Jitka Logesova
Partner
Jitka Logesova
Partner
“Jitka Logesová is lauded for her wide-ranging expertise in corporate investigations and white-collar crime proceedings. She demonstrates notable experience in drafting anti-bribery and internal compliance guidelines. A source highlights Logesová as “the most experienced adviser in complex compliance matters and internal investigations,” adding that she is “reachable, reliable and quick in feedback.””
– Chambers Europe
About Jitka Logesova
Jitka Logesová is the head of the firm-wide Investigations, Crisis Response and Compliance practice. She specialises in compliance, corporate investigations, corporate criminal liability/white collar crime, sanctions and asset recovery. Before joining Wolf Theiss, Jitka established and built up the firm-wide compliance, risk and sensitive investigations practice at another regional law firm. She was tasked by the Czech General Prosecutors office to help draft the methodology for state prosecutors on how to evaluate corporate compliance management systems and to educate the state prosecutors in this respect. Jitka has wide experience in various sectors, particularly life science, infrastructure, professional services, IT and the public sector, where she advised clients on FCPA triggered issues and investigations, led a number of corporate internal investigations in CEE and advised on various compliance issues including setting up anti-corruption and compliance programmes. She is a Certified Auditor for ISO 19600 (compliance management systems) and for ISO 37001 (Anti-Bribery management systems). She has also published extensively on these topics and is a frequent speaker at compliance and anti-corruption conferences.
Expertise
Investigations, Crisis Response & Compliance White Collar Crime Litigation Asset Recovery & Global EnforcementEducation
Charles University, Prague, (Mgr.), 1995
University of Passau, Germany, 1995
Languages
Czech, English, German
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