The complete list of DOTY winners for the 2022 Deals of the Year, including the firms that worked on them, is as follows:

Albania: 

• 4iG's Acquisition of One Telecommunications (Boyanov & Co; CMS; Dentons; Kalo & Associates)

Austria: 

• Erste Group EUR 1.5 Billion Mortgage Bond Issuance (Schoenherr; Wolf Theiss)

Bosnia and Herzegovina: 

• BNBM's Joint Venture with Coal Mine and Thermal Power Plant Ugljevik (Doklestic Repic & Gajin; Shihui Law Firm)

Bulgaria: 

• BioIVT’s Acquisition of Fidelis Research (BDK Advokati; Boyanov & Co.; Divjak Topic Bahtijarevic & Krka; Hristov & Partners; Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli; Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen; Penkov Markov & Partners)

Croatia: 

• SoftBank, Goldman Sachs, and Porsche Investment in Rimac (CMS; Kunstek Halle & Simac; Latham & Watkins; Linklaters; Savoric & Partners; White & Case)

Czech Republic: 

• GIC’s Acquisition of 30% Stake in Cetin from PPF (BDK Advokati; Djingov Gouginski Kyutchukov & Velichkov; Herbert Smith Freehills; Kinstellar; Lakatos, Koves & Partners; NautaDutilh; White & Case)

Estonia: 

• Gren’s Acquisition of VKG (Ellex; Cobalt)

Greece: 

• MORE's Acquisition of Anemos RES and Financing (AKL; Karatzas & Partners; Lambadarios Law Firm; PotamitisVekris; Watson Farley & Williams; Zepos & Yannopoulos)

Hungary: 

• Stellantis’ Acquisition of aiMotive (Baker McKenzie; Bird & Bird; Dentons; Noerr; VGG Associes)

Kosovo: 

• BEK's Acquisition of KS Siguria (RPHS Law)

Latvia: 

• Renta Group’s Acquisition of Uprent Group from BaltCap (Cobalt; Sorainen)

Lithuania: 

• Novator Partners’ Investment in NordVPN (Cooley; Ellex; NautaDutilh; TGS Baltic; White & Case)

Moldova: 

• EBRD Loan to CET Nord (Gladei & Partners)

Montenegro: 

• NLB´s Acquisition of N Banka d.d. (previously Sberbank Banka d.d.) (Allen & Overy; Baros, Bicakcic & Partners; BOPA Bojanovic & Partners; Kavcic, Bracun & Partners; Knezovic & Associates; Prelevic Law Firm; Rojs, Peljhan, Prelesnik & Partners; Tasko Pustina)

North Macedonia: 

• Fortis Energetika’s Financing for Construction of PV Power Plant (Karanovic & Partners)

Poland: 

• Allegro’s Acquisition of Mall Group and WeDo from PPF, EC Investments, and Rockaway Capital (Clifford Chance; Savoric & Partners; Selih & Partners; Srubar & Partners; White & Case)

Romania: 

• Romgaz’ Acquisition of ExxonMobil’s 50% Stake in Neptun Deep (Dentons; Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen; Suciu Popa)

Serbia: 

• Ivicom Energy’s EUR 155 Million Financing for Krivaca Power Plant (Dentons; Doklestic Repic & Gajin; Karanovic & Partners; MLL Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Froriep; Selih & Partners; Stelios Americanos & Co; Ulcar & Partnerji; Wenger Vieli; Zavisin Semiz & Partners)

Slovakia: 

• Microsoft’s Acquisition of Minit (Dentons; Majernik & Mihalikova; Reed Smith)

Slovenia: 

• NLB´s Acquisition of N Banka d.d. (previously Sberbank Banka d.d.) (Allen & Overy; Baros, Bicakcic & Partners; BOPA Bojanovic & Partners; Kavcic, Bracun & Partners; Knezovic & Associates; Prelevic Law Firm; Rojs, Peljhan, Prelesnik & Partners; Tasko Pustina)

Turkey: 

• IHC’s Acquisition of Kalyon Enerji (GKC Partners; Norton Rose Fulbright-Pekin Bayar Mizrahi)

Ukraine: 

• Ukraine’s Consensual Deferral of External Debt Worth Over USD 25 Billion (Avellum; Hogan Lovells; Latham & Watkins; Sayenko Kharenko; Weil, Gotshal & Manges; White & Case)

…And the CEE Deal of the Year: 

