{"id":48210,"date":"2025-05-09T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/?post_type=press_releases&p=48210"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:44:31","slug":"2024-ceelm-deal-of-the-year-awards-banquet-and-the-winner-is-cee-legal-matters-2025","status":"publish","type":"press_releases","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/press-releases\/2024-ceelm-deal-of-the-year-awards-banquet-and-the-winner-is-cee-legal-matters-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 CEELM Deal of the Year Awards Banquet: And the Winner Is\u2026 (CEE Legal Matters, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the evening of April 1, 2025, the\u00a0Deal of the Year Awards Banquet\u00a0brought together, under the same roof, over 200 top-tier lawyers from Central and Eastern Europe’s leading law firms and General Counsel from across the region in Prague.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The black-tie Deal of the Year Awards Banquet, which ran in parallel with the\u00a02025 CEE General Counsel Summit, recognized and celebrated the largest and most important deals in Central and Eastern Europe. The winners of each Country Deal of the Year, as well as the winners of the CEE Deal of the Year, are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Albania:<\/strong>\u00a0AYEN AS Energji\u2019s EUR 110 Million Syndicated Loan (GKC Partners (White & Case); Kalo & Associates; Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli; Wolf Theiss)<\/li>\n
  2. Austria:<\/strong>\u00a0Vauban Infrastructure Partners\u2019 EUR 803 Million Acquisition of Cellnex\u2019s Austrian Telecommunications Tower Assets (Clifford Chance; Hogan Lovells; KPMG Law;\u00a0Schoenherr; Wolf Theiss)<\/li>\n
  3. Bosnia and Herzegovina:<\/strong>\u00a0Schneider\u2019s Acquisition of Imaco Systemtechnik (Aulinger Rechsanwalte; Maric & Co)<\/li>\n
  4. Bulgaria:<\/strong>\u00a0E&\u2019s Acquisition of PPF Telecom Bulgarian, Hungarian, Serbian, and Slovakian Assets (Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov; Karanovic & Partners;\u00a0Lakatos Koves & Partners; Perkins Coie;\u00a0Schoenherr; Sullivan & Cromwell; Van Doorne; White & Case)<\/li>\n
  5. Croatia:<\/strong>\u00a0Aggreko\u2019s Acquisition of Resalta (Allen Overy Shearman Sterling;\u00a0BDK Advokati; Divjak, Topic, Bahtijarevic & Krka;\u00a0RTPR; Rutgers & Posch;\u00a0Schoenherr; Selih & Partnerji)<\/li>\n
  6. Czech Republic:<\/strong>\u00a0CEZ\u00b4s Acquisition of GasNet from Macquarie (Allen Overy Shearman Sterling; Burges Salmon; Loyens & Loeff; Skils)<\/li>\n
  7. Estonia:<\/strong>\u00a0Mainor Ulemiste\u2019s Acquisition of Majority Stake in Technopolis Ulemiste from Technopolis Baltic Holding (Triniti; Sorainen; Ellex)<\/li>\n
  8. Greece:<\/strong>\u00a0Athens International Airport 30% Stake Sale Through IPO (Clifford Chance; Dracopoulos & Vassalakis; Koutalidis; Latham & Watkins; Milbank; PotamitisVekris; Linklaters; White & Case; Your Legal Partners; Zepos & Yannopoulos)<\/li>\n
  9. Hungary:<\/strong>\u00a0Corvinus and Vinci Airports\u2019s Acquisition of Budapest International Airport from AviAlliance, Malton, and CDPQ (Bittera, Kohlrusz & Toth; CMS; Freshfields; Herbert Smith Freehills;\u00a0KCG Partners<\/a>; Kinstellar; Latham & Watkins; Linklaters; Orrick; PK Law Firm; Wolf Theiss)<\/li>\n
