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Dentons and CMS Advise on Sale of Budapest Metropolitan University

Dentons and CMS Advise on Sale of Budapest Metropolitan University

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Dentons has advised Central Europe Alfa Asset Management Ltd. and its sole investor, Optima Investments Limited, on the acquisition of the Budapest Metropolitan University from Central European Education Holding Zrt for a cash consideration of USD 50 million. CMS advised the seller.

Optima Investments Limited is an asset manager owned by the foundation established by the National Bank of Hungary. Central European Education Holding was ultimately owned by CEE Equity Partners.

Dentons’ team included Partners Rob Irving and Istvan Reczicza, Counsel Tunde Gonczol, and Associates Nora Jakab and Brigitta Kovacs. Impact Advisory, Denton's joint venture advisory firm also advised on the deal.

CMS's team included Partner Aniko Kircsi, Senior Counsel Zoltan Poronyi, and Associate Szabina Marsi.

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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