On November 10, four Banking & Finance experts from Croatia, Hungary, Romania, and Serbia sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea to discuss banking consolidation, financing availability, the effects of high interest rates, bank capitalization, green financing, the specter of loan restructuring, and the other challenges the sector is facing.

Participants:

· Claudia Chiper, Partner and Head of Banking and Finance, Wolf Theiss (Romania)

· Gabor Erdos, Partner, Erdos | Katona (Hungary)

· Milos Petakovic, Senior Associate, Gecic Law (Serbia)

· Pavo Miskovic, Partner, Miskovic & Miskovic Law Firm (Croatia)

On July 12, four leading lawyers from Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea to discuss the latest in ESG developments with a focus on green financing, its regional and local drivers and roadblocks, its impact on non-financial reporting, and what it all means for the legal profession.

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On July 7, four leading lawyers from Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Ukraine sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea to discuss the increasing prominence of ESG issues and their impact on M&A transactions, due diligence procedures, and the role of the lawyers themselves.

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On March 9, 2022, four leading Estonian lawyers sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea to discuss the current state of the startup environment in Estonia and analyze its main drivers, the local startup ecosystem, and the regulatory environment shaping it.

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On March 10, five leading lawyers in Serbia sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea to discuss the current state and outlook of the renewables market in Serbia, with topics covered including the goals set and the country's National Renewable Energy Action Plan, the challenges presented by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the "conservative wave" in the country, the main players and the deals pipeline in the sector, the availability of green financing for renewable projects in the country, as well as the biggest regulatory hurdles currently still affecting renewables in Serbia and the participants' wishlist of what could be done to remove some of these obstacles.

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On February 25, four leading lawyers in Turkey sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea to discuss the Turkish technology sector, its recent developments, and the technology sector-related regulatory landscape.

Round Table Participants:

Ali Selim Demirel, Partner, Esin Attorney Partnership

Ayse Ulku Solak, Partner, Nazali

Sinem Mermer, Partner, Boden Law

Vefa Resat Moral, Managing Partner, Moral & Partners

On February 24, four leading lawyers in Croatia sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea. The conversation focused on the current state of affairs of ESG in the country at the moment and the challenges of raising awareness in the topic.

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The goal of our ButLaw series – dedicated to interviews on anything *but* the law or the practice of law – is to give CEELM readers (ahem, listeners) the chance to meet the humans behind the lawyers we often feature in our magazine. For this edition, we spoke with Bryan Jardine of Wolf Theiss about his pet project of Jardine Hills and agritourism in Romania.

The goal of our ButLaw series – dedicated to interviews on anything *but* the law or the practice of law – is to give CEELM readers (ahem, listeners) the chance to meet the humans behind the lawyers we often feature in our magazine. For this first edition, we spoke to Mykola Stetsenko of Avellum about his relatively recently discovered passion for gardening and the tranquility that this hobby brings him.

On January 18, six leading real estate lawyers in Romania sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea. The conversation focused on the current state of affairs of the real estate sector, looking at who are the main players, what are the hottest assets, deal-making trends in the sector, and more.

Round table participants:

- Alin Buftea, Partner and Head of Real Estate, DLA Piper Romania

- Alina Badea, Senior Associate, MPR Partners

- Dragos Apostol, Partner, Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii

- Mihaela Ispas, Counsel, Filip & Company

- Mihaela Posirca, Partner, ACT Botezatu Estrade Partners

- Oana Sarbu, Partner, Domokos Partners