  10. Kosovo:<\/strong>\u00a0Maverix Private Equity\u2019s USD 30 Million VC Funding of Kode Labs (Cytowski & Partners; Nallbani Law Firm; Osler Hoskin & Harcourt)<\/li>\n
  11. Latvia:<\/strong>\u00a0AirBaltic\u2019s EUR 380 Million Bonds Issuance (Arthur Cox; Cobalt; Dentons; Linklaters; TGS Baltic)<\/li>\n
  12. Lithuania:<\/strong>\u00a0AB Siauliu\u2019s EUR 200 Securitization Vehicle (Ellex; TGS Baltic)<\/li>\n
  13. Moldova:<\/strong>\u00a0Trans-Oil Group\u2019s USD 550 Million Eurobond Issuance (Arthur Cox; Baker & McKenzie;\u00a0Gladei & Partners; Harneys Aristodemou Loizides Yiolitis; Homburger; Linklaters; Sayenko Kharenko; Turcan Cazac)<\/li>\n
  14. Montenegro:<\/strong>\u00a0Krnovo 72-Megawatt Wind Power Plant Refinancing by KfW IPEX-Bank (Allen Overy Shearman Sterling; Karanovic & Partners; Dentons)<\/li>\n
  15. North Macedonia:<\/strong>\u00a0SMA\u2019s Holding\u2019s Acquisition of Studio Moderna (Bona Fide; Deloitte Legal; Tashko Pustina; Van Campen Lien)<\/li>\n
  16. Poland:<\/strong>\u00a0Cerberus\u2019s Acquisition of VeloBank from Bank Guarantee Fund (Clifford Chance; CMS; Linklaters; Rymarz Zdort Maruta)<\/li>\n
  17. Romania:<\/strong>\u00a0EnergoNuclear and FCSA Joint Venture\u2019s EUR 3.2 Billion EPCM Contract for Cernavoda NPP Units 3 and 4 (CMS; Dentons)<\/li>\n
  18. Serbia:<\/strong>\u00a0Actis-Led Consortium\u2019s Acquisition of Telekom Srbija Tower Portfolio (CMS; Deloitte Legal; Kinstellar; Paul Hastings; PwC Legal; Simpson Thacher; Van Campen Liem; White & Case)<\/li>\n
  19. Slovakia:<\/strong>\u00a0Creditas Group\u2019s Acquisition of a 100% Stake in GGE from Infracapital (Barger Prekop; BPV Braun Partners; Dentons; Polacek & Partners; Watson Farley & Williams)<\/li>\n
  20. Slovenia:<\/strong>\u00a0Aggreko\u2019s Acquisition of Resalta (Allen Overy Shearman Sterling;\u00a0BDK Advokati; Divjak, Topic, Bahtijarevic & Krka;\u00a0RTPR; Rutgers & Posch;\u00a0Schoenherr; Selih & Partnerji)<\/li>\n
  21. Turkiye:<\/strong>\u00a0Petrol Ofisi\u2019s Acquisition of British Petroleum\u2019s Downstream Business (Akin Gump; Ashurst; Baykal Saris Law Firm; Gen Temizer Erdogan Girgin; Kinstellar; Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli)<\/li>\n
  22. Ukraine:<\/strong>\u00a0NJJ Holding and Horizon Capital-led Consortium\u2019s Acquisition of Datagroup-Volia and Lifecell (Avellum; Bredin Prat; Clifford Chance; CMS; Dentons; DWF; George Yiangou; Gide Loyrette Nouel; Kinstellar; Redcliffe Partners)<\/li>\n
  23. And the\u00a0CEE Deal of the Year:<\/strong>\u00a0E&\u2019s Acquisition of PPF Telecom Bulgarian, Hungarian, Serbian, and Slovakian Assets (Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov; Karanovic & Partners;\u00a0Lakatos Koves & Partners; Perkins Coie;\u00a0Schoenherr; Sullivan & Cromwell; Van Doorne; White & Case)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Congratulations to all the winning deals and those who made them happen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-48210","press_releases","type-press_releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/48210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press_releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}