Schoenherr has advised OMV on the issuance of EUR 1 billion in corporate bonds. White & Case reportedly advised the joint bookrunners.

Integrites has successfully represented Dunapack Packaging in a first-instance dispute against Ukraine’s State Tax Service, securing the cancellation of a UAH 30 million tax assessment.

Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has advised Echo Investment on the EUR 33 million sale of Brain Park C to Greenstone Asset Management. Legal Kraft reportedly advised Greenstone Asset Management.

Schoenherr has advised Julius Meinl Living on the acquisition of a protected building on Hegedu Utca in Budapest’s 6th District from Longbridge Group. Szecsenyi & Partners advised Longbridge Group.

Wardynski & Partners has advised shareholders of Rapiomed Group on the sale of a minority stake to an unidentified investor from the e-commerce sector. 

SSK&W has advised BinderLess on a financing round with participation from Kogito Ventures and business angels. 

Sorainen has advised Linstow Baltic on the development leasing of the Satekles Biznesa Centrs project in Riga. Cobalt advised SEB Banka on leasing the space for its new office.

CMS has advised Geosolar Kamenyak on putting the 75-megawatt Kamenyak PV project into operation and obtaining permission for it from the Bulgarian Energy and Water Regulatory Commission. 

Filip & Company has advised Agroserv Mariuta on a private placement of secured corporate bonds raising EUR 3 million. 

CMS has advised ALPLA on its acquisition of the closure production operations of Serbian manufacturer Energoplast in Belgrade. Markovic, Vukotic, Jovkovic advised Energoplast.

Wolf Theiss has advised Rheinmetall on its joint venture with Pirochim Victoria to develop an ammunition powder facility in the Brasov county. 

Dentons has advised CPI Property Group on the sale of the Moniuszki 1A office building in central Warsaw to BPI Real Estate Poland. Crido Legal reportedly advised BPI Real Estate Poland.

Milan Sivy has joined Havel & Partners as a Partner.

Ioannis Anagnostopoulos has joined Drakopoulos as Equity Partner.

Judit Gulyas-Kovacs has joined Hogan Lovells' associate law firm in Hungary Partos & Noblet as its new Head of the Banking and Finance practice.

Schoenherr has promoted Evelin Hilna, Matthias Pressler, Michal Jendzelovsky, Jan Primozic, and Magdalena Roibu to Partner across CEE.

Partners Agnieszka Stankiewicz and Radomil Charzynski have become the new Co-Heads of Greenberg Traurig's Real Estate Practice in Poland.

Tatyana Slipachuk has rejoined Sayenko Kharenko as a Partner.

Tomas Kafka has joined Dentons' Prague office as a Capital Markets Partner.

Former Deloitte Legal Local Legal Partner Stefan Antonic has established Antonic and Partners and has joined KPMG Legal as a Partner.

AMV Law Offices Martinenko, Volkovetskyi & Partners has launched in Ukraine as a boutique dispute resolution law firm following a spin-off from Kinstellar.

Miriam Broucek has joined Kinstellar's Vienna office as Partner and will head the firm's finance department.

Wolf Theiss has announced the addition of six new Partners through the promotions of Hungary-based Norbert Balint, Austria-based Johann Hwezda, Christopher Juenger, and Eva Stadler, and Poland-based Marcin Rudnik, as well as Romania-based Claudia Popescu joining the team.

Kinstellar has announced new leadership appointments across its service lines and sectors.

Recent amendments of the Bulgarian Energy Act (EA) are changing the terms of payment for the annual licence fee in the energy sector. Previously, the annual licence fee was payable in two installments – by 31 March and by 30 November for every year following the year that the licence was issued.

A new recently adopted legal procedure takes the next step in ensuring cybersecurity of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and national interests by providing for the creation of an official ban list of software and equipment.

Romania’s journey toward treating trademarks as bankable assets began not with the adoption of the New Civil Code in 2011, but more than a decade earlier. The turning point came in 1999 with Law no. 99/1999 on certain measures for speeding up economic reform. Title VI of that law, which introduced a modern regime for security interests in movable property, explicitly stated that its scope covered “rights resulting from inventions, trademarks and other intellectual, industrial or commercial property rights.” This was revolutionary for a country emerging from decades of socialist economics where the very concept of intangible asset financing was alien.

