Banking & Financing

The Challenge
The realisation of strategic projects requires precision-tailored financing based on concise, carefully structured agreements. In order to achieve this objective, it is expedient to have ideal cooperation between companies and banks, and this, in turn, requires an understanding of the divergent interests of the parties involved; agreements must be structured and negotiated so as to produce a win-win situation that will result in the highest motivation on both sides and thus the greatest possible success in implementing the projects. The spectrum of challenges in this field ranges from "simple" structured financing, which enables a company to make necessary investments in order to realise a project, to complex transactions in which the company and the financing bank form special-purpose project companies, conclude consortium agreements and plan various possible ways of exploiting the project right from the start. Moreover, since banks are subject to a strict regulatory framework, providing legal advice on financing issues requires in-depth knowledge of the capital market.

Our Expertise
fwp has had years of experience in advising major banks on financing issues, particularly in connection with project and acquisition financing but also in the area of reorganisation financing. Our know-how has also proven its worth many times in connection with syndicated financing.

Your Team
The partners responsible for the field of banking law and financing are Markus Fellner, Paul Luiki and Florian L. Kranebitter, together with their teams. In addition to many years of practical experience, the members of these teams can also draw on a wealth of academic expertise, being the authors of numerous publications in this field.