Kocian Solc Balastik has advised on the establishment of two endowment funds in the Czech Republic: Eva Pavlova’s Endowment Fund and Vaclav Cigler’s Endowment Fund.

RTPR has advised the Black Sea Fund on its acquisition of Gymboland in Romania. PeliPartners advised Gymboland.

Clifford Chance has advised KKCG on the acquisition of the end-to-end software engineering and consulting platform Avenga from funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management and Cornerstone Investment Management.

Baker McKenzie has advised the VT5 Acquisition Company – a SIX-listed Swiss special purpose acquisition company – on the acquisition of R&S International Holding AG, an agreed business combination to take the R&S Group public on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Swiss law firm Advestra advised sole glob­al coordin­at­or UBS and joint bookrunner ZKB.

Turunc has advised Gelecek Etki Fonu on its investment in Brandefense in a round that included Sabanci Ventures, AK Portfoy, the Technology Development Foundation of Turkiye, TechOne, and Finberg. Kutadgu & Arsin advised Brandefense. Reportedly, BASEAK and the Diamond Law Group advised Sabanci Ventures, while BTS advised the Technology Development Foundation of Turkiye.

Schoenherr has advised Ceres Pharma on the acquisition of the Hungarian pharmaceutical companies VitaPlus and Innopharm, including their Innopharm Austrian subsidiary.