Banking and finance expertise from one source

Nowadays, borrowers and lenders conduct business in a different and increasingly challenging environment. The acute need for financing, refinancing and associated capital raising combined with the fast changes in global financial markets place particular pressures on finding multiple sources of financing. Successful transactions in these sectors rely on innovation, speed of delivery, vision and pragmatism. The knowledge and expertise amassed by MPR Partners lawyers in banking & finance is a direct response to client demands for delivering technical and commercial excellence. Moreover, we are ideally positioned to combine banking & finance with capital markets, corporate, commercial and civil contracts, regulatory, tax and litigation expertise so as to render unified and responsive advice.

As an integrated team, our lawyers provide high quality legal advice on a broad range of secured, unsecured, stand-by and revolving credit facilities, whether bilateral or syndicated. We are also focusing on acquisition and take-over financings, asset and property finance, banking litigation, banking regulation, derivatives and netting, export credit and trade finance, internet banking, securitization and receivables financing, private banking, project related finance, debt restructuring, public infrastructure finance, structured finance, tax-based finance.

Highlights of the assignments which have been handled by our lawyers throughout their practice include advice and representation to:

• A major European bank in connection with a significant credit facility granted for a major public infrastructure project;
• Several high profile investors in relation to project financing for the development of shopping malls, office buildings and residential areas;
• An international commercial bank, with regard to a syndicated loan granted to a Romanian commercial bank;
• One of the leading commercial banks, in connection with a syndicated credit facility for refinancing of a green energy project;
• One of the largest European producers of rolling stock in relation to the restructuring of a syndicated credit facility;
• A regional operator with regard to a significant credit facility granted by a financial institution for water and sewage urban rehabilitation;
• Financing and related collateralization transactions in the mining, energy and natural gas sectors;
• Enforcement of security over assets in relation to various financing facilities;
• An international bank, with regard to the privatization of the largest Romanian commercial bank;
• A leading Greek bank, with respect to the attempted acquisition of one of the leading Romanian banks;
• A large international commercial bank, with regard to a five-year revolving credit facility made available to a Romanian subsidiary in the retail sector.

Publications

• Romania: Financing Cinematography January 2023 (ENG)
• Changes impacting the leasing legislation, May 2021 (ENG)
• Romania: credit institutions’ amendments, approval and notification, February 2021 (ENG)
• Romania: banks’ authorization procedure, February 2021 (ENG)
• New regulations for the authorization of credit institutions, January 2021 (ENG)

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