CMS has advised Synlab International on the sale of its business activities in Eastern Europe – including its entities in Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Turkiye, and Cyprus – to Medicover Group. Schoenherr advised Medicover.
Synlab International is a provider of medical diagnostics in Europe.
Medicover Group is a European healthcare and diagnostic services company operating numerous outpatient clinics, hospitals, laboratories, and blood collection points. According to CMS, this transaction is part of Synlab's overarching strategy to densify its network and focus on markets offering attractive strategic perspectives for its future development.
The CMS team included Croatia-based Managing Partner Gregor Famira, Partner Marija Zrno Prosic, and Lawyers Manuel Kralj and Dina Celikovic, North Macedonia-based Partner Marija Filipovska Jelcic, Senior Lawyer Aleksandar Josimovski, and Lawyer Aleksandar Kralevski, Romania-based Partner Rodica Manea, Senior Counsel Claudia Nagy, Counsel Raluca Ionescu, Senior Associate Alexandru Dumitrescu, and Associates Simona Strava-Stoica, Rares Crismaru, and Aura Georgiana Marina, Turkiye-based Partner Done Yalcin, Senior Associate Merve Akkus, and Associate Arda Ozkan, as well as Slovenia-based Partner Sasa Sodja, Senior Associate Martina Mahnic Smole, and Lawyer Gasper Hajdu as well as further team members in Germany.
The Schoenherr team included Austria-based Partner Markus Piuk, Counsel Stephan Roedler, and Associate Alexandra Jelinek, Romania-based Partners Monica Cojocaru and Georgiana Badescu, Managing Attorneys at Law Cristiana Manea and Mihaela Popescu, Senior Attorney at Law Simona Lehniuc, and Attorney at Law Sabina Aionesei, Zagreb-based Partner Vice Mandaric and Associate Dino Rakic, Skopje-based Attorney at Law Andrea Lazarevska, Slovenia-based Co-Managing Partner Bojan Brezan, Partner Peter Gorse, and Associate Zana Zabnikar, and Turkiye-based Partner Murat Kutlug and Associate Emir Kuris.
