Franc Bucik specialises in corporate and commercial law, M&A, banking & finance and European law. For more than thirty years, he has been advising a broad range of national and international clients, companies, financial institutions and individuals, on commercial and corporate transactions. Further, he has extensive expertise and experience in capital markets, insolvency & restructuring, including sovereign debt restructuring, real estate law, contract law, public & administrative law, competition law, intellectual property, employment law, private equity, business immigration, criminal law and human rights protection.

Franc is regularly instructed in substantial cases across a wide spectrum of criminal law and has acted on a number of high profile criminal defence matters since the 1990s. He has significant experience in white-collar and business crime, including all aspects of fraud, finance fraud and tax fraud, corruption, bribery and money laundering.

Franc’s particular interes is focused on the fields of bank insolvency and bank depositor protection. For several years he successfully represented depositors of the Slovenian bank Ljubljanska banka. In this case over 300.000 bank depositors claimed the recovery of their “old currency savings”, the total amount of the claims exceeded 500 million euros. The case Ljubljanska banka, ruled also by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), related not only to bank’s liability, depositors’ protection and human rights but also to the succession of the former Yugoslavia, the liability of the Republic of Slovenia and the sovereign debt of the Republic of Slovenia.

Franc has in-depth knowledge and practical experience in institutional and substantive European Union law. He also holds a Master degree in European Law from the Donau-Universität Krems, Austria. In his master thesis Takeovers in the EU – The Directive on Takeover Bids and its Implementation in Austria and Germany he presented European takeover regulation, takeover legislations in Austria and Germany, including their development processes, and comparatively examined the implementation of the European Takeover Directive in Austria and Germany.

Franc represents his clients before national, European and international courts and tribunals.

Franc is a member of the Munich Bar Association (Rechtsanwaltskammer München) and of the Slovenian Bar Association and he assists his clients in Germany and in Slovenia.