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PRELIMINARY MATTERS MAY 2021
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Year 8, Issue 4
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EDITORIAL: THE PERFECT TIME FOR THE
CEELM INDEX
By Radu Cotarcea
The eagerly-awaited Deals of the Year awards announce- that the table is already available there as well (at
ment is just around the corner, set to go live on June 3. ceelegalmatters.com/deal-list-2020) in a digital
version that allows for searching and sorting, with
In the meantime, as we’re holding our breath and allowing each entry linking to the relevant coverage on the
a drum roll to build up the suspense, this special CEELM CEELM website, where it exists.
Index issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine is a perfect
opportunity to look back at 2020 as a whole. But that is not all in this CEELM Index special
issue! In this print edition you’ll also find summa-
The centerpiece of the issue is our annual CEE Legal Mat- ries of the firms and partners whose names have appeared
ters Table of Deals, listing 1,923 client matters throughout the most in our coverage of client work throughout 2020,
the region. It was compiled using both the deals reported both overall and broken down by country and practice area.
by CEELM throughout 2020 as well as supplementary sub- We also took stock of the briefings contributions that made
missions received from law firms of deals which, for one the biggest splash on our website in 2020 and highlighted
reason or another, were not covered during the year. the firms and partners who were most proficient in helping
us keep readers across the region informed of the latest
Eagle-eyed followers of our website will have noticed legal developments.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The CEELM Index: Deals 6
The CEELM Index: Briefings 8
The CEELM Index: Contributors 11
The CEELM Index: 2020 Table of Deals 12
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MAY 2021 CEELM INDEX: DEALS
THE CEELM INDEX: LAW FIRMS
Firms with the most client matters reported by CEE Legal Matters in 2020.
TOP 10: OVERALL TOP 10: AUSTRIA TOP 10: BULGARIA
# of Reported # of Reported # of Reported
Rank Firm Rank Firm Rank Firm
Client Matters Client Matters Client Matters
1 Sorainen 116 1 Schoenherr 27 1 CMS 17
2 Cobalt 86 2 Wolf Theiss 20 2 Kinstellar 11
3 Dentons 80 3 Binder Groesswang 18 3 Djingov, Gouginski, 9
4 CMS 78 Kyutchukov & Velichkov
4 Dorda 17
5 DLA Piper 59 4 Georgiev, Todorov & Co. 7
5 Eisenberger & Herzog 16
Clifford Chance 59 Schoenherr 7
Cerha Hempel 16
7 Kinstellar 56 6 Kambourov & Partners 6
7 Brandl & Talos 12
8 White & Case 54 7 Tokushev and Partners 4
Herbst Kinsky 12
Schoenherr 54 Boyanov & Co. 4
9 CMS 11
10 Linklaters 46 Tsvetkova Bebov 4
10 BPV Huegel 10
Komarevski
10 Dentons ; Dimitrov, 2
Petrov & Co.; Wolf Theiss
TOP 10: CZECH REPUBLIC TOP 10: ESTONIA TOP 10: GREECE
# of Reported # of Reported # of Reported
Rank Firm Rank Firm Rank Firm
Client Matters Client Matters Client Matters
1 Kinstellar 19 1 Cobalt 46 1 Zepos & Yannopoulos 9
Kocian Solc Balastik 19 2 Sorainen 34 2 Koutalidis Law Firm 5
3 Clifford Chance 16 3 Ellex 14 3 Karatzas and Partners 3
4 Dentons 11 4 TGS Baltic 10 4 White & Case 2
Havel & Partners 11 5 Pohla & Hallmagi 7 KLC Law Firm 2
6 Allen & Overy 9 6 PwC Legal 4 Norton Rose Fulbright 2
7 Schoenherr 8 Fort 4 Your Legal Partners 2
BPV Braun 8 Hedman Partners 4 Kyriakides Georgopoulos 2
9 Glatzova & Co. 6 9 Eversheds Sutherland 3 Bernitsas 2
Weinhold Legal 6 10 Nove; Triniti 2 Dracopoulos & 2
Vassalakis
TOP 10: HUNGARY TOP 10: LATVIA TOP 10: LITHUANIA
# of Reported # of Reported # of Reported
Rank Firm Rank Firm Rank Firm
Client Matters Client Matters Client Matters
1 Noerr 9 1 Cobalt 30 1 Sorainen 60
2 Kinstellar 6 2 Sorainen 28 2 TGS Baltic 22
3 Schoenherr 5 3 Ellex 7 3 Cobalt 19
Allen & Overy 5 4 TGS Baltic 7 4 Walless 17
Jalsovszky 5 5 Allen & Overy 3 5 Motieka & Audzevicius 14
6 Wolf Theiss 4 6 BDO Law 2 6 Ellex 13
DLA Piper 4 Glimstedt 2 7 Triniti 8
Lakatos, Koves & 4 Deloitte Legal 2 8 Dentons 4
Partners
Glimstedt 4
CMS 4
Fort 4
Dentons 4
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CEELM INDEX: DEALS MAY 2021
TOP 10: POLAND TOP 10: ROMANIA TOP 10: RUSSIA
# of Reported # of Reported # of Reported
Rank Firm Rank Firm Rank Firm
Client Matters Client Matters Client Matters
1 Dentons 42 1 Stratulat Albulescu 15 1 Egorov Puginsky 14
Afanasiev and Partners
2 Greenberg Traurig 37 2 Popovici Nitu Stoica & 13
Asociatii Bryan Cave Leighton 14
3 SSW Pragmatic Solutions 26
Paisner
3 Kinstellar 11
4 DLA Piper 26
3 White & Case 12
Filip and Company 11
5 Rymarz Zdort 24
4 DLA Piper 10
5 BPV Grigorescu 8
6 Clifford Chance 23
Stefanica 5 Debevoise & Plimpton 9
7 Gessel 22
RTPR 8 6 Dentons 8
8 Linklaters 21
Nestor Nestor Diculescu 8 7 Hogan Lovells 7
9 CMS 20 Kingston Petersen
8 Baker McKenzie 6
10 White & Case 17 8 Schoenherr 6
9 Clifford Chance 5
9 Allen & Overy 5
10 CMS; Herbert Smith 4
Reff & Asociatii 5 Freehills; Linklaters
TOP 10: SERBIA TOP 10: TURKEY TOP 10: UKRAINE
# of Reported # of Reported # of Reported
Rank Firm Rank Firm Rank Firm
Client Matters Client Matters Client Matters
1 NKO Partners 12 1 Paksoy 11 1 Sayenko Kharenko 34
2 CMS 9 2 BTS & Partners 9 2 Ilyashev & Partners 19
3 Jankovic Popovic Mitic 8 3 Baker McKenzie 6 Asters 19
4 Karanovic & Partners 7 4 White & Case 6 4 Aequo 14
5 BDK Advokati 5 5 Esin Attorney 5 5 Avellum 13
Partnership
Zivkovic Samardzic 5 6 CMS 11
Turunc 5
7 Kinstellar 4 7 Redcliffe Partners 10
7 Caliskan Okkan Toker 4
Samardzic, Oreski & 4 Integrites 10
Grbovic Balcioglu Selcuk 4
9 Baker McKenzie 9
Ardiyok Keki Attorney
9 Prica & Partners 3
Partnership 10 Kinstellar; Vasil Kisil & 7
Dentons 3 Partners
Dentons 4
10 Aksan Law Firm ; Clifford 3
Chance; GKC Partners;
Kinstellar
OTHER MARKETS
# of Reported
Country Firm
Client Matters
Belarus Sorainen 9
Bosnia & Herzegovina Maric & Co 4
Croatia Divjak, Topic, Bahtijarevic & Krka 4
Moldova Gladei & Partners; Turcan Cazac 2
North Macedonia Polenak 4
Slovenia ODI Law Firm 5
Slovakia Dentons 6
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MAY 2021 CEELM INDEX: DEALS
TOP 10: BANKING/FINANCE TOP 10: CAPITAL MARKETS
# of Reported # of Reported
Rank Firm Rank Firm
Client Matters Client Matters
1 Sorainen 27 1 White & Case 22
2 CMS 25 2 Linklaters 16
3 Cobalt 19 3 Clifford Chance 15
4 Clifford Chance 18 4 Allen & Overy 13
5 Dentons 16 5 Sorainen 12
6 Allen & Overy 15 6 Wolf Theiss 11
7 DLA Piper 13 7 Weber & Co 8
Kinstellar 13 8 Dentons 7
9 White & Case 12 Cobalt 7
10 Aster 11 Gessel 7
TOP 10: CORPORATE/M&A TOP 10: ENERGY/NATURAL RESOURCES
# of Reported # of Reported
Rank Firm Rank Firm
Client Matters Client Matters
1 Sorainen 39 1 CMS 25
2 Schoenherr 28 2 Sorainen 14
3 Cobalt 27 3 Dentons 13
DLA Piper 27 4 Clifford Chance 10
5 CMS 22 5 White & Case 8
6 Noerr 20 6 TGS Baltic 7
7 Kinstellar 19 Schoenherr 7
Baker McKenzie 19 Allen & Overy 7
9 White & Case 17 9 Rymarz Zdort 6
Dentons 17 Linklaters 6
TOP 10: REAL ESTATE TOP 10: TMT/IP
# of Reported # of Reported
Rank Firm Rank Firm
Client Matters Client Matters
1 Dentons 36 1 Cobalt 22
2 Kinstellar 24 2 Sorainen 19
3 Linklaters 20 3 White & Case 10
4 Greenberg Traurig 19 4 DLA Piper 8
5 Sorainen 17 Eversheds Sutherland 8
6 CMS 16 Baker McKenzie 8
7 Schoenherr 12 7 Ellex 7
8 DLA Piper 11 Dentons 7
9 Clifford Chance 10 Kinstellar 7
Wolf Theiss 10 10 Bird & Bird 6
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THE CEELM INDEX: PARTNERS
Partners with the most client matters reported by CEE Legal Matters in 2020.
