Greenberg Traurig has advised Diagnostyka on its initial public offering and admission to trading on the regulated market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. White & Case advised the underwriters. Baker McKenzie advised Diagnostyka's majority shareholder Mid Europa.

Lexist has advised Birlesim Grup Enerji on its initial public offering on Borsa Istanbul, which raised approximately TRY 1.4 billion.

Havel & Partners, working with Gomez-Acebo & Pombo, has advised the Czech Republic-based industrial group Advanced Industrial Technology Group on establishing a joint venture with the Spanish shareholders of Egile Corporation. Euskaltax reportedly advised the Egile Corporation.

CMS has advised HB Reavis on Alior Bank's headquarters relocation to Varso Place in Warsaw. WKB advised Alior Bank.

Allen & Overy Shearman Sterling has advised on the approximately EUR 3.6 billion refinancing of Slovenske Elektrarne. Clifford Chance advised the UniCredit Bank-led banking club.

CMS' Croatian affiliate Bardek, Lisac, Musec, Skoko, and Partners has advised Privredna Banka Zagreb as the leading mandated arranger, coordinator, and agent on a EUR 283 million club loan, which also included Erste & Steiermaerkische Bank, Zagrebacka Banka, and OTP Banka, for Podravka's acquisition of companies from the Fortenova Group. Podravka also received a EUR 50 million equity investment from the EBRD, following the acquisition. Miskovic & Miskovic, BDK Advokati, and Gugic, Kovacic & Krivic advised Podravka. Mamic, Peric, Reberski, Rimac advised Fortenova Group. Wolf Theiss advised the EBRD. DLA Piper reportedly advised Podravka as well.

Popescu & Asociatii has successfully represented the Romanian Academy in a restitution dispute concerning 4,500 hectares of forest land.

Nechala & Partners has announced it successfully represented Zdruzenie Realitnuch Kancelarii Slovenska and software provider BackOffice in their complaint before the Slovak Antimonopoly Office regarding United Classifieds.

DLA Piper has advised the Government Debt Management Agency (AKK), acting on behalf of the Republic of Hungary, on an international syndicated revolving credit facility agreement for a total amount of EUR 1.5 billion with 13 undisclosed Hungarian and international banks. CMS advised the coordinating banks.

Cerha Hempel has advised ODDO BHF on establishing its Austrian branch.

Cobalt has advised Apollo Group's Estonian subsidiary Treeland on increasing its ownership in the Latvian restaurant chain Lido AS to 96% via share acquisition from KE Projekti.

RTPR has advised the Integral Capital Group private equity fund on the acquisition of a majority stake in Embryos from the three founders of the business. Wolf Theiss advised the sellers.

Binder Groesswang has promoted Mona Holzgruber to Partner.

Filip & Company has elected its new management team which will be led by Co-Managing Partners Cristina Filip and Alexandru Birsan for a period of four years.

Eva Kovacs has joined Jalsovszky as a Managing Associate and the firm’s new Head of Real Estate Practice.

Former Binder Groesswang Partner Philipp Kapl has joined Kinstellar as a Partner.

Jipyong Partner Ji Hye Lee has joined Oppenheim’s Korea desk in Budapest.

Former iQR Asset Management Partner and Head of Legal and Compliance Dino Aganovic, Wiener Osiguranje Vienna Insurance Group Head Of Legal and Secretary Davor Majstorovic, and MTEL in-house counsel Vladimir Bjekic have joined forces to launch AMB Legal Group in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Lexist has promoted Duygu Ozturk Dincer to Partner.

Ellex has appointed Counsel Merlin Liis-Toomela as its new Head of Data Protection & IT law in Estonia.

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

Former Dorda Partner Bernhard Mueller has joined PwC Legal's affiliated Vienna office of Oehner & Partner as a Partner.

Former Protopopescu & Partners Founding Partner Tiberiu Protopopescu has joined Schoenherr as a Senior Attorney at Law.

Egemenoglu has promoted Fazilet Karabacaklar and Sezen Yilmaz Promoted to Partners.