JIRI KLASKA
Associate Director

M: 0432 287 845 E: jiri.klaska@leadenhall.com.au

BS.c. (Hons) in Economics and Management, Aston University, UK

MS.c. in Economics and Econometrics, University of Nottingham, UK

Qualifications and professional memberships 

BS.c. (Hons) in Economics and Management, Aston University, UK

MS.c. in Economics and Econometrics, University of Nottingham, UK

Summer School Programme in Economics and Finance, London School of Economics, UK

Passed all three Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams

Passed two American Society of Appraisers (ASA) exams

Experience overview

Jiri joined Leadenhall in October 2022 after over eight years as an adviser at Deloitte in Australia and in the Czech Republic.

After six years at Deloitte Czech Republic, where Jiri focused on valuations for litigation and international arbitrations, Jiri moved to Australia where he instead mostly valued infrastructure investments and prepared valuations for transaction support.

In both roles, Jiri was responsible for the in-house opinions on key valuation parameters, and created multiple methodologies and templates.

Infrastructure valuations

Port of Melbourne

Prospect Water

Aquasure

Victorian Comprehensive Care Centre

Rowville transmission facility

Axicom

M5 Toll Road

Audit review of a variety of infrastructure assets (airports, ports, toll roads, PPPs, etc.)

Transaction advisory

Potential merger of the two largest Australian cash management providers

Sale of an embedded network provider by a PE fund

Restructuring of OKD, the largest Czech black coal miner

Capital raising of include, a Croatian smart-bench start-up

Valuation of Czech and Slovak energy distributors for the purpose of the RWE / E.ON asset swap

Independent expert reports

Mainstream Group, a fund administrator

Litigation and international arbitration

Valuation of a large part of the electricity distribution, transmission and retail portfolio of CEZ, one of the largest Central European energy companies

Valuation of MNG, the largest Czech oil & gas producer, for the purpose of a squeeze-out of minority shareholders

Valuation of the gas distribution and retail portfolio of Innogy, one of the largest Czech energy companies for the purpose of a squeeze-out of minority shareholders

Several valuations for various confidential international arbitrations

Financial reporting, tax and other purposes

Valuation of the portfolio of Inven, a Central European venture capital fund

Review of the portfolio valuation of Penta, one of the largest Central European private equity funds

PPA of SeaLink Travel Group’s acquisition of Transit Systems

PPA of Visy’s acquisition of Owens Illinois’ glass manufacturing business

Valuation of a duty-free retailer for internal restructuring purposes

Other experience

A financing model for transfer pricing purposes of HB Reavis, one of the largest Slovak real estate companies

Transfer pricing methodology and model for Linet, a Czech hospital bed producer

Analysis of the Czech water infrastructure regulation system