TOP 10: OVERALL
# of Reported
Rank Partner (Firm)
Client Matters
1 Szymon Okon (SSW Pragmatic Solutions) 15
2 Mantas Petkevicius (Sorainen) 14
3 Tomas Kontautas (Sorainen) 13
4 Eva Berlaus (Sorainen) 12
Rudolfs Engelis (Sorainen) 12
Igor Lozenko (Sayenko Kharenko) 12
7 Jakub Domalik-Plakwicz (DLA Piper) 11
Kostadin Sirleshtov (CMS) 11
Jan Juroska (Kinstellar) 11
10 Kristel Raidla-Talur (Cobalt), Silviu Stratulat (Stratulat Albulescu), Toomas Prangli (Sorainen), Marcin Studniarek (White & Case), Saule Dagilyte 10
(Sorainen), Roman Rericha (Brandl Talos)
LEADERS BY COUNTRY
# of Reported Client # of Reported Client
Country Partner (Firm) Country Partner
Matters Matters
Austria Roman Rericha (Brandl Talos) 10 Moldova Ana Galus (Turcan Cazac) 2
Belarus Kiryl Apanasevich (Sorainen); 4 North Macedonia Gjorgji Georgievski (ODI Law); 3
Maksim Salahub (Sorainen) Tatjana Shishkovska (Polenak)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Branko Maric (Maric & Co.) 3 Poland Szymon Okon (SSW Pragmatic 15
Solutions)
Bulgaria Kostadin Sirleshtov (CMS) 11
Romania Silviu Stratulat (Stratulat 10
Croatia Damir Topic (DTB); 3 Albulescu)
Silvije Cipcic-Bragadin (Cipcic-
Bragadin and Associates) Russia Anna Numerova (EPAM); 5
Leo Batalov (DLA Piper)
Czech Republic Jan Juroska (Kinstellar) 11
Serbia Djordje Nikolic (NKO Partners); 5
Estonia Toomas Prangli (Sorainen) 10 Milica Popovic (CMS)
Greece Christina Papanikolopoulou 4
(Zepos & Yannopoulos) Slovakia Viliam Mysicka (Kinstellar) 3
Hungary Zoltan Nadasdy (Noerr) 4 Slovenia Tine Misic (ODI Law) 4
Latvia Eva Berlaus (Sorainen); 11 Turkey Elvan Aziz (Paksoy); 5
Rudolfs Engelis (Sorainen) Kerem Turunc (Turunc)
Lithuania Mantas Petkevicius (Sorainen) 14 Ukraine Igor Lozenko (Sayenko Kharenko) 12
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CEE LEGAL MATTERS 7MAY 2021 CEELM INDEX: BRIEFINGS
THE CEELM INDEX: BRIEFINGS
The most-read briefings published on CEE Legal Matters in 2020.
MOST-READ LEGAL ANALYSIS ARTICLES ON THE CEELM WEBSITE: OVERALL
Rank Briefing Title Countries Firm Reads
1 Restrictions Across CEE/SEE Countries Affecting the Real Hungary, Ukraine, Turkey, Slovenia, Slovakia, Schoenherr 52989
Estate Sector Serbia, Romania, Poland, Montenegro, North
Macedonia, Moldova, Czech Republic, Croatia,
Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria
2 E-Healthcare and Telehealth Become Vital to Tackling Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland, Schoenherr 48700
COVID-19 in CEE Romania
3 Turkey Introduces a Centralized System for Electronic Turkey ELIG Gurkaynak Attorneys-at-Law 48196
Marketing Communications
4 How was International Arbitration Law Affected by the Turkey Guden 48110
COVID-19 Pandemic?
5 The Impact of COVID 19 Crisis on the Transfer Pricing Policies Turkey Nazali Tax & Legal 48022
of Multinational Companies
6 Employment: Post-Quarantine Reality in Ukraine Ukraine Integrites 47693
7 Changes Aiming to Simplify and Electronicize Certain Hungary KCG Partners Law Firm 47620
Procedures in Public Administration
8 Cannabis Breeding in Republic of Serbia: Sensation to Public, Serbia Samardzic, Oreski & Grbovic 47540
Pitfall to Authorities
9 What to Focus on in the Due Diligence of a Sports Club Czech Republic Rowan Legal 47456
10 Access to Wikipedia Reinstated in Turkey Turkey ELIG Gurkaynak Attorneys-at-Law 47258
MOST-READ COMPARATIVE GUIDE ARTICLES ON THE CEELM WEBSITE: OVERALL
Rank Briefing Title Countries Firm Reads
1 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Bulgaria Gugushev & Partners, Pontes 58693
Bulgaria
2 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Austria Graf Patsch Taucher, Pontes 56846
Austria
3 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Hungary Nagy es Trocsanyi 53009
Hungary
4 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in UK UK Slaughter and May 52630
5 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Czech Republic Rowan Legal 52376
Czechia
6 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Turkey Turkey Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli 51939
7 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Serbia Serbia Jankovic Popovic Mitic 51729
8 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Romania Ijdelea Mihailescu 50751
Romania
9 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Ukraine Avellum 50387
Ukraine
10 CEELM Covid-19 Comparative Legal Guide: Contracts in Belarus Arzinger 50181
Belarus
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MOST-READ LEGAL ANALYSIS ARTICLES ON THE CEELM
WEBSITE: BY JURISDICTION
Country Briefing Title Firm Reads
Albania Albania: Towards Renewable Energy Boga & Associates 41609
Austria Article 15(3) of GDPR and Right to Schoenherr 46965
Access Files or Documents – an Austrian
Perspective
Bosnia and Herzegovina Expedited Liquidation Procedure in the Karanovic & Partners 45338
Republic of Srpska
Bulgaria Bulgaria: The Automotive, Logistics, and CMS 46183
Transportation Hub of the Balkans
Croatia Trends in Logistics and Transportation: CMS 46250
The Struggle Between Technological
Development and Restrictive Legal Rules
Czech Republic What to Focus on in the Due Diligence of a Rowan Legal 47456
Sports Club
Estonia Case Law Developments Support the Cobalt 45125
Commercial Real Estate Market
Greece Greece: Artificial Intelligence & Privacy in Michalopoulou & 44656
the Time of Covid-19 Associates Lawgroup
Hungary Changes Aiming to Simplify and KCG Partners 47620
Electronicize Certain Procedures in Public
Administration
Kosovo Kosovo: Energy Matters in Kosovo Kalo & Associates 31329
Latvia Latvia: A Solution to Insufficiencies in Cobalt 46187
Supply of Medicines in Latvia
Lithuania A New Wave of Mediation in Lithuania - Cobalt 45782
What Does it Mean for Lawyers
Moldova Moldova: Pharmacovigilance and Drug ACI Partners 41808
Safety in the Republic of Moldova
Montenegro The Current Status of Montenegro’s Zivkovic Samardzic 45499
Transportation Sector
North Macedonia “Little Schengen” Project in a Nutshell – CMS 45932
What Does It Mean For Your Business?
