Lakatos Koves & Partners has advised Polish listed company Selena Group on a strategic collaboration with Hungary's Masterplast to establish a glass wool factory in Szerencs. Peremiczki & Turi reportedly advised Masterplast.

JDP Drapala & Partners, working with Milbank, has advised the EQT Mid Market Europe and EQT Mid Market Asia III funds on the sale of BBS Automation to the MDAX-listed Duerr Group.

Koutalidis has advised Everty on its acquisition of two logistics centers with a total gross leasable area of approximately 33,000 square meters located in the Aspropyrgos area.

The upcoming parliamentary elections at the end of September are the talk of the town in Slovakia, with a slew of interesting legislative changes – including those covering whistleblowing, corporate restructurings, and construction – coming in before the buzzer, according to Wolf Theiss Managing Partner Katarina Matulnikova.

The Act No. 497/2022 Coll. on the screening of foreign investments and on amendments and supplements to certain acts, as amended, and Slovak Government Regulation No. 61/2023 Coll. establish critical foreign investments rules (the "FDI legislation"). In cooperation with the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic (the "Ministry") we have prepared an overview of some practical issues in connection with the FDI legislation.

On July 26, 2023, Linklaters announced that Polish developer Develia's EUR 100 million acquisition of 19 Polish subsidiaries from French developer Nexity (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on June 5, 2023) had closed.