PRK Partners is a leading Central European law firm based in Czechia and Slovakia that has helped clients achieve their business objectives for 30 years. Our team of more than 100 lawyers in Prague, Ostrava and Bratislava has unparallel experience and know-how that clients need to succeed in the Czech and Slovak business environment. 

We are members of Lex Mundi, the leading global association of independent law firms.  Our active collaboration with the best lawyers around the world gives us the capability to serve our clients’ needs wherever they may arise.

A cornerstone of our practice is repeatedly assisting leading international firms in servicing their needs in Czechia and Slovakia.

Most of our partners and senior lawyers have attended leading law schools in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Switzerland and elsewhere. Many have gained invaluable experience working at leading international law firms and institutions. Our legal team is fluent in more than 15 languages, which allows us to intricately understand our region’s business culture. 

Ergün Law Firm is a full-service law firm in Turkey with offices in Istanbul and Ankara. It provides high quality legal services to its local and international clients in domestic and cross-border transactions. With a deep understanding of its clients’ businesses, Ergün has a specific expertise in project development, project finance and M&As in the infrastructure sectors. Ergün lawyers have been involved in most of the ground-breaking deals in the energy, transportation and healthcare sectors in Turkey over the past 20 years. They also represent sponsors, lenders and governments in public-private partnership and project finance deals in several jurisdictions, including the CIS Countries, Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Ergun’s prominent expertise is also recognised by leading legal directories, such as Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and IFLR, in the fields of energy, projects and project finance.We are members of Lex Mundi, the leading global association of independent law firms.  Our active collaboration with the best lawyers around the world gives us the capability to serve our clients’ needs wherever they may arise.

Kinstellar is a leading independent law firm in Emerging Europe, Turkey and Central Asia, with offices in Bulgaria (Sofia), Croatia (Zagreb), the Czech Republic (Prague), Hungary (Budapest), Kazakhstan (Almaty and Astana), Romania (Bucharest), Serbia (Belgrade), Slovakia (Bratislava), Turkey (Istanbul), Ukraine (Kyiv), and Uzbekistan (Tashkent).

Operating as a single fully integrated firm, Kinstellar delivers consistently high quality services across all jurisdictions in an integrated and seamless style. We are particularly well suited to servicing complex transactions and advisory requirements spanning several jurisdictions.

Kambourov & Partners is a leading Bulgarian law firm with over 34 years of experience on the local legal market. Since its foundation, it has been a reference point for corporate and institutional clients and has supported international and local companies both in multi-jurisdictional transactions and day-to-day activity.

The firm is organised in 16 fully integrated departments in order to effectively respond to client needs and help achieve business goals. It covers all aspects of business law and provides legal support in a wide array of practice areas, including corporate and M&A, litigation and arbitration, energy, finance, real estate, regulatory and compliance, employment, IP, TMT, tax. Its sector insight encompasses all key industries on the Bulgarian market, such as IT, telecoms, banks and financial institutions, energy, utilities, real estate, infrastructure, aviation, healthcare, retail, etc.

Kambourov & Partners has worked with many foreign and international law firms on some of the largest transactions on the local market. A recent example is the EUR 1.2 billion sale of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company to United Group for which it won the 2019 CEE Legal Matters Deal of the Year Award.

The firm is also continuously top-ranked in legal directories such as Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 and IFRL1000. Kambourov & Partners is currently the only Bulgarian law firm with a Band 1 recognition from Chambers Global in the Dispute Resolution practice area covering Bulgaria.

PONTES, established in 2004, is a legal network rooted in the culture of cooperation and results.

Our team's distinctive competence lies in its ability to blend legal service with a level of regional insight generally not seen among international competitors.

Knowledge is the key to our excellence: addressing trends within the practice and bringing the best minds together. PONTES firms also benefit from a schedule of cross-border training events, staff secondment and quarterly roundtables.

PONTES the CEE lawyers cover most of the countries in the CEE region. Members´ offices are currently located in Vienna (Austria), Sofia (Bulgaria), Prague (Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Warsaw (Poland).

We draw on in-depth knowledge acquired by leading international practices; a group of over 150 professionals delivering top-flight legal services clients can rely on, with experience in a range of practices including corporate/M&A, banking and finance, real estate, litigation and dispute resolution, contract, employment, energy and infrastructure, as well as insurance and capital markets.

Nagy és Trócsányi was founded in 1991, turned into limited professional partnership (in Hungarian: ügyvédi iroda) in 1992, with the aim of offering sophisticated legal services. The firm continues to seek excellence in a comprehensive and modern practice, which spans international commercial and business law. 

The firm’s lawyers provide clients with advice and representation in an active, thoughtful and ethical manner, with a real understanding of clients‘ business needs and the markets in which they operate. 

The firm is one of the largest home-grown independent law firms in Hungary. Currently Nagy és Trócsányi has 26 lawyers out of which there are 8 active partners. All partners are equity partners.

