Kocian Solc Balastik has advised the Avant Financial Group on the EU growth prospectuses for two issuances to finance the group's expansion and development.

Sorainen has advised Northern Horizon Capital on issuing EUR 42 million in Baltic Horizon Fund corporate bonds to refinance outstanding bond debt.

Estonia is looking at reforming its tax system and the legal profession's standards, amid overall economic uncertainty that is impacting banking, finance, and start-ups, according to TGS Baltic Partner Kirsti Pent.

Stratulat Albulescu has advised the Bucharest Stock Exchange on leasing 2,235 square meters of office space in the America House building – for relocation purposes – from Complexul Multifunctional Victoria.

Seven Kinstellar lawyers have been promoted to Partner: Bratislava-based Tomas Melisek, Budapest-based Levente Hegedus, Istanbul-based Bulut Girgin, and Kyiv-based Anastasiya Bolkhovitinova, Natalia Kirichenko, Oleg Matiusha, and Illya Muchnyk.

Schoenherr, working with Linklaters, has advised joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners BNP Paribas and Citigroup Global Markets Europe and joint bookrunner UniCredit Bank on the oversubscribed EUR 250 million issuance of convertible bonds by Voestalpine AG. Cerha Hempel advised Voestalpine.