Our Banking and Finance Capabilities
Our banking & finance practice has leading experience in the market. It covers inter alia the following areas: (i) corporate finance; (ii) acquisition finance, with particular focus on LBOs; (iii) asset finance, including aircraft finance; (iv) project finance, as well as reserves-based lending; (v) real estate finance; (vi) regulatory and compliance, (vii) derivatives; and (viii) restructuring and workout. We also regularly provide assistance in connection with banking/financial services M&A transactions.
“Experienced in a variety of domestic and multi-jurisdictional financing mandates, providing regulatory expertise to lenders. Knowledgeable about complex credit facility restructuring matters. Assists with refinancing and debt restructuring mandates, as well as acquisition finance transactions”. (…) The team “delivers great advice and has a strong team of lawyers”. [Chambers and Partners Europe, 2021]
“Bondoc si Asociatii SCA has a highly-experienced team offering a wide range of expertise. Acquisition and real estate finance feature high on the agenda, and the firm is regularly involved in major refinancing deals, distressed debt sales, and transactions in the aviation, oil and gas, and agribusiness sectors. Several banks, payments companies and fintech businesses also rely on the firm for regulatory issues. The team has strong background in banking and finance, they quickly support the need for information and possess analytical thinking for commercial points”. [Legal 500, 2021]
Examples of our leading experience include assistance to:
| ■ | a private equity group in connection with the financing of a secondary market M&A transaction in relation to its holdings in a significant healthcare services provider corporate group in Romania and all relevant contractual documentation. |
| ■ | a banking syndicate in connection with the refinancing of more than EUR 500 million credit facilities extended to a pharmaceutical group of companies, including its Romanian subsidiaries active in the production, distribution and pharmacy lines. |
| ■ | a banking syndicate in connection with a reserve-based financing of an offshore gas drilling and gas treatment facility in Romania (a precedent setting transaction – the first offshore reserve-based financing transaction on the Romanian market). |
| ■ | a sponsor for obtaining bank syndicate financing in connection with its acquisition of a corporate group that operates television stations in several jurisdictions in CEE, including Romania. |
| ■ | an international financial institution in connection with the increase of its financing granted to a corporate group with presence in Switzerland, Cyprus and Romania, active in the food processing industry. |
| ■ | a German-based bank on the Romanian aspects of a EUR 145 million financing granted to a Cyprus-based company active in the food industry, including its subsequent EUR 245 million upsize. |
| ■ | a Dutch private equity fund in connection with the acquisition via a public tender bid of a servicing company of NPL portfolios active in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. |
| ■ | a banking syndicate for financing the acquisition of a medicine producer by a private equity fund for more than EUR 2.1 billion. |
| ■ | a private equity group in connection with a financing exceeding EUR 250 million for the acquisition of a significant Romanian retailer, as well as with a financing exceeding EUR 140 million for the acquisition of a significant healthcare provider. |
| ■ | a subsidiary of the largest Romanian online retailer for the financing of the largest logistic retail warehouse in South-Eastern Europe from a syndicate of Romanian banks. |
| ■ | a syndicate of commercial banks in restructuring the existing LBO facility to a Romanian supplier of services and equipment for electrical networks. |
| ■ | a company to obtain its authorization as a payment institution, including assistance before the National Bank of Romania. |
| ■ | a French bank in connection with the feasibility study on consumer credit and related legislation (e.g., AML, data protection, payment services etc.) and implementation of innovative online consumer finance products. |
| ■ | a Greek credit institution in connection with its attempt to divest its Romanian credit institution and subsidiaries. |
| ■ | an American financial institution in connection with its intentions to develop corporate lending activities in Romania. |
| ■ | a European group active in the insurance and pension industries in connection with the group restructuring of its pension funds activities in Romania. |
| ■ | a French credit institution regarding all regulatory constraints applicable in connection with the establishment of a group database for AML/KYC purposes, as well as cloud services providers. |
| ■ | an European credit institution in connection with the contemplated divesture of its Romanian subsidiary. organized as a credit institution. |
CONTACTS
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Simona Petrisor
Partner
+40 31 224 8400
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Diana Ispas
Partner
+40 31 224 8400
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CONTACTS
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Simona Petrisor
Partner
+40 31 224 8400
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Diana Ispas
Partner
+40 31 224 8400
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