• Ukraine’s Consensual Deferral of External Debt Worth Over USD 25 Billion (Avellum; Hogan Lovells; Latham & Watkins; Sayenko Kharenko; Weil, Gotshal & Manges; White & Case)

The complete list of DOTY winners for the 2021 Deals of the Year, including the firms that worked on them, is as follows:

Albania

• 4iG´s Acquisition of ALBtelecom from the Calik Group (Tashko Pustina; Wolf Theiss)

Austria

• Starwood Capital's Public Takeover Offer for CA Immo (DSC Doralt Seist Csoklich; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Schoenherr; Wolf Theiss)

Bosnia & Herzegovina

• Nomad Foods’ Acquisition of Fortenova's Frozen Food Business (Akin Gump; BDK Advokati; Boga & Associates; Bogdanovic, Dolicki & Partners; Divjak, Topic, Bahtijarevic & Krka; Forgo, Damjanovic & Partners; Harrisons; Isailovic & Partners; Kalo & Associates; Lakatos, Koves and Partners; Maric & Co; Norton Rose Fulbright; Polenak Law Firm; Popovski & Partners; Selih & Partnerji; Zdolsek Attorneys at Law)

Bulgaria

• KBC Bank’s Acquisition of Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria from Raiffeisen Bank International (E+H; Kinstellar; Wolf Theiss)

Croatia

• Nomad Foods’ Acquisition of Fortenova's Frozen Food Business (Akin Gump; BDK Advokati; Boga & Associates; Bogdanovic, Dolicki & Partners; Divjak, Topic, Bahtijarevic & Krka; Forgo, Damjanovic & Partners; Harrisons; Isailovic & Partners; Kalo & Associates; Lakatos, Koves and Partners; Maric & Co; Norton Rose Fulbright; Polenak Law Firm; Popovski & Partners; Selih & Partnerji; Zdolsek Attorneys at Law)

Czech Republic

• Avast and NortonLifeLock Merger (Kirkland & Ellis; Macfarlanes; White & Case)

Estonia

• Enefit Green Privatization and IPO (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Ellex; Shearman & Sterling; Sorainen)

Greece

• Mondelez International’s Acquisition of Chipita from the Olayan Group, Spyros Theodoropoulos, and Others (Boyanov & Co; Clifford Chance; Karatzas & Partners; Shearman & Sterling)

Hungary

• MVM Energia's Acquisition of Companies and Assets from E.ON Hungary (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Kinstellar; Linklaters; Oppenheim) 

Latvia

• Akropolis Group’s Acquisition of SIA Delta Property from AMD Holding (Ellex; Eversheds Sutherland; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; TGS Baltic)

Lithuania

• Partners Group’s Acquisition of Fortum’s Baltic District Heating Operations (Allen & Overy; Clifford Chance; Ellex; Sorainen; Van Doorne)

Moldova

• MAIB Unfunded Risk Participation (ACI Partners)

Montenegro

• 4iG PLC’sAcquisition of Telenor Montenegro from PPF Group (Andric Law Office; Dentons; Kinstellar; Law Office Komnenic & Associates; Vukmirovic Misic Law Firm)

North Macedonia

• Interenergo’s and Trigal’s Acquisition of Wind Farm from Unidentified Sellers (Fatur Menard; Karanovic & Partners in Cooperation with Local Lawyers; Nikola Lazarov)

Poland

• InPost IPO (Clifford Chance; CMS; Stibbe; Weil, Gotshal & Manges)

Romania

• Glovo's Acquisition of Delivery Hero's Operations in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia (Cuatrecasas; Gugushev & Partners; Uria Menendez; Volciuc-Ionescu; Wolf Theiss)

Serbia

• Privatization of HIP Petrohemija (Law Office Miroslav Stojanovic in cooperation with Wolf Theiss; Marjanovic Law)

Slovakia

• Wood & Co’s and Tatra Asset Management’s Acquisition of Aupark Shopping Center from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (Allen & Overy; Dentons; Taylor Wessing; White & Case)

Slovenia

• OTP’s Acquisition of Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor from Apollo Global Management and EBRD (Allen & Overy; Bird & Bird; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Selih & Partnerji; Wolf Theiss)

Turkey

• Hepsiburada IPO (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; GKC Partners; Paksoy; Van Campen Liem; White & Case)

