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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.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted growth investment fund Agista in its acquisition of an over 30% stake in medical clinic network Centrokinetic, specializing in orthopedics, neurology and medical recovery.

Law firm Filip & Company is expanding its Real Estate Practice by recruiting Ioana Grigoriu, a lawyer with over 15 years of experience in real estate sector, to the position of counsel.

Law firm Filip & Company has provided legal assistance to AROBS Transilvania Software (AROBS.RO), a global provider of tailor-made software solutions based on the latest technologies, in the transfer of its shares to the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted RCS & RDS and the subsidiary DIGI Spain Telecom S.L.U in contracting a term loan in the amount of EUR100 million, over a four-year period; ING Bank N.V. and Banco Santander acted as mandated lead arrangers.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted Holde Agri Invest group in taking out a syndicated loan in the amount of RON30.5 million and EUR26.7 million, with lender Banca Transilvania acting as arranger and financier, and lender OTP Bank Romania acting as financier for the working capital and acquisitions of farms and farmland.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) in the sale of its minority stake in E-Distributie Muntenia SA, Enel Energie Muntenia S.A., E-Distributie Dobrogea S.A., E-Distributie Banat S.A., and Enel Energie S.A.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted Banca Comerciala Victoriabank S.A., one of the largest banks in the Republic of Moldova, on the conclusion of an agreement for the sale of the shares held by Banca Comerciala Romana in BCR Chisinau S.A., its subsidiary in the Republic of Moldova.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted on the one hand, Inform Lykos, part of AUSTRIACARD Holdings, a provider of digital security solutions and business process management outsourcing services and, on the other, businessman Octavian Radu in partnering to establish a holding company that took over the postal and courier service operations of Pink Post and the postal service volume aggregation operation of Inform Lykos.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted private equity firm Mozaik Investments with the acquisition of a minority stake in the company operating the Untold Group, the largest player on the Eastern European entertainment market.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted Fondul Proprietatea in selling its entire stake, consisting of 1.777.067.726 ordinary shares, held in OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) through an accelerated private placement set off on Tuesday (Dec 13).

Law firm Filip & Company assisted Polish company Alsendo owned by Abris Capital Partners, a private equity investor specialized in ESG transformation, with the acquisition of a majority stake in Innoship, a local startup offering fast delivery solutions for companies in the retail and e-commerce industry.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted Romanian video game developer Amber Studio in securing a $20 million financing from an investment fund advised by Emona Capital LLP.

Law firm Filip & Company has assisted Evergent Investments (EVER.RO, former SIF Moldova), a company that distinguishes itself through private equity investments, in acquiring a significant stake in Romanian software producer MWARE Solutions, a company specialized in Big Data, unstructured data, artificial intelligence and digitalisation solutions.

Law firm Filip & Company assisted BCR in the transfer of part of the operating lease business of BCR Fleet Management to Arval Group.