Juraj Fuska

Selected Experience

• Providing Vaillant GmbH with comprehensive legal advice in connection with
  its EUR 120 million greenfield
  investment project
  in Slovakia for the
  construction of a production plant focused on the production of heat pumps.
• Advising Wood & Company, a.s., the leading investment bank in emerging Europe, on its acquisition in a joint-venture with Tatra Asset Management,
  správ. spol., a. s. of a majority stake in AUPARK a.s. the operator of the Aupark Bratislava shopping centre, from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, a leading global developer and operator
  of premium retail assets. The €450 million deal is the largest ever real estate acquisition in the Slovak market.
• Representation of BNP Paribas, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and Raiffeisen Bank International AG as Joint Lead Managers and Banco de Sabadell, S.A. as Co-Manager on the issuance
  of €300 million Green
  and MREL Eligible Fixed
  to Floating rate Notes
  of Tatra banka, a.s. due
  2028, which are admitted
  to trading on the Bratislava Stock Exchange. This was the first ever green bonds issuance of notes in the Slovak Republic as well as the first publicly syndicated senior ESG MREL bond in CEE.
• Representation of Barclays Bank, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC and Všeobecná úverová banka, a.s. , a member of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group
  (in association with Banca IMI), as lead managers, on the Slovak Republic’s Reg S double tranche issuance of €2 billion 0.250% notes due 2025 and €2 billion 1.000% notes due 2032. With an overall value of €4 billion,
  the largest sovereign bond issuance by a Central
  & Eastern European issuer.
  It also generated the largest demand from the investor community
  in the history of Slovak sovereign bond issuance – more than €15 billion.
• Advising the Ministry of the Economy of the Slovak Republic and MH Invest s.r.o., a company wholly-owned by the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, in connection
  with the preparation, arrangement, negotiation and implementation of Jaguar Land Rover’s huge investment into a new car
  production facility
  in a strategic park in Nitra. The total investment amounts to €1.4 billion and will result
  in the creation of approximately 3,000 new jobs.
• Representing NFŠ and Tehelné in connection
  with the development
  of the National Football
  Stadium in Bratislava.
• Advising PPF on its $2.1 billion acquisition of CME, which owns TV companies
  in five CEE countries, including Slovakia.
• Representing International Automotive Components Group Europe S.a r.l.,
  an automotive interiors technology company,
  on its investment project
  in Slovakia, which was
  subsequently shifted
  to its new JV project
  entity, Auria Solutions.
• Representing HB Reavis Group in connection with
  its EUR 120 million disposal of Twin City Tower, prime mixed-use real estate
  in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• Assisting Faurecia, a significant worldwide supplier of automotive parts, in relation to the sale of its Slovak Automotive Exteriors division to Plastic Omnium, the world leader
  in the area of automotive exterior components.
  Further assisted Faurecia with the sale
  and lease back of its production facility
  in Hlohovec, including its subsequent expansion.
• Representation of Citi and J.P. Morgan (who acted as financial advisers and joint global coordinators)
  in connection with the
  dual-track sale of a 49%
  stake in Slovak Telekom
  by the Slovak Republic.
  The sale process was run
  in parallel as an IPO with
  contemplated dual-listing
  on the London Stock
  Exchange and the Bratislava
  Stock Exchange and a direct
  sale. At the time of pricing
  the IPO, the transaction
  was converted into an M&A
  transaction and concluded
  as a direct sale of the shares
  to Deutsche Telekom AG,
  Slovak Telekom’s controlling
  shareholder, for a consideration of approximately €900 million.
• Advising Allianz-Slovenska poisťovňa, a leading universal insurance company in Slovakia, on its acquisition of the Slovak branch of D.A.S. Rechtsschutz AG
  (or Ergo Group), a leader
  in the provision of legal
  expense insurance
  in Slovakia.
• Representing HenQ Capital Partners 4E B.V. in connection with its investment in CloudTalk s.r.o., a Slovak-based startup that is creating call center software. HenQ also acquired a minority ownership interest
  in CloudTalk.
• Advising Smithfield Foods, Inc., one of the world’s largest meat producers,
  on its acquisition of the Mecom Group meat processing company from Penta Investment Group.