Dr. Alexandr Mareš Ph.D.
is a partner of the firm.
After finishing the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague in 1991, several months’ working experience with UN in Geneva, Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, post-graduate studies, he worked in a leading Czech law firm and then as an equity partner responsible for arbitration and finance practices at Linklaters in both the Prague and London offices before he has set up Mareš Partners in 2003.
He successfully acted as member of claimant’s team for AGROFERT Holding in major regional arbitration in the amount of EUR 105.5 million against PKN Orlen.
From 2000 he has been acting as chairman, sole arbitrator and member of tribunal in over 140 domestic and international arbitrations in Prague, but also in Vienna, Warsaw and Paris. He was recently a member of tribunal in an arbitration between ČEZ and the Republic of Bulgaria.
- Arbitrator, Board Member and panelist for .eu domain name disputes of the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic
- Arbitrator of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and the National Committee of ICC Czech Republic
- Arbitrator of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
- Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce as well as of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan
- Arbitrator of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
- Arbitrator of the Arbitration Court attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Arbitrator of the Foreign-Trade Arbitration Court within the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro
- Member of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
- Member of the Association Europeenne d’Etudes Juridiques et Fiscales (AEEJF) – secrétaire national
- Member of the Board of the Czech Bar Association (1999 – 2002)
He was admitted as an „Advokát“ to both the Czech Bar in 1993 and to the Slovak Bar in 2003.
