The Lithuanian office of Deloitte Legal has advised Aurora Cannabis Inc. on the merger of its two Lithuanian subsidiaries, Agropro and Borela.

The Lithuanian office of Deloitte Legal has participated in a multi-jurisdictional team advising Enva, a provider of recycling and specialist resource recovery solutions in the UK and Ireland, on its acquisition of SAR Recycling Ltd, which was advised by, among others, Warsaw's Kopec & Zaborowski law firm.

Wolf Theiss worked alongside lead counsel Travers Smith in advising TA Associates on an unspecified investment in Netrisk, a Hungarian online independent insurance marketplace. Netrisk and existing investor MCI Capital were advised by Deloitte Legal.

Deloitte Legal has advised Hungarian web-based insurance broker Netrisk and its majority shareholder, MCI.EuroVentures 1.0., on Netrisk's acquisition of a 100% stake in Biztositas.hu Biztositasi Alkusz Kft., a Hungarian online insurance agent.

Deloitte Legal has helped Iglotex S.A., which is co-owned by Penta Investments, negotiate with a banking consortium for a facilities agreement totaling PLN 160 million.

CMS has advised AFI Europe on its EUR 300 million acquisition of four Class A office projects in Romania from NEPI Rockcastle. The sellers were advised on the transaction, which is reported by CMS to be "one of the biggest in CEE and the largest-ever for the Romanian real estate market," by Herbert Smith Freehills and Reff & Associates, the Romanian member firm of Deloitte Legal.

Deloitte Legal Poland has advised Value4Capital on the acquisition of Summa Linguae Technologies S.A.

Noerr had advised Papierfabrik Adolf Jass GmbH & Co. KG on the acquisition of 100% of shares in the share capital of Convert PL sp. z o.o., owned by Ostoja I Fundusz Inwestycyjny Zamknięty Aktywow Niepublicznych, a closed-end investment fund backed by the Giermaziak family. Convert PL was advised by Deloitte Legal on the transaction, which closed on December 5, 2019.

Former Wolf Theiss Poland Co-Managing Partner Ron Given has joined Deloitte Legal as its CE Senior Legal Counsel, responsible for all of the firm’s offices in 19 Central and Eastern European countries.

In “The Corner Office” we ask Managing Partners across Central and Eastern Europe about their unique roles and responsibilities. The question this time around: What was the most difficult or unpleasant experience you had terminating someone’s employment?”

Jan Spacil, Deloitte Legal's Managing Partner in the Czech Republic, has been appointed leader of Deloitte Legal in the Central Europe region.

Former Lakatos, Koves & Partners Associate Magdolna Csider has joined Deloitte Legal in Budapest as an Associate Partner and Head of Real Estate and Construction Law.

Former Dentons Counsel Ryszard Manteuffel has joined Deloitte Legal in Warsaw as a Partner.

After almost a century of reclusion, Albania has achieved formal candidate status to join the 28 member states in the European Union. Is the time finally right?

The fiscal aspects of the hydrocarbon sector in Albania will be soon governed by a new law. The new draft “On the Fiscal Regime for Petroleum Operations” law (the “New Draft Law”) was initially published in the Electronic Register of Public Announcement and Consultations on April 4, 2019 and has been circulated for comment among stakeholders, chambers of commerce, and experts’ associations in Albania.

Arsov Natchev Ganeva has been selected as part of a consortium with Deloitte Bulgaria to advise the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance on the effective application of EU State Aid rules to the provision of Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) in Bulgaria.

Jank Weiler Operenyi and Reff & Associates — the Austrian and Romanian members of the Deloitte Legal network — have advised Rondo Ganahl AG on its acquisition of 60% of the shares of Romanian SC Transilvania Pack and Print SA from Offsetdruckerei Schwarzach GmbH. Thurnher Wittwer Pfefferkorn & Partner advised Offsetdruckerei Schwarzach on the deal.

Reff & Associates, the law firm representing Deloitte Legal in Romania, has promoted litigation specialist Cristi Secrieru to Partner.