KOHAJDA & PARTNER

Michael Kohajda is our law firm's founding partner and has been a law attorney 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. He has successfully represented clients in disputes with the tax and customs administration and in 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 completed his doctoral studies and received his Ph.D. in 2008. He earned a degree (JUDr.) in rigorous procedure 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.

Michael has also been active in academia since 2005, 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). 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. He is also the Chairman of the Banking, Insurance and Financial Markets Subcommittee. 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. From 2014 to 2024, he was a member of the Disputes Commission of the Minister of Finance for the gambling sector.

Michael speaks active Czech and English, passive Slovak and French. In his free time, he enjoys travelling, sports and nature. He is a proud partner of his Tibetan Great Dane Pramud Dharmapala Kohajda.