Ukraine

• Ukrenergo’s Debut ESG Bond Issuance (Avellum; CMS; Linklaters; Sayenko Kharenko; White & Case)

2021 Baltic Deal of the Year

• Partners Group’s Acquisition of Fortum’s Baltic District Heating Operations (Allen & Overy; Clifford Chance; Ellex; Sorainen; Van Doorne)

2021 CEE Deal of the Year

• Nomad Foods’ Acquisition of Fortenova's Frozen Food Business (Akin Gump; BDK Advokati; Boga & Associates; Bogdanovic, Dolicki & Partners; Divjak, Topic, Bahtijarevic & Krka; Forgo, Damjanovic & Partners; Harrisons; Isailovic & Partners; Kalo & Associates; Lakatos, Koves and Partners; Maric & Co; Norton Rose Fulbright; Polenak Law Firm; Popovski & Partners; Selih & Partnerji; Zdolsek Attorneys at Law)

The complete list of DOTY winners for the 2020 Deals of the Year, including the firms that worked on them, is as follows:

Albania:

• Albania Eurobond Issuance || Firms: Allen & Overy; Dechert; Wolf Theiss

Austria:

• Austrian Airlines Financing || Firms: DLA Piper; Eisenberger Herzog; Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch PartmbB; Hengeler Mueller; REN Legal Management Limited; Schoenherr; Stibbe Avocats; Viehbock Breiter Schenk & Nau; Weber Rechtsanwalte

Belarus:

• HBOR Financing for Be Cloud || Firms: BDV Legal; Borovtsov & Salei

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

• ASA Finance's Takover of Central Osiguranje d.d. || Firm: Miljkovic & Partners

Bulgaria

• Enery Acquisition and Refinancing || Firms: Allen & Overy; CMS; Memery Crystal; Schoenherr; Spasov & Bratanov; Wolf Theiss

Croatia:

• Stillfront Group's Acquisition of Nanobit || Firms: DLA Piper; Glinska & Miskovic; Latham & Watkins; Savoric & Partners

Czech Republic:

• PPP Project for the D4 Expressway || Firms: CMS; Kinstellar; White & Case

Estonia:

• Luminor Bank’s Covered Bond Program || Firms: Allen & Overy; Clifford Chance; Cobalt

Greece:

• Cubico Sustainable Investment Limited's Acquisition of Greek Wind Farms || Firms: Lambadarios; Potamitis Vekris; Watson, Farley & Williams

Hungary:

• Budapest Bank Group, MKB Bank Group and Takarekbank Group's Creation of Hungarian "Superbank" || Firm: DLA Piper

Latvia:

• Valmieras Stikla Skiedra Debt Restructuring and Sale of Majority Stake to Duke I S.a.r.l || Firms: Cobalt; Ellex Klavins; Eversheds Sutherland

Lithuania:

• Ignitis Grupe IPO || Firms: Ashurst; Debevoise & Plimpton; Dentons; Sorainen; TGS Baltic; Walless

Moldova:

• Vetropack's Acquisition of Glass Container Group from Western NIS Fund and Other Shareholders || Firms: Gladei & Partners; Turcan Cazac

North Macedonia:

• Aricoma Group’s Acquisition of Seavus Group || Firms: Bird & Bird; Clifford Chance; Karanovic & Partners; Mannheimer Swartling

Poland:

• UNIQA's Acquisition of AXA Subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia || Firms: Clifford Chance; Go2Law; Schoenherr

Romania:

• Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets' Acquisition of CEZ Group in Romania || Firms: Allen & Overy; RTPR; Skils; Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii

Russia:

• JV of SIBUR with Sinopec at Amur GCC || Firms: Dechert; White & Case

Serbia:

• Nova Ljubljanska Banka's Acquisition of Komercijalna Banka || Firms: AP Legal; Kalo & Associates; Kinstellar; ODI Law; Prica & Partners; Radonjic & Associates; Sajic; Selih & Partnerji

Slovakia:

• KBC Group's Acquisition of OTP Banka Slovensko from OTP Bank || Firms: Kinstellar; Schoenherr

Slovenia:

• Sartorius Stedim Biotech's Acquisition of BIA Separations || Firms: Eisenberger & Herzog; Milbank; RPPP; Schoenherr

Turkey:

• Turkey Wealth Fund’s Acquisition of Controlling Shares of Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. || Firms: Aksu Caliskan Beygo Attorney Partnership; Durukan + Partners; Herguner Bilgen Ozeke; Kabine Law Office; Kinstellar; Milbank; Nazim & Co; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Sorainen; Sullivan & Cromwell; White & Case

Ukraine:

• QTerminals WLL Port Concession Project of Black Sea Port of Olvia || Firms: Clyde & Co; EY Law; Kinstellar

The complete list of DOTY winners for the 2019 Deal of the Year, including the firms that worked on them, is as follows:

• Austria: Steinhoff Restructuring (Allen & Overy; Binder Groesswang; Dorda; Eisenberger & Herzog; Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner; Gleiss Lutz; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Linklaters; Wolf Theiss)
• Belarus: Investments of Zubr Capital Fund and EBRD in Mila Group (Bird & Bird; Revera; SBH Law Offices)  
• Bosnia & Herzegovina: Aco Kabanica Sale of Elta-kabel to Telekom Srpske (Dimitrijevic & Partners) 
• Bulgaria: United Group’s Acquisition of Vivacom Bulgaria (CMS; Kambourov & Partners; Schoenherr) 
• Croatia: United Group’s Acquisition of Tele2 (Divjak, Topic, & Bahtijarevic; Kirkland & Ellis; Schoenherr) 
• Czech Republic: Advent International and Zentiva’s Acquisition of Alvogen’s CEE Business (CMS; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; White & Case)  
• Estonia: Apax Partners’ Acquisition of Baltic Classifieds Group (Cobalt; Ellex Raidla; Eversheds Sutherland Ots & Co; TGS Baltic; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett)
• Greece: Hellenic Republic’s Bond Issuance (Allen & Overy; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Karatzas & Partners; Koutalidis Law Firm) 
• Hungary: Extreme Digital/eMAG Merger (Allen & Overy; Dentons; DLA Piper) 
• Latvia: Air Baltic’s Debut Eurobond Issuance (Cobalt; Dentons; Linklaters; Sorainen)  
• Lithuania: Idex’s Acquisition of Danpower Baltic UAB from Danpower and Geco Investicijos (Cobalt; DLA Piper; Triniti)  
• Moldova: Duet Private Equity’s Acquisition of Red Union Fenosa and Gas Natural Fenosa Furnizare Energie SRL from Naturgy Inversiones Internacionales (ACI Partners; Bird & Bird; PeliFilip; Simmons & Simmons; Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii; Turcan Cazac) 
• Montenegro: Crnogorska Komercijalna Banka’s Acquisition of Majority Stake in Societe Generale Banka Montenegro (CMS; Jones Day; Kalo & Associates; Schoenherr; Sytnyk & Partners)
• North Macedonia: Steiermarkische Bank und Sparkassen’s Acquisition of Ohridska Banka AD Skopje (Schoenherr; CMS; Jones Day)
• Poland: Acquisition of DCT Gdansk S.A. from Global Infrastructure Fund II (Clifford Chance; Dentons; Linklaters; Rymarz Zdort; Stibbe; Weil, Gotshal & Manges; White & Case)  
• Romania: Blackstone’s Acquisition of Minority Stake in Superbet (Bulboaca & Asociatii; Fox & Neeman; Herzog; Jones Day; Kirkland & Ellis; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Wolf Theiss)
• Russia: Severgroup’s Acquisition of TPG’s 34% Shareholding in Lenta and Subsequent Mandatory Tender Offer (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Clifford Chance; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Ogier) 
• Serbia: Coca Cola HBC’s Acquisition of Bambi from Mid Europa Partners (BDK Advokati; Dechert; Karanovic & Partners; Latham & Watkins; Norton Rose Fulbright; White & Case; Zavisin, Semiz & Partneri)  
• Slovakia: PPF Group’s Acquisition of CME (Bondoc & Asociatii; Covington & Burling; Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov; Allen & Overy; Sullivan & Cromwell; White & Case) 
• Slovenia: Abanka Privatization (Jadek & Pensa; Kavcic, Bracun & Partners; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Wolf Theiss) 
• Turkey: Sisal’s Successful Bid to Operate Turkish State Lottery (Balcioglu Selcuk Akman Keki Attorney Partnership; Dentons; GKC Partners; Lexist Law Firm; White & Case) 
• Ukraine: NEQSOL’s Acquisition of VF Ukraine (Aequo; Avellum; DLA Piper; Latham & Watkins; Linklaters; PwC Legal)