Before ERHARTOVÁ VÍTEK & PARTNERS merged with Gürlich & Co, Jindřich has worked since 1996 for over eight years at one of the biggest Czech law firms, and started ERHARTOVÁ VÍTEK & PARTNERS together with his colleague Olga Erhartová in 2003.

Jindřich focuses mostly on legal areas where public law overlaps private, in particular commercial law and public procurement law. Jindřich has also focused recently on legislation related to transportation infrastructure.

In his role as an Arbitrator at the Arbitration Court of the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, Jindřich decides disputes arising mostly from commercial activities. He is also member of several appellate committees, specifically the Public Procurement Appellate Committee of the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition, the Appellate Committee of the Chairman of the Transport Infrastructure Access Authority, and the Appellate Committee of the Culture Minister.

Jindřich takes an active part in legislative activities, preparing and commenting on draft laws for individual government departments (Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Regional Development, Ministry of Transport) and preparing amendments for individual Members of Parliament of the Czech Republic. He is member of the Ministry of Regional Development’s expert group for the Public Procurement Act, and also teaches Public Procurement as a university lecturer. Jindřich also gives speeches and presentations to both private audiences and public administration and self-administration bodies. He was also member of the Civil Law Committee of the Legislative Council of the Government of the Czech Republic, and was member of the Appellate Committee of the Environment Minister.

Jindřich graduated from the School of Law at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 1998. He has been an Associate Lecturer at the university’s Commercial Law Department.