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Everlegal and CMS Advise on EIB Financing for UNIT.City

Everlegal and CMS Advise on EIB Financing for UNIT.City

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Everlegal has advised the first innovation park in Ukraine, UNIT.City, on its receipt of EUR 50 million in financing from the European Investment Bank. CMS advised EIB on the deal.

According to Everlegal, “this agreement will help to create one of the largest innovation centers, which will combine specialized infrastructure with an innovative ecosystem for IT and technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe.”

"The Ukrainian Innovation Campus Project will be supported by InnovFin Science, a joint initiative from the EU Commission and the EIB that promotes research and innovation investments by public and private bodies," CMS reports. "It will contribute to creating one of the biggest hubs merging dedicated infrastructure with an innovation ecosystem for IT and technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe."

Everlegal’s team included Partner Andriy Olenyuk and Lawyers Olha Horodniuk, Vasylyna Belo, and Lidiia Vatutina.

CMS's team included Partner Ihor Olekhov, Counsel Kateryna Chechulina, and Associate Khrystyna Korpan.

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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