Karanovic & Partners has advised DS Smith on its acquisition of Serbian offset cardboard packaging and blister packaging company Bosis.

Boyanov & Co, working with the Stockholm and Washington offices of Baker McKenzie, has advised Finland's Tietoevry on the acquisition of US-based digital engineering company MentorMate. Ballard Spahr advised the Taylor Corporation on the sale.

Lakatos Koves & Partners has advised Polish listed company Selena Group on a strategic collaboration with Hungary's Masterplast to establish a glass wool factory in Szerencs. Peremiczki & Turi reportedly advised Masterplast.

JDP Drapala & Partners, working with Milbank, has advised the EQT Mid Market Europe and EQT Mid Market Asia III funds on the sale of BBS Automation to the MDAX-listed Duerr Group.

Koutalidis has advised Everty on its acquisition of two logistics centers with a total gross leasable area of approximately 33,000 square meters located in the Aspropyrgos area.

The upcoming parliamentary elections at the end of September are the talk of the town in Slovakia, with a slew of interesting legislative changes – including those covering whistleblowing, corporate restructurings, and construction – coming in before the buzzer, according to Wolf Theiss Managing Partner Katarina Matulnikova.