Jiri Kindl is a partner in Skils s.r.o. law firm (formerly Weil, Gotshal & Manges - Prague). In his legal practice, he specializes in competition and regulatory matters and complex litigations/arbitrations. He has extensive experience with various competition law cases both before the Czech Office for Protection of Competition, the Commission, other regulatory authorities and Czech courts. Jiri Kindl graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague where he also obtained his Ph.D. He also studied law at the University of Limerick (Ireland) and a post-graduate course at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (University College) where he obtained Distinction and Clifford Chance Prize for Best Performance in Magister Juris, Winter Williams European Business Regulation Prize and Monckton Chambers Prize in Competition Law. He is a co-author of a textbook on Competition Law (Prague, C.H. Beck, 3rd edn, 2021), a Commentary to the Czech Competition Act (Prague, C.H. Beck, 3rd edn, 2016), a Commentary to the Act on Significant Market Power (Prague, C.H.Beck, 2017) and a Commentary to the Act on Damages in Competition Area (Prague, C.H. Beck, 2019). He also authored a monograph Cartel and Distribution Agreements – Theory and Practice (Prague, C.H. Beck, 2009) and numerous articles on competition law and commercial law issues in various legal journals and edited volums. Jiri Kindl also lectures competition law and economics at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. He is regularly referred to in publications such as Chambers Europe, Global Competition Review as a leading antitrust lawyer in the Czech Republic.
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On 14 September 2020, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) granted a cassation appeal lodged by the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (Office) against the previous judgment of the Regional Court in Brno of 5 June 2019 (Ref.No. 29 Af 96/2016) relating to the proceedings conducted by (...)
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Following a settlement the Municipal Court in Prague, on 26 May 2020, eventually terminated proceedings concerning follow-on cartel damages claim lodged by Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech originally against three companies, namely Wiesner-Hager Project, Artspect and Iridium. Background to (...)
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On 30 January 2020, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) granted a cassation appeal lodged by the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (Office) against the previous judgment of the Regional Court in Brno of 14 February 2018 (Ref.No. 62 Af 23/2016) relating to the proceedings conducted (...)
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On 29 May 2019, the Supreme Court (SC) partially granted an extraordinary appealed lodged by Mountfield against the previous judgment of the High Court in Prague of 23 May 2017 (Ref.No. 3 Cmo 132/2016) in a dispute with Fiskars concerning an alleged violation of Firskars’ rights to trademarks (...)
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On 30 January 2019, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) rejected the cassation appeal lodged by the Office for Protection of Competition (Office) against the previous Regional Court in Brno (RCB) judgment which cancelled Office’s decision fining construction companies for alleged cartel (...)
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Regional Court in Brno (RCB) dealt with two claims by AV MEDIA, a.s. challenging dawn raids conducted by the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (Office) at its premises in March and April 2018. The RCB found both dawn raids lawful and rejected both claims. Summary of Proceedings This (...)
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On 15 May 2018, the Constitutional Court (CC) declared that the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) by its judgment of 21 November 2017 (Ref.No. 7 As 155/2015) violated Eurovia CS’s constitutional rights on protection of privacy and on fair trial and annulled that SAC’s judgment. The matter (...)
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On 25 January 2018, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) rejected the cassation appeal lodged by COLAS CZ against the previous Regional Court in Brno (RCB) judgment rejecting COLAS CZ’s claim as being belated. The case concerned a challenge made by a co-cartelist to a dawn raid which had taken (...)
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On 21 December 2017, the Supreme Administrative court rejected cassation appeals of both the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) and all three claimants (participants to bakeries cartel), namely companies Delta Pekarny, OK Rest, and Penam against the previous judgment of the (...)
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On 21 December 2016, the Supreme Administrative court rejected cassation appeal of REWE Zentralfinanz eG (“REWE”) against the previous judgment of the Regional Court in Brno which rejected claim against the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) alleging that the Office acted (...)
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On 7 January 2016, the Supreme Administrative court rejected cassation appeal of RegioJet, a.s. (“RGJ”) against the previous judgment of the Regional Court in Brno which rejected claim against the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) alleging that the Office acted contrary to law (...)
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On 15 April 2015, the Supreme Administrative court cancelled the previous judgment of the Regional Court in Brno which rejected claim against penalty imposed upon O2 Czech Republic (or rather its predecessor) for an abuse of dominant position. Both judgments relate to a case with long history (...)
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On 26 February 2015, the Supreme Administrative court cancelled the previous judgment of the Regional Court in Brno which held that a complainant in merger approval proceedings may appeal the decision of the Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) to the extent it did not address its (...)
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On 25 September 2014, the Regional Court in Brno confirmed findings of the Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) regarding predatory pricing by Student Agency (a leading bus transport company) and rejected judicial review claim lodged by the said company. The Regional Court in Brno so (...)
