Visualisation of the Sky Park project by Zaha Hadid in Bratislava. (source: Courtesy of Penta Investments)
Banking & Finance: 10 largest law firms
Allen & Overy
Dentons Europe CS LLP
White & Case
Kinstellar
SOUKENÍK – ŠTRPKA
RELEVANS
RUŽIČKA AND PARTNERS
Hamala Kluch Víglaský
HAVEL & PARTNERS
PRK Partners
Ranking created based on three factors derived from 2019 data, to which we gave different weights: number of deals from this category with a reward > €20.000 (70% weight); sales revenues (10% weight); number of attorneys (10% weight); number of associates practising > 3 years (6% weight); number of associates practising < 3 years (4% weight).
Some law firms reported significant traditional transactions in banking and finance, not directly linked to M&A transactions. These include bond emissions, advisory in the re-financing of loans and so on. These references appear in the reports every year, but they tend to be the domain of not more than four law firms specializing in this area.
For instance, White & Case had the mandate from Barclay’s, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and VÚB in the emission of state bonds of the Slovak Republic, worth €4 billion.
PRK Partners advised J&T IB and Capital Markets as the arranger and J&T Bank as the main manager of the emission of bonds of the Emma Gamma Finance company, worth €90 million. This emission was linked with the financing of the property settlement of the Czech lottery company Sazka.
