Banking, finance and capital markets

Banking, finance and capital markets

Key contacts

Jaroslav Havel
Managing Partner
jaroslav.havel@havelpartners.cz

Jan Topinka
Partner
jan.topinka@havelpartners.cz

Filip Čabart
Partner
filip.cabart@havelpartners.cz

Banking, finance and capital markets are one of our main areas of practice. Our clients include leading Czech, Slovak and foreign banks, insurance companies, as well as other financial institutions, corporations and major institutional and private investors. Most of our lawyers joined the firm with experience from renowned international law firms or from leading positions in regulatory offices, such as the Czech National Bank.

BANKING & FINANCE

Our services in this field cover, among others, advice on banking and other financial activities, services and products, including:

  • all major types of credit facilities, including syndicated loans
  • acquisition, project, export and real estate financing
  • security instruments and guarantees
  • standard documentation for financial products
  • regulatory and operational aspects of activities of local and international banks and other financial services providers
  • legal reviews of loan portfolios
  • non-performing assets, including enforcement of claims and portfolio sales of bad debts
  • venture capital and private equity financings
  • insolvency of financial services providers

INSURANCE

We provide our clients, insurers and insurance brokers, with comprehensive legal advice on all aspects of law applicable to their business. Our services cover, in particular, the following:

  • regulatory and operational issues relating to the business of local as well as foreign insurance companies and insurance brokers, including EU-passporting
  • drafting contractual documentation, including the drafting of and revisions to general insurance terms and conditions and supplemental insurance terms and conditions
  • reviewing questionable legal issues related to the liquidation of insured losses
  • representing clients in judicial and out-of-court disputes involving payments under insurance policies
  • drafting contractual documentation between insurers and insurance brokers
  • establishment of branches of foreign insurers and insurance brokers

CAPITAL MARKETS

We advise local and international banks, securities firms, collective investment vehicles and other financial institutions, and also their corporate as well as private clients. Our capital markets expertise covers in particular the following:

  • EU-passporting or licensing, operations, marketing and distribution of banks, securities firms, and collective investment funds
  • public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities
  • listing of securities on public markets
  • marketing and distribution structures for the provision of investment and other financial services
  • over-the-counter derivatives and other structured financial products
  • regulation of investment and other financial services, including representation before and communication with the regulatory authorities

Our office is a permanent partner to the Czech Capital Market Association (Asociace pro kapitálový trh – AKAT).

Press releases

HAVEL & PARTNERS is the largest Czech law firm and the fifth largest law firm on the Slovak market. It is the largest law firm in the field of Intellectual Property law and Competition law
In the TOP 10 largest law firms ranking, which is compiled by the daily SME and The Slovak Spec… read more »

Attorneys Jan Králíček and Vojtěch Šváb are strengthening a new, unique HAVEL & PARTNERS’ team specialising in financing, restructuring and insolvency
In response to the economic effects of the crisis and the serious financial problems of many compan… read more »

HAVEL & PARTNERS forms a unique financing, restructuring and insolvency team in response to the economic aftermath of the crisis
HAVEL & PARTNERS, the largest and most successful Czech-Slovak law firm, reacts to the current … read more »

Significant Matters

HAVEL & PARTNES team helped FIXED.zone successfully enter the START stock exchange
The law firm HAVEL & PARTNERS took part in another very successful IPO on the START market. Cap… read more »

HAVEL & PARTNERS banking & finance team advised on the subscription of eMan’s shares on the stock exchange
Lead by partner Jan Topinka, HAVEL & PARTNERS specialised banking team provided complete financ… read more »

Articles and Interviews

Real estate financing in the “pandemic” year of 2021
Source: Building World (June 2021) Authors: Jan Topinka, Martin Stančík The coronavirus pande… read more »

Bank identity as a new dimension of trust and commerce in the electronic world
Authors: Robert Nešpůrek, František Korbel, Dalibor Kovář All our lives we have been a… read more »

Publications and newsletters

The EGAP will provide crisis aid of up to CZK 200 billion to large companies
The Export Guarantee and Insurance Corporation (“EGAP”) should grant up to CZK 200 billion in guara… read more »

COVID II – CZK 30 bln in bank guarantees from CMGDB / Countrywide support from 5 offices at a fixed rate
Dear Clients and Business Friends, Should you, your clients or business partners have any commer… read more »

CMZRB’s COVID loan and other subsidized financing schemes
Authors: Filip Čabart, Jan Topinka Over the last few days and hours, we have been intensely adv… read more »

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