Category: Did You Know?

Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Cobalt Partner Aivar Taro has worked on ten reported Estonian Real Estate deals over the past five years – more than any other lawyer?

Ellex Partners Ermo Kosk and Martin Kaerdi, both of whom have worked on six reported Real Estate deals in the past five years, are in second place, and Fort Legal Partner Minni-Triin Park is in fourth place with five. TGS Baltic Estonia Managing Partner Sander Karson and Pohla & Hallmagi Partner Toivo Viilup, who have both worked on four reported Real Estate deals over the past half-decade, are tied for fifth place.

Want to see which deals they’ve worked on in that period, or which other lawyers have been active in Estonian Real Estate? Visit CEELMDirect.com, the world’s only truly dynamic legal directory, and find out!

Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Schoenherr has published 18 articles of legal analysis on the subject of litigation/dispute resolution on CEE Legal Matters — the most of any firm — over the nine years of its existence?

CMS has published 14 litigation/dispute resolution articles on CEE Legal Matters in that time, putting it in second place, and Hungary’s KCG Partners has published nine. Ukraine’s Avellum has published eight litigation/dispute resolution briefings in that time, and Deloitte Legal and Turkey’s Guleryuz & Partners have each published six, tying them for fifth place.

Want to see what other firms have expounded on litigation/dispute resolution subjects on the CEE Legal Matters website – or want to explore the articles themselves? Visit CEELMDirect.com, the world’s only truly dynamic legal directory, and find out!

Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Clifford Chance worked on the most reported deals in CEE during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, from April 1, 2020, through January 1, 2022? In fact, the Magic Circle stalwart worked on an impressive 51 reported deals in CEE during that period – more than any other firm.

CMS, which worked on 46 reported deals in CEE during that period, is not far behind, and Dentons, which worked on 41, is in third place.

Sorainen worked on 29 reported deals during that period, and both Allen & Overy and White & Case worked on 27. Cobalt worked on 24 reported deals, Schoenherr worked on 21, and Asters worked on 19. Kinstellar worked on 18 reported deals, rounding out the Top Ten.

Want to see what other firms worked on deals during the COVID-19 crisis – or any other period over the past decade? Visit CEELMDirect.com, the world’s only truly dynamic legal directory, and find out!

Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Clifford Chance has worked on 23 reported Banking/Finance deals in CEE so far this year – the most of any firm – with Dentons, which has worked on 22 such deals so far this year, right behind?

Both Allen & Overy and CMS have worked on 13 reported Banking/Finance deals in CEE in 2022, making them tied for third place, and Norton Rose Fulbright has worked on 12.

The top ten is rounded out by Schoenherr, Sorainen, and White & Case, each of which has worked on ten reported Banking/Finance deals so far this year, with Filip & Company – the only domestic law firm in the top ten – and Wolf Theiss both working on eight.

Want to see what other firms have worked on Banking/Finance deals in CEE this year, and in which countries? Visit CEELMDirect.com, the world’s only truly dynamic legal directory, and find out!

Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Sokol Nako, the Managing Partner of Wolf Theiss Albania, has worked on more reported deals in Albania over the past nine years – eight, in total – than any other lawyer?

Second place is held by Damian Simeonov of Bulgaria’s Boyanov & Co., who has worked on three reported deals involving Albania over the past nine years, while Aigest Milo, the Co-Managing Partner at Kalo & Partners, and BDK Partner Vladimir Dasic have both worked on two. A total of 55 lawyers have each worked on one reported deal over that period.

Want to see who those other 55 lawyers are, and which law firms have worked on reported deals in Albania? Visit CEELMDirect.com, the world’s only truly dynamic legal directory, and find out!

Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Roxana Ionescu of RTPR has worked on ten reported deals in Romania so far this year – more than any other lawyer in the country?

RTPR’s Alina Stavaru, who has worked on nine reported deals so far this year, is close behind, and RTPR’s Mihai Ristici is in third place with eight. Alexandru Birsan of Filip & Co, Costin Taracila of RTPR, and Cristina Man and Silviu Stratulat of Stratulat Albulescu, all of whom have worked on seven reported deals so far this year, are tied for fourth place. Wolf Theiss’s Claudia Chiper, who has worked on six reported deals, is alone in eighth, and a remarkable eight lawyers are tied for ninth place with five.

Want to see which other firms have worked on multiple Banking & Finance deals in Bulgaria in the past five years, or learn how active a particular firm or partner is or has been in your jurisdiction? Visit CEELMDirect.com, the world’s only truly dynamic legal directory, and find out!

Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, CMS has worked on 15 reported Banking & Finance deals in Bulgaria in the past five years – more than any other law firm?

Boyanov & Co has worked on 13 reported Banking & Finance deals in that time – more than any other domestic Bulgarian law firm – and Kinstellar has worked on ten. Djingov, Gouginsky, Kyutchukov & Velichkov has worked on nine reported Bulgarian Banking & Finance deals in the past five years, and Wolf Theiss, which has worked on six, rounds out the top five.

Want to see which other firms have worked on multiple Banking & Finance deals in Bulgaria in the past five years, or learn how active a particular firm or partner is or has been in your jurisdiction? Visit CEELMDirect.com, the world’s only truly dynamic legal directory, and find out!

Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Sorainen’s Mantas Petkevicius has worked on a market-leading five reported M&A deals so far this year in Lithuania?

Cobalt’s Elijus Burgis and Motieka & Audzevicius’s Rokas Jankus, who have both worked on four reported deals this year, are close behind Petkevicius, while Sorainen’s Algirdas Peksys, TGS Baltic’s Aurimas Pauliukevicius and Dalia Tamasauskaite-Zilene, and Cobalt’s Juozas Rimas have all worked on three.

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Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, CMS’s Marija Musec has contributed six Thought Leadership articles to CEE Legal Matters over the ten years of its existence – more than any other Croatian lawyer?

There’s a three-way tie for second place over that time, as Matea Gospic Plazina of Gospic Plazina Stojs, Olena Manuilenko of Divjak Topic Bahtijarevic & Krka, and CMS’s Tamara Jelic Kazic have all published four articles over the past decade. Iva Basaric of Babic & Partners is alone in fifth place, with three.

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Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Filip & Co. and RTPR have both worked on 16 reported deals so far this year in Romania, putting them in a two-way tie atop the leaderboard in that country?

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Peterson is not far behind, with 14, and Dentons and Tuca Zbarcea and Asociatii are tied for fourth place with 13. The top ten is filled out by Deloitte Legal and Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii, both of which have worked on 11 deals so far this year, Reff & Asociatii and Stratulat Albulescu, both of which have worked on ten deals, and Wolf Theiss, which has worked on nine. 

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