CEE Legal Matters
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BBH has successfully represented Czech lottery and gambling company Sazka before the Czech Republic's Supreme Administrative Court in a dispute against the country's Ministry of Finance and challenging a previous Municipal Court in Prague ruling over Sazka's obligations under the Gaming Act.
Three years after its launch, e-Justice in Bulgaria is still under construction and improvement and has not yet reached its final form.
Nedelka Kubac Advokati has successfully represented the interests of XXXLutz in achieving a "nearly 99% reduction" of a fine imposed by the Czech Competition Authority.
BDK Advokati has successfully represented Satko Mujagic, Fikret Alic, and the Association of Camp Inmates Kozarac in a dispute against the Serbian REM electronic media regulator before the Administrative Court in Belgrade.
CMS has successfully represented the interests of Free Energy Project Oreshets – formerly owned by CEZ and currently a part of the Eurohold Group – in a dispute against the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance.
Former Senior Associate Zane Sedlova has been promoted to an Associate Partner position at TGS Baltic in Latvia.
In 1998, in the aftermath of the most famous class action in history, Philip Morris and three other tobacco companies had to pay a $ 206,000,000,000 settlement covering medical costs for smoking-related illnesses.
