Kateřina Barcalová

Kateřina Barcalová is a member of DLA Piper's Corporate practice, with a strong focus on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. She has experience in all areas of corporate, commercial, and financial law, with a particular focus on M&A, venture capital, and private equity.

She regularly advises on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, disposals, investments, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations. Her practice covers the structuring, negotiation and execution of complex corporate transactions across the full transaction lifecycle, including legal due diligence, the negotiation of key commercial and governance arrangements, signing and closing, and post-closing implementation. She also has extensive experience coordinating multi-jurisdictional workstreams and implementing complex group restructuring steps.

Kateřina also has experience in the venture capital and start-up ecosystem, advising founders, growth companies, investors and investment funds on equity financings, investment rounds and strategic transactions. Her work includes structuring investments, negotiating shareholder and governance arrangements, advising on founder and investor rights, and advising companies and investors across successive stages of growth and financing. She also advises on private equity investments, management and shareholder arrangements and other investment structures across a range of sectors.

Her sector experience spans financial services, insurance, investment management and funds, technology, and life sciences. She has advised investors, financial institutions and corporates on a broad range of transactions involving investment and financing structures, corporate reorganisations and other strategic matters.