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On 25 June 2014, the Supreme Court cancelled preceding decisions by the High Court in Prague (Ref. No. 3 Cmo 289/2011-142 of 29 December 2011) and by the Municipal Court in Prague (Ref. No. 32 Cm 128/2010-131 of 13 June 2011) and remanded the case back for further proceedings before the (...)
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On 13 February 2014, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected cassation complaint lodged by Schneider Electric CZ against the judgment of the Regional Court in Brno which rejected a claim that had been submitted previously against the allegedly unlawful dawn raid that had took place at (...)
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On 30 December 2013, the Supreme Administrative Court cancelled the judgment of Regional Court in Brno (as well as the preceding decision of the Chairman of the Czech Office for protection of competition) in the case regarding anticompetitive export prohibitions included in agreements between a (...)
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On 30 September 2013, the Supreme Administrative Court cancelled the judgment of Regional Court in Brno in the case regarding alleged predatory pricing by Student Agency (a leading bus transport company) and remanded the case back to it. The Regional Court in Brno previously quashed the (...)
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Just few days apart in March 2013 (on 20 March and 28 March 2013), the Supreme Administrative Court rendered two rulings which deal with access of complainants to files regarding competition proceedings to which they were not direct participants. In the first case, the Supreme Administrative (...)
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On 20 December 2012, the Supreme Administrative Court cancelled the judgment of Regional Court in Brno in the case regarding Association of Applied Graphics and Design (the “Association”) and remanded the case back to it. The Regional Court in Brno previously mitigated the fine imposed by the (...)
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On 9 November 2012, Regional Court in Brno cancelled the decision of Chairman of the Office for Protection of Competition ("Office") in a case concerning an alleged abuse of dominant position in the form of predatory pricing by Student Agency in response to an entry by competing bus company (...)
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On 25 February 2011, Supreme Administrative Court cancelled the judgment of Regional Court in Brno in case concerning assessment of interconnection agreement entered into between Telefonica O2 Czech Republic (“TO2”) and Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. (“Vodafone”). The Regional Court in Brno (...)
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On 25 February 2011, Supreme Administrative Court cancelled the judgment of Regional Court in Brno in case concerning assessment of interconnection agreement entered into between Telefonica O2 Czech Republic (“TO2”) and Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. (“Vodafone”). The Regional Court in Brno (...)
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On 30 July 2010, Supreme Administrative Court cancelled the judgment of Regional Court in Brno in case concerning alleged abuse of dominant position by Telefonica O2 Czech Republic (“TO2”) in connection with its so-called “price plans”, i.e. special price programs for its business customers. The (...)
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On 26 April 2010 the Supreme Administrative Court rejected cassation appeal against the judgment of Regional Court in Brno which rejected judicial review claim lodged by CSAD Liberec (a regional bus company) against decision of the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) which (...)
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On 2 December 2009 the Regional Court in Brno cancelled decision of the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) concerning cartel behavior of several poultry producers. The Regional Court did so despite the fact that it consented in all material respects with findings of the Office (...)
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On 29 May 2009, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected cassation appeal of Delta Pekarny (one of the main bakery companies active on the Czech market) against the judgment of the Regional Court in Brno which rejected a claim for judicial review of a decision of the Office for Protection of (...)
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On 25 February 2009, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected cassation appeal of the Czech Office for Protection of Competition (the “Office”) against the judgment of the Regional Court in Brno which struck down Office’s decision imposing fines on six building savings banks for allegedly (...)
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The Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) recently started to implement ‘settlement procedures’ as an alternative way of ending sanction proceedings initiated by it. The Office adopted the policy of ‘settlement procedures’ despite the absence of any legislative basis in that regard. It (...)
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On 30 September 2008, the Czech Supreme Administrative Court rejected the cassation appeal lodged by the Office for Protection of Competition (“Office”) against the judgment of Regional Court in Brno that cancelled Office’s concerning participation in alleged price fixing concerted practices on (...)
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This case concerns litigation before Czech civil courts concerning a breach by a seller of a non-competition clause entered into in connection with a share sale transaction. It shows how Czech civil courts “struggled” with the application of competition law to the transaction. At the end of the (...)
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On 1st November 2007, the Regional Court in Brno quashed a decision of the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (the “Office”) which imposed a fine of CZK 2,300,000 on Tupperware Czech Republic for a breach of Section 3(1) of the Czech Competition Act for the period until the (...)
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On 29 October 2007, the Czech Supreme Administrative Court quashed a previous decision of the Regional Court in Brno which cancelled a decision of the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (the “Office”) imposing a fine of CZK 6,000,000 on Ceska Rafinerska for an abuse of (...)
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On 24 September 2007, the Czech Supreme Administrative Court quashed a previous decision of the Regional Court in Brno which confirmed decisions of the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition (the “Office”) imposing a penalty of CZK 500,000 upon the Czech Chamber of Authorized Engineers (...)
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