Czechs to recruit ‘dream team’ of star lawyers for solar battle

While busy recruiting top-notch lawyers, FinMin adviser Radek Šnábl says there’s still room to talk — but cash settlement isn’t in the cards

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Eva Jarešová | 23.06.2011

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Šnábl has named five lawyers the Finance Ministry would like to have on the Czech ‘dream team’ but is keeping mum on other foreign ‘aces’ he’d consider calling upon in the anticipated multi-billion dollar solar arbitration

The main architect of the Czech state’s legal defense strategy in the looming solar arbitration battle — which, if lost, could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of crowns — has shown Czech Position a few of the cards in his tightly held hand. Radek Šnábl, an adviser to Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek (TOP 09), is looking to assemble a “dream team” of expert arbitration lawyers from the four corners of the Earth. And talk of a financial settlement is nonsense.

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