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Practice Experience

Jana Župíková is an associate in the Firm’s Banking & Capital Markets group in London. Jana’s experience covers a variety of structured finance and debt capital markets products, with particular focus on emerging market transactions. Jana has worked on numerous ground-breaking public securitisations (asset-backed and future flow) by commercial bank originators in Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.

Jana joined White & Case in July 2000, since which time Jana has also worked in the Firm’s Prague and Paris offices.

Representative transactions include:

Acted for Morgan Stanley as lead manager in a private placement by the Czech Republic of ¥30 billion 2.75% Notes due 2036;
Acted for BNP Paribas and Lehman Brothers as joint lead managers of the 2006 Slovak Republic EMTN Programme;
Acted for WestLB and JPMorgan as joint lead managers in the first ever public future flow securitisation of diversified payment rights (DPRs) in Kazakhstan, in a US$300 million Floating Rate Note issue for JSC Kazkommertsbank, wrapped by AMBAC;
Acted for OJSC Alfa Bank as originator in a DPR securitisation in Russia, in a US$350 million Series 2006-A Note issue;
Acted for UBS Limited as arranger, sole lead manager and sole bookrunner in the first ever public Residential Mortgage Backed Security (RMBS) securitisation by a Ukrainian bank, in a US$180 million Floating and Fixed Rate Note issue for Closed Joint Stock Company Commercial Bank “PrivatBank”; and
Acted for the arranger in Cordatus CLO I P.L.C. cash CLO transaction.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 2007

Education
LPC, Nottingham Law School, 2005
Graduate Diploma in Law, Nottingham Law School, 2004
MBA, Escuela Superior de Marketing y Administración Barcelona, 2003
Certificate of Advanced Study and Training in Mediation, Tulane University School of Law, 2001
Certificate of Advanced Study and Training in Dispute Resolution, Tulane University School of Law and Humboldt University School of Law, 2001
Bachelor of Laws, Anglo-American College in Prague, 2001

Languages
English
Slovak
Czech
French
Spanish
Russian
German

Citizenship
Slovak Republic