Ondrej Majer and Jan Sturm have made Equity Partner and Josef Adam has made Partner at Havel & Partners.

Havel & Partners has advised Ceska Zbrojovka Group SE on the acquisition, with Brazil's CBC ammunition manufacturer, of a stake in New Lachaussee, a Belgian designer and builder of ammunition production machines.

Former Clifford Chance Senior Associate Marian Husar has joined J&T Finance Group as its Head of Legal.

Lawyers from Baker McKenzie's Prague and Warsaw office formed part of the firm's multi-office team advising Swiss building component supplier Arbonia on the sale of its windows business to Denmark's Dovista Group.

DLA Piper has advised Photon Energy in connection with the admission to trading of all its shares on the regulated parallel markets of the Warsaw and Prague Stock Exchanges.

Clifford Chance’s Prague office has helped the Sazka Group obtain a EUR 640 million senior secured loan. Allen & Overy advised the unidentified lenders on the deal, along with, reportedly, the Bernitsas Law Firm in Greece, Georgiades & Pelides in Cyprus, and CMS Reich Rohrwig Hainz in Austria.

Over the course of our seven years, CEE Legal Matters has interviewed most of the British lawyers working on the ground in Central and Eastern Europe as part of our recurring “Expat on the Market” feature. We reached out to them recently and asked them to bring us up to speed on what they’re doing and/or share their thoughts on the ramifications of Brexit or the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

BPV Braun Partners has advised Immofinanz on the acquisition of retail parks in the Czech town of Litvinov and the Horni Mecholupy neighborhood of Prague from Mitiska Reim. Kinstellar advised Mitiska Reim on the deal.

Schoenherr's Prague office has advised Beijer Ref AG on the acquisition of a majority stake in Czech Sinclair Global Group s.r.o. from private individuals Ivo Nespor, Vladimir Pakosta, and Zdenek Cizek. Novalia advised the sellers on the deal.

The Czech Competition Authority (CCA) announced in a press release that it had imposed a fine of CZK 32m (approximately EUR 1.2m) on the Czech retail chain HRUŠKA, spol. s.r.o., for an alleged abuse of significant market power. The decision is not final and an appeal has been filed.

Baker McKenzie has advised Energeticky a Prumyslovy Holding on the sale of 38.946% of the shares and Braindour Development Limited on the sale of 61.029% of the shares in Polish coal mine Przedsiebiorstwo Gornicze Silesia to Bumech.

Kocian Solc Balastik has advised J&T Banka on its EUR 2.1 billion acquisition of Rustonka Development II, which owns the Rustonka office building in Karlin, Prague, with over 17,900 square meters of leasable area.

Clifford Chance has advised Corporate Finance House Group on a joint acquisition with Ceskomoravska Nemovitostni of the Churchill Square office from Penta Real Estate. AK Evan advised Penta Real Estate on the deal.

Kocian Solc Balastik has advised Arete Invest’s real-estate fund on the EUR 113 million sale of a portfolio of 11 logistics and industrial parks in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to Australia-based fund Cromwell. 

Glatzova & Co has advised Reflex Capital on the sale of its stake in Brno startup Webnode to the Belgian company Team.Blue.

Glatzova & Co. has helped Smartlook.com obtain a CZK 81 million Series A investment from Dutch investment company Airbridge Equity Partners and other unidentified investors.

Glatzova & Co. has advised Raiffeisenbank on its provision of a CZK 215 million loan BesTen. Rutland Partners reportedly advised the borrower on the deal.

Dentons’ Prague office has successfully represented Veolia Energie CR in a dispute with Czech tax authorities regarding interest from illegal gift tax.