August 2024 – Kinstellar is delighted to announce it has successfully advised CCC—a leading Polish-based footwear manufacturer and retailer with a network of over 1,000 stores across 29 countries—on the Romanian, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian and Slovak legal aspects of a PLN 1.8 billion (approximately EUR 420 million) term and revolving facilities agreement.
The financing, which is provided by a consortium of lenders including mBank, EBRD, Bank Pekao, BNP Paribas Bank Polska, PKO Bank Polski, Santander Bank Polska, and Bank Handlowy w Warszawie, as well as the factoring entities Santander Factoring, mFaktoring, PKO Faktoring, and BNP Paribas Faktoring, will support CCC’s ongoing operations and the further development of its brands, including HalfPrice.
Kinstellar's teams included Special Counsel Magdalena Raducanu (Head of Banking & Finance), Managing Associate Razvan Constantinescu, Associate Alexandra Maria Sofineti in Romania; Counsel Martina Brezinova, Junior Associates Dominik Ctvrtnicek and Tomas Blazek in the Czech Republic; Partner Levente Hegedus, Associates Dorottya Bito and Veronika Heiszer, and Junior Associate Kinga Farkas in Hungary; Partner Mihovil Granic and Senior Associate Franciska Fadljevic in Croatia, and Counsel Dominika Bajzathova in Slovakia.
This financing further solidifies our team’s extensive track record of advising on complex, high-profile deals across multiple jurisdictions and demonstrates our ability to deliver outstanding results on a regional scale.