Nagy és Trócsányi is a legal entity and registered with the Budapest Bar Association. All lawyers of the Budapest office are either members of, or registered as clerks with, the Budapest Bar Association. Several of the firm’s lawyers are admitted attorneys or registered as legal consultants in New York.

Our activity focuses on the following practice areas: M&A, company law, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate law, banking and finance, project financing, insolvency and restructuring, venture capital investment, taxation, competition, utilities, energy, media and telecommunication.

Nagy és Trócsányi is the exclusive member firm in Hungary for Lex Mundi – the world’s leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience in 100+countries worldwide. 

NAZALI is an international full-service tax and law firm that provides a broad spectrum of legal and business advisory service to its local and international clients with its highly trained and experienced team of over 250 certified public accountants and lawyers offering legal solutions in financial law and its sub-disciplines.  At NAZALI we also provide services in other financial, tax and operational affairs including risk analysis, corporate reorganization, social security incentives and restructuring, company valuations, customs, R&D centre establishments, and R&D incentives.

NAZALI's core objective is to establish a long-term and trust-based relationship with our clients and to provide a conscientious service using the most applicable approach in a timely manner. Good service, sound business advice, and prompt response are the key fundamentals of NAZALI. We adopt an effective and solution-oriented methodology to provide accurate and proficient advice to our clients. What makes NAZALI different is our ability to evaluate all financial matters from all conceivable aspects under one roof to offer comprehensive solutions and develop rational strategies by virtue of interdepartmental communication.

Following “grow with knowledge” motto, NAZALI adopts a service understanding of continuous research and inquiry, making it a sought-after brand in the sector with a growing number of distinguished clients. 

NAZALI is based in Turkey and globally presented with its offices in Moscow, Casablanca, London, Ukraine, and Netherlands and is planning to expand to New York, Johannesburg, and Hong Kong in the near future.

At Reed Smith, we believe that the practice of law has the power to drive progress. We know your time is valuable and your matters are important. We are focused on outcomes, are highly collaborative, and have deep industry insight that, when coupled with our local market knowledge, allows us to anticipate and address your needs. You deserve purposeful, highly engaged client service that drives progress for your business.

Bringing our global experience in law to our clients in CEE, we are among the leading law firms in volume and complexity across the region and beyond. We have a broad understanding of CEE having advised on an array of transactions, arbitration and litigation, including in the construction, commodities & natural resources, energy, financial, healthcare, hotels, leisure and hospitality, infrastructure, manufacturing, media & technology, and shipping transportation sectors. Our clients include both Central and Eastern European companies and international companies active in the region including JP Morgan, Société Générale, EBRD, EIB, Türk Telecom, UniCredit Bank Austria, Glencore International Türkiye Garanti Bankası A.Ş and Export Development Canada.

We are deeply familiar with the business, legal and political culture across the region, which allows us to provide best in class services specifically tailored to the unique needs of our clients in all sectors.

Our capabilities include project finance, project counsel, procurement, complex contracts, joint ventures and strategic alliances, foreign investment, cross-border M&A, corporate structuring, debt and equity financing, structured finance, litigation, arbitration, dispute resolution and regulatory and compliance matters.

A leading international law firm

We are a leading international law firm recognised throughout the business community for our ability to help our clients realise and develop commercial opportunities. We have a diverse and extensive international practice advising on the full range of commercial, M&A, financing, competition, dispute resolution, regulatory and other matters. We have substantial experience of working in Central and Eastern Europe and the wider region, encompassing many different sectors and types of transactions.  

A genuinely global, world-class response

We provide a cross-jurisdictional legal service through our own offices in London, Brussels, Hong Kong and Beijing and by working in close

collaboration with market-leading firms from around the world. We share with these firms a culture of excellence and an absolute commitment to making a difference for our clients.

Together, we believe we can offer the most incisive advice available, no matter how complicated the issue, and at the same time provide value for money. 

Key differentials 

• Legal innovation – we continue to be at the forefront of legal innovation, helping our clients find novel solutions to challenges.
• Small teams and close partner involvement – our policy is to keep our teams as lean as is consistent with the demands of any given project.
• A multi-specialist approach to our practice – our lawyers do not work in narrow practice areas. This enables us to offer breadth and depth of expertise, as well as sound commercial judgement.
• A unique approach to fees – unlike many of our competitors, we do not have billing or hours targets for our fee-earners. We prefer to focus on the value we bring to a transaction, determined through a consultative and flexible approach.

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. 29 offices in 17 jurisdictions blend the best of local business, industry and cultural knowledge with international experience to provide smart commercial solutions for its clients.

Taylor Wessing CEE is Taylor Wessing’s CEE/SEE Centre of Excellence with more than 200 lawyers in Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Klagenfurt, Kyiv, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw. Within its newly established Turkish desk, comprehensive expertise is bundled for Turkish companies that want to enter CEE markets as well as for CEE based companies that want to position themselves in Türkiye. 

The recently announced strategic alliance with the leading law firm ECIJA provides Taylor Wessing with enhanced capability to undertake cross-border work with an established firm in 33 offices in Spain, Portugal and across regions in Latin America.