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Austria's Mariella Kapoun and Georg Gutfleisch and Slovenia's Amela Zrt and Ivan Kranjec Make Partner at CMS

Austria's Mariella Kapoun and Georg Gutfleisch and Slovenia's Amela Zrt and Ivan Kranjec Make Partner at CMS

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Mariella Kapoun and Georg Gutfleisch have become Partners at CMS in Austria, while Amela Zrt and Ivan Kranjec have become Partners at CMS in Slovenia, as part of the firm's latest promotion round.

Kapoun and Gutfleisch both focus on real estate, construction, and transactions. Kapoun has been with CMS since 2016. Before that, she spent a year with Cerha Hempel.

Gutfleisch has been with CMS since 2020. Before that, he spent four and a half years with Brandl Talos and, earlier, two years with DLA Piper.

According to CMS, Zrt is a labor and data protection law expert. She has been with CMS's Ljubljana office for seven and a half years. Before that, she spent two years with Kraljic and, earlier, over a year and a half with Rojs Peljhan Prelesnik & Partners.

Kranjec is the Head of Tax at CMS in Slovenia. He has been with the firm since 2014. Before that, he spent two years with PwC, four years with BDO, and just under a year with Vonda.

"Each new partner has demonstrated a strong commitment to the interests of our clients and the legal profession," Managing Partners Guenther Hanslik and Johannes Juranek commented. "The current promotions reflect not only professional achievement, but also the firm's continued investment in our team members. We look forward to the next steps in the careers of Mariella, Georg, Amela, and Ivan. Their dedication, expertise, and innovative thinking embody the values we cherish at CMS."

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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