Filip & Company has advised Bucharest Stock Exchange-listed One United Properties on its share capital increase.

Deloitte Legal has advised ZPUE and its main shareholder Koronea on the tender offer for 100% of ZPUE's shares, with mBank as the broker.

Tokushev & Partners has advised public listed company Sofia Commerce Pawn Shops on increasing its capital with own funds in the amount of BGN 7.12 million.

As the main trends of the transaction market in the first half of 2022, the boom of startups and the changes in their valuations, the undiminished confidence of foreign investors despite the geopolitical situation, and the ongoing consolidation of the health care and renewable energy sectors can be singled out.

Cobalt has advised Coffee Address Holding on its EUR 5 million unsecured bond issuance. Eversheds Sutherland Bitans advised on collateral agent matters and undertook collateral agent functions for the term of the bonds. Signet Bank was the arranger of the issuance.

The first half of 2022 has not (yet) yielded such high profile deals as seen in 2021 (like Printful becoming the first Latvian “unicorn”) but there has been a steady trickle of transactions following the larger wave of 2021.