KOHAJDA & PARTNER

Michael Kohajda is a founding partner of our law firm and has been a lawyer since 2012. His law practice focuses on financial and tax law and financial markets law, and he has long been involved in legal relations related to real estate. In addition, he has successfully represented clients in disputes with the tax and customs administration and civil litigation.

Michael graduated from the Master’s degree programme in Law and Legal Science at the Faculty of Law of Palacký University in Olomouc, where he completed his studies in 2005. While working, he continued his doctoral studies in the Theoretical Legal Sciences program at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, where he received his JUDr. degree in the rigorous procedure in 2008, completed his doctoral studies and received his Ph.D. in the same year. In 2016, he successfully habilitated at the Faculty of Law of Charles University and became an associate professor of financial law and financial science.

Since 2005, Michael has also been active in academia, teaching financial, tax and banking law, mainly at the Faculty of Law of Palacký University in Olomouc. Occasionally, he teaches specialised courses and lectures at other universities in the Czech Republic or professional forums, especially in the business environment, for Czech and foreign audiences.

He also regularly conducts teaching stays abroad (e.g. at the law faculties of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de Granada, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; The Hague University, The Netherlands; Universite Paris Sud, Faculte de Jean Monnet, France; or Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II or Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy). In addition, he also participates in scientific stays and professional conferences abroad (e.g. USA, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, etc.).

Michael was elected in 2021 as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic for the Olomouc Region. In the Chamber of Deputies, he is a member of the Budget Committee, the Mandate and Immunity Committee and the Constitutional Law Committee, and the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Banking, Insurance and Financial Markets. In his work in the Chamber, he deals mainly with the issues of his area of expertise and is often the rapporteur for bills in banking, financial markets or taxation. Michael is also active in the local government of his hometown of Šumperk.

Michael is also active in professional bodies. From 2011 to 2016, he was a member of the Working Commission on Public Law II – Financial Law of the Government’s Legislative Council. In the past, he was also appointed to the Working Commission to prepare the new Income Tax Act at the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic. Since 2014, he has been on the Disputes Committee of the Minister of Finance for the gambling sector.  

Michael is proficient in Czech and English, actively and passively in Slovak and French. In his free time, he enjoys travelling, sports and nature. He is a proud companion of his Tibetan Mastiff, Pramud Dharmapal Kohajda.