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Leading on perhaps the most significant real estate deal of the year in Central and Eastern Europe, general counsel of CPI Property Group Martin Matula can look back on an incredibly successful past twelve months. In March it was reported that the company had closed a deal to acquire eleven shopping centres across the region from CBRE Global Investors in a deal valued at around €650m. Given that the centres were already in operation, Matula’s work to ensure a smooth transition into the new operating regime, and oversight of the extremely complex financing arrangements given the number of banks involved, was particularly noteworthy and came in for great praise from the legal world.