Jozef Semančín

Jozef Semančín is a managing associate at Havel, Holásek & Partners. He specialises in banking and finance, including highly complex structured financial transactions, securities and derivatives law, insolvency law and corporate law.

Jozef’s clients include major financial institutions as well as private clients.

Jozef has advised numerous lenders and borrowers, particularly in the engineering, chemical, food and construction industries.

Before joining Havel, Holásek & Partners in 2011, Jozef worked for nearly ten years in leading international and Slovak law firms (e.g., Linklaters), in Slovakia’s largest bank (Slovenská sporiteľňa) and in a major metallurgic corporation (VSŽ Košice (currently U.S. Steel Košice)).

Recommendations of international publications

The prestigious international rating publications Chambers Global and Chamber Europe 2009 and 2008 recommend Jozef Semančín as a legal expert for banking and finance.

Transactions

• advising on the syndicated financing and refinancing of existing financial indebtedness of a major hotel resort
• advising on the syndicated financing and refinancing of existing financial indebtedness of a group of meat processing companies
• advising on the syndicated acquisition financing of a railway car manufacturer
• advising on multiple cases of bilateral financing of the construction of major residential complexes
• advising on the bilateral financing of the construction of a major multifunctional centre
• advising on the syndicated financing and refinancing of existing financial indebtedness and on the operational financing of a railway car manufacturer
• advising on the acquisition financing of a major producer of medical equipment
• advising a major Slovak bank on the registration of its claim under a syndicated loan in connection with the restructuring of the debtor

Membership in professional associations

• Slovak Bar Association