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CMS, Pierstone, and White & Case Advise on Investment in Rohlik

CMS, Pierstone, and White & Case Advise on Investment in Rohlik

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CMS has advised Partech, the EBRD, Quadrille Capital, and the J&T Bank on a EUR 190 million Series B investment in the Rohlik Group. Index Ventures, R2G, and Enern also participated in the investment round. Pierstone advised Index Ventures and White & Case advised the Rohlik Group.

Founded in 2014, Rohlik is a Czech online grocery service offering customers delivery of over 17,000 items. According to CMS, Rohlik intends to use the funds raised by this investment to accelerate growth in its current markets and to enter the German online grocery market in 2021.

The CMS team included, in Prague, Managing Partner Helen Rodwell, Partner Libor Prokes, and Associates Tristan O’Connor and Stepan Havranek; in Bucharest, Consultant David Cranfield; in London, Senior Associate Lucie Halloova; in Munich, Partner Oliver Thurn; in Sofia, Senior Associate Veliko Savov; in Budapest, Senior Associate Eszter Csapo and Associate Szabina Marsi; and in Vienna, Partner Alexander Rakosi and Attorney-at-Law Marie-Christine Lidl.

Pierstone’s team consisted of Partner Iva Zothova and Associate Klara Kocarova.

The White & Case team included Prague-based Partners Jan Andrusko, Local Partners Jan Stejskal, Jan Jakoubek, and Petr Hudec, and Associates Iva Cechrakova and Lukas Pavlik, and London-based Partners Ian Bagshaw and Mike Weir and Associates Ben von Maur and Irina Kozlova.

CMS at a Glance

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.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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