Freshfields Global Transactions Partner Natascha Doll has been appointed as new Co-Head of the firm’s CEE/CIS practice. Doll joins current Co-Head, Partner Sebastian Lawson, and succeeds Willibald Plesser, who co-led the group for many years.
Natascha Doll, Freshfields reports, "has worked in CEE/CIS ever since she joined the firm and is widely regarded as a leading figure in private equity in the region." Doll, who is based in Hamburg, peaks Croatian and Serbian fluently, and she has worked on some of Freshfields’ most significant CEE transactions, including AB InBev’s EUR 7.3 billion sale of SABMiller’s operations in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania as reported by CEE Legal Matters on December 15, 2016.
