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Maria Orlyk Becomes Managing Partner of CMS RRH in Kyiv

Maria Orlyk Becomes Managing Partner of CMS RRH in Kyiv

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Longtime CMS Local Partner Maria Orlyk has succeeded Johannes Trenkwalder as Managing Partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainze's Kyiv office.

In addition to her new role as Managing Partner, Orlyk has also become Co-Head of the Energy & Climate Change Practice Group.

Orlyk, who has been with CMS in Ukraine for 15 years, since the firm first commenced operations in the country, specializes in Corporate/M&A, Energy, Competition, and Employment law.  She holds a master’s degree in International Law from the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, as well as an LL.M. degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law in the United States.

“I am honored to lead the office in Kyiv," Orlyk said. "I am very excited to continue to strengthen and expand CMS’s excellent position in the local market with the most competent and dedicated team.

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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