Kinstellar is delighted to announce the promotion to Partner of Magdalena Raducanu (Romania), Jan Lehký (Czech Republic), and Kuanysh Shekerbekov (Kazakhstan). Magdalena Raducanu is based in our Bucharest office and leads the Romanian Banking & Finance Service Line. She also serves as the co-head of the firm-wide Banking & Finance Service Line. Magdalena has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of banking and financing, including project, real estate, and corporate finance as well as financial regulatory matters. Recently, she has dedicated significant efforts assisting banks on various ESG-related mandates. Magdalena joined Kinstellar in 2021 from the Bucharest office of Dentons. Since joining
Kinstellar has been named the Law Firm of the Year in the Czech Republic in the category of Corporate Law at this year’s prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, held annually by EPRAVO.cz. Jan Juroška, Partner with Kinstellar’s Corporate Law practice in Prague, commented: “We are deeply honoured to have been named Law Firm of the Year in the Corporate Law category and would like to thank all of our clients for entrusting us with the types of important matters that enabled us to attain such a top ranking. We also thank all our staff for their dedication and hard work—and also the jury, who took note of these factors.” Karla Rundtová, Partner at Kinstellar, added: “We work with a wide range
EPRAVO.CZ, a leading Czech publisher, has announced the results of its 13th annual Law Firm of the Year Awards in the Czech Republic. Kinstellar continues to maintain its position as a leading law firm in the Czech Republic, with awards in 13 categories: Highly recommended Mergers & Acquisitions Competition & State Aid Real Estate, Construction Banking & Finance Capital Markets Information Technology Law Energy & Energy Projects Recommended Cor porate Law Restructuring & Insolvency Media & Telecommunications Public Procurement Compliance Logis tics & Transport Infrastructure
Kinstellar was named winner of the Information Technology Law category of this year’s prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition organised by EPRAVO.cz, in the Czech Republic. “We greatly appreciate being named IT Law Firm of the Year and thank our clients for entrusting us with such important cases that allow us to take the very top position. We’d also like to thank our colleagues for the top-notch work done, and the jury for taking notice of it”, said Lukáš Ševčík, Managing Partner of the Prague office of Kinstellar, regarding this extraordinary success. Zdeněk Kučera, head of the TMT and litigation practices also commented on the win. “We are truly happy for the opportunity to have spent
Kinstellar won - for the third consecutive year - the Central Europe Law Firm of the Year award, at The Lawyer’s annual European Awards gala. We were also highly commended in the Balkans and Eastern Europe category. This year’s event was held at The Grange Tower Bridge hotel in London on March 5th and was attended by over 300 European managing partners, partners and in-house counsel. The winners were chosen from among the leading law firms in each regional or national category. These awards are prestigious and well-earned recognition for the outstanding achievements we have had over the last year through the mandates we have worked on, the overall performance of the firm, its strategy and having excellent feedback
Kinstellar, Emerging Europe and Central Asia’s leading independent law firm, has been shortlisted in two categories, Law Firm of the Year: Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia) and Law Firm of the Year: Eastern Europe & the Balkans (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia) at The Lawyer European Awards. The ceremony will take place in London on 15 March 2018. Kinstellar won the prestigious award Law Firm of the Year: Central Europe in both 2017 and 2016. The winner is chosen every year from among the leading independent law firms across Europe and recognises firms that have demonstrated outstanding achievements through their mandates, performance and strategy.
Kinstellar has been named “2017 Law Firm of the Year: Central Europe”, for the second year in a row, by the leading UK and European legal magazine The Lawyer, at its annual European Awards ceremony. This year’s event was held at The Grange St Paul’s hotel in London on March 16th and was attended by over 300 European managing partners, partners and in-house counsel. The winner was chosen from among the leading independent law firms across Central Europe and recognises firms that have demonstrated outstanding achievements through their mandates, performance and strategy. Kinstellar is also proud to have been shortlisted for the “Law Firm of the Year: Eastern Europe and The Balkans”; "Law Firm of the Year
Kinstellar has been shortlisted again at The Lawyer European Awards in four categories, covering all our nine jurisdictions: Law firm of the year Central Europe; Law firm of the year Eastern Europe and The Balkans; Law firm of the year Romania; and Law firm of the year Russia, Ukraine & CIS. The ceremony will take place in London, on 16th March. The prestigious awards, now in their eighth year, were the first initiative of their kind to reward and celebrate excellence across the European legal market. Kinstellar won the Law Firm of the Year in Central Europe award last year.
Kinstellar has been named “2016 Law Firm of the Year: Central Europe” by the leading UK and European legal magazine The Lawyer at its annual European Awards Ceremony. The event, held on 9 March at London’s Hilton Bankside hotel, was hosted by BBC broadcaster Katie Derham and was attended by over 250 lawyers from around the world. The winner was chosen from among the top independent law firms across Central Europe and recognises firms that have demonstrated outstanding achievements through their mandates, performance and strategy. Kinstellar is also proud to have been shortlisted for the “Law Firm of the Year: Eastern Europe and The Balkans”; "Law Firm of the Year: Romania’’ and "Law Firm of the Year
Kinstellar is pleased to announce that it has been named Hungarian Law Firm of the Year for 2015 at the prestigious Chambers Awards for Excellence gala held at Hotel Okura in Amsterdam on 24 April. The Chambers Europe Awards recognise the best law firms and lawyers in the European legal market during last year and reflect law firms’ pre-eminence in key practice areas and notable achievements, outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service. In addition to taking top honours in Hungary, Kinstellar was also shortlisted in the CEE, Czech Republic and Turkey categories — a recognition of an exceptional year for Kinstellar, with the firm taking on leading roles on some of the largest and
Kinstellar was named Turkish M&A Law Firm of the Year for 2013 in the 7th annual Financial Times & Mergermarket European Awards. The gala awards dinner was held at The Savoy in London on 12 December 2013. The Mergermarket M&A Awards are the most prestigious awards for the M&A advisory community in Europe, the Middle East & Africa. Halide Çetinkaya-Yılmaz, partner in Kinstellar’s Istanbul office and head of Kinstellar’s Turkish M&A practice commented: “We are honoured by this recognition of our team’s remarkable progress in establishing Kinstellar’s place among the leading M&A firms in Turkey just three years after our opening.” Highlights in Turkey of Kinstellar’s
Kinstellar is pleased to announce that its practice in Hungary, Andrékó Kinstellar, was again named the "Law Firm of the Year" in Hungary at the IFLR European Awards ceremony in London on 10 April 2013. Kinstellar is the first practice in Hungary during the 14-year history of the award to pick up this accolade for the second time in a row. The award recognises that Kinstellar has acted on the largest and most innovative transactions in Hungary over the past year, including several of the largest and most complex M&A transactions completed in 2012, the largest insolvency proceedings in Hungarian corporate history, the largest corporate debt offering by a Hungarian issuer in 2012 and several other leading transactions.