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act legal Slovakia is pleased to announce the achievement of an important place in the most prestigious Slovak competition „The Law Firm of the Year“ in 2018 organized by the weekly TREND in cooperation with EPRAVO.SK.

It is a great success that MPH advocates has won the award in telecommunications and IT for the second year in a row. Furthermore, the law firm has been “highly recommended” in tax law and public procurement and was mentioned as “recommended” in the categories labor law and restructuring & insolvency.

act legal Austria advises aws Gründerfonds in the course of Series A financing for Adverity.

Adverity GmbH, a company specialised in integration and analysis of marketing data, successfuly closed a Series A financing round in the amount of MEUR 3.2. Besides Mangrove Capital Partners as lead investor, also already existing investors participated in this round.

aws Gründerfonds as seed investor also participated in this financing round and relied on legal advice from WMWP act legal Austria’s Paul Koppenwallner.

ŘANDA HAVEL LEGAL and its lawyers are once again recommended by The Legal 500 EMEA 2018 in the following areas:

• Corporate and M&A
• Projects & Energy
• Dispute resolution
• Real estate and construction
• TMT

The following lawyers are recommended as specialists:

• Martin Řanda (Dispute Resolution, Real Estate and Construction)
• Jan Havel (Dispute Resolution, Projects and Energy, Real Estate and Construction)
• Tomáš Rydvan (Real Estate and Construction; TMT)
• Alois Šatava (Corporate and M&A)
• Matyáš Kužela (TMT)

The Legal 500 wrote: “Randa Havel Legal stands out for its ‘technical knowledge’.”, “Tomáš Rydvan has ‘a good sense of commerciality’.”, “Department head Jan Havel is ‘very pragmatic’.” – quotes from http://www.legal500.com/firms/14711/offices/19372

act legal Poland advised CPI Property Group, a European investor with the largest portfolio of retail properties in the Czech Republic. The group entered into an agreement with Katharsis Development, a Polish developer, to acquire five retail parks known under the common name of “HopStop.” 

act BSWW was assisting the investor at all stages of the acquisition of property portfolio with a total area of 19,000 square meters. The range of legal services related to this share deal included a due diligence analysis of the properties and their owners, negotiations of contractual provisions, preparation of investment loan repayment documentation and preparation of agreements.

The transaction concerns retail developments located in Radom, Zamość (at Sądowa and Hrubieszowska Street) and Warszawa-Rembertów, with the last one (now at the pre-development stage) about to emerge in Siedlce.

The project team was managed by Marek Wojnar (managing partner and attorney-at-law) and Marta Kosiedowska (partner and legal counsel), supported by Katarzyna Góra (associate) and Marlena Suchonos (associate).

“act BSWW has been handling shopping mall sale and purchase deals for years but successful completion of a transaction that involves acquisition of a full portfolio of retail centers always brings a lot of satisfaction, given the complexity of such processes,” says Marta Kosiedowska.

“We are really proud that a renowned investor like CPI has put its trust in us with respect to such a challenging transaction. We hope for further cooperation with CPI on subsequent deals in Poland and other European markets where both CPI and act legal network operate,” says Marek Wojnar.

act legal Poland is recommended in several practice areas by The Legal 500 EMEA 2018. We would like to express our great acknowledgment towards our Clients who have shown support and provided us with recommendations in the Legal 500 ranking.

The following practice areas are recommended:

• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Construction
• Capital markets – Debt
• Banking & Finance
• Dispute resolution
• Employment

Jacek Bieniak, Marek Wojnar, Marta Kosiedowska as well as Giuseppe La Rosa obtained individual recommendations in the Commercial, Corporate and M&A area. Jacek Bieniak, Michał Wielhorski and Marek Wojnar obtained individual recommendations in the Construction area.

The Legal 500 ranking wrote about us: “Act BSWW’s Jacek Bieniak combines ‘stand-out market knowledge with extremely efficient business orientation’. Marta Kosiedowska and Marek Wojnar are advising Nexus Ventures on investment contracts with Polkomtel. Giuseppe La Rosa is also recommended.” (http://www.legal500.com/c/poland/commercial-corporate-and-manda)

The Legal 500 EMEA 2018 recommends act legal Germany and 5 of its lawyers in the practice areas “Employment” and “Restructuring and Insolvency – Restructuring”. Congratulations!

“With a focus on restructuring-related work, AC Tischendorf Rechtsanwälte’s clients are typically drawn from the German SME sector, while the team continues to expand its international employment law client base. The practice advised GFKL on several restructuring projects and assisted CBRE with matters relating to employment law and data protection. The ‘excellent’ Thomas Block is ‘highly service-oriented’ and provides ‘pragmatic solutions’, while Stephan Schwilden is described as being a ‘competent and pragmatic negotiator’. Sven Tischendorf is frequently recommended.” – quoted from http://www.legal500.com/c/germany/employment

 “Frankfurt-based firm AC Tischendorf Rechtsanwälte focuses particularly on distressed M&A transactions and operative restructurings and positions itself at the intersection with commercial and business advice. A recent highlight was the advice to a German employment services company concerning the preparations for protective shield proceedings; practice head Sven Tischendorf and Matthias Müller took the lead. The firm also assisted Lomotex with the acquisition of large parts of the insolvent Steilmann group. The team primarily advises mid-sized and private equity companies and was strengthened with the arrival of counsel Marcus Grubusch from SVP Global in October 2016.” – quoted from http://www.legal500.com/c/germany/restructuring-and-insolvency/restructuring

Martin Wiedenbauer has published an article in ecolex‘ March edition (ecolex 2018, 261), a renowned Austrian journal for commercial law.

Many EU Member States finance tourism activities and run their own tourism offices or location development departments. In this context aid is often granted for the construction and operation of infrastructures of touristic interest or for activities that are otherwise relevant to the tourism sector (e.g. destination marketing, the distribution of touristic material etc).

In his article, Martin Wiedenbauer outlines the recent developments and best practice in state aid law to avoid the need for notification to the Commission.

Drestate sells Frankfurt’s Rahmhof/Schillerpassage to InfraRed and relies on act legal Germany’s advice.

The office building – located directly in the centre of Frankfurt – contains a big public underground car park and a shopping mall with shops and restaurants of approximately 900 m² in the ground floor. The total rentable area is about 8,900 m². The building under preservation order was built with a neoclassicist front in 1907 and was extensively redeveloped in 1992. In 2007, the listed real estate company Drestate (Deutsche Real Estate Aktiengesellschaft) acquired the property, which is located nearby the old building of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Drestate is selling Rahmhof/Schillerpassage to InfraRed Capital Partners, a British investor and a global asset manager with more than 120 employees and a strong focus on real estate.

The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

The team of act legal Germany, AC Tischendorf, was headed by Dr. Tara Kamiyar-Müller and Dr. Matthias Müller, MBA. act legal Germany advises Drestate regularly in all aspects of real estate law, including ongoing real estate administration and transactions.

act legal Austria supports the successful closing of a new financing round in t-matix. Martin Wiedenbauer, managing partner of WMWP, was the head of advice.

Fortuna Group has financed a capital increase in t-matix to boost further product development.

t-matix is provider of an independent and flexible IoT-Platform, which enables customers to create applications on their own without any special programming skills.