Banking & Finance
Europe Guide 2024 : Central & Eastern Europe
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Contact number
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Provided by Dentons
Dentons has significant presence across all CEE markets, with leading Banking and Finance teams operating in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania. Clients can count on over 70 banking and finance lawyers working in, and dedicated to, the CEE region, making Dentons among the largest and strongest international finance practices in Central Europe.
Our Banking and Finance lawyers handle many of the region’s largest and most sophisticated transactions. Our partners, including various English-qualified finance specialists, are accustomed to managing complex multi-jurisdictional transactions with international and local lawyers combining in teams across our Dentons jurisdictions. Similar to previous years, renewable energy finance continues its advance across Central Europe, and because project and infrastructure finance is among our specializations, we have advised on many of these financings. We have also focused on a variety of financial restructurings and have closed major transactions in various CEE countries. Green and sustainable finance is now part of everyday vocabulary, along with credit facilities and real estate finance.
Chambers Review
Dentons has a significant presence throughout the CEE region, with offices in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. The team is well reputed for its work in real estate finance, where the firm acts for major regional developers and their subsidiaries on obtaining high-stakes facilities across CEE. The law firm is similarly active on the lenders' side, assisting investment banks with acquisition finance and corporate lending transactions, as well as debt refinancing. Dentons also assists with cross-border energy and infrastructure project financing mandates.
Work Highlights
- Dentons advised Erste Group on a EUR57 million real estate acquisition financing provided to CEE-BIG.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"We really appreciate that they know the legal documentation inside out. We also like their ability to adapt to these modern times."
"What stands out is the transaction management, it is a law firm on which one can really rely upon, as well as the quality of the expertise and legal advice."
"Their responsiveness stands out, they react quickly to our needs and comments and they also are user-friendly."
"It is a proactive and collaborative team with deep knowledge of the industry."
"We really appreciate that they know the legal documentation inside out. We also like their ability to adapt to these modern times."
"What stands out is the transaction management, it is a law firm on which one can really rely upon, as well as the quality of the expertise and legal advice."
"Their responsiveness stands out, they react quickly to our needs and comments and they also are user-friendly."
"It is a proactive and collaborative team with deep knowledge of the industry."
Notable Practitioners
Mark Segall is a prominent lawyer based in Warsaw, covering the full spectrum of banking and finance mandates in the CEE region, including takeover finance, refinancing, revolving credit facilities and energy infrastructure finance. He is also well versed in advising on sustainability-linked loans.
"He was very good at explaining complex matters and we appreciated him guiding us through this difficult structure and explaining remedies and consequence of all clauses. We are very happy to have him on board."
