Guido Panzera has a broad range of experience in a variety of cross-border 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 fourteen years of legal experience. He has served as an associate at both a small and domestic, and large and 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 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 also has been quoted by Inside Counsel and has been a speaker at Central and Eastern European private equity and Slovak corporate governance conferences.

Representative Experience

European

• Representing an energy firm in connection with the privatization of a thermal power plant in the Republic of Serbia.
• Representing a US-based automotive leather interior supplier in connection with the sale of its leather wrapping business in Hungary and Germany.
• Representing the European branch of a US-based private equity firm in connection with multijurisdictional mezzanine loan transactions in Turkey, CIS and the Netherlands.
• Advising a Russia-based private equity firm in connection with its investment in an industrial laundry business in Russia and Ukraine.
• 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.