📢 Kinstellar is delighted to announce that Ferenczi Kristóf has been appointed as new #Firm #Managing #Partner effective from 1 January 2024. He will succeed Patrik Bolf, who will take on a new position within the Firm, after having spent a very successful six years in the role. 🌟 Kristóf has extensive executive #management experience, having served on Kinstellar’s Firm Management Committee since 2018, as Managing Partner of the Firm’s Budapest office, and as Head of Kinstellar’s energy sector team for many years. With over 20 years of #experience, Kristóf has been with Kinstellar since the Firm’s foundation 15 years ago, and prior to that with Linklaters and DLA Piper. 🌟 His #leadership, #strategic vision, and #dedication to the Firm have earned him a reputation as a respected and accomplished professional among his colleagues, clients and peers. 💡 In his new role, Kristóf will seek to drive #innovation and #growth, focus on keeping clients’ needs at the centre of everything Kinstellar does and thereby further enhancing the firm’s excellent standing across the dynamically changing business environments of Central and South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia. 💬 Jason Mogg, Senior Partner of Kinstellar, comments: “I congratulate Kristóf on his appointment and I am hugely confident that, under his leadership, Kinstellar will continue to thrive and to exceed the expectations of both our clients and our own people. Kristóf has been the driving force behind many of the most successful firm-wide projects and initiatives. Kristóf’s strategic thinking, savvy and strong leadership, his dedication and instincts will enable Kinstellar to continue its #remarkable success story. I would also like to thank Patrik Bolf for his excellent service and invaluable contribution to the Firm over the past six years.” 💬 Kristóf adds: “I am honoured and excited to take on the Firm Managing Partner role. Kinstellar is an amazing firm with a unique model that has earned us a strong #reputation for delivering #outstanding legal services to our clients across Central and South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia. I am grateful for the strong foundation laid by my predecessor, Patrik Bolf, with whom I have worked closely over the years. Building upon the diversity and talent of our teams, our #commitment to the values Kinstellar represents, and our culture of seamless #collaboration, I will work with the Kinstellar #community to drive forward our #business, ensure that our clients achieve their goals, and that our teams realise their full potential.” 🙌🏻 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gWTMcamb #exceptionaltogether #leadership #managingpartner #leadinglawfirm #leadinglawyers

📢 This year Kinstellar is honoured to serve as a partner to the Game Developers Session, a long-running international conference held in Prague, and one of the most significant events in the region dedicated to #game development, #gaming #technologies and the video game industry.   💡 Video gaming lawyers Petr Bratský and Georgi Kanev will join forces at the conference with a premier league figure in the gaming industry, namely Nav Sunner from Navatron, to discuss the legal challenges of using #generativeAI in games development 🕹.   🌟 We cordially invite attendees to come and meet us during our panel, or anywhere at the conference, to discuss #AI, #IP, #dataprivacy and #videogames 🎮 in general.   👇🏻 For more information, please see here https://lnkd.in/gMYNz7P   #gamedevczechrepublic #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gdsprague #exceptionaltogether #leadinglawyers #intheknow

🚨🌍 In an article from Responsible Investor, Kinstellar's ESG experts Karla Rundtova (Partner) and Jan Lehký (Counsel) provide expert insights on the Czech Republic's #ESG challenges regarding the #CSRD implementation deadline. A crucial moment for EU market equality! Read more for in-depth analysis. #ESG #LegalInsight #EURegulations 🇪🇺⏳ #exceptionaltogether #intheknow https://lnkd.in/drNYNMPC

🚀 Exciting Update on the #Advertising Regulatory Landscape in #Ukraine! 🇺🇦 Amendments to the #Law of Ukraine on Advertising have recently come into force. 📑 💡 Explore the key novelties, including an extended concept of advertising, criteria for the applicability of #Ukrainian advertising #laws, product placement #regulations, and much more. 👇🏻 Check out the overview below by our #Ukraine Intellectual Property and Technology team – Partner Natalia Kirichenko and Associate Anna Baliura. Stay ahead in the dynamic world of advertising! 💡 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d_CAPzpE #intheknow #AdvertisingRegulation #UkraineLegalUpdates #IndustryInsights #intellectualproperty

