Our team adds value to financing transactions entered into by our clients, where we are able to use our banking and finance expertise to assist in devising suitable deal structures.
The group's strength is underpinned by the experience, expertise and background of its members, which have consolidated a solid reputation advising foreign banks, export credit agencies and international financial institutions in connection with lending transactions, syndications, and structuring of secured or unsecured facilities. Practice leader Cristian Lina has worked as in-house counsel for ABN AMRO in Romania, supporting both the banking and the securities and corporate finance businesses of the group, and prior to founding Lina & Guia he has been a co-founder of the niche banking firm Dumitrescu and Lina and partner and head of banking and finance in Hayhurst Robinson and subsequently in CMS Cameron McKenna.
Our lawyers advised a large number of reputable international and local banks, either on specific assignments or as day-to-day external counsel on commercial or regulatory issues, including for leading market players such as ABN AMRO and Citibank in connection with bilateral or syndicated lending transactions and implementation of derivative instruments, as well as for international multilateral institutions such as EBRD or IFC. In the last years some of the members of this practice group have acted in connection with drafting the standard lending documentation of ABN AMRO, Raiffeisen Bank, Banca Transilvania and OTP Bank.
Our lawyers have advised in relation to capital markets issues, where they have acted for global custodians such as JP Morgan Chase Bank, State Street Bank & Trust Company, Citibank, Bank of New York, BNP Paribas and Northern Trust.
Members of our team have also acted in connection with debt or equity investments by international financial institutions in banks (Banca Transilvania, Banc Post, Banca Romaneasca, Banca Comerciala Romana, Finansbank, Procredit), other financial institutions (mortgage and consumer loans providers) or insurance companies (such as Interamerican).
Our lawyers also have extensive experience in lending transactions, having assisted:
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- EBRD in the project financing for the redesign and construction of renewed barge terminal facilities for Constanta Port;
- ABN AMRO Bank in a basket of 20 (separate) syndicated loans to the Romanian electricity generation companies;
- ABN AMRO Bank, as arranger and facility agent, in connection with two (separate) syndicated credit facilities to Romanian gas distribution companies;
- Citibank, as arranger and facility agent, in connection with sovereign guaranteed syndicated credit facilities to TAROM, the Romanian airline;
- ECGD (UK government) in supporting loan facilities, for which Deutsche Bank acted as arranger, to a Romanian government ministry;
- HVB Milan on ECA and sovereign guaranteed facilities for equipment supply to the Romanian railway;
- Nova Scotia in its financing of an international company in connection with security and undertakings offered by Romanian subsidiaries of that company;
- ABN AMRO, ECGD, BNP Paribas, Raiffeisen Bank, HVB, IFC or EBRD in many other prominent lending transactions;
- RZB in financing Electrica SA and its subsidiaries (on a cash-flow basis) for the implementation of an integrated management information system.
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- a Japanese consortium in the syndicated €175m ECA financing of its rehabilitation of the combined heat and power generation plant, Paroseni (for which BNP Paribas acted as arranger and facility agent);
- Portland Trust in the syndicated project financing for an office development in Central Bucharest, the Opera Center;
- Primavera Development in connection with financings of real estate developments;
- Baneasa Project in one of the largest real estate project financings in Romania to date.
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