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Juraj Fuska
Managing Partner

Juraj Fuska

Head of Corporate, M&A, CMS Bratislavia

Languages
  • Slovak
  • English
  • German
  • Czech

Juraj is the Managing Partner and the Head of the Corporate, M&A team at CMS Bratislava. He has more than 20 years of experience with the negotiation of complex agreements, spans several industrial and service sectors, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate matters, greenfield investments, securities offerings, regulatory and financial institutions advisory and employment. 

He has worked on numerous major domestic and cross-border M&A and corporate projects across the full range of transaction types and asset classes. He also has significant experience in greenfield investments and real estate development projects for clients in the automotive, energy, telecom, logistics, office space and industrial production sectors and in PPP projects. He also has unique expertise and resources to deal directly with all of the issues related to obtaining investment incentives and significant investment status.

Juraj is also a widely acclaimed capital markets and bank finance expert in Slovakia. He has worked on a wide range of international and domestic securities and capital markets transactions, including government, corporate, as well as covered bonds and IPOs.

Juraj is also familiar with many aspects of fund transactions, as he has advised institutional investors in this area of law with the structuring of their investments, investment-related issues in their portfolios and related regulatory issues.

Prior to joining CMS Slovakia, he was the managing partner of an international law firm White & Case Slovakia and later of his own law firm Aldertree legal, and was the head of the M&A, corporate, banking and finance and capital markets teams in Slovakia.

Awards & Recognitions
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    "He delivers results and is commercially aware."
    Chambers, 2023
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    "Juraj Fuska – recommended individual; respected on the market; always comes with very good solutions."
    Legal 500, 2022
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    Ranked as Band 2 for Banking & Finance. One client notes that he is “Juraj Fuska is a very clever man and has the knowledge to support us at any time.”
    Chambers, 2022-23
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    Ranked among "Leading Individuals for Commercial, Corporate and M&A."
    The Legal 500, 2023
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    Ranked in "Hall of Fame for Banking, Finance and Capital Markets."
    The Legal 500, 2023

Relevant experience

  • Vaillant GmbH with comprehensive legal advice in connection with its EUR 120m greenfield investment project in Slovakia for the construction of a production plant focused on the production of heat pumps.
  • IAD Investments on the acquisition of 100% of shares in the Luxembourg management company HB Reavis Investment Management. 
  • AM Group Holding on strategic cross-border acquisition of UBC Composites, including Slovak aspects and distressed transaction scenarios.
  • Západoslovenská energetika, a.s., on the sale of its real estate assets and subsequent construction and purchase of its new headquarters building in the Bratislava ̉s new downtown.
  • A major foreign telecommunications company on prospective acquisition of telecommunications company in Slovakia.
  • Eterus Capital in connection with their investment into MTBIKER group, Slovakia’s leading cycling e-commerce retailer.
  • A Debt and Liquidity Management Agency on historic first issuance of retail government bonds in Slovakia, an unprecedented transaction in the country’s history.
  • Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG, Československá obchodná banka, a.s. (KBC Group), Deutsche Bank AG and J.P. Morgan SE as joint lead managers on Slovak Republic´s issue of EUR 2bn government bond with a 3.000% interest rate, set to mature in 2031. This capital markets transaction marks a milestone as the first-ever issuance of a 7-year bond of this scale, with the investor demand exceeding EUR 7bn.
  • HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Slovenská sporiteľňa and Tatra banka as joint lead managers on the Slovak Republic’s bond issue of EUR 3bn 3.750% notes due 2040. Given the size and maturity date of this bond issuance, it is the largest 15-year syndicated single-tranche transaction in the Slovak Republic and the CEE international capital market sector. 
  • UBS AG and Deutsche Bank AG,  acting through Deutsche Bank AG Zurich Branch, as Joint Lead Managers on the Slovak Republic´s largest ever CHF bond offering. This pivotal transaction comprised the issuance of CHF 325m 1.5225% bonds due in 2028 and the issuance of CHF 310m 1.9150% bonds due in 2034, signalling the return of Slovak Republic to the Swiss Franc market. This was a landmark CHF 635m dual-tranche transaction.
  • NATIXIS, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Estre Group Bank AG and KBC Bank NV on Československá obchodná banka´s issue of EUR 500m 3.375% covered bonds due 2029. This transaction is part of the Bond Issuance Programme, which has a total value of EUR 5.5bn and was the first ever syndicated issue of covered bonds by Československá obchodná banka in the Slovak Republic.
  • Danske Bank, Goldman Sachs, Raiffeisen Bank International AG and UniCredit Bank GmbH as Joint Lead Managers in facilitating an outstanding deal, involving a syndicated issuance of EUR 350m Unsubordinated and Unsecured Fixed to Floating Rate Notes (Senior Notes) qualifying as Green Notes and MREL Eligible Notes of Tatra banka, a.s., due 2030, which are admitted to trading on the Bratislava Stock Exchange. The transaction itself generated strong interest from the investor exceeding EUR 700 million. Close to 150 investors, mainly from the UK, DACH and CEE regions, took part in the transaction.
  • DZ BANK AG, J.P. Morgan and Raiffeisen Bank International AG as Joint Lead Managers on the issuance of EUR 300m MREL Eligible Notes and Green Notes of Tatra banka, a.s. due 2026, which are admitted to trading on the Bratislava Stock Exchange.

Prior to joinig CMS: 

  • 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 EUR 450m deal is the largest ever real estate acquisition in the Slovak market.
  • 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 EUR 1.4bn.
  • 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.
  • Allianz-Slovenska poisťovňa, a leading universal insurance company in Slovakia, on its acquisition of the Slovak business of D.A.S. Rechtsschutz AG (or Ergo Group), a leader in the provision of legal expense insurance in Slovakia.

Memberships & Roles

  • Slovak Bar Association (advokát / Attorney).

Education

  • JUDr., Comenius University School of Law, Bratislava.
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