Poland Covid-19 – Anti-Crisis Shield: Business Penteris 47067
Financing
Romania Derogations Applicable in Relation to Popescu & Asociatii 46659
Personal Data Transfer to Third Countries
or International Organisations
Russia Russia Reacts: Impact of Sanctions on Dentons 45845
International Arbitration Involving Russian
Parties
Serbia Cannabis Breeding in Republic of Serbia: Samardzic, Oreski & 47540
Sensation to Public, Pitfall to Authorities Grbovic
Slovakia Successful Year for E-Mobility in Slovakia CMS 45294
Slovenia Can EU Member States Protect Vital Air Miro Senica and Attorneys 45997
Routes After the Bankruptcy of National Air
Carriers by Subsidizing Those Routes?
Turkey Turkey Introduces a Centralized System for ELIG Gurkaynak Attorneys- 48196
Electronic Marketing Communications at-Law
Ukraine Employment: Post-Quarantine Reality in Integrites 47693
Ukraine
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THE CEELM INDEX: CONTRIBUTORS
Firms and partners with the most legal briefings published on CEE Legal Matters in 2020.
FIRMS WITH MOST BRIEFINGS PARTNERS WITH MOST BRIEFINGS
PUBLISHED ON THE CEELM WEBSITE PUBLISHED ON THE CEELM WEBSITE
Country Firm # of Briefings Country Partner (Firm) # of Briefings
Albania Boga & Associates 3 Austria Volker Weiss (Schoenherr) 5
Austria Schoenherr 19 Bulgaria Nikolay Bebov (TBK) 2
Bosnia and Ana-Marija Grubisic
Karanovic & Partners 4
Herzegovina Cabraja (DTB);
Croatia 2
Iva Basaric (Babic &
Bulgaria Schoenherr 21 Partners)
Croatia CMS; Schoenherr 5 Michal Nulicek (Rowan
Czech Republic 3
Legal)
Czech Republic Schoenherr 13
Eszter Kamocsay-Berta
Hungary 11
(KCG Partners)
Estonia Cobalt 2
Latvia Sandija Novicka (Cobalt) 2
Hungary KCG Partners Law Firm 75
Igor Zivkovski (Zivkovic
Latvia Cobalt 7 Montenegro 3
Samardzic)
Lithuania Cobalt 4 North Macedonia Marija Filipovska (CMS) 2
Moldova ACI Partners; Schoenherr 2 Marzanna Sobaniec
Poland 5
(Penteris)
North Macedonia CMS 5
Alina Popescu (MPR
Romania 24
Poland Penteris 24 Partners)
Romania MPR Partners 45 Russia Dominique Tissot (CMS) 45
Russia CMS 37 Serbia Ivana Ruzicic (PR Legal) 37
Serbia Samardzic, Oreski & Grbovic 28 Slovakia Pavol Rak (Noerr) 28
Slovakia Noerr 6 Slovenia Eva Skufca (Schoenherr) 6
Slovenia Schoenherr 10 Turkey Gonenc Gurkaynak (ELIG) 10
Turkey ELIG 18 Ukraine Iryna Kalnytska (GoLaw) 18
Ukraine Avellum 18
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CEE LEGAL MATTERS 11MAY 2021 CEELM INDEX
CEELM INDEX: 2020 TABLE OF DEALS
Date Deal
Firms Involved Deal/Litigation Country
covered Value
16-Jun Wolf Theiss Wolf Theiss advised joint lead managers Banca IMI, Citi Bank, JP Morgan, and Raiffeisen Bank International on the EUR 650 Albania
Republic of Albania’s EUR 650 million seven-year international bond issuance. million
11-Dec Bird & Bird; Clifford Clifford Chance advised the Aricoma Group on the acquisition of the Seavus technology company. Karanovic & Partners N/A Albania;
Chance; Karanovic & advised Aricoma on Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albanian elements of the deal. Seavus was advised by Bird & Bosnia and
Partners Bird's Stockholm office. Herzegovina;
Czech
Republic;
Serbia
2-Jan Binder Grosswang; CMS; Kocian Solc Balastik; PRK Partners N/A Austria
Frotz Riedl; Schoenherr
2-Jan Dorda; Schoenherr Dorda advised DLH Real Estate Austria, a company owned by the Zech Group, on the sale of two logistics properties N/A Austria
and the forward sale of two additional logistics properties to Germany's Deka Immobilien. The buyers were advised by
Schoenherr.
3-Jan Dorda; Schoenherr Dorda advised Patrizia AG on the sale of Zentrum Rennweg to Swiss Life Living + Working via a structured bidding EUR 52 Austria
process. Schoenherr advised Swiss Life Living + Working. million
15-Jan Garger Spallinger; Wolf Theiss and Garrigues advised the shareholders of Tag Systems S.A. on the sale of the company to Austriacard and N/A Austria
Garrigues; Wolf Theiss their entrance into a joint venture with Austriacard. The buyers were advised by Garger Spallinger.
15-Jan Dorda; Schoenherr Schoenherr advised Noella GmbH, an Austria-based company engaged in manufacturing and distribution of clothes for N/A Austria
children, on its acquisition by Michael Pachleitner Group GmbH. Dorda advised the buyers.
17-Jan Lattenmayer, Luks & Wolf Theiss advised the REWE group on the sale of a property in the Donaustadt district of Vienna. The successful N/A Austria
Enzinger; Wolf Theiss bidder, BUWOG, was advised by Lattenmayer Luks & Enzinger.
17-Jan Brandl & Talos Brandl & Talos supported APEX Ventures in the creation of the APEX Digital Health venture capital fund, designed for N/A Austria
investments in new companies with unique technologies and applications in the healthcare sector.
20-Jan Fellner Wratzfeld & Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner advised Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft on the structuring and procurement of an innovation N/A Austria
Partner partnership'' in Austria.
22-Jan Brandl & Talos; Herbst Brandl & Talos advised Anyline on its generation of USD 12 million in growth capital through a Series A round of financing. USD 12 Austria
Kinsky; Schnittker Lead investors Project A and Senovo were advised by Herbst Kinsky and Schnittker Mollmann Partners, respectively. million
Mollmann
23-Jan CMS; KPMG Legal; KPMG Law advised the shareholders of Barracuda Holding GmbH on the sale of 71% of the shares in the company to the N/A Austria
Schoenherr CTS Eventim Group. The buyers were advised by CMS and Schoenherr.
24-Jan CMS; Schoenherr CMS advised Encavis Infrastructure Fund III on its acquisition of the Furstkogel wind farm in Austria, consisting of five N/A Austria
wind turbines with a total rated output of 17.25 MW. The sellers, wind energy specialist Ecowind Handels- & Wartungs-
GmbH, were advised by Schonherr.
27-Jan DSC Doralt Seist Wolf Theiss and Linklaters advised J.P. Morgan and Erste Group Bank AG as joint book-runners on S Immo AG's N/A Austria
Csoklich; Linklaters; Wolf issuance of 6,691,717 new shares via an accelerated book-building procedure involving the exclusion of shareholders'
Theiss subscription rights. S Immo AG was advised by DSC Doralt Seist Csoklich.
27-Jan Fellner Wratzfeld & Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner advised Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H. on the structuring and procurement of an N/A Austria
Partner innovation partnership with several enterprises in Austria.
28-Jan Herbst Kinsky; Weber Weber & Co. advised Erste Group Bank AG as the sole bookrunner on the sale of 105,000 Marinomed Biotech AG shares EUR 10 Austria
& Co. by shareholders Acropora Beteiligungs GmbH, VETWIDI Forschungsholding GmbH, and BVT Beteiligungsverwaltung million
und Treuhand GmbH. Herbst Kinsky advised Marinomed on the sale.
