Former Dentons Counsel Ryszard Manteuffel has joined Deloitte Legal in Warsaw as a Partner.

Sabina Lalaj, who has led Deloitte Legal in Albania and Kosovo since 2015, has been promoted to Local Legal Partner at the firm.

After almost a century of reclusion, Albania has achieved formal candidate status to join the 28 member states in the European Union. Is the time finally right?

The fiscal aspects of the hydrocarbon sector in Albania will be soon governed by a new law. The new draft “On the Fiscal Regime for Petroleum Operations” law (the “New Draft Law”) was initially published in the Electronic Register of Public Announcement and Consultations on April 4, 2019 and has been circulated for comment among stakeholders, chambers of commerce, and experts’ associations in Albania.

Arsov Natchev Ganeva has been selected as part of a consortium with Deloitte Bulgaria to advise the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance on the effective application of EU State Aid rules to the provision of Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) in Bulgaria.

Jank Weiler Operenyi and Reff & Associates — the Austrian and Romanian members of the Deloitte Legal network — have advised Rondo Ganahl AG on its acquisition of 60% of the shares of Romanian SC Transilvania Pack and Print SA from Offsetdruckerei Schwarzach GmbH. Thurnher Wittwer Pfefferkorn & Partner advised Offsetdruckerei Schwarzach on the deal.

Reff & Associates, the law firm representing Deloitte Legal in Romania, has promoted litigation specialist Cristi Secrieru to Partner.

Lakatos Koves & Partners has advised Hungarian Real Estate Financing Zrt., a member of the Indotek Group, on its acquisition in a public state tender of a portfolio of claims against 11 credit institutions from the National Deposit Insurance Fund.

Deloitte Hungary has hired Eniko Uveges as its new Head of In-House Legal Department.

In January 2019 CEE Legal Matters reported that Deloitte Legal had advised K&H Bank on long-term non-recourse project financing provided to Photon Energy Group for Photon Energy’s 11.5 MWp proprietary PV power plant portfolio in Hungary. Pontes Budapest advised Photon Energy on the deal. We reached out to both firms for more information.

Mrowiec Fialek and Partners has advised Value4Capital’s V4C Poland Plus Fund on the acquisition of a minority stake in Dreamcommerce S.A. from the company’s shareholders. Dreamcommerce S.A. was advised by Deloitte Legal.

Deloitte Legal and Jank Weiler Operenyi, the Austrian member of the Deloitte Legal Network, have advised T-Mobile group on the post-merger integration of the UPC group.

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised Prime Kapital on the sale of a real estate portfolio to MAS Real Estate for EUR 112.97 million. Reff & Associates — the Romanian office of Deloitte Legal — advised the buyers on the deal, which involves nine retail centers with a total surface of 67,959 square meters, located throughout Romania.

Ellex Latvia has advised Silverlake Axis Ltd on the acquisition of 80% of the equity interest in SIA X Infotech Group. Deloitte Legal advised Novaltisco Investments Limited, a shareholder of SIA X Infotech Group, on the sale.

Former Dentons Counsel Marton Kertesz has become the new leader of Deloitte Legal Erdos and Partners Law Firm’s Labor Law and Compliance team in Budapest.

Deloitte Legal has been registering impressive growth in the CEE region. CEE Legal Matters sat down with Andrei Burz-Pinzaru, Head of Deloitte Legal in Central Europe, to learn more about what fueled the development of Deloitte’s legal services function and what the firm’s plans are for the future.

We aim to analyze herein the implications of a long-term activity performed by a data protection officer (DPO) answering to questions including: Can the data protection officer, whether employed or outsourced, be sanctioned when it is established that the company is in breach of data processing rules? If yes - when, by what means and to what extent?

Romania's Reff & Associates, a member of the Deloitte Legal network, has advised Patria Bank on the sale of a portfolio of non-performing loan receivables with a total nominal value of RON 502 million to companies in the KRUK Group.