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CMS and Baker McKenzie Advise on Medicover’s Acquisition of McFit Polska from RSG Group

CMS and Baker McKenzie Advise on Medicover’s Acquisition of McFit Polska from RSG Group

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CMS has advised Medicover on its acquisition of McFit Polska from RSG Group. Baker McKenzie advised the seller.

McFit Polska operates 14 fitness studios in Poland, offering access to modern technological solutions, training classes, and programs.

Medicover is a Sweden-headquartered international healthcare provider and diagnostic services operator. The company has operations in Poland, Germany, Romania, Ukraine, and India.

RSG Group is a German-based company operating in the fitness and lifestyle sector, serving a total of 6.4 million customers.

According to CMS, as a result of the transaction, Medicover has significantly increased its market share in the fitness sector in Poland.

The CMS team was led by Partner Blazej Zagorski and included Senior Associates Grzegorz Paczek, Rafal Burda, and Maciej Olejnik, and Lawyers Magdalena Mentrak, Damian Karwala, and Agnieszka Gorecka.

The Baker McKenzie team was led by Senior Associate Ernest Dymel and included Partners Tomasz Krzyzowski and Marcin Trepka. 

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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.

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