Polish juice manufacturing group Maspex Wadowice has acquired Romanian mineral water producer Rio Bucovina, the transaction being subject to approval by the Competition Council. Rio Bucovina is the second largest manufacturer of water in terms of...more »

Investment fund Abris Capital grows it's investment portfolio in Romania with the acquisition of tissue paper manufacturer MG-Tec. The transaction is subject to sell a stake in the paper division of MG TEC Group, which includes companies Pehart Tec, Metalicplas Distribution, Metalicplas Impex and Samus Constructii....more »

Dentons assisted AmRest in acquiring the two Starbucks franchises in Romania and Bulgaria. For AmRest this acquisition is the entryway into the Romanian market – the second in size in Central Europe - and will strengthen its leadership position in the region. AmRest will now operate 18 Starbucks coffee shops in Romania, and 5 in Bulgaria. ...more »

Law firm PeliFilip assisted Tiriac Holdings Ltd. on the sale of the 45% stake in UniCredit Tiriac Bank to the bank's majority shareholder, the Italian group UniCredit. This represents the largest transaction of the year in the banking sector. ...more »

The Technology, Media & Telecommunications team of Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte has assisted George Butunoiu, the owner of Restograf.ro in the sale of all rights of the website to Skin Media, Nikon's distributor in Romania....more »

Romanian law firm Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen assisted Lafarge in connection with the sale of its domestic assets as part of the 6.5 billion euro global transaction with Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH) in the context of Lafarge and Holcim merger announced in April 2014....more »

The global M&A market sees its best year since the financial crisis, deal values in 2014 being in line to top levels not seen since 2007, according to a preview of international law firm Clifford Chance’s latest Global M&A Trends report....more »

Banca Transilvania has reached an agreement to acquire the entire shareholding of Volksbank Romania (VBRO) from Austria’s Volksbank AG, Groupe BPCE (Banque Populaire Caisse d’Epargne), DZ Bank AG and WGZ Bank AG, states a press release of the Romanian bank....more »

The acquisition campaign run by the investment fund established and controlled by Greek businessman Ioannis Papalekas continues with a new property added to the domestic portfolio: Nusco Tower, office building developed by Italian group Nusco for which Globalworth will pay 46 million euro, reads a company release....more »

The investment fund established and controlled by Greek businessman Ioannis Papelkas has announced the acquisition of the first office building in Green Court office park, project developed by Skanska Romania, the transaction being valued at 44 million euro. Closing of the acquisition is scheduled for the second quarter of 2015, states a Globalworth release....more »