Former Noerr Partner Edina Schweizer has joined Dentons as Partner and Head of the Hungarian Banking and Finance team. Barbara Vighne Herczegfalvi also joined as an Associate.

Bardek, Lisac, Musec, Skoko, and Partners in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz has advised Erste&Steiermaerkische Bank and Privredna Banka Zagreb on the more than EUR 130 million Valamar Collection Resort financing.

Serbian Minister of Finance issued the Rulebook on interest rates that are considered to be in line with the arm’s length principle for the year 2024 (Rulebook).

Papapolitis & Papapolitis has advised Intracom Holdings and its full subsidiary Intracom Properties on the EUR 46.5 million acquisition of Europa Insurance.

A&O Shearman has advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and Intesa Sanpaolo Bank and its subsidiaries on a EUR 99 million financing to Karavasta Solar for the development, construction, and operation of a 140-megawatt power plant and a 19-kilometre overhead transmission line located in Fier municipality, Albania. Norton Rose Fulbright reportedly advised Karavasta Solar.

On June 3, 2024, Clifford Chance Badea announced that J.C. Flowers & Co's sale of First Bank to Intesa Group (as previously reported by CEE Legal Matters on November 3, 2023) has now closed.