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RTPR Allen & Overy and Schoenherr Romania have successfully represented Romanian electrical company Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A. in a EUR 800 million dispute against the Romanian Management Company for Ownership in Energy.
CEE Attorneys Boanta, Gidei si Asociatii has advised investment fund V7 Capital on financing provided to Confida.
Romania's MPR Partners and the De Breij law firm in Amsterdam have advised Dutch company Nederlandse MKB Participatiemaatschappij on its acquisition of BusyMachines BV, a Dutch-Romanian software developer, which closed at the end of April 2019.
Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii has advised Dedeman on the establishment of EquiLiant Capital Project, a private equity fund that will target small and medium-sized enterprises in Romania.
BPV Grigorescu Stefanica has advised Adrian Sarbu on his role setting up a new TV station in Romania called Smart TV with co-founding partner Marius Tuca. Tuca was advised by Taralunga and Associates.
Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii has advised Dedeman on its entrance into a partnership with Element Industrial to jointly develop the ELI Park 1 logistics project in the Chitila-Buftea area of Bucharest. Kinstellar reportedly advised Element Industrial.
Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii has advised Dedeman on its acquisition of The Bridge 2 office complex in Bucharest — the second phase of The Bridge project — from developer Forte Partners.
Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii has advised Italy's CLN-Coils Lamiere Nastri — the owner of Romania's MW Romania SA Dragasani car factory — on a EUR 134 million financing received from the IFC and Cassa Depositi E Prestiti SPA. The lenders were advised by Clifford Chance Badea.
Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii has successfully represented Federatia Romana de Fotbal against Football Club U Craiova S.A in a case worth over EUR 300 million.
Romanian lawyer Alina Stavaru has been promoted to Partner at RTPR Allen & Overy.
Voinescu Lawyers has recently entered into an alliance with Lexquire Tax & Law.
Traian Briciu was elected as the new President of the National Association of Romanian Bars (the "Uniunea Nationala a Barourilor din Romania," or UNBR), at Romania's Lawyers Congress of June 6-7, 2019, replacing outgoing President Gheorghe Florea, who did not run for re-election.
Romanian lawyer Andreea Lisievici has joined Volvo Cars in Sweden as the company's new Head of Group Data Protection Compliance.
Dentons has advised CEE Equity Partners on an agreement with the Brise Group for the investment, modernization, and development of the first open access agriculture infrastructure platform, based on 15-grain silos and logistic hubs in Romania. Kinstellar advised Brise on the deal.
Maravela, Popescu & Roman has advised wiper blade manufacturer Trico on the acquisition of the wiper systems business of Federal-Mogul Motorparts. Wolf Theiss advised Federal-Mogul on matters of Romanian law, acting with lead counsel Eversheds Sutherland.
Noerr, together with the Austria's Arnold law firm, has advised SignaRetail on the sale of Kika’s Eastern European business to XXXLutz. XXXLutz was represented by CHSH on the purchase and by Wolf Theiss on the merger clearance process.
Kinstellar, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Stibbe, and Binder Groesswang have advised CANAL+ Group, a subsidiary of the Vivendi group, on the acquisition of the M7 Group from Astorg, a European private equity firm. Paul Hastings and Loyens & Loeff advised Astorg and the other selling shareholders of the M7 Group.
Cosmina Simion, Ana-Maria Baciu, Andreea Bende, and three other lawyers have left Romania's Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen to set up Simion & Baciu.
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