About

Provided by Kinstellar

Kinstellar is Emerging Europe and Central Asia’s leading independent law firm. With its magic circle pedigree and formed in 2008, the firm now has around 200 lawyers based across 10 jurisdictions.​

Kinstellar's highly experienced team can help you to successfully negotiate acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations, restructurings, mergers, spin-offs and public takeovers and can steer you through the full range of IPO issues. We bring in-depth understanding of your business objectives together with on-the-ground knowledge of local markets to deliver results.

We are experts at implementing cross-border transactions and provide timely, clear, commercially focused advice based on deep knowledge, real experience and the right networks to move faster and bring deals together. Our team has advised on both the buyer’s and seller’s side of numerous M&A transactions for strategic and financial investors across the region. This experience, coupled with our ability to offer M&A and corporate advice together with private equity and capital markets specialists, makes us unique in the region.

Our work covers a broad spectrum of industry sectors for some of the largest investors in the region, including in areas such as:

  • acquisitions and disposals
  • takeovers and mergers
  • private equity
  • corporate reorganisations, mergers and spin-offs
  • foreign direct investment
  • joint ventures
  • management buyouts
  • privatisations
  • distressed and special situations
  • corporate governance

Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A - Romania
5
Band 5
What the team is known for

Kinstellar works closely with the firm's network of offices throughout the CEE region to represent clients in multi-jurisdictional transactions. The team is well equipped to handle significant acquisitions and sales of shares for both local entrepreneurs and private businesses, in particular those in the TMT and agriculture and food industries. Its experienced lawyers assist private equity houses with the acquisition of Romanian targets. It also advises companies on corporate structuring topics.

Notable practitioners

Zsuzsa Csiki is a key contact at the firm.

Work Highlights

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  • The team assisted Mondly with its sale to Pearson.

Strengths

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