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Kinstellar and CMS Advise on EBRD Financing for Datagroup's Acquisition of Volia

Kinstellar and CMS Advise on EBRD Financing for Datagroup's Acquisition of Volia

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Kinstellar has advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on a USD 65 million loan to Datagroup for the acquisition of Volia. CMS advised Datagroup on the deal.

Datagroup is a fiber infrastructure and digital services provider in Ukraine, majority-owned by Horizon Capital. Volia is a pay-TV and cable broadband service provider in the Ukrainian retail segment. 

According to Kinstellar, the EBRD is the largest institutional investor in Ukraine. “In the past two years alone, the bank has committed EUR 2 billion to the economy. Investments are combined with support for policies that promote the fight against corruption, good governance of state-owned enterprises, structural reforms, and a more transparent business environment.”

Kinstellar’s team included Partner Iryna Nikolayevska, Counsels Andriy Nikiforov and Oleg Matiusha, Senior Associates Anna Makedonska and Yulia Eismont, Associates Yulia Palaida, Diana Malysh, and Mariana Antonovych, and Junior Associate Olena Kandya.

CMS's team included Counsel Kateryna Chechulina, Senior Associate Louise Cakar, Associate Khrystyna Korpan, and Lawyer Iryna Kravchenko.

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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