Martin Aschenbrenner

Practice Areas

Capital Markets, Banking & Finance, Compliance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Arbitration.

Career

Martin Aschenbrenner is a partner at PRK Partners specialising in finance and capital

markets (transactions and regulatory), mergers and acquisitions (including

shareholder rights and disputes) and arbitration. Martin is widely recognised as one

of the leading securities lawyers in the Czech Republic.

Martin holds a Doctorate (JUDr.) and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in law (Ph.D.) from

the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague and a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.)

from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).

Before joining PRK Partners in February 1998, Martin worked with White & Case in

Prague, where he specialised in securities, structured finance and other forms of financing,

as well as capital markets regulation.

Martin is fluent in Czech and English and has a good working command of German. He is

admitted to the Czech Bar Association and the New York State Bar as an attorney at law.

He is a member of the Appellate Committee of the Czech National Bank, and the Board of

Directors of the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech

Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, where he also serves as an

arbitrator.

Martin is consistently ranked among leading practitioners in the area of banking, finance

and capital markets by the prestigious directories Chambers Europe, Chambers Global

and IFLR1000. Martin is, furthermore, listed and recommended as a legal expert in

banking and finance, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions in numerous other

directories and publications, including The European Legal 500, Expert Guides, Who’s

Who Legal and Legal Experts. Martin has been named Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year

2014 and 2015 by Best Lawyers.

Professional Memberships

• attorney at law of the Czech Bar Association

• attorney at law of the New York State Bar

• member of the Board of Directors of the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic

• member of the Appellate Committee of the Czech National Bank

Publications

• Building an Economy in the New Reality: A Buzz Interview with Martin Aschenbrenner of PRK Partners, CEE Legal Matters Magazine 5/2022

Clients

• UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, a.s.

• Saxo

• EBM Partner a.s.

• J.P. Morgan

• Československá obchodní banka, a.s.

• Česká spořitelna, a.s. (Erste Group)

Industry Sector Expertise

• Deep understanding of bank finance and regulation, capital markets, compliance and risk management, corporate and securities, mergers and acquisitions.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

• Czech

Languages Spoken

• Czech

• English

• German

Work Highlights

• Advised sole book runner, transactional advisor, and financing arranger J.P. Morgan on the financing of Draslovka’s acquisition of a mining solution business from Chemours’.

• Advised Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and other lenders on the Czech law aspects of refinancing senior acquisition and revolving facilities amounting to EUR 2,13 billion, governed by English law.

• Advised Česká spořitelna, a.s., as the lead manager on a 1.5 billion CZK bond issuance by EUC a.s., the largest outpatient care provider in the Czech Republic, with floating-rate bonds maturing in 2027 and partially exchanged for existing 2022 bonds.

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