Václav was recommended to me by a common friend of ours when I needed to put together client agreements and more generally do a legal cleanup at Semanta, my start-up at the time. A few years later, Václav helped us when we sold off Semanta to U.S.-based Alteryx. On one side, a bunch of guys from Czechia, represented by Václav; on the other, a corporate entity represented by the most prestigious U.S. lawyers whose roster of clients included giants like Google and Meta. Upon the successful completion of that sale, I and several other partners founded the fintech start-up dig-it-ally; of course I wanted Václav by our side from Day One. He helped us negotiate strategic partnerships and breakups, and ultimately helped set up the rules and principles of collaboration with the Direct/Fidoo group, which has been playing an absolute key role in the business of dig-it-ally. To put it simple, I am very happy that Václav has had my back for almost a decade.
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Selling Semanta to U.S. investor Alteryx (www.alteryx.com) was an attractive engagement not only because the transaction was structured as an “American M&A deal” – i.e., to put it simple, the seller does its own due diligence exercise – but also because Alteryx was about to go public at the time, which meant that the entire transaction had to be executed quickly and in strict secrecy.