Sayenko Kharenko has advised the Green for Growth Fund on a EUR 6 million loan to Bank Lviv to support investments in sustainable agricultural equipment, energy-efficient measures, and small-scale renewable initiatives.

Glatzova & Co has advised manager, administrator, and listing agent J&T Banka and arranger J&T IB and Capital Markets on Natland Investment Fund SICAV’s CZK 600 million senior bond issuance.

White & Case has advised issuer Bank Polska Kasa Opieki on a PLN 500 million local market issuance of MREL senior non-preferred notes due in 2029.

Kinstellar has advised BIG Mega Renewable Energy on a EUR 92 million financing agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and OTP Bank to build and operate the 102-megawatt Urleasca wind farm in Braila county, Romania. Clifford Chance reportedly advised the banks.

On March 26, 2024, TMT/IP, fintech, and emerging technology experts from Hungary, Romania, and Turkiye sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Neag to discuss how Blockchain-related technologies, businesses, and legislation are shaping up in their jurisdictions.

On 4 May 2024, new amendments to Regulation of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine “On the Operation of the Banking System during the Period of Martial Law” No. 18, dated 24 February 2022, came into effect. Such amendments aim to further ease relevant currency control restrictions, including (i) lifting all currency restrictions on imports of works and services, (ii) permitting businesses to repatriate “new” dividends, (iii) easing restrictions on repayment of “new” foreign loans, (iv) allowing payment of interest on “old” foreign loans, and (v) allowing to transfer funds abroad under leasing/rental agreements.