He advises clients on structuring, negotiating, documenting, and executing a broad spectrum of financings, including syndicated senior facilities, mezzanine facilities, and private debt placements. His work spans unsecured and secured facilities with a particular focus on fund subscription, NAV and hybrid facilities, management company facilities, employee loan programs and other forms of investment fund leverage, as well as related transactions including back-leverage, rated note funds, collateralized fund obligations and, other securitized fund assets and bespoke structured financings.
Jan was previously a partner at another international law firm where he focused on fund finance transactions for over 20 years and completed a secondment at Goldman Sachs, advising on loan transactions for private wealth management clients. He started his career practicing corporate law in the Czech Republic where he also served as a staff attorney in the Litigation Department of the Czech Ministry of Defense.
Jan currently serves on the Fund Finance Association (FFA) U.S. Advisory Council, and he frequently speaks at FFA and other industry conferences. He also mentors through the FFA’s NextGen platform, supporting junior fund finance market participants.

