Foreign Investments

• advised in major foreign investment projects such as
• the acquisition of the biggest national brewery by Athenian Brewery, a subsidiary of Heineken,
• the acquisition of the biggest cement factory by Lafarge-Heracles General Cement Co.,
• the privatization of the Savings Bank of Albania, the biggest second-tier bank,
• the concession for Vjosa River for the building of a hydro power station.
  

• advised international bidders on
• Bulgarian regulatory and contractual issues in connection with their acquisition of interest in the two major Bulgarian energy sector investment projects,
  
• the building of a new thermo-power plant Maritsa East I and the rehabilitation of the existing thermo-power plant Maritsa East III.
  
• advised
• international investors in acquiring equity interests in the Sheraton and Radison hotels in Sofia,
  
• on the merger between beer manufacturing companies Kamenitza AD and Plevensko Pivo AD,
  
• on the public offering of the Pioneer Unit Funds in Bulgaria through Bulbank,
  
• Navan Mining PLC on the restructuring of Navan Group's debt to Deutsche Bank Group,
  
• potential buyers in connection with the privatization of the Bulgarian tobacco giant Bulgartabac AD,
  
• advised EBRD in connection with the privatisation of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company in the private acquisition of Mobiltel.

• DTB advised American investment fund WP Carey in the sale and lease-back transaction to leading private owned company in Croatia. The value of the deal is EUR 70 million.
• DT&B acted forAllianz AG in tender process for acquisition of leading Croatian insurer;
• DTB advised Croatian Telekom (majority owned by Deutsche Telekom) in acquisition of leading Croatian IT- integrating firm COMBIS Ltd. The value of the deal is € 30 million. The deal is groundbreaking step of the biggest telecom in Croatia into a new market of IT systems integrations with intention to provide unique telecom and IT service to business customers and governmental bodies.
• DTB advised world-leading engineering group ABB (Asea, Brown, Boveri) in acquisition of business of the leading Croatian engineering group Exor, a top 100 exporter of services in whole country. The value of the deal is € 15 million. The deal will make ABB as the biggest and most important engineering group in the region (overtaking such position from Siemens).
• DTB acted forAllianz AG in tender process for acquisition of leading Croatian insurer;
• Sanpaolo Imi in process for acquisition of Croatian bank;
• Gaz de France in tender for acquisition of local gas distributor;
• Thomas Cook in sale of hotel complex;
• Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International in disposal of non-core business (meat industry "Puris);
• Conforama in disposal of chain of stores "Emezetta";
• Metropolis Media in acquisition of one of leading Croatian advertisement company;
• Federal Signal Corporation in acquisition of Croatian producer of special road vehicles;
• Webmediabrands Inc. in acquisition of Croatian IT company;
• Uniqa in tender process for acquisition of leading Croatian insurer.

• advised in the largest foreign investment in Macedonia – the acquisition of a majority stake in Macedonian Telecom,
  
• advised the EBRD in the privatization of two banks
  
• advised Duferco SA from Switzerland in the acquisition of a majority stake in the steel mill in Skopje – Makstil AD Skopje,
  
• advised FHL Kiriakidis Marbles SA from Greece in the acquisition of Mermeren Kombinat AD Prilep,
  
• advised the Seller in the sale of a majority stake in Kreditna Banka AD Skopje to Alpha Credit Bank AG from Greece.
  

local counsel to

• RadiciNylon S.p.A., a member of the Radici Group of Italy in the acquisition of Fibrex S.A., a publicly traded company and the leading Romanian manufacturer of synthetic fibers,
  
• Kraft International Foods in the acquisition of a Romanian confectionery,
  
• Lafarge S. A., leading cement manufacturer, in the USD 200 million acquisition of Romania’s premier cement company,
  
• Romanian Ministry of Communications, as part of the Goldman Sachs international consortium, in the restructuring and privatization of RomTelecom R. A.,
  
• Strabag AG in connection with the development of a motorway project between Bucharest and Ploiesti,
  
• consortium formed by Ashtrom International and Roichman Bros (Shormron) Infrastructures to assist in connection with the implementation of the motorway project between Predeal and Brasov,
  
• Romanian State Ownership Fund in the privatization of BancPost S. A.,
  
• Procter & Gamble in the acquisition of a Romanian detergent manufacturing company.