Guido Panzera has a broad range of experience in a variety of cross-border and domestic corporate transactional matters. He has represented a diverse range of business entities in public and private equity and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation and litigation and general corporate issues.

Guido has more than 14 years of legal experience. He has served as an associate at both a small, domestic and large, international law firm. Additionally, he has held in-house counsel positions at both established and development stage financial services firms, concentrating on debt finance and restructurings, as well as fund formation and related structuring and investment issues.

Guido’s recent co-authored publications include “European Commission’s Proposed Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers”, published in the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, Volume 32 (2010), “Private Equity Outlook in Central and Eastern Europe”, published in the January 2010 issue of Financier Worldwide and “Cross-Border Mergers: A Tool to Stem the Losses”, published in the May/June 2009 issue of Connection Magazine. He has been quoted by Inside Counsel and has been a speaker at Central and Eastern European private equity and Slovak corporate governance conferences.

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European Private Equity Experience

• Representing United Capital Partners on its investment in Monarch Group, a leading footwear producer and retailer in Russia and Ukraine.
• Representing Elbrus Capital on investments and restructurings in the telecommunications sector.
• Advising a leading emerging markets private equity fund on the mezzanine financing of a chemicals group with operations in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and Finland.
• Advising a Russian private equity firm in connection with the possible acquisition of Russia-based private equity funds.
• Representing a UK private equity fund in connection with its investment in a Russia-based factoring business.
• Advising a French private equity fund in connection with its investment in the Slovak Republic.
• Advising a Russian private equity firm in connection with its investment in industrial laundry business in Russia and the Ukraine.
• Representing the European branch of a US private equity firm in connection with multijurisdictional mezzanine loans to group companies located in Turkey and the Netherlands.

European Transactional Representations

• Representing a US automotive leather interior supplier in connection with the sale of its leather wrapping business in Hungary and Germany.
• Representing a Slovak private equity firm in connection with a cross-border merger of a UK entity with and into a Slovak entity.
• Representing a Slovak private equity firm in connection with a Slovak highway infrastructure tender.
• Representing an Italian energy firm in connection with a joint venture involving power generating facilities in Greece.
• Representing an energy firm in connection with a tender for privatization of a Serbian thermal power plant.
• Advising management shareholders in connection with a management buy out of a private equity investment.
• Representing a multijurisdictional company in connection with debt and asset restructuring.
• Representing a US financial advisor in connection with potential US equity financing for Slovak issuers.

General Representative Experience

• Mergers and Acquisitions: Representing both buyers and sellers, including targets of private equity firms, in a variety of international and domestic asset and equity purchase deals and joint ventures.
• Public Securities: Representing both underwriters and issuers in public securities transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, tender offers and exchange offers, as well as counseling issuers in connection with ongoing disclosure requirements.
• Private Securities: Representing both investors and issuers in private equity investments, including preparation of prospectuses, business plans and blue sky filing requirements.
• Debt Finance: Representing both lenders and borrowers in a broad range of individual and syndicated debt transactions and related collateral security structuring issues.
• Distressed Debt Finance: Representing lenders in debtor-in-possession financing transactions, workouts and restructurings.
• Securities Litigation: Providing securities and corporate law expertise in connection with innovative naked short sale litigation actions.
• General Corporate: Advising both public and private clients on a wide range of corporate governance issues, as well as general employment, regulatory, structuring, dispute resolution and other general matters.