Banking, Finance & Insurance
Weinhold Legal’s banking, insurance and financial services clients include the largest domestic banks and major foreign financial institutions. Our law firm has also advised major investors in the banking and financial services sector.
Below are some important projects in this area.
| Česká spořitelna / Erste Bank |
| Weinhold Legal provided comprehensive advisory services in many projects in acquisition finance, project finance and financial restructuring, including drafting loan documentation and security documentation according to the English, US and Czech law, transaction structuring and negotiations. Advisory to the client in various legal areas including regulatory. Weinhold Legal provided Česká spořitelna with legal services related to more than 20 corporate bond issues (including structured bonds and mortgage bonds) issued both, as stand-alone issues and under debt issuance programmes of the company, including the 10-Year Bond Issue Programme in the maximum amount of CZK 10 mld. in outstanding bonds and maturity of any single issue of up to 10 years – Weinhold Legal provided Česká spořitelna legal services in connection with its establishment. Further we assisted Česká spořitelna as the arranger of CZK 500,000,000 4.50% Subordinated Bond issue due in 2015 by Wüstenrot – stavební spořitelna (the first Prague Stock Exchange listed subordinated bond issue) and its Tranche No. 2 and 10-Year Bond Issuance Programme of the Fond (pojištění vkladů) up to a maximum of CZK 10 billion in outstanding bonds and maturity of any single issue of up to 10 years; etc. Further advice on numerous transactions. |
| ČSOB (skupina KBC) |
| Weinhold Legal provided transaction advisory in connection with acquisition financing, refinancing, project financing, operating loans, financing in the form of bank guarantees and letters of credit. . The services included complex transaction advisory including drafting and finalisation of loan and security documentation, perfection of security, assistance with review and fulfilment of conditions precedent and conditions subsequent. |
| UniCredit Bank |
| Weinhold Legal provided complex advice on numerous transactions related to structured financing, acquisition financing, refinancing, project financing and operating loans. The services included complex transaction advisory including assistance with termsheets, transaction structuring, pre-transaction due diligence, drafting and finalisation of loan and security documentation, perfection of security, assistance with review and fulfilment of conditions precedent and conditions subsequent. In addition to transaction advisory we provided our client with number of legal analyses and memorandums on specific legal areas and assisted the client in negotiation of contracts between the client and other domestic and foreign financial institutions. |
| Raiffesenbank |
| Weinhold Legal provided complex legal services on various projects, including acquisition and project financing. The services included complex transaction advisory including drafting and finalisation of loan and security documentation, perfection of security, assistance with review and fulfilment of conditions precedent and conditions subsequent. |
| Commerzbank |
| Weinhold Legal provided legal advice on numerous transactions, including revolving loan agreements, syndicated securitization and significant club deal project. |
| BNP Paribas |
| Weinhold Legal provided legal services on various projects, including securitisation transactions, asset management matters, successful representation before the Supreme Administrative Court, real estate matters, corporate restructuring matters. |
| Komerční banka (skupina Société Générale) |
| Weinhold Legal provided full services on various projects, including derivative transactions documentation preparation, advice in numerous transactions, elaboration of legal opinions, advice on insolvency and execution legislation and dispute resolution, social security matters, labour law matters, applicability of Czech-French international treaties and corporate advice. |
| ING |
| Weinhold Legal provided advice on several projects, including secured loan transfer transaction, derivatives transactions, representation before the SEC, group structuring advice, labour law advice and other advice, including assistance in notification of a public offering of foreign securities, regulatory and assistance with corporate issues and dealings with the Czech National Bank. |
| Allied Irish Banks |
| Weinhold Legal provided full legal services on various real estate lending, including transaction analysis and structuring and advising on and implementing lending security; including loans to Red Group for a hotel, an investment acquisition in Brno and acquisition financing of a major Prague development by Realtia, a new Czech retail real estate fund. |
