Sayenko Kharenko has advised the European Fund for Southeast Europe on the provision of a EUR 20 million loan through its Ukraine Sub-Fund to Ukrgasbank. 

Karanovic & Partners has advised Paysera North Macedonia on obtaining an Electronic Money Institution license.

Act Legal Romania has advised Pluxee Romania on the acquisition of MyBenefits. Andronic and Partners reportedly advised the sellers.

Schoenherr has advised CRH on its acquisition of the stone materials production business of Croatia’s Kufner Group. Madirazza & Partners advised Kufner Group.

Bernitsas has advised the Vivartia Group on the sale of 100% of its shares in Dodoni, held through Nutrico, to Hellenic Dairies.

Elementz Legal has advised Bubblify International on its acquisition of 22 OXO-brand shopping center retail locations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.

CK Legal Chabasiewicz Kowalska has advised Kruk on its PLN 100 million bond issuance targeting individual investors.

Allen Overy Shearman Sterling and its Turkish affiliate law firm Gedik & Eraksoy have advised the joint bookrunners on Turkiye Ihracat Kredi Bankasi’s recent USD 500 million fixed-rate bond issuance, completed under the bank’s USD 8 billion global medium-term note program.

Greenberg Traurig has advised PIB Group Poland, part of the international PIB Group, on its acquisition of insurance brokerages mBroker NET and inBroker NET. 

Wolf Theiss, working with Clifford Chance, has advised Supernova Invest on the issuance of EUR 550 million senior notes due 2030. Linklaters and Schoenherr reportedly advised the bank syndicate involved.

Dentons has advised YIT Zwirn 2 – a joint venture between YIT Slovakia and RSJ Investments – on a syndicated loan exceeding EUR 100 million for the financing of Zwirn 2 real estate development in Bratislava. Allen Overy Sherman Sterling reportedly advised the banks.

Schoenherr has advised the shareholders of Timeular on the sale of the company to Graz-based software provider TimeTac.

Gide has advised Polish Luxury Group on its acquisition of Jubitom.

Addleshaw Goddard has advised Niam on the sale of two buildings in the High5ive office complex in Krakow to Stena Real Estate. Dentons advised Stena Real Estate.

Greenberg Traurig has advised Wood & Company on the formation of a joint venture with Garbe Industrial Real Estate Poland for the development of the Garbe Park Gliwice logistics complex in Poland’s Silesian Province. DWF advised Garbe.

With the European Parliament recently approving a new draft FDI regulation, significant changes are on the horizon across the EU, and Slovakia is no exception. According to Wolf Theiss Partner Bruno Stefanik, the anticipated updates will impact Slovakia’s national legislation, reshape existing FDI procedures, and offer a timely opportunity to address practical challenges identified since the country’s FDI regime took effect in 2023.

Sorainen, working with Horten, has advised Danish fish product producer A. Espersen and its Lithuanian subsidiary Espersen Lietuva on the sale of a fish processing plant located in the Klaipeda Free Economic Zone to Atlas Premium Lietuva. Cobalt advised Atlas Premium.

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen has advised PetStar Group on the reacquisition of sole control over its core packaging manufacturing subsidiaries and a EUR 50 million financing round. Wolf Thiess advised UniCredit as the lender.