The 2021 edition of the Rising Stars Awards EMEA has awarded four Dentons lawyers – Marcin Czajkowski, Nicoleta Tuominen, András Peisch, and Petra Štrbová, in recognition of their professional accomplishments, advocacy and influence within their specialism.

Counsel Marcin Czajkowski, member of Dentons’ Tax team in Warsaw, won two awards – namely in the Tax category, as well as the jurisdictional category for Poland. He focuses on the tax structuring of M&A, private equity and joint venture transactions,  as well as corporate tax advisory for the real estate, hospitality, W&I insurance, banking, and oil and gas sectors. He recently advised one of the largest commercial property developers in Poland on the sale of a majority stake in a Polish SPV, which owned the Chmielna 89 office building in Warsaw, and on a joint venture with a foreign investor.  He also advised on the tax and legal aspects of a carve-out of the real estate ownership activities of the largest hotel group in Central Europe from its service business, and on the subsequent €282 million sale of the service business to a major hotel group.

Nicoleta Tuominen, a counsel in Dentons’ Brussels office, won the award for International Trade for the second time, having also been recognized in the inaugural Rising Stars Awards in 2019. She focuses on international trade and EU trade policy, economic sanctions and trade controls including export and sanctions licensing and compliance issues. In addition, she has vast experience in EU litigation, EU constitutional law and competition law, including merger control, abuse of dominance, cartel investigations and State aid cases. Nicoleta has represented the Council of the European Union successfully in more than 25 anti-dumping and anti-subsidies matters and has litigated before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the EU.

András Peisch, CIPP/E, won the jurisdictional award for Hungary. A senior associate in the Public Policy and Regulation practice in Budapest, he advises clients on corporate and commercial, data protection, and life sciences matters. András advises businesses on a variety of commercial agreements, data protection compliance procedures and other general corporate matters.

Senior associate Petra Štrbová won the jurisdictional award for Slovakia. A member of the Banking and Finance practice in Bratislava, she advises both lenders and borrowers on acquisition financing, real estate financing, project financing and general corporate financing transactions. She regularly advises all major Slovak banks on syndicated and bilateral loan transactions. She also has considerable experience in real estate transactions, including acquisitions, leasing, development and asset management. In 2021, she was named one of the 100 most important women in the legal business in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The Rising Stars Awards EMEA, organized annually by the Legal Media Group at Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (publisher of titles such as Benchmark Litigation, Expert Guides, International Financial Law Review, ITR and Managing IP), define a rising star as an associate, counsel or recently promoted partner, who is under 40 years old, has up to 15 years‘ professional experience and has been acting at a partner level. The winners are selected by senior editorial staff following an extensive research process, involving interviews with legal practitioners, and an analysis of magazine surveys and legal directories.

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