Petr Souček is a Counsel in DLA Piper’s Litigation and Regulatory practice. He has extensive experience advising and representing clients in financial services, insurance, energy, manufacturing, construction, and TMT, on a wide range of matters, including complex cross-border disputes, white-collar crime investigations, compliance projects, and insolvency proceedings.
Petr regularly represents clients in various types of domestic and cross-border litigation, shareholder disputes and complex corporate cases, and administrative and regulatory matters. He has experience advising financial institutions on compliance and risk management, and defending clients in proceedings involving allegations of regulatory breaches, fraud or cartel behaviour.
Petr also frequently represents clients before administrative authorities and courts in connection with proceedings led by the Czech National Bank, the Office of the Financial Arbitrator or the Czech Trade Inspection Authority.
Petr is a registered Arbitrator of the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic. He’s acted as lead counsel in multijurisdictional enforcement of arbitral awards and has advised on high-stakes investigations, including anti-bribery cases, misuse of funds, and manipulation of financial indicators. He has acted as an arbitrator in commercial arbitration proceedings and as a legal counsel in complex consumer disputes, particularly in proceedings before the Czech Financial Arbitrator.
