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Martina Gavalec and Natalia Janoskova Promoted to Partner at CMS

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CMS has promoted Martina Gavalec and Natalia Janoskova to Partner at the firm’s Slovakia office.

Gavalec focuses on corporate and M&A. She has been with CMS since 2020 when she joined as a Senior Associate. Earlier, she was a Senior Lawyer with EY Law between 2019 and 2020. Earlier still, she was a Junior Lawyer with Hillbridges between 2014 and 2019.

Janoskova specializes in banking and finance and real estate. She has been with the firm since 2020 when she joined as an Attorney at Law. Earlier, she was an Associate with Eversheds Sutherland between 2015 and 2019 and its legacy firm Dvorak, Hager & Partners between 2014 and 2015.

"The promotions of Martina Gavalec and Natalia Janoskova to Partners reflect their exceptional legal skills and dedication to client success,” commented Managing Partner Oliver Werner. “Martina’s understanding of both the Slovak and international legal landscape, coupled with her expertise in M&A, life sciences, and AI, will continue to be an asset to our team and clients. Natalia’s track record in banking and finance and real estate, along with her client-focused approach, reinforces our firm's capabilities to deliver top-tier legal services.”

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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