Rising Star – Structured Finance and Securitisation
IFLR1000 2025
"Acts in the best interest of the client at all times."
Legal 500 UK 2024
Rising Star – Structured Finance and Securitisation
Legal 500 UK 2020
Clients say: "Jana Zupikova, associate – great client management, a fantastic person to work with!" "I greatly appreciate Jana Zupikova who has been proactive in finding solutions, in maintaining the relationship and in connecting me with the right persons."
Legal 500 UK 2021
Profile
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.
Experience
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
Qualifications
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
Jana Zupikova has been commended for her expertise in advising major global financial institutions on sophisticated structured finance and securitization transactions in a prestigious list of top UK lawyers.
Partner Alex Martin and associate Jana Zupikova consider the benefits of private portfolio
financings in light of challenging conditions for CLO issuance. Originally published in the November 2023 edition of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law.
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