Mușat & Asociații assisted Mecaplast Group, one of the most important car components manufacturers in the world, for the purpose of expanding its business in Romania, by means of a „brownfield”-type investment.  The value of the project reaches approximately EUR 10 million and involves the inauguration of a plant in Romania, between Pitești and Mioveni, in 2017, destined to the manufacturing of car components for the new Duster. The investment in Romania involves all the industrial means necessary to develop new businesses, especially for engine parts and interior and exterior painted parts/elements....more »

Romanian private healthcare services market leader MedLife continues it's expansion with the acquisition of Anima clinics network, the company announced. The Anima network consists of six clinics, one laboratory and had a turnover of 5,2 million euro in 2016. ...more »

CPI Property Group will acquire eleven retail properties, including six major regional shopping centers, in Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Dentons advised CPI Property Group on the acquisition of a portfolio of 11 retail properties from CBRE Global Investors. The completion of the transaction is expected in the first quarter of 2017, pending regulatory approvals in the Czech Republic and Hungary....more »

Biriş Goran assisted AdamAmerica Europe on the acquisition of Construdava, a 9,400 sqm office building located on Pipera-Tunari Road, in the North-East of Bucharest. The building is fully leased by Metro Systems, internal IT provider of Metro Group in Bucharest, Romania.  Biris Goran advised AdamAmerica on all aspects of the purchase from the building's owners, Commerzbank AG and Aberdeen Asset Management.  The team was spearheaded by Victor Constantinescu, Daniela Lazea, Mariana Signeanu and Radu Jianu on the acquisition documents, along with other members of Biriş Goran on due diligence....more »

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) advised Value4Capital (V4C) on the sale of its entire shareholding of 36.25% in Medlife S.A., Romania’s largest provider of private healthcare services.  The exit came seven years after V4C purchased the shares from Medlife’s founders and the International Finance Corporation (with NNDKP acting as local counsel) and was performed through an initial public offering on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE). The transaction became the first IPO of a private company performed in the past decade in Romania....more »

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised Raiffeisen Bank and Wood & Company Financial Services as managers on Med Life’s IPO, the biggest private IPO in Romania. The RTPR Allen & Overy team was led by Costin Tărăcilă (Managing Partner) and Loredana Chitu (Boeru) (Counsel) and further comprised associate Tudor Năftică and junior associate Mihnea Radu....more »

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised the Japanese group Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. on the acquisition of Ursus Brewery, one of the largest beer producers in Romania. The transaction in which Asahi group purchased the SAB Miller beer producers in the region covers five markets – Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary – and is estimated to be the largest M&A transaction in Romania this year. The seller is Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV. Suciu Popa was the local legal adviser for the seller, Ursus Brewery....more »

Musat & Asociatii has assisted Emerson SRL, a subsidiary in Romania of Emerson Electric on the separation of the activity of Emerson Network Power toprepare it's transfer to the US investment fund Platinum Equity . The transaction was conducted globally and has a value of around 4 billion USD. Emerson reported sales of $ 4.4 billion globally for the Network Power business during 2016. ...more »

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised the private equity fund Enterprise Investors in relation to the sale of Profi supermarket chain to Mid Europa Partners, in the largest deal ever completed by a private equity fund in Romania and the largest deal in the retail sector in the country’s history. The transaction is subject to approval by the Competition Counsel. ...more »

PeliFilip advised Anchor, the real estate and development group, with respect to the merger of the Romanian group companies owning and operating București Mall and Plaza Mall. The process was designed as a merger through absorption, under which the entire patrimony of the Plaza Mall shopping centre was transferred to București Mall. The preliminary steps of the merger were initiated in March 2016, with the merger becoming effective in October 2016.  ...more »