Rowan Legal
  • hejduk@rowan.legal

Vladimír Hejduk is a specialist in tax, corporate law and accounting. He provides comprehensive legal, tax and accounting advice to commercial corporations, state-owned enterprises, non-profit entities and state-owned enterprises. He is a sought-after and recommended specialist in providing discretionary tax advice to individuals.

Vladimír Hejduk has deep experience in the tax, accounting and corporate aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and in operations with business plants in a number of large projects in the automotive, hotel, ICT, water, waste management, energy, etc. sectors, the value of which has reached hundreds of millions to billions of crowns. Vladimír has a significant specialization in tax litigation and is dedicated to representing clients in tax proceedings (tax audits, appeals etc.), as well as in the administrative justice system. He also provides individualized discrete tax advice to high-net-worth individuals, and is an expert in trusts and trusteeships.

Other areas of law in which Vladimir is actively involved include the legal, tax and accounting aspects of the development, provision and use of software and other intangible assets.

Vladimír Hejduk is also active in publications and the preparation of legislation for accounting and taxation.

Mergers, acquisitions, plant operations

  • Provided tax advisory services to EGEM, the landlord, in negotiating the lease of part of a plant, and in the preparation of transaction documentation.
  • Provided tax advice to AAA AUTO International a.s. on a cross-border merger.
  • For the client ASE, prepared tax Due Diligence of target entities and tax advisory services in the preparation of transaction documentation.

Representation in tax litigation

  • Represented the Ministry of Agriculture in an administrative action against a decision of the tax administrator on the imposition of a levy for breach of budgetary discipline on the grounds of an alleged breach of the Public Procurement Act.
  • Represented ALGON in an appeal against the court’s decision on an administrative action for the annulment of a decision on an appeal against decisions on the assessment of corporate income tax for 4 tax periods from 2007 to 2011.
  • Represented AAA AUTO Group N.V. in an administrative action for annulment of a decision on appeal against an income tax assessment for 2012; the subject matter of the dispute was a cross-border tax loss carry forward within the EU.

Comprehensive tax consulting for business corporations

  • Long-term advice to AAA Auto (14 years), where he provides comprehensive management of the group’s tax matters.
  • Long term provision of comprehensive tax administration for hotels and restaurants.
  • For Elanor, one of the leaders in the payroll outsourcing market, provides long-term (18 years) comprehensive tax and accounting administration.

Pichrt, Jan et al.: Sport and (not only) labour law, Prague, Wolters Kluwer, 2014, ISBN 978-80-7478-655-6

Pichrt, Jan et al: Agenturní zamestnávání v komplexních konteklostech, Prague: C. H. Beck, 2013, ISBN 978-80-7400-481-0

Education

School: Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics in Prague

Professional experience

Company: ROWAN LEGAL, law firm
Position: Partner (06/1998–present)

Position: Tax advisor – self-employed (03/1995–06/1998)

Company: Česká pojišťovna
Position: Head of the Economic Department of the Czech Insurance Company Services Plant (12/1992–12/1995)

Company: Student Service Cooperative UNISET
Position: Member of the cooperative responsible for active and passive tourism (06/1990–12/1991)