Earlier in 2024, DLA Piper published its Medical Devices Advertising: CEE Comparison Guide, which reviews advertising regulations for medical devices in Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Life sciences team members who worked on the guide spoke with CEE Legal Matters about some of the regulatory differences across CEE and the practical implications for businesses.

Startups are newly established companies usually founded by entrepreneurs who develop a product, service, or business model with the aim of solving a specific problem or addressing a gap in the market. These companies usually start with limited revenue, and they are looking after angel investors, venture capitalists or especially allocated funds for startups.

Filip & Company has advised BT Capital Partners, Citigroup Global Markets Europe, Erste Group Bank, J.P. Morgan, Raiffeisen Bank International, and Unicredit Bank as the arrangers of Romgaz's EUR 500 million bonds issuance. Musat si Asociatii reportedly advised Romgaz.

Suciu Partners has advised on the merger of PPC's distribution companies Banat, Dobrogea, and Muntenia and supply companies PPC Energie and PPC Energie Muntenia. Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii reportedly advised on the merger as well.

PeliPartners has advised Alfa Group on its acquisition of the IRIDE Business Park project in Bucharest from CPI Group.

Clifford Chance has advised NEPI Rockcastle on its EUR 500 million green bonds issuance. Linklaters' Amsterdam and London offices reportedly advised the dealers, including Deutsche Bank, Raiffeisen Bank International, SMBC, Societe Generale, and UniCredit.

Musat & Asociatii has advised Naxxar Renewable Energy on the sale of the remaining 40% stake in Naxxar Wind Farm Four SRL to Polenergia.

KPMG Legal - Toncescu si Asociatii has promoted Cristina Rosu, Irina Stanica, Dragos Nicolae Iamandoiu, and Calin Dragoman to Partner.

Filip & Company has advised Banca Transilvania on a EUR 700 million sustainable bond issuance with J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, and ING Bank as the arrangers, ING Bank as the ESG advisor, and BT Capital Partners as co-manager. Clifford Chance advised the banks.

In The Corner Office, we ask Managing Partners at law firms across Central and Eastern Europe about their backgrounds, strategies, and responsibilities. With industry-specific software emerging left and right, the legal industry was not left behind. To explore some of the trends in this regard, we asked: What are some of the specific legal tech platforms you use?

Bondoc & Associates has advised Helios Energy Investments on setting up a partnership with TDI Renewables concerning a portfolio of renewable projects including solar photo-voltaic, off-shore wind, and storage, exceeding 1000 megawatts throughout Romania.

Legal Ground has advised the APS Group – acting through APS Credit Fund SICAV subfunds Rhapsody and Rhapsody II – on financing Skylight Residence's acquisition of a 100,000-square-meter site in Bucharest's Obor area. Ionescu Sava advised the borrower.

RTPR has advised PragmaGO on the acquisition of an 89% stake in Telecredit IFN from Reconstruction Capital II Limited and Elisa Rusu. Schoenherr advised the sellers.

White & Case, working with Bondoc si Asociatii, has advised a club of eight commercial banks and international financial institutions on the up-to-EUR 291 million financing of the construction of the 461-megawatt Rezolv Energy's Vifor wind farm in Romania.

Bondoc & Associates has advised TDI Renewables and its subsidiary, the Romanian–Israeli partnership ASRA Engineering, on an international restructuring.

With a focus on keeping as much of the legal work in-house, Net-Connect Group Head of Regulatory Affairs Radu Culic discusses best practices for managing in-house legal budgets.

Photon Energy Group’s Deputy Group Legal Counsel Florina Mariana Homeghiu discusses her approach to managing legal budgets, including trends in costs and effective cost-cutting strategies.

Managing budgets in big companies could be seen at the same time as art and as a challenge. And art should never be under pressure.