Clyde & Co has advised Panattoni on financing for the Panattoni Park Bierun I investment project from Alior Bank. CMS advised the bank.

Sibincic Novak & Partners has advised Studenac on its acquisition of Kea from Bostjan Kukovicic. Gregorovic, Dobrajc, Mlinaric advised the seller.

In 2022, the Slovak Parliament passed two long-awaited laws, an Act No 201/2022 on construction (hereinafter the “Construction Act”) and an Act No 200/2022 on spatial planning (hereinafter the “Spatial Planning Act”). I wrote about the adoption of these laws and their content in my last article published in CEE Legal Matters. Both laws, which together were intended to bring long-anticipated systemic changes to spatial-planning and building permit procedures in Slovakia, were supposed to take effect on 1 April 2024; however, this never happened.

Wolf Theiss has promoted former Counsels Andreea Zvac, Oleg Temnikov, Stefan Horn, and Alexander Zollner to Partner.

Clifford Chance has advised Finep on the sale of the Novy Opatov G1 residential rental project to REICO CS Nemovitostni.

Reals has advised Conseq Realitni on its acquisition of the Ctyri Dvory shopping center in Ceske Budejovice from Reico IS CS. CMS advised the sellers.