28-Jan Weber & Co.; Wolf Theiss Weber & Co. advised DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, DZ Bank, Erste Group, RBI, and UniCredit as joint lead managers EUR 500 Austria
on the successful issuance of mortgage covered bank bonds by Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberosterreich AG. Wolf Theiss Million
advised Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberosterreich on the issuance.
29-Jan Schoenherr Schoenherr helped UniCredit Bank establish its Social Impact Banking initiative in Austria. N/A Austria
31-Jan Linklaters; Rautner Wolf Theiss advised Erste Group Bank AG on the issue of EUR 500 million of Additional Tier 1 Notes and on the issue 1.2 Austria
Attorneys At Law; Weber of EUR 750 million Mortgage Pfandbriefe. Linklaters and Rautner Rechtsanwalte advised lead managers HSBS, BofA billion
& Co.; Wolf Theiss Securities, Morgan Stanley, and Societe Generale on the Tier 1 note issuance. Weber & Co advised Banca IMI, Danske
Bank, DekaBank, DZ BANK, Erste Group (in its capacity as Manager), and LBBW on the Mortgage Pfandbriefe.
31-Jan White & Case; Wolf Wolf Theiss and White & Case advised joint lead managers ABN Amro, Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank AG, RBI, and UniCredit EUR 500 Austria
Theiss on UniCredit Bank Austria AG's successful January 21, 2020 placement of a benchmark EUR 500 million issuance of million
mortgage securities.
31-Jan Bc& Studio Di Brandl & Talos advised founders Simon Falkensteiner and Matthias Trenkwalder and investors including aws N/A Austria
Consulenza Societaria Gruenderfonds, Falkensteiner Ventures, and Nextfloor Ventures on the sale of RateBoard, a developer of a revenue
Tributaria Legale; Brandl management software for the hotel industry, to Zucchetti, an Italian software developer in the field of hospitality and
& Talos restaurant industry. Zuchetti was advised by BC& Studio di Consulenza Societaria Tributaria Legale and Solo Practitioner
Mario Perl.
7-Feb Brandl & Talos; Leitner Brandl & Talos advised Aws Mittelstandsfonds on an unspecified investment in Communi5 Technologies GmbH. Leitner N/A Austria
Law Law advised Communi5 on the deal.
13-Feb Wolf Theiss Wolf Theiss advised Raiffeisen Bank International AG on the issuance of Ordinary Senior Eligible bonds worth EUR 750 EUR 750 Austria
million under its EUR 25 million Debt Issuance Program. Banco Santander, S.A., BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets million
Limited, Morgan Stanley & Co International, and RBI were joint lead managers.
24-Feb Allen & Overy Allen & Overy advised Oesterreichische Kontrollbank on legal aspects of its public offering of USD 1.5 billion of 1.500% USD 1.5 Austria
Guaranteed Global Notes due 2025. billion
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Date Deal
Firms Involved Deal/Litigation Country
covered Value
25-Feb CMS; Herbst Kinsky CMS Austria advised Topinstallateur GmbH on the acquisiton of a majority stake in the company by Germany's Auctus N/A Austria
investment fund. Auctus was advised by Herbst Kinsky.
25-Feb Cerha Hempel Cerha Hempel advised KTM AG on its establishment of a joint venture with Spanish engine manufacturer GasGas N/A Austria
Motorcycles S.L.
4-Mar Brandl & Talos; Herbst Brandl & Talos advised Ready2order on its EUR 5 million investment round, which was led by Reimann Investors and EUR 5 Austria
Kinsky; Schoenherr Speedinvest, which were advised by Schoenherr and Herbst Kinsky. million
11-Mar Dorda Dorda advised China's Weichai Group on its acquisition of 51% of the VDS Group, an Upper-Austrian transmissions N/A Austria
specialist. SCWP Schindhelm advised the sunidentified sellers on the deal.
11-Mar Dorda Dorda advised GalCap on the acquisition of a mixed-use building at Pohlgasee 26 in Vienna-Meidling from UBM and N/A Austria
Invester. UBM was advised by solo practitioner Jakob Molzbichler.
11-Mar Schoenherr Schoenherr advised Austria's HS Timber Group and Blue Minds IF on their February 28, 2020 acquisition of Interfloat N/A Austria
Corporation and GMB Glasmanufaktur Brandenburg GmbH.
12-Mar Brandl & Talos; Gross Brandl & Talos, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Germany's Schnittker Moellmann Partners advised Insight Partners and EUR 30 Austria
Hofer; Schnittker e.ventures on the EUR 30 million series A investment in Viennese start-up PlanRadar. Grohs Hofer advised PlanRadar. million
Moellmann Partners;
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
12-Mar Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Schoenherr and Cleary Gottlieb advised Google LLC on the acquisition of Looker Data Sciences. N/A Austria
Hamilton; Schoenherr
13-Mar Hochedlinger Luschin Schoenherr advised Neuraxpharm, a portfolio company of Apax Partners, on the acquisition of Austrian consumer N/A Austria
Marenzi Kapsch; healthcare company Easypharm OTC GmbH. Hochedlinger Luschin Marenzi Kapsch advised the unidentified sellers on
Schoenherr the deal.
16-Mar DLA Piper DLA Piper advised PORR AG on the issuance of EUR 150 million hybrid bond. EUR 150 Austria
million
16-Mar Cerha Hempel; Cerha Hempel advised CA Immobilien Anlagen AG on its EUR 500 million benchmark bond issuance. Linklaters advised EUR 500 Austria
Linklaters sole global coordinator J.P. Morgan and joint book-runners Erste Group, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. million
17-Mar Act Legal (WMWP); Herbst Kinsky advised Earlybird Venture Capital on its investment into Mostly AI Solutions MP GmbH. Act Legal advised N/A Austria
Herbst Kinsky Mostly AI.
23-Mar Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang advised Austrian risk and insurance manager GrECo and its majority owners, the Neubrand family, N/A Austria
Schoenherr on the buy-back of GrECo shares from former partner JLT. Schoenherr advised the sellers on the deal.
24-Mar BPV Huegel; Dechert; Dechert and BPV Huegel advised Valneva Austria GmbH on debt financing it received from the US-based Deerfield and USD 85 Austria
Dorda OrbiMed healthcare funds. Dorda advised the lenders. million
27-Mar Dorda; Reidlinger Dorda advised Warburg-HIHInvest Real Estate on the sale of a multi-story office building in the Summering part of N/A Austria
Schatzmann Vienna to a real estate fund managed by Luxembourg-based Blue Colibri Capital. Reidlinger Schatzmann advised the
buyers.
3-Apr Fellner Wratzfeld & Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner advised VTB Bank Europe on financing provided to an unidentified buyer for its acquisition of N/A Austria
Partner 50% of SEMA Vermoegensverwaltung GmbH, the Austrian holding company of the Planquadr.at development and real
estate portfolio group.
7-Apr Dorda; Herbst Kinsky Dorda advised joint global coordinators UBS and HSBC on the EUR 1.65 billion capital increase of Austria's AMS AG. EUR 1.65 Austria
billion
7-Apr Dorda Dorda advised Lernsieg Mobile Media GmbH on data protection issues related to the relaunch of its Lernsieg app, which N/A Austria
allows students to evaluate their schools and teachers.
9-Apr Weber & Co.; White & Weber & Co. advised OMV AG on the issuance of multi-tranche corporate bonds. White & Case Frankfurt advised joint EUR 1.75 Austria
Case lead managers Barclays Bank Ireland PLC, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, MUFG Securities, Societe billion
Generale, and UniCredit Bank Austria AG.
14-Apr Allen & Overy; Dorda; Dorda advised Greiner AG on the takeover of Eurofoam GmbH from Recticel. The Brussels office of Allen & Overy and N/A Austria
Eisenberger & Herzog Eisenberger & Herzog advised Recticel on the deal.
15-Apr Wolf Theiss Wolf Theiss advised Japan's Takeda Pharmaceuticals on its acquisition of Plasmaspendedienst GmbH. N/A Austria
15-Apr Cerha Hempel Cerha Hempel advised Philip Morris Austria GmbH on the launch of a new tobacco product in Austria. N/A Austria
15-Apr Dorda Dorda successfully represented Willhaben in a dispute against AutoScout24 AS involving the Austrian Unfair N/A Austria
Competition Act.
