Fractional Investor Relations · Prague
Investor relations for life on the exchange — from Start Market to Prime Market.
Most Czech issuers don't need a full-time IR department. They need a senior IR partner who owns the function — the moments that move investor perception, and the diligent groundwork between them: investor targeting, one-on-one investor calls, analyst dialogue. About three days a month.
The Prague Stock Exchange ladder
Wherever you are on the exchange, IR is what carries you up.
From a first listing on the Start Market to the disclosure expectations of the Prime Market, each step asks more of how you communicate with investors.
Start Market
First listing
Equity story, first investor presentation, IR basics in place.
Standard Market
Stepping up
Targeted investor outreach, polished annual report, roadshows.
Prime Market
The destination
Full disclosure discipline and institutional-grade investor relations.
The Prime Market can be the goal, but it doesn't have to be. The same senior IR matters just as much for companies that are, and intend to stay, on the Start Market.
Why fractional
Full-time IR is overkill for most issuers.
A company on the Start Market, or preparing to list, rarely has the volume to justify a permanent head of IR. Yet the moments that shape investor perception are far too important to improvise.
Fractional IR gives you the seniority of a head of investor relations: the equity story, the disclosure judgement, the investor and analyst relationships, without the cost and overhead of a full-time hire. You get the right person in the room exactly when it matters.
What you actually need
- ·About three days a month
- ·A point of contact for investors & analysts
- ·An investor presentation
- ·Results materials — press release, key messages, Q&A
- ·An annual & ESG report
- ·An IR website
- ·A clear equity story & investor targeting
On your side of the table
An in-house IR function — without the in-house hire.
I'm not a bank or a broker. I'm not pitching for deal fees or a mandate behind the advice.
My only role is your investor relations. I can step in as the day-to-day point of contact your investors and sell-side analysts deal with, taking that load off your CFO and CEO, whether you're climbing toward the Prime Market or already there.
Services
A complete IR function, drawn on when you need it.
Equity story & messaging
The investment case in language the market understands.
Investor & analyst relations
Your day-to-day point of contact for buy-side investors and sell-side analysts.
Investor targeting
Reaching the funds and analysts most likely to own your story — broadening the shareholder base and supporting liquidity in the stock.
Results & disclosure materials
Results press releases, presentations and speaker scripts, key messages, Q&A prep and regulatory disclosure — ready for every reporting period.
Presentations & roadshows
Materials that hold up in front of institutions, plus roadshow prep.
Annual & ESG reports
Annual reports end to end, copywriting included: narrative, structure, design, layout and sign-off. ESG reports to the same standard.
IR website (CZ / EN)
A clean, compliant investor section — kept current and relevant, because it needs constant attention — in both languages of the market.
Listing & transition readiness
Preparing for the disclosure and IR demands of the move to the main market.
Where to start? The first step is an IR Health Check: within 10 working days you know how the market reads your company and what to do about it.
IR Health CheckEngagement
How we work together.
A simple path from where you are today to a confident presence on the market.
Diagnose
A short, honest assessment of your equity story, materials and investor readiness — and where the gaps are.
Build
We put the foundations in place: equity story, presentation, IR website and annual report, to a market-ready standard.
Run
I own the ongoing IR — results materials, regular disclosure, and day-to-day investor and analyst contact — for about three days a month cumulatively.
The fractional retainer
Senior IR capacity on a predictable monthly basis, the natural model once the foundations are built. It scales up around results, roadshows and the move to the main market.
Experience
Built on the real thing, not the theory.
More than 20 years on the issuer side, across Prague, London and Amsterdam, through IPOs, bond issuances and reporting under real market scrutiny.
Head of IR at a FTSE 250 group
Directed investor relations and communications at a FTSE 250 mining group of 10,000+ employees listed in London, Prague and Warsaw — with an award-winning Debt IR programme.
IPO prospectus & readiness
Coordinated the IPO prospectus for České Radiokomunikace, and led IPO-readiness — then the sale of the group, completed in 2026 — at AURES Holdings.
Numerous bond issuances
Led communications across numerous bond issuances — offering memorandums and investor roadshows — at Allwyn and earlier at a FTSE 250 company.
Has run this before
Founded and ran an IR consultancy serving small-cap clients across Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia.
IR functions built from zero
Established investor relations departments from the ground up, including at Unipetrol — process, disclosure rules and team.
Award-winning IR
Voted Best IR Manager in the Czech Republic, with further awards and FTSE 250 recognition for annual report and corporate website.
In their words
Recommendations from investors, analysts and peers.
A true master of the investor relations profession, with outstanding financial analysis skills — always quick to respond, always precise and concise. I regard Radek as the number one IR manager in the Czech Republic, by a wide margin.
I covered the company on the sell side for several years, and Radek was my most valuable contact — always prepared, always well-informed, always available, especially during price-moving events.
One of the most helpful, proactive, accessible and honest IR people I've worked with on the sell side — even when there was negative newsflow on the company he represented.
Radek is the right person for his employer at a time of major market duress. Whatever he does next, he'll bring that to the job — by now, he has seen it all.
Radek has great knowledge of the business and the market — and he picks up the phone even when we had a negative view on the stock, which isn't always the case with other IRs in the region.
One of the top investor relations professionals I've come across — smart, precise, with a deep understanding of stakeholder dialogue, and a great team player.
About
Radek Němeček
I'm a senior investor relations and M&A practitioner based in Prague, with more than 20 years on the issuer side of the capital markets: Head of IR at a FTSE 250 group, numerous bond issuances, an IPO prospectus, and an IPO-readiness mandate that ended in the sale of the group, completed in 2026. Underpinning all of it is a strong financial background. I read the numbers as fluently as the narrative, which is what makes an equity story credible.
I've also founded and run an IR consultancy before, serving small-cap clients across Central and Eastern Europe, so fractional IR isn't a pivot for me; it's something I've built and delivered. I started this practice because most Czech companies stepping onto, or up through, the Prague Stock Exchange need exactly this expertise, just not on a full-time payroll. I work in Czech and English, and in German. I am a member of the Research Team of the Prague Finance Institute and guest lecture in Investor Relations at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University.
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