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CMS and Wolf Theiss Advise on Financing of Green Source's Photovoltaic Parks in Hungary

CMS and Wolf Theiss Advise on Financing of Green Source's Photovoltaic Parks in Hungary

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CMS has advised Green Source GmbH and its Solar Partners subsidiary on the EUR 66 million financing provided by Kommunalkredit Austria for the construction of power plants in Hungary. Wolf Theiss advised Kommunalkredit Austria.

The signing of project documentation for the EUR 66 million financing took place at the end of July 2020 and financial closing occurred in mid-August.

According to CMS, “the project concerns the construction of eight solar power plants with a total peak capacity of 65 MW by five Hungarian project companies owned by Solar Partners."

Green Source, which was founded in Vienna in 2006, specializes in the development, construction, operation, and operations and maintenance of ground-mounted photovoltaic plants in Central and Eastern Europe for private and institutional investors. To date, Green Source has developed, constructed, and sold 27 projects with a total capacity of over 332 MW.

CMS’s team included, in Vienna, Partners Johannes Trenkwalder, Stefan Paulmayer, Thomas Hamerl, Guenther Hanslik, and Marcell Clark, Senior Associate Lisa Oberlechner, and Associates David Kohl, Linda Marterer, Christoph Birner, Marie-Christine Lidl, Marco Selenic, and Vanessa Horaceck; in Hungary, Managing Partner Erika Papp, Senior Consultant Arpad Lantos, Senior Associates Peter Deak, Zsofia Hermann, and Zoltan Poronyi, and Associates Nora Devenyi and Zita Gressai; in Slovakia, Managing Director Oliver Werner, Senior Associate Barbora Korenecova, and Associates Natalia Janoskova and Terezia Rusnakova; and in Germany, Partners Antje Becker and Dorothee Janzen and Senior Associate Sonja Ebert.

Wolf Theiss's team included, in Austria, Partner Andreas Schmid, Counsel Marika Lomashvili, Senior Associate Georg Harer, and Associate Victoria Mohler; in Hungary, Partner Laszlo Kenyeres, Counsel Melinda Pelikan, Senior Associate Zoltan Bodnar, and Associates Matyas Palosi, Andras Mozsolits, Zsombor Vancza, and Laszlo Lovas; and in Slovakia, Counsel Bruno Stefanik and Associate Dalibor Palaticky.

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CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

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