15-Apr Cerha Hempel Cerha Hempel advised Philip Morris Austria on the launch of a new tobacco product in Austria. N/A Austria
15-Apr Dorda Dorda successfully represented Willhaben in a dispute with AutoScout24 AS. N/A Austria
15-Apr Wolf Theiss Wolf Theiss advised Japan's Takeda Pharmaceuticals on its acquisition of Plasmaspendedienst GmbH. N/A Austria
17-Apr Allen & Overy; Binder Cerha Hempel and Schoenherr advised OMV on the acquisition of a 39% stake in Borealis AG from Mubadala for USD USD Austria
Groesswang; Cerha 4.68 billion. Allen & Overy, Eisenberger & Herzog, and Binder Groesswang advised Mubadala on the transaction. 4.68
Hempel; Eisenberger & billion
Herzog; Schoenherr
22-Apr Baker Mckenzie Baker McKenzie advised McDonald’s on the implementation of short-time work for all of its restaurants in Austria due N/A Austria
to the Coronavirus pandemic.
27-Apr Binder Groesswang Binder Groesswang advised Lenzing AG and Palmers Textil AG on the establishment of a joint venture to produce N/A Austria
protective masks in Austria.
29-Apr Binder Groesswang Binder Groesswang helped Austrian Post with the launch of its new bank – Bank99. N/A Austria
30-Apr DLA Piper DLA Piper Austria advised FFF Real Estate, a subsidiary of FFF Fund I SCSp SICAV-RAIF, on financing provided to an N/A Austria
unnamed residential real estate developer for the acquisition and development of an unspecified residential project in
Luxembourg.
30-Apr Cerha Hempel; Cerha Hempel advised the shareholders of Austrian electric motor manufacturer ELIN Motoren GmbH on the sale of a N/A Austria
Schoenherr 70% stake in the company to the Voith technology group. Schoenherr advised the buyers.
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Firms Involved Deal/Litigation Country
covered Value
4-May Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang and Freimuller Obereder Pilz advised on Sapphire Ventures' participation in Adverity’s EUR 23 million EUR 23 Austria
Freimuller Obereder Pilz Series C financing round. Adverity was advised by Freimuller Obereder Pilz. million
7-May PHH Rechtsanwalte PHH helped GR Real acquire the historic Art Nouveau apartment building in Linz. N/A Austria
8-May Cerha Hempel; Fellner Schoenherr advised Voith and Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner advised PCS on their acquisition of 59% of the shares of N/A Austria
Wratzfeld & Partner; Traktionssysteme Austria GmbH. Cerha Hempel advised the selling shareholders on the deal.
Schoenherr
8-May Wolf Theiss Wolf Theiss assisted Swiss investment foundation AFIAA on the sale of a six-property office and retail property portfolio N/A Austria
in Salzburg to German property developer RMI.
22-May BPV Huegel; Lenz & BPV Huegel, working alongside Switzerland's Lenz & Staehelin law firm, advised Raiffeisen Informatik on the sale of CHF 350 Austria
Staehelin; Simpson shares in SoftwareONE Holding AG via an over-night accelerated book-building process. Credit Suisse AG, J.P. Morgan million
Thacher & Bartlett Securities plc, UBS AG, and KKR Capital Markets Partners LLP acted as joint book-runners for the placement. Simpson
Thacher & Bartlett advised KKR on the deal.
22-May Dorda; Eisenberger Dorda and Hogan Lovells advised ARE Austrian Real Estate on a joint project with UBM Development involving the N/A Austria
& Herzog; GSK development of part of the Aspanggrunde in Vienna's 3rd district and an area in Munich. UBM was advised by Eisenberger
Stockmann; Hogan & Herzog and GSK Stockmann.
Lovells
22-May Schoenherr; Wolf Theiss Schoenherr advised Invester United Benefits on the sale of the Wohngarten residential construction project in Vienna to N/A Austria
ZBI Zentral Boden Immobilien Gruppe. Wolf Theiss advised the buyers on the deal.
27-May Deloitte Legal; Lumsden Deloitte Legal advised Magenta Telekom on structuring its cooperation with the City of Vienna regarding broadband EUR 1 Austria
and Partners coverage. Lumsden and Partners advised the City of Vienna on the deal. billion
28-May Brandl & Talos; Wolf Theiss and Covington & Burling advised MSD on its acquisition of Austrian biotech company Themis Bioscience. N/A Austria
Covington & Burling; Brandl & Talos and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised the selling shareholders on the deal, with McDermott Will &
Herbst Kinsky; Emery and Herbst Kinsky advising Themis Bioscience.
Mcdermott Will & Emery;
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich
& Rosati; Wolf Theiss
9-Jun Allen & Overy; BPV BPV Huegel, working with SIWE Rechtsanwalte Sinzger & Partner, advised Dogado GmbH — a subsidiary of European N/A Austria
Huegel; Dorda; Directories — on its acquisition of Austrian hosting provider Easyname GmbH. Dorda and Rittershaus advised the seller,
Rittershaus; Siwa Easyname’s Founder and Managing Director Florian Schicker, and Allen & Overy’s Frankfurt office advised European
Rechtsanwalte Szinger Directories.
& Partner
9-Jun Taylor Wessing; Wolf Taylor Wessing advised the Korber Group and subsidiary Werum IT Solutions GmbH on their acquisition of the operations N/A Austria
Theiss of Exputec GmbH and Exputec Kft. Wolf Theiss advised Exputec on the deal.
10-Jun Cerha Hempel; Cerha Hempel, working alongside German law firm Menold Benzler, advised Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG on its acquisition N/A Austria
Preslmayr of a production facility belonging to Mars Austria OG in the Austrian village of Breitenbrunn. Preslmayr advised Mars.
11-Jun Weber & Co.; Wolf Theiss Weber & Co advised Wienerberger AG, a Vienna-based supplier of building materials and infrastructure solutions, on EUR 400 Austria
its issuance of EUR 400 million of 2.750% 2020-2025 Bonds. Wolf Theiss advised joint lead managers BNP Paribas, million
Raiffeisen Bank International AG, and UniCredit on the issuance.
11-Jun Fellner Wratzfeld & Fellner Wratzfeld & Partners supported the biodiversity project known as Mielo and donated a large amount of the honey N/A Austria
Partner produced through the project to the parish of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
18-Jun Cerha Hempel; Wolf Wolf Theiss advised Euronext Amsterdam-listed Royal DSM on its acquisition of the Erber Group. Cerha Hempel advised EUR 1.06 Austria
Theiss San Pacific Investment and San Venture Biotech, as well as their sole shareholder Erich Erber, on the sale of Erber to billion
Royal DSM.
24-Jun Weber & Co.; White & Weber & Co advised OMV AG, the international integrated oil and gas company headquartered in Vienna, on the issuance EUR 1.5 Austria
Case of two tranches of corporate bonds. White & Case's Frankfurt office advised joint lead managers Citigroup Global billion
Markets Europe AG, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Erste Group Bank AG, Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg,
Mizuho Securities Europe GmbH, and Raiffeisen Bank International AG.
26-Jun Dorda Dorda advised Eastern Property Holdings on the acquisition of an office building in Vienna. N/A Austria
26-Jun BPV Huegel BPV Huegel helped Austrian low-cost airline Level Europe GmbH initiate and implement judicial insolvency proceedings N/A Austria
at the Regional Court of Korneuburg.
30-Jun Schoenherr Schoenherr advised a club of lenders led by Erste Group and including Raiffeisen Bank International, UniCredit Bank EUR 300 Austria
Austria, BAWAG, and Oberbank on a EUR 300 million financing for Austrian Airlines. million
30-Jun Eisenberger & Herzog Eisenberger & Herzog helped OBB-Technische Services GmbH, LTE Logistik Transport-GmbH, and ELL Austria GmbH N/A Austria
set up a joint venture to establish and operate a service base for locomotives.
1-Jul Milbank; Morgan Lewis Schoenherr, Milbank, and Paul Weiss advised NuCom Group, a joint venture of ProSiebenSat.1 and General Atlantic, on EUR 451 Austria
& Bockius; Paul, Weiss, its acquisition of The Meet Group, Inc. Morgan Lewis advised the sellers. million
Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison; Schoenherr
1-Jul Schoenherr; Schrebaum Schonherr advised Union Investment on the acquisition of a residential complex in Graz from the Immola Group. N/A Austria
Seebacher Scherbaum Seebacher advised the Immola Group on the deal.
