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Salans has appointed Cezary Przygodzki as partner. As a core member of Salans Tax Advisory Team he is experienced in areas such as: tax planning and implementation of Polish and international tax structures, VAT and CIT optimisation, tax structuring of mergers, acquisitions and restructuring transactions, and assistance with foreign investments in Poland, including tax incentives in special economic zones.

Rzeczpospolita (the premier Polish newspaper) in its annual ranking of law firms ranked Salans No. 1 in Poland on the headline number of lawyers (144 lawyers). Salans is the one and only law firm in the 9 year history of the ranking to have broken the stranglehold of DZP*, which fell to 2nd; Cameron McKenna came 3rd.

This renowned arbitration practitioner and partner at Salans’ Warsaw office has once again proved his well-established position in arbitration in Poland by becoming the exclusive winner in his field in Poland of the ILO Client Choice Awards for the second year in a row.

Salans has appointed Paweł Grabowski as partner. His expertise and experience will strengthen the Warsaw Corporate / M&A team, which currently numbers 30 lawyers (incl. 5 partners) and provides full service legal advice in corporate law, M&A, restructurings and private equity.

Salans Warsaw is proud to announce that in January 2011, settlement papers ending the €2 billion plus, 11-year long dispute over control of PTC (Era), the leading Polish telecoms company, were signed, following Elektrim’s exit from bankruptcy.

The international law firm Salans has announced the expansion of its Prague office by enhancing its corporate team, both on the senior and junior levels. Jan Procházka has joined Salans as Counsel, taking on the position of co-leader of the corporate practice group in the Prague and Bratislava offices.

Salans has announced that one of the most recognisable names in real estate in Central Europe, Pawel Debowski, plans to join forces with Salans, a power-house in the real estate arena and one of the top international legal practices in Central and Eastern Europe. Debowski is rated as a “Band Star” by Chambers Europe who commented that “…observers are generally in awe of (his) outstanding outfit.”

Starting July 2010, Salans is strengthening its Paris office with the arrival of three partners and nine associates who will be adding their expertise to the firm’s M&A, private equity and litigation practice.

Salans’ Warsaw lawyers advised IK Investment Partners – a Pan-European private equity firm – on their acquisition of Agros Nova, a leading diversified food and drink company in Poland. Salans’ tasks included legal analysis and negotiation of transactional documentation.

Salans has won emeafinance magazine's Best Legal Firm in CEE & CIS (Capital Markets and Corporate Actions) for its achievements and success in 2009.

International law firm Salans advised European property developer, ORCO Property Group, in connection with a landmark re-structuring of the debt on its multi-billion Euro real estate portfolio.

In a breakthrough ruling, the Presidium of the Russian Federation Supreme Commercial (Arbitrazh) Court confirmed that Russian Commercial Courts have the power to freeze assets and grant other interim security measures in support of foreign arbitral proceedings. Salans’ St. Petersburg office obtained the ruling on behalf of a client involved in LCIA proceedings brought by Salans’ London office against a high-profile Russian property developer.

Salans has acted as legal adviser to MSR Asia Acquisitions VII, Inc. in relation to the disposal of Morgan Stanley’s interest in a real estate development project in China.

International law firm Salans has appointed Berlin competition law expert Dr Jörg Karenfort as the new Head of its Global Competition Practice.

International law firm Salans has advised SibStroyInvest, a joint venture between Renaissance, one of the leading shopping mall development companies, and Amstar Global Partners, a private equity real estate fund active in emerging markets including Russia, on a €60m debt financing consisting of a €40m senior loan from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and UniCredit Bank Austria as 50% participant and €20m subordinate loan from the EBRD for the new Aura Shopping Centre in the city centre of Novosibirsk, Russia.

Salans has been awarded a Special Distinction in the Best European Law Firm award category at the 2009 International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards (“ILASA”).

The International law firm, Salans, announces that Evan Z. Lazar, Co-Chairman of the Salans Global Real Estate Group, has been appointed as Vice-Chair of the Cross-Border Real Estate Practice of ABA International (the international law section of the American Bar Association) for the period 2009-2010

The international law firm Salans has merged its worldwide German-language advisory services and launches the German International Practice Group. The Group encompasses a close network of Salans’ German-speaking lawyers and tax advisers from 12 nations providing seamless services to companies from German-speaking countries in key markets throughout Europe, the CIS and in Asia.