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Juraj Fuska

Partner
CMS Bratislava

CMS Bratislava
Staromestská 3
811 03 Bratislava
Slovakia
Languages Slovak, English, German, Czech

Juraj is a 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.

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"He delivers results and is commercially aware."

Chambers, 2023

"Juraj Fuska – recommended individual; respected on the market; always comes with very good solutions."

Legal 500, 2022

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

Ranked among "Leading Individuals for Commercial, Corporate and M&A."

The Legal 500, 2023

Ranked in "Hall of Fame for Banking, Finance and Capital Markets."

The Legal 500, 2023

Relevant experience

Selected experience prior to joining CMS 

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 EUR 300m 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.
  • Barclays Bank, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC and Intesa Sanpaolo Group member Všeobecná úverová banka, a.s. (in association with Banca IMI), as lead managers, on the Slovak Republic's Reg S double tranche issuance of EUR 2bn 0.250% notes due 2025 and EUR 2bn 1.000% notes due 2032. With an overall value of EUR 4bn, 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 EUR 15bn.
  • 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 and will result in the creation of approx. 3,000 new jobs.
  • NFŠ and Tehelné in connection with the development of the National Football Stadium in Bratislava.
  • PPF on its USD 2.1bn acquisition of CME, which owns TV companies in five CEE countries, including Slovakia. 
  • 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 120m disposal of Twin City Tower, prime mixed-use real estate in Bratislava, Slovakia. 
  • 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 automotive exterior components. Further assisted Faurecia with the sale and lease back of its production facility in Hlohovec, including its subsequent expansion.
  • 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 EUR 900m.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Memberships & Roles

  • Slovak Bar Association (advokát / Attorney).
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Education

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