Dentons was named M&A Law Firm of the Year at the second annual CEE M&A Awards, run by EuropaProperty. Hosted in Warsaw on March 22, 2018, the awards were presented to the most active and professional M&A players operating in the CEE region, in recognition of their outstanding deals during the past year. This was the second year in a row that Dentons was honored with the award.

With a team of more than 1500 Corporate and M&A lawyers around the world, including over 200 in CEE, Dentons has been involved in many of the largest and complex transactions in the region last year. Recent highlights include:

• EDF: Representing the French energy group in the sale of its assets in Poland to PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A. The transaction worth upward of €1 billion was the largest in Poland’s energy sector in the last five years and among the largest of its kind seen recently in Europe.
• Enterprise Investors: Advising one of the largest private equity and venture capital management firms in CEE on the sale of a 100% stake in Netrisk.hu, the leading online insurance broker in Hungary, to MCI Capital S.A., one of Poland’s leading venture capital and private equity companies.
• Group Spadel: Advising a European family-owned company specializing in the production of natural mineral water, spring water and natural fruit drinks, on the €120 million acquisition of a 93.29 percent stake in Devin AD, the market-leading producer of bottled water in Bulgaria, from private equity firm Advent International. This was Spadel's first investment in the CEE/SEE region.    
• Globalworth: Advising a real estate company focused on property investment in South Eastern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe, on an investment agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Griffin Premium Real Estate (GPRE), a company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. This is Globalworth’s first investment outside of Romania.

The CEE M&A Awards recognize the top deals, investors and M&A advisers in the following countries and regions: CEE - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, NEE - Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kaliningrad, and SEE - Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia.