Havel & Partners has advised Panara a.s. on an unspecified investment from Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG. CMS reportedly advised Alpla on the deal.
Panara’s core business is R&D activities focused on multicomponent biobased and biodegradable blends based on PHA and PLA polymers production and commercialization.
Alpla is an Austrian plastics manufacturer headquartered in Hard, specializing in blow-molded bottles and caps, injection-molded parts, preforms, and tubes.
Havel & Partners’ team included Partner Ondrej Majer, Associates Ivana Gajdosova and Robert Gasparovic, and Junior Associate Patricia Jamriskova.
Editor's note: After this article was published, CMS contacted CEE Legal Matters and confirmed its involvement. The firm's team included Vienna-based Partners Alexander Rakosi and Dieter Zandler and Senior Associate Georg Gutfleisch as well as Bratislava-based Managing Partner Oliver Werner, Partner Sona Hankova, Senior Associate Barbora Korenecova, Associate Natalia Janoskova, Junior Associates Terezia Rusnakova and Pavel Straka, and Attorney Lenka Litvakova.