Overview
Michal is an experienced banking and finance lawyer advising lenders and borrowers in cross-border acquisition finance, corporate finance, leveraged finance, trade finance, infrastructure finance, refinancing and restructuring transactions. He has particular expertise in banking and finance transactions supported by Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), including those involving the German ECA, Euler Hermes.
Michal is a core member of the firm’s DACH desk/group advising on deals in the German-speaking countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as in the emerging markets.
He is rated as "Foreign Expert for UK" in Chambers 2025.
He is mentioned as "a core lawyer for banking and finance law" in Legal 500 Germany 2025. "Michal Hlásek is always on top of things, available at short notice when partner attention is required, very responsive and practice-oriented. Hands-on mentality."
Work Highlights
Michal has acted on a wide range of complex banking and finance transactions. Relevant highlights include advising:
- Glenmont Partners: advising on the financing of the acquisition of a 50-percent shares in Ørsted’s Offshore-Windpark Borkum Riffgrund 3.
- ams: advising on the bridge financing of the public takeover bid to shareholders of OSRAM Licht and subsequent integration of equity, debt capital raisings bank financing to refinance the bridge financing and refinancing of target indebtedness.
- Coordinators BNP Paribas, Citibank and Deutsche Bank: advising an international syndicate of lenders on a €8bn multi-currency revolving credit facility for BMW Group to refinance its existing multi-currency revolving credit facility agreement.
- Tank & Rast: advising on the €1.45bn senior secured credit facilities and associated hedging transactions on the complete refinancing of its existing senior and junior credit facilities, subsequent repricing and equity owners on its sale to Allianz led consortium.
- the equity consortium led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA): advising on the financing of the acquisition for the Open Grid Europe from E.ON, the subsequent refinancing through the establishment of the EMTN programme for Vier Gas Transport and a new working capital credit facility and the further refinancing through a revolving credit facility and the establishment of the European Commercial Paper Programme for Vier Gas Transport.
- Almatis: advising on its restructuring, inter alia, through Chapter 11 proceedings under US law, and the exit financing as well as the subsequent refinancing of Almatis.
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