Mgr. Petr Hanzel, LL.M.

Petr Hanzel focuses within ARROWS mainly on IT and software law, criminal law and traffic offences.

He provides comprehensive legal services for a wide range of clients in the IT sector. He helps clients with personal data protection and GDPR documentation, with cybersecurity requirements and with the protection of intellectual property, including trademarks. Related to this is his criminal law practice in cybercrime and internet-related offences. His practice includes legal advice for software development companies as well as for companies seeking innovative IT solutions. He also advises on the launch of new applications and services.

Petr has extensive experience in defending individuals and legal entities in large-scale criminal cases of property and economic crime, as well as general crime matters. Clients turn to him in virtually all areas of criminal law. Petr also represents injured parties and victims in criminal proceedings in claims for damages and non-pecuniary injuries. In addition to criminal defense, he provides comprehensive criminal defense counseling to commercial companies when implementing or subsequently revising compliance programs.

As part of his specialization, Petr also lectures on current topics. He also cooperates, for example, with EPRAVO.CZ.

In the context of IT and software law, he mostly deals with:

• Software development contracts

• Cybersecurity

• Terms of use of applications

• Licensing agreements

• Software maintenance and support, SLAs

• Information Protection Agreements (NDAs)

• Non-compete and non-solicitation clauses

• Complete GDPR documentation

• Cooperation agreement with self-employed persons

• Comprehensive legal advice when enquiring about IT solutions.

In criminal law, he provides legal services in the following areas in particular:

• Economic, tax and property crime

• transport crimes

• cyber and internet crime

• introduction and revision of criminal compliance programmes

• representation of victims and injured parties in criminal proceedings

• prevention of criminal offences, drafting guidelines, recommending specific training and control measures

• legal assistance to witnesses.