2-Jul BPV Huegel; Kung BPV Huegel advised Raiffeisen Informatik on the sale of shares in SoftwareONE Holding by KKR, Raiffeisen Informatik, CHF 380 Austria
Rechtsanwalte & Notare; and the heirs of Patrick Winterin, via an accelerated book-building process. Lenz & Staehelin acted as Swiss counsel for million
Lenz & Staehelin; the sellers, KKR was advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and the heirs of Patrick Winter were advised by Switzerland's
Simpson Thacher & Kung Rechtsanwalte & Notare firm.
Bartlett
2-Jul Herbst Kinsky Herbst Kinsky advised Viennese start-up GoStudent GmbH on its EUR 8.3 million series A financing round, which was EUR 8.3 Austria
led by VC fund Left Lane Capital. million
3-Jul 42Law; Cerha Hempel; Cerha Hempel, working alongside Deloitte Legal in Germany, advised Germany's GBTEC Software + Consulting AG N/A Austria
Deloitte Legal on the acquisition of all shares in Avedos, a Vienna-based GRC software specialist, through direct and indirect share
purchases and by means of a contribution by Samuel Brandstatter – the founder, managing director and shareholder of
Avedos. 42law advised Brandstatter on the deal.
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Date Deal
Firms Involved Deal/Litigation Country
covered Value
13-Jul Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang and Clifford Chance Frankfurt advised BNP Paribas' Arval subsidiary on the acquisition of UniCredit N/A Austria
Clifford Chance Leasing Fuhrparkmanagement GmbH and a long-term cooperation agreement with UniCredit Bank Austria.
14-Jul Schoenherr Schoenherr successfully represented TIWAG-Tiroler Wasserkraft AG before Austria's Administrative Court in the last N/A Austria
challenge to the implementation of the Kuhtai Storage Power Plant project.
15-Jul Eisenberger & Herzog; Eisenberger & Herzog, working alongside Germany's Peters, Schonberger & Partner, advised Vetter Pharma on its N/A Austria
Peters, Schonberger & acquisition of a clinical production facility in Rankweil, Austria.
Partner
16-Jul Eisenberger & Herzog Eisenberger & Herzog advised the Switzerland's Brisen Group on its entrance into an operating agreement with the EUR 100 Austria
Mandarin Oriental hotel chain. million
17-Jul BPV Huegel; Linklaters; BPV Huegel advised Immofinanz on a combined share placement and the first-to-market issue of subordinated N/A Austria
Weber & Co. mandatory convertible notes. Linklaters and Weber & Co. advised bookrunners J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Sole Global
Coordinator, and Erste Group Bank AG and Raiffeisen Centrobank AG.
20-Jul Eisenberger & Herzog Eisenberger & Herzog helped Austrian Airlines on its receipt of State aid amounting to EUR 150 million from the Republic EUR 150 Austria
of Austria. million
22-Jul Freshfields; Schoenherr Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised an international banking consortium consisting of HSBC Bank plc, JP Morgan EUR 800 Austria
Securities plc, and Raiffeisen Bank International AG on Uniqua Insurance Group AG's successful issuance of two bonds million
worth a total of EUR 800 million. Schoenherr advised Uniqua on the deal.
22-Jul DLA Piper DLA Piper advised Austria's Kurant GmbH on the Europe-wide roll-out of its Bitcoin vending machines. N/A Austria
24-Jul Binder Grosswang; BPV BPV Huegel worked with the Frankfurt office of Herbert Smith Freehills in advising the Heidelpay Group, a German N/A Austria
Huegel; Herbert Smith technology company for international payments, on the acquisition of the Paysafe Group’s Pay Later business. Binder
Freehills Groesswang advised the Paysafe group.
30-Jul Themmer Toth & Weber & Co. advised Central European University on its July 27, 2020 agreement with the Vienna Business Agency to N/A Austria
Partner; Weber & Co. use the Otto Wagner site in Vienna as the university's new site. Themmer, Toth & Partner advised the Vienna Business
Agency.
31-Jul Schoenherr Schoenherr assisted Auer-Blaschke GmbH & Co KG with the registration of its new AUER brand design as a model brand N/A Austria
at the Austrian Patent Office.
5-Aug Eisenberger & Herzog; Eisenberger & Herzog advised Samsung Catalyst Fund, a venture capital fund of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, on an N/A Austria
Schnittker Moellmann undisclosed investment in the Speedinvest 3 fund, which was advised by Berlin-based Schnittker Mollmann Partners.
Partners
7-Aug Herbst Kinsky Herbst Kinsky advised Byrd technologies GmbH on a EUR 5 million Series A financing round. EUR 5 Austria
million
10-Aug Freshfields; Linklaters; Wolf Theiss and Linklaters advised Raiffeisen Bank International AG on the issuance of EUR 500 million worth of EUR 500 Austria
Wolf Theiss additional Tier 1 capital. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised joint lead managers Barclays Bank plc, Goldman Sachs million
International, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, and UBS Europe SE.
11-Aug Brandl & Talos Brandl & Talos advised BTOV's Industrial Technologies Fund on its participation in ToolSense's financing round that also EUR 3 Austria
included AWS Grunderfonds, Segnalita Ventures, Martin Global AG, and Dr. Georg Hoblik GmbH. million
11-Aug Fellner Wratzfeld & Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner advised a consortium of UniCredit Bank Austria, BAWAG P.S.K, Commerzbank, N/A Austria
Partner Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberoesterreich, and HYPO Vorarlberg on the reorganization proceedings of the Huber Group,
an Austrian lingerie manufacturer.
17-Aug Linklaters; Schoenherr Schoenherr advised HETA Resolution AG on the sale of Julia Portfolio Solutions S.p.A., an Italy-based company engaged N/A Austria
in the non-performing loan sector, to Bain Capital Credit, LP. Linklaters advised the buyers.
24-Aug Baker Mckenzie; Baker McKenzie advised Amplifier Game Invest on the acquisition of games developer Rare Earth Games. The EUR Austria
Freimuller Obereder Pilz Freimueller, Obereder, Pilz firm advised Rare Earth Games founders Michael Borras, Peter Ehardt, and Helmut Hutterer. 300,000
30-Aug Allen & Overy; Cerha Cerha Hempel advised EnBW Trust e.V. and EnBW Energie Baden-Wurttemberg AG on the sale of a 28.35% stake in EVN EUR 1 Austria
Hempel; Eisenberger & AG that was held in trust for EnBW by the EnBW Trust. Allen & Overy and Eisenberger & Herzog advised the buyers. EVN billion
Herzog; Schoenherr was advised by Schoenherr.
31-Aug Rautner Attorneys at Rautner Rechtsanwalte advised Windkraft Simonsfeld on a EUR 63 million financing deal with the European Investment EUR 63 Austria
Law Bank and Erste Bank. million
2-Sep Herbst Kinsky Herbst Kinsky advised Presono GmbH on a media-for-equity deal with Seven Ventures Austria. N/A Austria
3-Sep Gassauer-Fleissner; PHH advised Bondi Consult on the sale of the service hub part of the TwentyOne commercial project in Vienna's N/A Austria
PHH Rechtsanwalte Floridsdorf district to InterXion. Gassauer-Fleissner Rechtsanwalte advised InterXion on the deal.
4-Sep EY Law; Schoenherr Schoenherr advised Art-Invest Real Estate on the acquisition of the Q11 – Leben am Fluss residential property in Sankt N/A Austria
Polten, Lower Austria. EY Law advised the seller.
7-Sep Weber & Co.; White & White & Case and Wolf Theiss advised joint lead managers Barclays, MUFG, UniCredit Bank Austria, BNP Paribas, Credit EUR 1.25 Austria
Case; Wolf Theiss Agricole CIB, J.P. Morgan, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, Bayern LB, DZ Bank AG, Helaba and SMBC billion
Nikko on OMV Aktiengesellschaft's EUR 1.25 billion hybrid bonds issue. Weber & Co advised the issuer on the deal.
