The former Gide Loyrette Nouel office in Budapest and Kyiv have confirmed the news — first reported by CEE Legal Matters on October 21, 2015 — that they have withdrawn from Gide and tied up with France’s Jeantet law firm.
In an email sent to clients, Ioana Knoll-Tudor, formerly of Gide, reported being “happy and proud” to announce that “I joined the Jeantet law firm as a Local Partner of the Jeantet Budapest office, together with the entire team of Gide Hungary.” She also announced that "the move of the Gide Ukraine office under the supervision of Karl Hepp de Sevelinges and Bertrand Barrier is taking place simultaneously."
Knoll-Tudor concluded her message by writing that, “with this move, Jeantet is considerably reinforcing its position in Central Eastern Europe with the addition of a team of more than 30 lawyers” — an understatement, to say the least, as the firm previously had no CEE presence of any kind.
