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Clifford Chance Badea has advised private investment fund JC Flowers & Co on its sale of Romania's First Bank to Intesa Sanpaolo. RTPR advised the Intesa Sanpaolo Bank.
Briza & Trubac has advised the TJ Spartak sports club in Rokytnice nad Jizerou on the sale of an ownership stake in a company operating a local ski resort to the Trigema group.
DLA Piper has advised Romanian grain and oilseed trader East Grain on the sale of a majority stake in the company and its Hungarian subsidiary to the Czech Republic's Agrofert group. Schoenherr advised the buyer.
Havel & Partners has advised the Sekyra Group on its acquisition of the remaining land in the vicinity of the Smichov railway station in Prague from Ceske Drahy.
White & Case has advised the Trinity Bank on its acquisition of the Na Prikope 33 office building in Prague.
Finreg Partners has successfully advised Czech Republic-based crowdfunding platform Investown on obtaining the first European crowdfunding service provider license in the country.
Briza & Trubac has advised shareholder Vojtech Kubec on the sale of the Vcelka Group to EUC. Vilimkova Dudak & Partners reportedly advised EUC.
JSK has advised Genesis Private Equity Fund IV on its acquisition of the AV Media Group. CK Legal reportedly advised the buyer as well. Tarpan Legal reportedly advised AV Media.
Havel & Partners has advised Turk Electronik Para on its acquisition of Twisto Payments from Australia's Zip. Schoenherr reportedly advised Zip.
Reals has advised the Mint Residential Fund on its acquisition of a 168-apartment built-to-rent residential project in Prague 9 from Czech developer Finep. Clifford Chance advised the seller.
Clifford Chance has advised a club of banks led by Ceska Sporitelna, Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka, and UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia and including Komercni Banka, Raiffeisenbank, and Raiffeisen Bank International AG on financing Carlyle's acquisition of Czech optical specialist Meopta.
Taylor Wessing has advised the Shape Corporation on its built-to-suit rental agreement in the Panattoni Park Pilsen West II industrial park.
The latest amendment to the Labour Code implemented, among other things, the EU Directives on Work-life Balance and on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions into Czech law. The amendment was enacted by the President of the Czech Republic on 17 September 2023 and entered into force shortly thereafter, on 1 October 2023. The deadline for transposing these directives had already passed, so it is a case of better late than never.
Wardynski & Partners, working with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, has advised the Bauer Media Group on the merger of its online comparison platform business with that of the Netrisk Group.
Clifford Chance has advised a club of banks led by mandated lead arranger and sole global coordinator UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia on their green and sustainability-linked long-term secured club financing for a Heimstaden Czech-owned residential portfolio in Ostrava and Pilsen.
BPV Braun Partners and Komarevski Dimitrov & Partners have advised Witte Automotive on its acquisition of a majority stake in Ruse-based Forez BG from FH Holding. PwC Legal advised FH Holding on the deal.
Gomez-Acebo & Pombo has advised Czech Republic-based Energo Pro on its expansion to Spain via the acquisition of Xallas Electricidad y Aleaciones (Xeal) and Feroe Ventures & Investments from Sixth Street. Perez-Llorca advised Sixth Street.
JSK and Majernik & Mihalikova have advised the Genesis Private Equity Fund IV on its investment in the PFX visual effects, advertising, animation, and post-production studio based in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Peyton Legal reportedly advised PFX.
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