After a valuable and information-rich day of panel discussions on important business development and law firm management topics, participants reconvened that evening (and were joined by several dozen newcomers) at the first ever CEE Legal Matters Annual Banquet and Deal of the Year Awards Ceremony – a celebration of CEE’s legal markets and the lawyers who work within them. Awards were presented for 17 qualifying markets in CEE – plus a surprise award for overall CEE Deal of the Year – with many of the lawyers playing key roles in nominated deals joining the celebration.

We have to apologize. The hot days of the European summer just got hotter, with the sizzling August 2018 issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine heating up the CEE Legal Matters website and burning its way through the presses and mail on its way to their desks.

The special July issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine focused on the three major CEELM events this past June in Prague — the Fourth Annual General Counsel Summit, the first annual Dealer's Choice conference, and the 2017 CEE Deal of the Year Awards Banquet — is here!

Subscribers to CEE Legal Matters — a rare and special breed, far superior to most human beings in their heightened awareness and recognition of the important things in life — are already uniquely empowered to access the issue in its electronic format here, and they will be receiving hard copies in the mail soon.

The winners of the 2017 CEE Deal of the Year Awards were announced at the first ever CEE Legal Matters Deal of the Year Awards Banquet last night in Prague. The biggest smiles in the joyous and music-filled celebration of CEE lawyering, perhaps, were on the faces of Partners from Avellum and Sayenko Kharenko, which, along with White & Case and Latham & Watkins, won the award both for Ukrainian Deal of the Year and CEE Deal of the Year for their work on the 2017 Ukraine Eurobond Issue (a story initially reported by CEE Legal Matters on October 2, 2017).

The Dealer’s Choice conference and Deal of the Year Awards Banquet on June 6 and the annual General Counsel Summit on June 7-8  are less than a week away. If you haven’t yet made arrangements to join these celebrations of lawyering -- the largest events for business lawyers in the history of CEE, it’s not too late. Prague awaits.

At CEE Legal Matters, we live to serve! Thus, in the middle of putting together the two largest, most important, and, darn it, coolest events for lawyers in the history of CEE, we have also put together the remarkable May, 2018 issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine, which is out and available for subscribers now. You’re impressed, admit it. 

Time is running out to register for the Dealer's Choice event and the GC Summit — the two premier conferences for business lawyers in CEE — both scheduled for the City of 100 Spires.

Putting aside our natural modesty, temporarily, with an awareness that an announcement like this deserves to be made with some fanfare: Let the trumpets blare and the drums roll! The April 2018 issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine — the annual Corporate Counsel Handbook — is out and available now! 

To all in-house counsel who do not want to miss out on receiving a complimentary copy of the 2018 Corporate Counsel Best Practices report or attend the 4th Annual CEE General Counsel Summit, this is your week to act!

It's April, and the Dealer's Choice forum and CEE Legal Matters Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony on June 6 and the fourth annual GC Summit in Prague are only two short months away, making this the ideal time for a quick preview of the two most important networking and professional development events for the region's legal elite on the calendar.

The March 2018 issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine is here! It's already available to subscribers in electronic format and hard copies will soon be put in the mail and sent out to them directly.

It’s alive …. It’s alive! 

Let us help chase away those mid-winter blues: The February 2018 issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine is now available to subscribers in electronic format, and hard copies will be on their way from the printer to their desks shortly.

With great pride and excitement, CEE Legal Matters is proud to announce the final nominees for the 2017 CEE Deal of the Year awards in 17 different CEE countries. 

The final nominees for CEE Legal Matters' 2017 Deal of the Year will be published at 10 am CET on Tuesday, February 20th. 

After a long year of waiting, law firms from Hungary finally had the opportunity to show off their bowling skills again last night, as the second year of the CEE Legal Matters Budapest Law Firm Bowling Challenge brought 14 four-person teams together for an intense challenge, with the proceeds donated to the winning team's charity of choice.

The Special January 2018 issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine is now available to subscribers in electronic format, with hard copies already in the mail and soon to land on the desks of law firm partners and senior in-house counsel across Europe and the world.