Reed Smith has advised investor and manager Sirec Energy on the final closing of the European Sustainable Investments Fund, a Greek green-energy fund with total commitments of EUR 70 million.

Viacheslav Yakymchuk joins Serhiy Chorny as Co-Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office. He takes over from Serhiy Piontkovsky, who has held that position since 2010 and will continue to lead the firm's Real Estate practice group in Kyiv.

Schoenherr has advised both the lending group and the borrower on a deal that saw ODDO BHF and GLAS Trust Limited finance Afinum's acquisition of the Christian Koenen Group. Germany's Astera Legal and GLNS Rechtsanwaelte reportedly also advised the lenders and the borrower, respectively.

Cobalt has advised BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures and EdgeCap Partners on leading the EUR 6.45 million investment round into Roofit.Solar.

Gide Warsaw has advised Value4Capital and Genesis Capital on their acquisition of Polish supply chain management solutions provider XBS Group. GKR Legal advised XBS.

B2RLaw, working with Dechert and Matheson, has advised Graham Partners on its acquisition of Taoglas Group Holdings from its founder.