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Redcliffe Partners and CMS Advise on EBRD and IFC's USD 435 Million Financing for Lifecell and Datagroup-Volia Merger

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Redcliffe Partners, working with Clifford Chance and George Yiangou, has advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation on the USD 435 million financing for the merger of Lifecell Group and the Datagroup-Volia Group (reported on by CEE Legal Matters on September 17, 2024). CMS, working with Chrysostomides, advised the borrowers.

Lifecell Group is a Ukrainian data transmission and mobile communication operator.

Datagroup-Volia Group is a Ukrainian telecommunications service provider.

The Redcliffe Partners team included Managing Partner Olexiy Soshenko, Partner Albert Sych, Of Counsel Natalia Pakhomovska, Counsels Olesia Mykhailenko and Denys Medvediev, Associates Sevastian Viktoruk, Kateryna Zheltova, Arthur Mukha, and Zakhar Kymberskyi, Junior Associates Artem Mykhailyk and Georgy Smirnov, and Paralegals Andriy Kostiuk, Olha Shcherbak, and Daryna Riashko.

The CMS team included Kyiv-based Partners Ihor Olekhov, Olga Shenk, Tetyana Dovgan, and Graham Conlon, Counsels Kateryna Chechulina and Louise Cakar, Senior Associates Vitalii Mainarovych, Inna Koval, and Mariana Saienko, and Associates Iryna Barlit, Ihor Pavliukov, Bohdan Ilchenko, and Oliver Colston-Weeks, Istanbul-based Managing Partner Alican Babalioglu, Senior Associate Aysegul Onol, and Associate Eylul Sakoglu, as well as further lawyers in the UK and France.

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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.

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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