M&A Advisory

Jakub Burda works as a Managing Director in the Roklen Corporate Finance department, board member of the Roklen Holding a.s. and executive of Fundlift s.r.o. He is a senior investment banker with more than 14 years of experience. He started his professional career in 2006 in the Corporate Finance department of Patria and progressed up to the Board of the Company. Later he was at the dawn of the Roklen group in 2014. During his advisory career, he has participated on IPO and more than 40 transactions worth 12 billions of CZK.

Jakub is liable for department and team development. His main responsibility within the M&A deals include primarily project management of transaction teams, negotiation and moderation between contractual parties, coordination and execution of advisory services in the field of market analysis, senior expertise within company valuation, due diligence, feasibility studies, assessment of investment opportunities, and marketing strategy consultancy.

Graduated as a civil engineer, Jakub is a sector specialist on deals having roots in construction sector (general contractors, sub-contractors, real estate, mining and production of construction materials, etc). Further he participated in various projects in machinery, transportation industry, food industry and retail.

Jakub acted as an adviser on transactions for leading regional companies, including: 2JCP, SUEZ, Skanska, EUROVIA, SUDOP Group, BioVendor, Unipetrol, EXPLOSIVE Service, MOFO Distribution, United Bakeries, Český Aeroholding, Schneider Electrics, DORMA, ČD Cargo and others.

Jakub Burda holds a Master degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, with a major in management and economics.

Petr Kmoníček works as a Director in the Roklen Corporate Finance department. His responsibilities include new deals acquisition and management and execution of the ongoing transactions.

Petr has more than 7 years working experience in corporate finance (M&A). Prior to joining Roklen, Petr worked in Corporate Finance department of Patria and earlier in ERSTE Group, where he was executing transaction in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Petr acted as an adviser on transactions for numerous companies such as divestiture of HomeBrands, subsidiary of Unilever CR, leading Czech company specializing in the distribution of the insecticides which was acquired by SC Johnson & Son; divestiture of Fronek, spol. s r.o., Czech construction company sold to noted strategic investor – IMOS Brno; acquisition; acquisition of Valosun - distributor of pharmaceutical products and food supplements for pharmaceutical company Walmark; acquisition of the major share in Veletrhy Brno, acquisition of the SBAJ Inmart for the leading player in hydraulics components the Charvat Group; strategic advisory for the Skanska; elaboration of expert studies on sales of the residual assets of Ceske drahy; voluntary auction of the Hipodrom Most company’s assets owned by Severni energeticka; management buy-out of Profinit, DEL and others.

Petr graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, majoring in Corporate economy and management.

Petr Dědek works as a Senior Advisor in the Corporate Finance department. He is a senior banking and business development professional with a long years of experience in the financial services industry.

He spent more than 30 years working in the banking sector and held various management positions in international financial institutions active in Corporate and Investment Banking in the region of Central & Eastern Europe.

Since 2001, he he has worked as an independent consultant in marketing, distressed assets, management advisory and sales teams organization and development.

Petr holds a Master's degree from the University of Economics in Prague, Faculty of Manufacture and Economy.

Michael Miláček has been working at Roklen Corporate Finance since 2020. As an Associate, Michael is responsible for execution of M&A transactions and valuation projects. Michael has experience in transactions mainly in construction industry (sale of HERKUL a.s. and RELIEF PROJECTS, s.r.o.), engineering industry (acquisition of PBS Group) and energy industry (acquisition of PV Design and Build s.r.o. to ČEZ Group). Michael has also participated in valuation of several companies.

Prior to joining Roklen, Michael worked as a Consultant at PwC in Financial Services team, providing services mainly in the area of strategic planning, project management, controlling and accounting. Furthermore, Michael gained relevant financial experience while working at Unicredit.

Michael holds an MSc in Finance, and his major included business valuation and capital markets. During his undergraduate studies Michael completed an exchange program at the University of Cologne in Germany.

In 2020, Michael completed a Quantitative Finance program at the University of Otago in New Zealand and was awarded by University Dean for exceptional performance.

Adam Tománek has been working in the Corporate Finance department since 2020. His tasks include execution of transaction processes, valuation of companies, preparation of transaction documentation and documents for M&A transactions.

Adam has experience primarily in the financial services, IT, healthcare, food industry and design, engineering and implementation services segments.

Adam acted as an advisor on transactions such as sale of EP Rožnov, a.s. to ČEZ ESCO, a.s., sale of CCR Prague s.r.o. to NEUCA and sale of Cotring spol. s r.o. to Thein.

Before joining Roklen, Adam gained experience as a Consultant in PwC Česká republika in Financial Services team, providing services mainly in the area of strategic planning, project management, IT implementation and controlling. Furthermore, Adam was part of strategy departments in Česká spořitelna and EGAP, or participated in fundraising for startup Angee.

Currently, he is finishing his Master's degree from Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague.

Tomáš Kovařík has been working as a Analyst in the Corporate Finance department since 2021. His task is analytical support in transactions, valuation of companies and preparation of documents for M&A transactions.

He is currently finishing his Master's degree at the University of Economics in Prague, where he is studying management, corporate economics and capital markets.

During his studies, Tomáš spent two semesters at the Czech Technical University in Prague and construction and construction technologies are subjects of interest to him.

Jan Mach has more than 20 years of experience with capital markets. He is a member of the Board and a Managing Director of Roklen 360 a.s. (previously Finance Zlin).

Jan held the position of Head of Trading and Prime Broker at Finance Zlin. Later, he worked as a Head of Corporate Finance department.

He participated in the preparation and organization of takeover bids, auctions, public proposals and transformation of organizations for more than 100 companies.

Jan graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Brno University of Technology, majoring in automation control systems in electrical engineering.

Eva Hrubošová has worked at Roklen from September 2015 as an Equity capital market specialist.

She had been working for the previous 9 years for Tomas Bata Univerzity in Zlín as a lecturer at the Faculty of Management and Economics at Finance and Accounting Departement. She was focused on Risk Management and Capital Markets, about the findings she published several scientific articles in impact magazines and foreign conferences.

She has a Master of Economics degree from the Faculty of Management and Economics at Tomas Bata University in Zlin.