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Law firm Filip & Company has provided legal assistance to Conversion Marketing, part of Dante International S.A. group (eMAG) in the sale of Profitshare Romania and Bulgaria activity to 2Performant Network S.A., a company listed on the AeRO market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

Law firm Filip & Company, together with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, has assisted the funds advised by Apax Partners LLP (“Apax”), a leading global private equity advisory firm, in connection with the Romanian legal aspects of the intended acquisition of Finastra’s Treasury and Capital Markets (TCM) business unit.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted the banking syndicate that granted a EUR100 million funding to MOOV Leasing, a Romanian operational leasing digital platform.

Filip & Company team assisted, as lead counsel, Digi Romania S.A. in the signing of two export credit facilities agreements totally worth over EUR54.7 million for the acquisition of goods and services necessary for the development of Romania and Portugal telecom networks.

Law firm Filip & Company has legally assisted Dante International (eMAG) and HeyBlu IFN, a financial services company owned by eMAG group, in the acquisition of 100% of Orange Money IFN shares.

Law firm Filip & Company has elected its new management and will be led for a 4-year term by the team of Co-Managing Partners formed by Cristina Filip and Alexandru Bîrsan.

Law firm Filip & Company legally assisted Credit Europe Bank Romania in the cross-border merger through absorption with the parent company, Credit Europe Bank N.V. of Netherlands.

Law firm Filip & Company has provided legal assistance to Qemetica, a major player in the European chemical industry, in a complex project regarding the sale of calcined soda ash and sodium silicate production assets and activities in Romania, through Ciech Soda Romania, previously known as Uzinele Sodice Govora.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted Mozaik Investments in the sale of a minority stake in 5 to go to investment funds Invenio Partners and ACP.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted Poland’s Qemetica in securing the approval of Romania’s Competition Council in the acquisition of the precipitated silica product business of US PPG Group, a deal put at about $310 million.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted investment fund AGISTA, part of Impetum Group, in the signing of the contracts for the sale of its entire ownership stake in Dendrio Solutions to Bittnet Systems S.A., and the acquisition of a new stake in cybersecurity company Fort S.A., listed in the AeRO market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted Banca Transilvania with the launch of a sustainable bond issue, raising EUR700 million from international markets.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted the Portugal subsidiary of telecom group Digi in the sealing of a contract to acquire the shares issued by Carbonitel S.A.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted, as lead counsel, Digi Romania and Digi Communications in contracting a term loan of EUR150 million that will be used to refinance EUR450 million bonds issued in 2020 falling due in 2025.

Law firm Filip & Company is expanding its team of lawyers and promoting one counsel and three senior associates this spring.

Law firm Filip & Company provided legal advice to ROCA Industry, Romania’s leading construction materials holding company, in relation to the process of increasing its share capital by a total RON71.7 million and to the transfer of its shares from the AeRO Premium Market to the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

Law firm Filip & Company law firm assisted Banca Comerciala Victoriabank S.A., one of the largest banks in the Republic of Moldova, in finalizing the acquisition of BCR Chişinau S.A. from Banca Comerciala Romana S.A.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted Alpha Bank in completing the acquisition of retail activities of Orange Money Romania, the digital financial services provider of Orange Romania.

Filip & Company team assisted DIGI Spain Telecom S.L.U and RCS & RDS S.A. in relation to the conclusion of a spectrum transfer agreement from Xfera Móviles (part of MasMovil Group in Spain) for the acquisition of an important package of spectrum licenses for the private use of the radioelectric public domain related to certain sets of blocks of frequencies in the 1,800 MHz, 2,100 MHz and 3,500 MHz bands.

Filip & Company assisted Banca Transilvania with the launch of a bond program totaling EUR1.5 billion and with the first sustainable bond issue under this program, through which Banca Transilvania raised EUR500 million from international markets.