As of 1 April 2024, the decree of the Hungarian National Bank on the processing of payment transactions has been amended, which particularly affects the process of immediate transfers.

Clifford Chance has appointed Milos Felgr as its new Managing Partner of its Prague office, effective May 1.

Bernitsas Law has advised Piraeus Bank on its new EUR 500 million issuance and offering of senior preferred notes due April 2030, and their listing on the Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

Kyriakides Georgopoulos has advised CBE Capital and a consortium of sponsors on the EUR 95 million financing from Piraeus Bank for the development of the Six Senses Hotel and branded residences in Porto Heli, Greece.

Effective April 2024, former LCF Law Group Partner and Head of International Arbitration Yuliya Atamanova has joined JSC CB PrivatBank as a Legal Counsel and the head of the bank's International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation Department.

The most recent promotion round at CMS saw 54 lawyers promoted to the firm's partnership ranks, including Austria-based Daniela Kroemer, David Kohl, Florian Mayer, Kai Ruckelshausen, Lukas Peissl, Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger, and Sonja Otenhajmer, Bulgaria-based Jenia Dimitrova, Hungary-based Agnes Solyom, Eszter Torok, and Katalin Horvath, and Poland-based Tomasz Sancewicz.