Finance. Capital Markets

The lawyers at Stuchlíková & Partners have extensive experience in finance, banking, and capital markets.

Our lawyers have advised Czech and foreign banks, collective investment funds, pension funds, insurance companies, investment firms, securities issuers and other financial institutions.

The banking services offered by Stuchlíková & Partners include the following:

  • Structuring financing and loans, including preparing and negotiating term sheets and mandate agreements
  • Preparing and negotiating facility and security documentation for all types of loans, including acquisition, export and syndicated finance
  • Refinancing existing debt and releasing existing security
  • Legal due diligence for creditors and debtors
  • Preparing corporate and retail banking products, including loans, custody products and investment products

Our lawyers have extensive experience with collective investment:

  • Establishing collective investment funds and preparing the related corporate documentation
  • Creating ownership structures for companies and funds (for financing and taxes)
  • Preparing and negotiating agreements with contact banks, depositary agreements, fund management agreements and distribution agreements
  • Representation in proceedings before the Czech National Bank

In capital markets regulation, Stuchlíková & Partners provides the following services:

  • Preparing regulatory questionnaires on a range of capital markets regulatory issues
  • Reviewing marketing materials and sales manuals for compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Public and private offerings of securities and other financial instruments
  • Advice on trading in derivatives and structured financial products
  • Representation in proceedings before the Czech National Bank and the Ministry of Finance
  • Implementing new regulatory requirements for the internal processes of financial institutions (MiFID)
  • Mandatory takeover bids, squeeze-outs
  • Listing and delisting investment instruments
  • Developing rules to prevent capital market manipulation (insider dealing)