Wardynski & Partners, working with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, has advised the Bauer Media Group on the merger of its online comparison platform business with that of the Netrisk Group.

Cytowski & Partners has advised Warsaw-based AI Clearing on its USD 14 million series A investment round with Prudence VC, joined by existing investors Tera Ventures, Inovo VC, and Innovation Nest. Boston-based Nixon Peabody advised the new investor.

TGS Baltic has advised Lithuanian cyber security tech unicorn Nord Security on attracting a USD 100 million investment from US private equity group Warburg Pincus. Sorainen reportedly worked with Kirkland & Ellis and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek to advise Warburg Pincus.

Schoenherr has advised the Erste Bank on the legal implementation of the Financial Health Prototype text-based chatbot. 

Dorda, working with Clifford Chance's Frankfurt office, has advised financial advisor Citigroup Global Markets Europe and co-financial advisor Erste Group Bank on the demerger of the telecommunications tower business of listed Telekom Austria Aktiengesellschaft and the subsequent admission of 166 million shares of the newly formed EuroTeleSites to trading on the Official Market of the Vienna Stock Exchange. CMS reportedly advised Telekom Austria.

Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii Partner Gabriela Anton, Gecic Law Counsel Miodrag Jevtic, ACI Partners Head of Banking/Finance Marina Zanoga, Avellum Managing Partner Mykola Stetsenko, NazaIi Tax & Legal Partner Nilay Goker Duran, PRK Partners Senior Attorney-at-Law Norbert Hink, and Schoenherr Bulgaria Local Partner Tsvetan Krumov look at how the financial services landscape in the CEE region has been shifting, as local non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) are gradually gaining ground in an area historically dominated by the banking sector.