Filip is a specialist in the field of transactional banking, finance, and advisory services related to various types of B2B loans, debt restructuring, and security agreements.
For nearly 15 years Filip has been advising both lenders and borrowers on financing mergers and acquisitions involving leveraged finance, as well as real estate and infrastructure financing (development and acquisitions). He has also provided advice on government debt support instruments and debt restructuring. He specializes in LMA standard financing and provides advisory services on standard documentation for lenders. Filip gained professional experience in boutique law firms in Bulgaria and Spain, and later collaborated with DLA Piper, PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal, Deloitte Legal, and Polish law firms Crido Legal and B2R Law, where he established and led the banking and finance practices at both firms, achieving first-time practice rankings for both firms in international legal publication Legal 500.
Bank Lending
Filip has advised both lenders (banks and non-banking financial institutions) and borrowers in various financial transactions, including acquisition financing, asset financing, syndicated loans, and structured financing. He has extensive experience in both domestic and multinational cross-border transactions. Filip also has rich expertise in anti-money laundering matters and regulatory advisory for non-banking entities providing credit services. He is an expert in debt restructuring.
Project and Real Estate Finance
Filip has advised clients on multiple projects concerning the financing of the acquisition and/or development of various real estate asset classes including shopping centers, office buildings, logistic centres, residential properties and other living asset classes such as student housing. He has also advised on the financing of infrastructure projects, whether that be energy, digital or transport infrastructure.
Private Credit and Venture Debt
Filip has been at the forefront of developing a growing private credit and venture debt market in Poland and the wider CEE, having advised on some of the largest and first transactions involving Polish companies. He is widely regarded as the leading authority for venture debt in Poland, bridging the international venture debt market with a burgeoning Polish growth market which has an increasing need for debt finance.
Law, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
- CBRE Global Investors on the refinancing of Wars Sawa shopping center in Warsaw with Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, for a value of EUR 63 million.
- Henley Investments on its debut Polish acquisition and refinancing of Galeria Pestka shopping centre in Poznan.
- Bank Millennium - Advising on legal matters for the bank regarding a loan for the expansion of a warehouse facility and financing production line machinery. The project included the preparation and negotiation of financing documentation and its collateral based on the LMA standard. Confidential value.
- Bank Millennium - Advising on legal matters for the bank in the financing of a mixed-use building (residences with an adjacent shopping center) on the Polish coast. The financial documentation was prepared based on the LMA standard. Confidential value.
- Bank Millennium S.A. - Legal advisory for Bank Millennium S.A. in the financing of a cardboard packaging manufacturer, documentation based on LMA standards.
- Bank Millennium S.A. - Legal advisory for Bank Millennium S.A. in financing a producer of cardboard packaging, documentation based on LMA standard, financing value over 50 million EUR.
- Bank Pekao S.A. - Advising on legal matters for Bank Pekao S.A. in the field of financing the construction of an office building on the Polish coast, documentation based on the LMA standard, financing value over EUR 50 million.
- Bank Pekao S.A. - Advising on legal matters for Bank Pekao S.A. in the field of financing the construction of an office building in the center of Warsaw, documentation based on the LMA standard, financing value over EUR 30 million.
- Bank Pekao S.A. - Advising on legal matters for a bank on financing one of the largest office centers on the Polish coast. The scope of work included preparing and negotiating financial documentation and collateral based on LMA standards. Financing value EUR 55M.
- Bank Pekao S.A. - Advising on legal matters for the bank, including the drafting and negotiation of a loan agreement and collateral based on the LMA standard for the purpose of financing the construction of a shopping gallery and the reconstruction of an adjacent railway station (the borrower being a project JV in which Polskie Koleje Państwowe was a shareholder). Confidential financing value.
- Bank Pekao S.A. - Advising on legal matters for the bank in connection with the financing of three separate office projects of the Buma Group, with a financing value of over
90 million EUR. - Bank Pekao S.A. - Advising on legal matters for the bank, including the drafting and negotiation of a loan agreement and collateral for the financing of a shopping center. The financial documentation was prepared based on the LMA standard. Financing value of
35 million EUR. - BOŚ Bank - Advising on legal matters (on the lender's side) for Bank Ochrony Środowiska S.A. in connection with a hotel construction project, including negotiations and drafting of
a loan agreement and its collateral based on the bank's standard documentation tailored to the transaction. Financing value approximately 20 million EUR. - OSI Group LLC – Advising borrower-side on Polish elements of a cross border financing for working capital and capex investments of the OSI Group – the premier global supplier of custom value-added food products to the world's leading foodservice and retail food brands. Total value of financing over USD 1 billion with Rabobank US Branch acting as the lead arranger. ESG driven financing
- Bitron Industrie S.p.A. – Advising lender side on Polish transaction aspects in relation to a cross border facility of over EUR 300 million as multipurpose financing for the group.
*Advised on at a previous law firm