CEE Legal Matters
In-depth coverage of the news and newsmakers that shape Europe's emerging markets
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz has established a dedicated, separate competence center for English law – to serve its operations across CEE and SEE countries – with members including Vienna-based Partners Marcell Clark, Alexander Rakosi, and David Kohl and Solicitor Anna Freund.
TGS Baltic has successfully represented Swedbank before Estonia's Supreme Court against a EUR 1.75 million claim brought in a dispute with the bankruptcy trustee of Alberta Trade, a former Swedbank client.
Following the recent administrative elections, Albania is enjoying a period of calm, political stability, and a strengthening currency, with a draft on medical cannabis production and the first issuance of corporate bonds through a public offer at the top of the agenda, according to Tonucci & Partners Partner Enklid Milaj.
Austrian law firm Vavrovsky Heine Marth has opened a new office in Linz, in addition to the firm's operations in Vienna and Salzburg.
Cobalt has successfully represented Polish cereals seller Diaspolis in a dispute over purchased organic buckwheat deemed of poor quality.
Lawyers are keeping busy with new legislation, dispute resolution, and technology work in Hungary, while transactional work and FDIs show a marked slowdown, according to DLA Piper Hungary Country Managing Partner Andras Posztl.
Queritius is opening a new office in Zagreb, with Dalibor Valincic having joined the firm as a Partner on June 1, 2023.
