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| Banking & Finance |
Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii serves as one of the primary Romanian law firms representing high-profile international and domestic commercial banks, investment banks, multilateral development banks, leasing companies, insurance companies, arrangers and other financial institutions with a presence in Romania or interested to invest in Romania.
Our lawyers provide professional counselling in the regulatory and advisory fields, ranging from bank acquisitions and privatizations to structuring of bilateral, syndicated and other loan facility agreements, including the accessory transaction documentation. Since many financings may be part of a larger business transaction, our banking and finance lawyers work closely with lawyers from other practice groups of Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii and are well versed in completing most any kind of transaction with a financing component, including banks privatization, bankruptcy and restructuring of banks, collateral enforcement and debt recovery, counselling of financial institutions in mergers & acquisitions projects, portfolio transfers, credit risk and non-performing loans analysis.
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| Scope of Practice |
| Commercial Lending |
| Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii has unique expertise advising banking and other financial institutions on a wide range of domestic and international extensions of finance, such as secured and unsecured loan facilities, bilateral and syndicated, single and multicurrency facilities. These include letter of credit and promissory notes facilities, project loans and debt and equity offerings. The firm represents its clients in their various roles in financing transactions: lenders, underwriters, arrangers, agents, borrowers, guarantors or sureties. |
| Regulatory |
| Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii advises clients on all aspects in relation to managing, operating and controlling banking institutions and compliance with applicable foreign exchange controls. |
| Bank Privatizations & Acquisitions |
| Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii serves as a legal counsel of both sell and buy-side institutions involved in the privatization process of some of Romania’s largest banks. In this capacity, our lawyers perform appropriate due diligence procedures, prepare the offering documents, draft and negotiate the execution copies of the transaction documents and create the legal structures enabling a profitable sale or acquisition of shares, as applicable. The firm also provides specialist legal advice in relation to transactions involving the acquisition of shares in privatized banks and developed strategies for post-acquisition restructuring scenarios. |
| Leasing |
| Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii provides high-end legal advice in relation to finance and operating lease transactions and asset-based financial structures. Our lawyers have actively been involved in equipment and automotive financing transactions from their inception and have represented all parties involved in lease transactions. Also, Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii has served its clients in relation to the acquisition of leasing companies and represented many of the parties involved in such acquisitions, such as the seller, the purchaser or the lending bank. |
| Leveraged and Acquisition Finance |
| Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii represents clients in relation to leveraged acquisitions, advising them on critical legal issues and assisting such clients in the most effective manner from a corporate and risk-allocation perspective. Our lawyers draft and help to negotiate the typical transaction documents, such as the term sheet, the senior and subordinated financing agreements and provide assistance for obtaining any requested clearance. |
| Project Finance |
| Our lawyers advise sponsors, senior lenders and contractors in connection with all aspects of the development and financing of large scale projects, including power, transportation and water. The firm provides clients with assistance in virtually every substantive area of the law that bears on project development and financing, including energy, real estate and environmental law, public utilities statutory framework, foreign exchange regulations, security and tax law. |
| Real Estate Finance |
| Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii has extensive experience in real estate finance transactions. We assist our clients in relation to mortgage origination and represent many reputable financial institutions providing financing and related investment support for real estate acquisition, development, construction and long-term investment. |
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| Assisting the leading financial services provider in Central Europe, including bank’s Micro-Enterprise Division and in connection with setting up a Financial Non-Banking Institution
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| Legal assistance for an important real estate group with relation to a EUR 15,200,000 loan granted by a German bank
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| Assisting a Romanian asset management company in connection with the sale (together with RAEF) of over 99% ownership stake to a British insurance company
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| Florentin Ţuca | | Şerban Pâslaru |
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