Levente Hegedus

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Counsel

Levente Hegedűs is a Counsel in the Budapest office focusing on Banking, Finance & Capital Markets.

Levente has more than ten years of experience in advising on banking and finance matters, particularly on acquisition, real estate, project finance and syndicated finance transactions, restructuring and insolvency matters, and financial supervision legislation. He also specialises in capital market transactions and has played a leading role in the advisory team of transactions related to bond and share issues, IPOs and complex capital market transactions.

BANKING & FINANCE

• A CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT on the EUR 60 million + financing of the acquisition of McDonald’s Hungary Restaurant Chain together with its wholly owned subsidiary, McDonald’s Promotion
• A CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT on a HUF 120 billion (approx. EUR 340 million) club facility provided to state-owned Hungarian Development Bank
• A CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT on a financing to MET Hungary for the development of a 17.6 MWp (AC) solar power plant located near the site of Dunamenti Power Plant in Hungaryby MET Dunai Solar Park

CAPITAL MARKETS

• A CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT and other dealers on the EUR 5 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme of OTP Bank, including Tier 2, Senior Preferred and Senior Non-Preferred Notes tranches
• A CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT on the conversion of its Hungarian fund manager subsidiary into a branch including the establishment of its Hungarian branch and the financial regulatory approval proceedings of the transfer of the funds managed by the Hungarian subsidiary to the newly established Hungarian branch
• A CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT as issuer, on the EUR 200 million 144A Eurobond issue with the joint lead managers of BNP Paribas, J.P. Morgan and Raiffeisen Bank International, for refinancing its 2013 US$200 million bond issue

EDUCATION

• 2009 – 2012: Suffolk University, Boston, USA, Faculty of Global Business Law, LL.M.
• 2004 – 2009: University Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungary, Faculty of Law, Bachelor of Law

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Budapest Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Hungarian, English