📢 🇭🇷 Our team in #Zagreb has successfully advised S IMMO AG, a real estate #investment company, on the #sale of #Eurocenter, one of its office buildings in Zagreb, to Atlantic Grupa d.d. The #transaction, which was carried out by way of a share deal, has an asset value of EUR 26.5 million. 🏢 Eurocenter has been part of S IMMO AG’s #commercial #property portfolio since 2008. The centrally located, six-storey modern building features around 9,000 sqm and counts IBM, Atlantic Grupa, EBRD, and the Polish, Irish and Finnish embassies among its tenants. 🌟 The Kinstellar team was led by Andrijana Kaštelan, Managing Associate, and included Duško Žurić, Partner, Senior Associates Tena Pajalić and Matea Sekur, as well as Kristina Marinov, Associate. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ggM32ECw #donedeals #intheknow #realestate #officebuildings #croatia #balkans

📢 🇷🇸 Our team in #Belgrade has successfully advised #Chinese #investors CMC Capital, a member of #China National Technical Import and Export Corporation group (CNTIC), and #Shanghai Electric Power & Energy Development Limited (SEP) on the #acquisition of Crni Vrh Power d.o.o., a project company developing a 150 MW onshore #windfarm in the eastern #Serbian municipalities of Bor, Žagubica, and Majdanpek. 💡 With this acquisition, CNTIC and SEP have entered Serbia’s #renewable energy market. 👉🏻 The Crni Vrh wind farm is scheduled to begin commercial operations in 2025, with an expected annual #electricity generation of 480 million kWh. 🌟 The Kinstellar team was led by Miloš Velimirović, Managing Partner. Aleksa Bošnjović (Senior Associate) handled M&A and #energy-related matters, Mario Kijanović (Senior Associate), Miroslav Ravic (Associate) and Vuk Vučković, LL. M. (Associate) managed the #realestate issues, while Olga Šipka (Special Counsel) oversaw all #competition law aspects of the #transaction. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dAwFET7r #donedeals #renewableenergy #renewablepower #renewablefuture #leadinglawyers #leadinglawfirm #mergersandacquisitions #balkans

📢 🇷🇸 Kinstellar has successfully advised #AIK Banka on the #competition law aspects of the EUR 280 million #acquisition of 100% of #Eurobank Direktna Beograd, #Serbia. 🏦 AIK Banka is a prominent #financial institution in Serbia and its recent acquisition strengthens its position as a key player on the #Serbian market. 👉🏻 The acquisition of Eurobank Direktna represents a significant milestone, underscoring the consolidation trend within Serbia's banking sector and is one of the largest transactions of this kind in the sector. ✨ Kinstellar's team, led by Olga Šipka, Special Counsel, and Aleksandra Stećuk, Senior Associate, provided support to AIK Banka on the competition law aspects of the deal, supporting the pre-signing #analysis and post signing activities in the #merger control process, which ended with with the receipt of all necessary #approvals from the competition authorities and successful closing of the transaction. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gHRMXkAf #donedeals #financialsector #bankingsector #mergersandacquisitions #balkans #leadinglawyers #leadinglawfirm

🌟 #15 years #15 voices 🙌🏼 #15 years since Day 1, what does #Kinstellar actually mean to its people? 🎤 We talked to 15 #people from our offices who describe their #experience of working at the firm and what Kinstellar represents to them. 🎬 Kateřina Murphy highlights the importance of #teamwork and having a #cohesive team in the workplace. Kateřina has been with Kinstellar for a decade, serving as a legal assistant in our Prague office. “We don’t just share office space, we share moments.” At Kinstellar, we proudly nurture a spirit of teamwork every day, fuelling our #success and distinctive #culture.   #exceptionaltogether #15years #leadinglawfirm #leadinglawyers