Schoenherr has been recognized as "South East Europe Law Firm of the Year" for 2015 by Chambers and Partners in an awards gala held in Amsterdam. Schoenherr lawyers Monica Cojocaru (partner; Bucharest), Miloš Laković (partner, Moravčević, Vojnović & partneri OAD in cooperation with Schoenherr; Belgrade) and Marko Prušnik (partner, Ljubljana) accepted the award on behalf of the firm. "Our lawyers in South East Europe advised clients in many of the region's most prominent deals, restructurings and arbitrations over this past year. Winning Chambers' SEE award is very welcome recognition of the hard work our lawyers have put in on behalf of our clients in the region," commented Christoph Lindinger, Schoenherr’s managing partner. Headline deals and matters on which Schoenherr advised in South East Europe in 2014 and 2015 include the ca. EUR 1 billion restructuring of the SEE retail group Mercator Group, the sale of the SEE banking network of the former Hypo-Alpe-Adria-Bank International to Advent International and the EBRD, the privatisation of Slovenia’s primary airport in Ljubljana through the sale of a majority stake to Fraport, the acquisition of Volksbank Romania by Banca Transilvania, the restructuring and sale of Serbia's leading milk, water and confectionary brands (Imlek, Knjaz Milos and Bambi), and the sale of a majority stake in leading Slovenian brewer Pivovarna Laško to Heineken.