Jana Zupikova advises major global financial institutions on sophisticated structured finance and securitization transactions.

Jana draws on extensive experience to represent investment managers, arranger banks, funds, and investors in matters involving:

  • Collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) including warehousing and refinancings 
  • CLO investments through a variety of financial instruments
  • Funds financings
  • ABL and SPV facilities
  • All related regulatory matters

She brings substantive experience advising on EU and UK risk retention structuring, the set up of retention vehicles and retention solutions including through the use of derivative instruments, in both European and US markets. 

Jana assists major credit institutions, pension funds, insurers, AIFMs and UCITs in relation to the regulatory considerations involved with respect to their investments in securitizations globally. 

Jana has significant derivatives experience and continues to assist clients on structured repo transactions including repo securitizations and the restructuring of such arrangements.

Jana spent two years on secondments in New York at Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, assisting the banks’ leadership in the implementation of Title VII (Derivatives) of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Jana is active with several global financial industry associations assisting with efforts related to proposed rulemakings affecting global financial markets.

Jana’s transactional experience includes advising CLO bank arrangers, as well as global investment managers on their European and US CLO transactions, both broadly-syndicated and middle-market, including most recently:

  • Barclays
  • BNP Paribas
  • Citi
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Jefferies
  • Antares Capital
  • Ares Management
  • Ares Capital Corporation 
  • Audax
  • Carlyle Group
  • Chenavari Credit Partners
  • Ivy Hill Asset Management

Additional representative transactions include advising:

  • Apollo on the establishment of its UK-based FCA-regulated CLO manager (Redding Ridge)*
  • Numerous asset managers on the establishment or restructuring of their risk retention vehicles and CLO equity funds
  • Antares Capital on the reset of its 2017-1 CLO, the largest middle-market CLO in the 2.0 era (total deal size: US$2.3 billion)
  • Ares Management in the acquisition of US$3.5 billion specialty finance loan portfolio using an innovative regulatory-driven financing structure
  • Barclays in relation to its US residential loan repo business 

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham 

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • LPC, Nottingham Law School
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, Nottingham Law School
  • MBA, Czech Management Institute
  • Bachelor of Laws in Politics, Anglo-American University

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Slovak
  • Czech
  • Spanish
  • French