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CMS Advises Alpla on Joint Venture with Inden Pharma

CMS Advises Alpla on Joint Venture with Inden Pharma

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CMS has advised the Alpla Group on establishing a pharmaceutical packaging market joint venture with Spain's Inden Pharma.

"The Alpla Group and Inden Pharma have strengthened their presence in the pharmaceutical market by founding a joint venture," CMS informed. "Alpla Pharma is contributing production sites in Greece and Poland to the cooperation and Inden Pharma two plants in Spain. Together they plan to set up a site in Germany and triple their production over the next five years."

The Alpla Group is an Austrian plastics manufacturer and plastics recycler, specializing in blow-molded bottles and caps, injection-molded parts, preforms, and tubes.

The CMS team was led by Austria-based Partner Alexander Rakosi and included Partners Hans Lederer and Dieter Zandler, Lawyers Florian Mayer and Vanessa Horaceck, Associates Anna Hiegelsperger, Livia Landskron, and Ramona Mujanovic, Legal Assistants Rupert Riedl and Hannah Gierlinger, Legal Trainee Rebecca Herlitz, as well as Poland-based Partner Blazej Zagorski, Senior Associate Joanna Bialoskorska, Lawyer Aleksandra Dalecka, and teams from the firm’s Spanish and German offices.

Editor's Note: After this article was published, CEE Legal Matters learned that Herbert Smith Freehills Spain reportedly advised Inden Pharma.

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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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