With the entry into force of the Law on the Legalization of Unauthorized Buildings in Montenegro (effective 1 August 2025), a new legal and regulatory framework has been established to address long-standing issues of unauthorized construction and unclear property status.

On 7 November 2025, entered into force significant amendments of the Bulgarian Competition Protection Act (“BCPA”), expanding the powers and tools of the Commission on Protection of Competition (“CPC”). The reform is intended to bring national legislation in line with the recommendations of the OECD Competition Committee within the context of Bulgaria’s accession process to the organization and to remedy existing gaps in the BCPA.

The General Court of the European Union recently issued a judgment in Latombe v. European Commission, dismissing the action for annulment of the European Commission’s Decision on the Adequate Level of Protection of Personal Data in the United States (“Adequacy Decision”). The Court thereby confirmed that, at the time of its adoption, the United States ensured an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to organizations in the U.S.

On 10 October 2025, the European Commission published new Guidelines on the online protection of minors (the „Guidelines”), pursuant to the Digital Services Act (i.e., Regulation (EU) no. 2022/2065), aiming to ensure a safe online experience for children and young people.

On 29 October 2025, the Ukrainian Parliament registered Draft Law No. 14164 «On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding the Fundamentals of Implementing Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)», aimed at creating a legal framework for the development of small nuclear generation and attracting private investment in the sector.

Each investment and innovation that contributes to reducing administrative and financial barriers in cooperation with European partners is an additional step toward European financial integration and harmonization. Despite being a European project, SEPA's primary objective is to establish a safe and open global payment system.

On October 16, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an important ruling on the right of beneficiaries of European funds to an effective remedy against decisions of national authorities ordering the recovery of subsidies granted under Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and financial rules for those and for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy.

On 20 October 2025, in line with the EU's strategy to completely ban imports of Russian gas and oil, the Council of the EU adopted a proposal for a Regulation on phasing out Russian natural gas imports, improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 (the "Regulation").

In the beginning of October 2025, the Hungarian Government launched a public consultation on a legislative package that would simplify the installation of wind turbines in 17 districts across the country. The proposal aims to restart wind energy investments after more than seven years of stagnation caused by restrictive permitting rules and complex land-use regulations.

RTPR advised AROBS Transilvania Software, an important Romanian company that provides software services and solutions in various industries and the largest tech company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, on the acquisition of majority stake in Global Engineering Services & Solutions S.R.L.

The law firm bpv Huegel provided comprehensive support to NÖM AG during its merger with Vorarlberg Milch.

The international sales process for the renowned Vienna Marriott Hotel at Parkring Vienna has been successfully completed with its acquisition by an international consortium of investors.

AIR ARABIA WAS FOUND COMPLIANT DURING A RECENT PROCEDURE OF PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA ACROSS THE EU

bpv Huegel successfully advised RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria Aktiengesellschaft (RWA) on the sale of its share in AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH to AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft.

RWA eGen completes the purchase of shares in RWA AG from BayWa AG. The acquisition financing was structured and provided by Raiffeisen Bank International AG.

bpv Huegel is delighted to appoint Johannes Mitterecker as a partner. He works in the Corporate Law/M&A practice group and specialises in M&A transactions, restructuring and sports law.

RTPR has assisted the syndicate of banks in connection with a RON 3.1 billion syndicated loan granted to Electrica.

From the 1st May, 2025 Markian Malskyy becomes the new managing partner of ARZINGER, replacing Timur Bondaryev, founding partner. Timur Bondaryev has held this position almost ever since the firm was founded 23 years ago and, together with other partners, has built a strong legal brand.

This makes bpv Huegel’s tax practice top-ranked in Chambers Europe. This confirms the leading position of bpv Huegel in tax law advice.

EAVISTA is acquiring 75.1% of the shares in card complete Service Bank AG from UniCredit Bank Austria and Raiffeisen Bank International.

We are delighted to announce that PRK Partners has been shortlisted with other three international law firms operating on the Czech legal market as finalists for the Czech Republic Law Firm of the Year 2025 in the 26th annual IFLR Europe Awards.