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Closing: KKCG and Aricoma Group International Acquisition of Musala Soft Now Closed

Closing: KKCG and Aricoma Group International Acquisition of Musala Soft Now Closed

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On December 20, 2022, PPG Lawyers announced that KKCG's and Aricoma Group International’s acquisition of Musala Soft (reported by CEE Legal Matters on August 22, 2022) had closed.

PPG Lawyers and Nedelka Kubac Advokati advised Aricoma Group International on the merger control and regulatory approval process for its acquisition of Bulgarian software company Musala Soft and its subsidiaries. The Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition issued its approval decision on November 1, 2022.

As previously reported, Schoenherr advised the KKCG Group and its portfolio company Aricoma Group International on the acquisition of Musala Soft and subsidiaries. CMS reportedly advised the sellers.

The Aricoma Group is a Central European IT services provider with a presence in Scandinavia. Musala Soft is a software engineering services provider.

The PPG Lawyers team was led by Partner Mariya Papazova.

The Nedelka Kubac Advokati team was led by Partner Radovan Kubac and Junior Associate Ondrej Cizek.

Schoenherr’s team included Bulgaria-based Partners Ilko Stoyanov and Stefana Tsekova, Attorneys at Law Katerina Kaloyanova-Toshkova, Ivelina Vasileva, and Ventsislav Tomov, and Associate Gergana Roussinova-Ivanova as well as North Macedonia-based Partner Andrea Radonjanin, Attorney at Law Andrea Lazarevska, and Associates Magdalena Petreska, Martin Ivanov, and Sofijana Markovska.

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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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