February 2026 – Austria has not historically been regarded as a primary venue for aggressive shareholder activism. Activist engagement has traditionally been less confrontational and has typically taken the form of shareholder proposals, counter motions...
February 2026 – The final quarter of the year confirmed that ESG regulation across the region is entering a more mature and operational phase. While legislative alignment with EU sustainability frameworks continues, the focus has increasingly shifted...
December 2025 – Kinstellar has successfully assisted the leading renewable energy developer BIG Mega Renewable Energy on an approximately EUR 100 million project financing with a syndicate of lenders for the construction and operation of the Vacareni...
December 2025 – For years, proxy advisors Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) and Glass Lewis & Co. (“Glass Lewis”) have shaped voting behaviour at annual general meetings (“AGMs”) of publicly listed companies, including in Austria...
November 2025 – The Stop-the-Clock Directive (Directive (EU) 2025/794), which postpones the application of certain provisions of the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)...
October 2025 – Drawing on insights from Kinstellar’s ESG Service Line members, we present you summary of the most recent regulatory and policy updates impacting ESG across the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian region. Q3 of 2025 saw continued...
October 2025 – Kinstellar Budapest is pleased to announce that Ákos Nagy has been appointed as Partner and Head of the local Competition, Dispute Resolution, Risk & Investigations, and ESG Service Lines, and Zsuzsa Andrékó and Máté Nagy have...
September 2025 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) in Romania has recently launched three state aid schemes, financed through the Modernisation Fund, to accelerate the transition to zero-emission transport:
September 2025 – As part of the European Commission’s agenda to simplify and enhance competitiveness in relation to sustainability reporting obligations under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability...
July 2025 – Our ESG Legal Update provides a snapshot of recent regulatory developments across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with input from Kinstellar’s ESG Service Line members.