June 2025 – Kinstellar is pleased to announce that, together with Noerr acting as lead counsel, it has advised STRABAG, one of Europe’s leading technology groups for construction services, on the Romanian, Croatian, Czech, and Montenegrin law aspects...
June 2025 – Kinstellar is pleased to announce that it has advised Special Flanges, a leading Italian manufacturer of high-performance forged components, on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Vilmar, a Romanian industrial company with over 50 years...
April 2025 – In the first quarter of 2025, the Romanian Competition Council (“RCC”) published several significant decisions, launched new investigations, and imposed fines in cases involving abuse of dominant position, price coordination, and other...
February 2025 – Bulgaria aims to finalise the full implementation of its foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening regime in early 2025. On 29 January 2025, the Council of Ministers approved the Rules on the Organisation and Operation of the Interinstitutional...
July 2024 – Further to the December 2023 amendments to the Romanian regime for screening inbound direct investments (that we previously covered here), which formally included EU investors within the scope of screening, the Romanian Parliament has adopted...
March 2024 – A foreign direct investment screening mechanism entered into force in Bulgaria on 12 March 2024. The mechanism applies Regulation (EU) 2019/452, establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investment (“FDI“) into the...
February 2024 – Kinstellar is delighted to announce the promotions to Counsel of: Yerlan Akhmetov, Kuanysh Shekerbekov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Cătălin Dinu, Cătălin Graure (Bucharest, Romania), Barnabás Sági (Budapest, Hungary), Yulia Eismont, Maksym...
December 2023 – Facing EU infringement concerns, Romania has finally adopted an ordinance amending the Competition Law no. 21/1996 (the “Competition Law”), aimed at fully transposing into local law EU Directive 1/2019 to empower the competition...
December 2023 – A little over one year since Romania’s new foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening regime (that we previously wrote about here and here) became fully operational, the Romanian government passed an emergency ordinance meant...
June 2023 – Romania has just introduced additional amendments to its foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening regime, further broadening the scope of what was already one of the more far-reaching FDI regimes in the European Union.