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Did You Know: CEE 2022 Leaders According to CEELM Direct

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Did you know that Dentons worked on more reported client matters in Central and Eastern Europe in 2022 – 86 – than any other firm (with Sorainen only one behind), and that Andrzej Stosio of Clifford Chance in Poland worked on more client matters than any other lawyer in the region – 13 (with Mantas Petkevicius of Sorainen in Lithuania and Roxana Ionescu of Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu in Romania both only one behind, with 12)?

In fact, the Activity Rankings feature of CEELM Direct – a simple menu tab that anybody/everybody can use – allows users to determine which firms and which lawyers reported working on the most client matters in any given time period. Thus, in what will become an annual tradition, we hereby report the firms and lawyers that worked on the most reported client matters in each market from January 1 through December 31, 2022, followed by the relevant number.

Want to know which firms and which lawyers were in second place, or third, or in the top ten? If you’re a lawyer or a law firm marketing specialist, do you want to know where you or your firm finished in the annual rankings – and how close you and it were to the top? Visit the CEELM Direct website, click on the Activity Rankings function, and find out!

In the meantime, all of us at CEELM Direct would like to congratulate the firms and partners listed below. Well done, all! And to them, and to all our readers, Happy New Year!

Albania
• Kalo & Associates (3)
• Aigest Milo of Kalo & Associates (2)

Austria
Schoenherr (35)
• Ulrike Sehrschon of E+H (8)

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Law Firm Sajic (6)
• Aleksandar Sajic of Law Firm Sajic (5)

Bulgaria
• Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov (15)
• Georgi Tzvetkov of Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov (9)

Croatia
• Divjak Topic Bahtijarevic & Krka (9)
• Damir Topic Divjak Topic Bahtijarevic & Krka (6)

Czech Republic
• Havel & Partners (26)
• Jan Juroska of Kinstellar and Tomas Dolezil of JSK (Tie: 7)

Estonia
• Sorainen (35)
• Kristel Raidla-Talur of Cobalt (11)

Greece
• Kyriakides Georgopoulos and Zepos & Yannopoulos (Tie: 12)
• Constantinos Lambadarios and Melina Katsimi of the Lambadarios Law Firm (Tie: 6)

Hungary
• Dentons (11)
• Eva Talmacsi of CMS (5)

Kosovo
• DWF Law, Kinstellar, ODI Law, PPG Lawyers, and Squire Patton Boggs (1)
• Gjorgji Georgievski and Ana Stojanovska of ODI Law; Diana Dimova of Kinstellar; Irena Georgieva of PPG Lawyers; and Rostislav Pekar of Squire Patton Boggs (Tie: 1)

Latvia
• Cobalt (28)
• Andra Rubene of TGS Baltic; Dace Silava-Tomsone, Gatis Flinters, Guntars Zile, and Edgars Lodzins of Cobalt; and Eva Berlaus of Sorainen (Tie: 5)

Lithuania
• Sorainen (37)
• Mantas Petkevicius of Sorainen (11)

Moldova
• Cobzac & Partners; Deloitte Legal; Dolea & Co.; Efrim, Rosca & Associates; Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii; Reff & Associatii; Schoenherr; and Zlate & Partners (Tie: 1)
• Sixteen lawyers (Tie: 1)

Montenegro
• Law Office Komnenic (3)
Milos Komnenic of Law Firm Komnenic (2)

North Macedonia
• ODI Law (7)
• Gjorgji Georgievski of ODI Law (7)

Poland
• Clifford Chance (40)
• Andrzej Stosio of Clifford Chance and Miroslaw Fialek of MFW Fialek (Tie: 11)

Romania
• Filip & Co (24)
Roxana Ionescu of Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu (12)

Serbia
BDK Advokati (15)
Vladimir Dasic of BDK Advokati (10)

Slovakia
• Dentons (10)
• Patricia Gossanyiova of Dentons (5)

Slovenia
• Ketler & Partners, ODI Law, and Selih & Partnerji (Tie: 5)
• Suzana Jamsek of ODI Law (3)

Turkey
• Paksoy (19)
• Okan Arican of Balcioglu Selcuk Ardiyok Keki Attorney Partnership (9)

Ukraine
• Sayenko Kharenko (13)
• Glib Bondar of Avellum and Igor Lozenko of Sayenko Kharenko (Tie: 5)

 

Cobalt at a Glance

COBALT is a closely integrated alliance of top-tier law offices across the Baltics, uniting more than 250 attorneys and support staff. During 25 years of experience, we have become a strategic partner to our clients in handling both daily matters and complex large–scale transactions and disputes.

The firm’s broad spectrum of expertise and established position as the market leader gives a comprehensive basis for providing full-service business law advice.

Top international and regional businesses, financial institutions, state and local governments, and the region’s most promising start-ups are among our clients. We offer leading-edge solutions in key industry sectors: Consumer Products, Trade & Distribution, Real Estate & Construction, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, Energy & Utilities, Communications, Media & Technologies, Financial Services, Transport & Logistics.

COBALT has been named Baltic Law Firm of the Year 7 times receiving Chambers Europe, IFLR, The Lawyer and Mergermarket awards, and we are regularly listed amongst the top-performing M&A legal advisors in the Bloomberg, Refinitiv and Mergermarket deal tables. Recognized as the No.1 Lithuanian law firm in the Prospera Law Firm Review 2021 and No. 1 law firm in Latvia in 2022, 2020, 2019, and 2018 client satisfaction surveys. We were recognized as a Baltic-wide Law Firm of the Year at the 2022 Chambers Europe Awards ceremony and named the Baltic States Tax Firm of the Year and Pro Bono Firm of the Year at the annual ITR EMEA Tax Awards 2021 ceremony. 

More information on COBALT can be found at www.cobalt.legal.