With a very busy 2024 almost behind us, it's time to look forward to 2025! Below are our editorial and events calendars for 2025:
Editorial Calendar: 2025-2026 Season
Issue number - Month - Country Spotlight - Experts Review focus:
- 11.12 - January - Montenegro/Ukraine - Banking/Finance
- 12.1 - February - Special Issue: Year Kick-Off
- 12.2 - March - Greece/Austria - PPP/Infrastructure
- 12.3 - April - Romania/North Macedonia - Labor
- 12.4 - May - Special Issue: DOTYs Special Issue
- 12.5 - June - Turkiye/Bulgaria - Tax
- 12.6 - July - Serbia/Slovenia - Energy
- 12.7 - August - Czech Republic/Slovakia - TMT
- 12.8 - September - Georgia/Bosnia and Herzegovina - Insolvency/Restructuring
- 12.9 - October - Poland/Moldova - Competition
- 12.10 - November - Hungary/Baltics - Real Estate
- 12.11 - December - Ukraine/Croatia - Life Sciences
- 12.12 - January - Albania/Kosovo - Capital Markets
Our Country Knowledge Partners (KP) and Practice Leaders (PL) are being allocated slots this week and the next but, if any catch your eye and you'd like to get involved in either issue or as a KP or PL drop us a line!
New Market: Georgia
We're delighted to announce that we're expanding our coverage to include Georgia as of 2025. It was only fitting to include starting with this year a market that has been taking to the streets to defend its right to align itself with the European space..and we're very keen to do our small part in meeting that effort halfway. Readers can expect the same diligent approach to covering the deals and movers and shakers in the new market as they've grown accustomed to for the other CEE markets we've dedicated ourselves over the past decade. And we have big plans for this to represent a stepping stone – stay tuned!
Events Calendar: 2025
2024 marked the second year of running our regional CEE General Counsel Summit in conjunction with the Deal of the Year Awards Gala after the regional events' reboot post the COVID-19 pandemic. We also took the first step in rebooting our country-focused General Counsel summits with the highly successful 2024 Hungarian General Counsel Summit this fall. We're keen to keep the momentum going and, in 2025, we'll be running:
- 2025 CEE General Counsel Summit – Beginning of April 2025 – Confirmed Partners: Slaughter and May (Chairman Partner); Act Legal; Addleshaw Goddard; Musat & Asociatii; PONTES; PRK Partners;
- 2025 Deal of the Year Awards Gala – Beginning of April 2025 – Registration to Open on January 10;
- 2025 Hungarian General Counsel Summit – End of September 2025 – Confirmed Partners: Oppenheim
- 2025 Turkish General Counsel Summit – October 2025 – Confirmed Partners: Turunc (Chairman Partner)
- 2025 Balkan General Counsel Summit – Late October/Early November 2025
We're delighted and honored that 100% of our partners from the 2024 CEE GC Summit have already confirmed their participation in 2025. If you're interested in partnering up for either event, do not hesitate to reach out.
Reminder on the Deal of the Year Submissions
We've sent out more reminders on this than you probably care to hear about..but we're nothing if not diligent. JUST in case you missed it, the deadline to submit deals for consideration for the Deal of the Year awards is January 10. 147 deals have been submitted across CEE within the early submissions deadline and our team is slowly running through them to provide feedback so, if you haven't heard back from us just yet, you will soon. For all others, it's not too late! Full submission guidelines are here.