15-Sep Binder Groesswang; Bird Binder Groesswang and Bird & Bird advised Blockpit on its acquisition of 21 Consulting. N/A Austria
& Bird
21-Sep Binder Groesswang Binder Groesswang advised Austrian cryptocurrency service provider SmartBytes GmbH, operating as Coinpanion, on N/A Austria
a pre-seed financing round.
22-Sep Dorda; Eisenberger & Dorda advised Patrizia AG on the acquisition of the Aira Tower residential project in Graz from Aira Development Group. N/A Austria
Herzog Eisenberger & Herzog advised the Aira Development Group on the sale.
2-Oct Schoenherr Schoenherr advised Austrian fintech Bitpanda on a European Series A financing round that was led by Valar Ventures. USD 52 Austria
Taylor Wessing advised Valar Ventures. million
6-Oct Cerha Hempel; Cerha Hempel advised OMV on the sale of its 51% stake in Gas Connect Austria GmbH to Verbund AG. Schoenherr EUR 271 Austria
Schoenherr advised Verbund on the sale. million
9-Oct Delphi; Schoenherr; Schoenherr and Sweden's Delphi law firm advised AddLife on its acquisition of all shares in the DACH Medical Group N/A Austria
SCWP Schindhelm Holding AG. The unidentified sellers were advised by SCWP Schindhelm.
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Date Deal
Firms Involved Deal/Litigation Country
covered Value
12-Oct De Breij Boon Evers; Schoenherr, McMillan, De Breij Boon Evers, and K.Treppides & Co advised Smart2Pay Global Services B.V. on its sale to EUR Austria
Fasken Martineau the Nuvei Corporation. Stibbe and Fasken Martineau Dumoulin advised the buyer. 221.57
Dumoulin; K.Treppides million
& Co; McMillan;
Schoenherr; Stibbe
15-Oct Binder Groesswang; Bird Binder Groesswang, working alongside lead counsel Bird & Bird, advised European investment fund Cube Infrastructure N/A Austria
& Bird Fund II on the acquisition of a majority stake in Switzerland's Heliot Group.
16-Oct Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang advised UBM Development on the sale of its housing project in Vienna’s Nordbahnviertel district to EUR 50 Austria
Grama Schwaighofer the Buwog Group. Grama Schwaighofer Vondrak advised Buwog on the deal. million
Vondrak Rechtsanwalte
16-Oct CMS CMS Austria advised Oesterreichische Nationalbank on the Felix Austria project, which seeks to modernize the N/A Austria
processing of bulk payment transactions in Austria.
16-Oct Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang advised Lafayette Mittelstand Capital on its acquisition of the elevator cable business from the N/A Austria
DLA Piper Gebauer & Griller Group as part of a carve-out. DLA Piper advised Gebauer & Griller on the deal.
19-Oct CMS CMS advised Bechtle AG on its acquisition of Dataformers GmbH. N/A Austria
20-Oct Ashurst; Bredin Prat; Dr. Schoenherr, Ashurst, and Dr. Beck & Partner advised Schlemmer GmbH on its acquisition by Delfingen Industry. S.A. N/A Austria
Beck & Partner; Taylor Bredin Prat and Taylor Wessing advised the buyer.
Wessing; Schoenherr
22-Oct Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have advised private equity investment company Ardian on the sale of N/A Austria
Garrigues; Willkie Farr & Gantner Electronic Austria Holding GmbH to Salto Systems. Wolf Theiss and Garrigues advised Salto Systems.
Gallagher; Wolf Theiss
23-Oct BPV Huegel; Lenz & BPV Huegel and Lenz & Staehelin have advised Raiffeisen Informatik on the sale of the remaining shares in SoftwareONE CHF 111 Austria
Staehelin Holding in an accelerated book-building process. million
27-Oct CMS CMS advised green electricity provider eFriends on the sale of a 24% stake to RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria. N/A Austria
28-Oct Allen & Overy; Eisenberger & Herzog, Allen & Overy, and Shearman & Sterling advised SAP SE on iyd acquisition of Emarsys, a Viennese N/A Austria
Eisenberger & Herzog; cloud-based provider of omnichannel customer loyalty platforms. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Emarsys.
Freshfields; Shearman &
Sterling
28-Oct Fellner Wratzfeld & Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner advised Immobilien Holding on the sale of its shares in Arwag Holding to the Fund for N/A Austria
Partner Temporary Housing in Vienna.
29-Oct Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang, Schiff Hardin, and Hengeler Mueller advised California-based medical devices and life science N/A Austria
Brandl & Talos; Hengeler instruments manufacturer Paramit Corporation on the acquisition of Austria's System Industrie Electronic GmbH and
Mueller; Schif Hardin its German subsidiary, System Industrie Electronic Deutschland GmbH, from former majority shareholder System
Industrie Holding AG (and its ultimate owner, the Filzmaier Private Foundation) and Aws Mittelstandsfonds, a former
minority shareholder. Brandl & Talos advised the sellers on the transaction.
30-Oct Act Legal (WMWP); Schoenherr advised Austrian start-up Carbomed Medical Solutions on a EUR 3 million financing round led by AWS EUR 3 Austria
Schoenherr Gruenderfonds. Act Legal Austria WMWP advised AWS Gruenderfonds on the deal. million
30-Oct 42Law; Eisenberger & Eisenberger & Herzog advised Markus Kummel, Oliver Jusinger, and Andreas Kossmeier, the founders of the Bergfex N/A Austria
Herzog tourism platform, on the sale of a 60% stake to Russmedia Equity Partners. 42law advised Russmedia Equity Partners
on the deal.
2-Nov Cleary Gottlieb Steen Schoenherr, Milbank, and Linklaters advised The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of Flender, a Germany-based specialist EUR 2 Austria
& Hamilton, Hengeler in mechanical and electrical drive technology, from Siemens. Cleary Gottlieb and Hengeler Mueller advised the buyer. billion
Mueller; Linklaters;
Milbank; Schoenherr
2-Nov Bahr; Brandl & Talos; Brandl & Talos advised Ring International Holding on its takeover of the Burger King franchise in Norway, Sweden, and N/A Austria
Bruun & Hjejle; Cirio; Denmark from Umoe Restaurants. Norwegian law firm Bahr advised the seller on the deal. Wikborg | Rein in Norway, Cirio
Wikborg | Rein in Sweden, and Bruun & Hjejle in Denmark acted as local advisors to the buyer.
3-Nov Cerha Hempel; Cerha Hempel advised Immofinanz on its successful placement of an unsubordinated, unsecured bonds issue worth EUR 500 Austria
Linklaters EUR 500 million. Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Securities acted as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners, while million
Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Erste Group Bank, and HSBC served as joint bookrunners on the deal. Linklaters advised
the underwriters.
3-Nov Arnold Rechtsanwalte; Dorda advised Ascott on an agreement for serviced residences in the Forum Donaustadt/Vienna Twentytwo N/A Austria
Dorda development in Vienna with Signa Real Estate and Austria Real Estate. The aparthotel will be marketed under the
Citadines Apart’hotel brand and is scheduled to open at the end of 2022. Arnold advised Signa and ARE on the deal.
4-Nov Schoenherr Schoenherr successfully represented Austrian AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals AG in arbitration against Taiwan's N/A Austria
PharmaEssentia Corporation.
4-Nov Schoenherr; Wolf Theiss Schoenherr and Wolf Theiss advised Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG on the acquisition of ECI-Distribution GmbH and N/A Austria
its service partner PowerUp GmbH.
5-Nov Dorda Dorda successfully defended Energy Hero in a case heard by the Austrian Supreme Court against an unspecified energy N/A Austria
supplier.
6-Nov CMS; KPMG Legal CMS advised Plastic Omnium on establishing a joint venture with ElringKlinger. In addition, Plastic Omnium acquired EUR 15 Austria
ElringKlinger’s Austrian subsidiary, ElringKlinger Fuelcell Systems Austria. KPMG Law advised ElringKlinger. million
11-Nov Cerha Hempel; Cerha Hempel advised CA Immobilien Anlagen on its EUR 350 million placement of a fixed rate senior unsecured green EUR 350 Austria
Linklaters bond. Linklaters advised joint global coordinators J.P. Morgan Securities plc and Morgan Stanley & Co International plc million
and joint bookrunners and joint sustainability structuring agents UniCredit Bank AG and Raiffeisen Bank International
AG.
