January 2025 – Kinstellar is delighted to announce the promotion of Martin Baraniak from our Bratislava office to Managing Associate effective 1 January 2025.

January 2025 – Kinstellar has successfully advised First Retail International 2 (“FRI 2”), a closed-end real estate value-added fund managed by Mitiska REIM, on the acquisition of land in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, for the construction of...

January 2025 – With effect from 15 January 2025, Slovak Act No. 297/2008 Coll. on the Protection against Legalisation of Proceeds from Crime and on the Protection against Financing of Terrorism (the AML Act) has been amended to expand the definition...

January 2025 – On 5 January 2025, the Real Estate Register in the Slovak Republic (the “Register”) was subject to a ransomware cyberattack.

6 January 2025 – It has come to our attention that some companies in our countries (most recently from the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia) have received unauthorised fraudulent emails falsely claiming to originate from Kinstellar.

November 2024 – The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (EU) 2022/2464 (the “CSRD”) required EU member states to complete its transposition by 6 July 2024. However, uneven implementation led the EU Commission to initiate infringement proceedings...

October 2024 – Our TMT Legal Update provides insights from our law experts and aims to keep you regularly up to date with sector news, trends and legislation in the Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia regions. This issue covers key updates from...

September 2024 – Kinstellar has successfully advised Mitiska European Real Estate Partners 3 on the acquisition of a 50% ownership interest in OP Centrum Retail 2 from OPC Group. The target of the transaction, OP Centrum Retail 2, is currently developing...

September 2024 – At the beginning of August 2024, the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic released its annual statistical yearbook for 2023 (please see here: Statistical Yearbook 2023). At the time of publication, the effects of the so-called...

Kinstellar is very pleased to announce the completion of the acquisition of the Bratislava and Prague offices of the highly respected German law firm, Noerr. The acquisition of Noerr’s Bucharest operations, the final piece of the transaction, is set...