an attorney at law registered since 2003 in the List of Attorneys of the Czech Bar Association. In addition to his native Czech, Martin speaks English.