Banking & Capital Markets

Forgó, Damjanovic & Partners offers specialist expertise for banking and capital markets services.

The practice has been recently strengthened by new practice head, Ferenc Lénárt, a senior banking and capital markets lawyer. Prior to joining Forgó, Damjanovic & Partners in 2011 Ferenc, who has more than 17 years of experience in the banking industry, was one of the Managing Directors in charge of legal matters, compliance, prevention of money laundering, as well as data protection at Westdeutsche Landesbank Hungary.

Forgó, Damjanovic & Partners has represented numerous banks and corporate clients in banking and capital markets transactions, and provided financial enterprises and investment funds with legal advice on licensing and regulatory matters. We have also conducted legal due diligence on financial enterprises and acted in banking litigation cases. We regularly act as local counsel, in conjunction with foreign legal advisors, in cross-border transactions and on transactions referred to us by international law firms.

Services

We offer a full scale of services in Banking and Capital Markets, including:

financial services (such as payment, deposit and loan transactions, syndicated loan and trade finance facilities and subordinated loans)
capital markets (such as treasury frame agreements, ISDA agreements, public or private offering of securities)
corporate transactions in the banking sector (mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, legal due diligence into banking and financial services related contracts)
regulatory advice (such as EU laws, marketing and registration)
legal disputes in the banking and financial services industry
outsourcing (such as cross-border outsourcing)
compliance, money laundering prevention and data protection related matters
in-house manuals and bylaws (such as the articles of association, organisational and operational manual, general business terms and the bylaws of boards of directors and supervisory boards).

Contact

Gábor Damjanovic damjanovicg@fdlaw.hu +36 30 280 7839

Zoltán Forgó Dr.forgoz@fdlaw.hu +36 30 977 6670

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Examples from our
track record

We acted as issuer’s Hungarian counsel in a high-value bond financing in New York, including advising on and negotiating the full financing documentation.

We acted as Hungarian counsel in a €110 million loan transaction to multinational borrowers based in Ireland.

We conducted legal due diligence on a geothermic- and biogas financing project on behalf of the financing bank, focusing particularly on the contractual, licensing and regulatory aspects of the transaction.

We provided ongoing capital markets regulatory advice concerning our client’s subscription-based international product covering fund marketing, fund registration and disclosure obligations relating to listed Hungarian corporations.

We advised an international bank domiciled in one of the EEA countries on market entry regulatory issues.

We advised an EU-based financial services provider on corporate restructuring issues relating to its Hungarian operations.

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