13-Nov Binder Groesswang Binder Groesswang advised the SeneCura Group on its acquisition of Austria's St. Veit/Glan therapy center. N/A Austria
17-Nov Brandl & Talos; TBS Brandl & Talos advised AWS Grunderfonds on its EUR 1.8 million seed investment in Vienna-based real estate startup EUR 1.8 Austria
Schmidt Rendity. TBS Schmidt reportedly advised Rendity on the deal. million
23-Nov Herbst Kinsky Herbst Kinsky helped Austrian start-up Trality attract EUR 1.5 million in financing from a group of German investors EUR 1.5 Austria
including Blockrocket, VC Tokentus, FFG, and AWS. million
16 CEE LEGAL MATTERS2020 TABLE OF DEALS MAY 2021
Date Deal
Firms Involved Deal/Litigation Country
covered Value
23-Nov Graf & Pitkowitz Graf & Pitkowitz advised Germany's Cherry GmbH on the acquisition of Austria's Theobroma Systems Design and N/A Austria
Consulting GmbH.
26-Nov Herbst Kinsky Herbst Kinsky advised investment company Round2Capital Partners GmbH & Co KG on its EUR 6.6 million financing EUR 6.6 Austria
round. million
27-Nov AGP Advokater; EY Law; Schoenherr advised Christian Bamberger, SK Capital GmbH, Foxyflo GmbH, Christian Waldheim, and Martin Mrvka N/A Austria
Schoenherr on the sale of 100% of Austrian communication-platform-as-a-service companies ATMS, SMS.AT, and WebSMS to
Norwegian Link Mobility Holding ASA. AGP Advokater and EY Law advised Link Mobiliy on the transaction.
4-Dec Dorda Dorda successfully represented Italian investor Francesco Becchetti in enforcement proceedings against the assets of EUR 25 Austria
the Republic of Albania in Austria. million
7-Dec Lorenz & Strobl; Schoenherr advised Gebauer & Griller Kabelwerke GmbH on its acquisition by Konstant Industriebeteiligung GmbH. N/A Austria
Schoenherr Lorenz & Strobl advised the buyer.
9-Dec Dorda Dorda advised DLH Real Estate Austria on the sale of a 65,000-square-meter section of the Industrial Campus Vienna N/A Austria
East to Deka Immobilien.
11-Dec Dorda; PwC Legal Dorda advised DLH Real Estate Austria on the acquisition of a 30,000-square-meter property in the Future Zone East N/A Austria
industrial park from Vienna Airport Business Park and Airport Services VIE Immobilien. PwC Legal advised the sellers on
the deal.
14-Dec Clifford Chance; Schoenherr and Clifford Chance advised Hypo Vorarlberg on the synthetic securitization of a EUR 330 million portfolio of EUR 330 Austria
Linklaters; Schoenherr loans to small and medium-sized enterprises, corporate borrowers, or certain private individuals, which was provided by million
the European Investment Fund and European Investment Bank. Linklaters advised the EIF and EIB on the deal.
14-Dec CMS CMS advised A1 Telekom Austria AG on the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent Voice Business, the classic telephony business N/A Austria
of technology service provider NTT Ltd.
14-Dec Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang advised OBB-Technische Services on the establishment of a joint venture with Voestalpine Stahl for N/A Austria
Schoenherr the purpose of freight wagon production. Schoenherr advised the co-venturer on the deal. Gleiss Lutz reportedly acted
as a local advisor in Germany to Voestalpine.
15-Dec Cerha Hempel; Eisenberger & Herzog advised German real estate investment and asset manager Hamburg Trust on the acquisition N/A Austria
Eisenberger & Herzog of the newly constructed Siemensstrasse residential living project in Vienna from Eyemaxx Real Estate AG, advised by
Cerha Hempel.
15-Dec Herbst Kinsky Herbst Kinsky advised Biogena Group Invest on the initial public offering of its shares and their listing on the Vienna N/A Austria
Stock Exchange.
18-Dec Binder Groesswang; Binder Groesswang advised Lenzing AG on the successful issuance of a EUR 500 million hybrid bond. Linklaters and Wolf EUR 500 Austria
Linklaters; Wolf Theiss Theiss advised joint global coordinators BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley and joint bookrunners BNP Paribas, Morgan million
Stanley, and UniCredit.
21-Dec Eisenberger & Herzog; Eisenberger & Herzog advised Krenhof AG on its merger with Pankl Racing Systems AG. Oberhammer advised Pankl N/A Austria
Oberhammer Racing Systems on the merger.
22-Dec CMS; Wolf Theiss CMS has advised joint lead managers BofA Securities, BNP Paribas, Erste Group, Goldman Sachs International, JP EUR 750 Austria
Morgan, and UBS on Erste Group Bank AG’s EUR 750 million issuance of undated fixed-to-fixed resettable notes. Wolf million
Theiss advised the issuer on the deal.
22-Dec Cerha Hempel Cerha Hempel helped Germany's COSI Hospitality Group enter the Austrian hotel and apartment market. N/A Austria
23-Dec Clifford Chance; Hogan Cerha Hempel and Hogan Lovells advised OMV on the sale of its filling station business in Germany to Britain's EG Group. EUR 485 Austria
Lovells; Latham & Latham & Watkins advised the EG Group on the deal. million
Watkins
23-Dec Eisenberger & Herzog; Schoenherr advised UBS Europe SE on the sale of its onshore wealth management business in Austria to LGT Bank AG. N/A Austria
Schoenherr
24-Dec Brandl & Talos; SMP Brandl & Talos and SMP advised System Industrie Electronic Holding on the acquisition of a 70.1% stake in N/A Austria
Elektromotorenwerk Grunhain.
28-Dec Eisenberger & Herzog; Eisenberger & Herzog advised Wien Energie GmbH on the acquisition of a 49% stake in Austria's Pongratzer Kogel, N/A Austria
Taylor Wessing Herrenstein, and Zagersdorf wind farms from wind and solar farm operator Encavis AG. Taylor Wessing advised Encavis
on the deal.
30-Dec Buchberger Schoenherr advised Bilfinger Maschinenbau GmbH & Co KG on thesale of its mechanical and apparatus engineering N/A Austria
Rechtsanwalts; business to ISW Heavy Components GmbH. Buchberger Rechtsanwalts advised the buyer.
Schoenherr
1-Aug Kovacevic Prpic KPS, working with Roedl & Partner and Mazars Croatia, advised Tyssenkrupp on the Croatian aspects of a multijurisdictional N/A Austria,
Simeunovic; Roedl corporate restructuring project, in particular on cross-border upstream merger of its Croatian subsidiary, along with Croatia;
& Partner; Waitz four other EU-based entities, into a newly established EU-based holding company. Waitz Rechtsanwalte advised on Czech
Rechtsanwalte Austrian law. Republic;
Hungary;
Poland;
Romania
1-Sep Akin Gump; McCann Schoenherr, Akin Gump, and McCann FitzGerald advised Endava plc, a UK-based provider of information technology EUR 60 Austria;
FitzGerald; Schoenherr; services, on the acquisition of Comtrade Digital Services Limited, an Ireland-based provider of strategic software million Bosnia and
Watson Farley & Williams engineering services and solutions, from Serbia's Comtrade Group B.V. Watson Farley & Williams advised the sellers. Herzegovina;
Serbia;
Slovenia
15-Jun Schoenherr Schoenherr, acting as leader of a consortium of European law firms, conducted what it describes as a comprehensive N/A Austria;
study on the regulatory and administrative requirements for entry and trade on the gas wholesale market in the EU for Bulgaria
the European Commission, Directorate General Energy.
11-Mar Bopa Bojanovic Partners; Cerha Hempel and K&L Gates advised the EBRD on the conversion of its indirect participation in listed Addiko Bank EUR Austria;
Cerha Hempel; K&L AG into a direct participation. Freshfields Austria served as local counsel to Advent International Corporation. Bopa 10.61 Croatia;
Gates; Kavcic Bracun & Bojanovic Partners in Serbia, Kavcic Bracun & Partners in Slovenia, Madirazza & Partners in Croatia, and Prelevic Law firm billion Montenegro;
Partners; Madirazza & of the Adriala network advised the EBRD in the CSEE region. Serbia;
Partners; Prelevic Law Slovenia
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