Practice areas

Corporate

Advice is provided across the broad range of corporate work including public takeovers, private M&A, joint ventures, disposals and corporate restructurings, as well as general commercial and corporate governance issues.

Advice is provided across the broad range of corporate work including public takeovers, private M&A, joint ventures, disposals and corporate restructurings, as well as general commercial and corporate governance issues. In M&A matters, the experience comprises representing companies in negotiated and contested deals in a variety of contexts, including competitive auctions, exclusive transactions, carve-outs, and joint ventures.

A key component of the M&A practice is its understanding of the corporate governance aspects of transactions. Corporate knowledge is gained through advisory work in which we counsel to the companies and their boards of corporate governance issues that confront companies such as duties of board members, board composition, conflict of interest, director election and shareholder governance.

Corporate transactions are nowadays frequently cross-border. Providing local insights and expertise to global clients is essential for enabling managing cross-border deals effectively and seamlessly.

Finance

Clients are advised in a wide variety of financings.

Clients are advised in a wide variety of financings: from syndicated and secured loans to working capital and leveraged facilities. The service is offered to banks and other financial institutions in their capacities as agents, arrangers, and lenders, as well as corporate borrowers and private equity firms.

Comprehensive counseling on local regulations relating to banking, securities, derivatives, futures, commodities, stock exchange matters, and other financial products and transactions is the advisory part of the practice, closely connected to capital market practice. The advice to banks and other financial institutions relates to a wide range of regulatory, risk management, and compliance issues.

Global financing requires advise on cross-border aspects, in particular local security. Extensive experience enables understanding of a broad range of finance products developed in international finance which requires tailor-made solutions in local jurisdiction.

Capital markets

Debt and equity capital markets services cover all varieties of capital markets transactions.

Debt and equity capital markets services cover all varieties of capital markets transactions, including: initial public offerings, secondary offerings, Eurobonds, hybrid capital, liability management transactions, private placements, whilst the practice includes also securitisation and derivatives and structure finance. The aim is the provision of practical advice for investments banks, issuer and private equity sponsors on their capital markets activities.

Drawing on the experience in the finance practice, advise on matters arising out of regulatory securities compliance requirements is provided.

Vast experience on the international debt and capital market transactions relating to Slovenian issuers provides clients with understanding of the international capital market practices coupled with local expertise.