The experience of our professionals extends to all forms of syndicated and single bank cross-border and domestic banking transactions in the Czech Republic (secured and unsecured, single currency and multi-currency); asset and project financing (including real estate financing) and other more structured forms of financing; bond issues; commercial paper and note programmes; derivatives (including interest rate, currency, equity and bond); repos and securities lending; and innovative structures and transactions in the Czech market, such as credit derivatives and securitisation.

The practice covers the full range of investment and commercial banking, asset management, insurance and retail financial services. This is backed by our strengths in bank lending, capital markets, securitisation, derivatives, financial regulation, real estate and corporate finance as well as investment banking.

Through our Prague-based Slovak desk and its team of Slovak qualified lawyers, we also have the capability to advise clients on their finance transactions in Slovakia and have considerable experience in this jurisdiction.

Banking

Our dedicated team of finance lawyers is well placed to advise you on what works for your deal, what is happening in the market and help set new market standards.

We help devise and deliver financing solutions specific to your needs. Clients benefit from our comprehensive experience in both domestic and cross-border leveraged and acquisition financings.

Thanks to the synergy between our Prague-based banking group and our tier one Prague real estate practice, we have completed a number of significant real estate finance transactions.
Integrated teams chosen for each transaction work together to provide coordinated and consistent advice in the following areas:

• Bank lending
• Acquisition finance
• Real estate finance
• Consumer finance
• Aircraft finance

Capital markets, financial regulation

Our capital markets practice provides legal advice on complex debt and equity transactions and securitisations. We combine expertise in a wide range of financial products with a broad understanding of debt and securities issues (enabling us to retain an overview of the whole capital structure).

We are particularly recognised for our work on first ever transactions, such as historically the first IPO on the Prague Stock Exchange. In derivatives, we have an unrivalled niche specialisation in the area of emissions trading, facilitating the trading of carbon credits within the framework of the Kyoto protocol.

Leading domestic and international clients rely on our advice on regulatory issues in the Czech Republic as well as the implementation of the EU Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID).