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Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) has secured a final favorable decision for an important manufacturer of components for automotive safety systems, in a customs dispute. The final decision issued by the Timisoara Court of Appeal confirms the company’s right to recover the customs duties paid based on incorrect customs declarations, marking a significant benchmark in the legal field ...

The NNDKP Center of Excellence in Fiscal Disputes (NNDKP CELF) has successfully represented a client in maintaining the recognition, through a final court decision, of the right to deduct VAT on expenses incurred for investments necessary to start or continue certain real estate projects that were ultimately not completed.In this case, the taxpayer, a real estate developer, intended to start two real estate projects on the land they owned ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) has assisted AAylex One, one of the leading players in the Romanian food industry and the producer of the Cocorico brand in connection with a EUR 20 million loan facility granted by a syndicate of banks.The syndicate of banks included CEC Bank S.A. and Alpha Bank Romania S.A. and the facility granted is secured by a guarantee issued by Exim Banca Românească in the name and on behalf of the State ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) has recently advised Globant, an IT and software development company present in 33 countries with more than 29,000 employees worldwide, throughout the entire process of merging two Romanian subsidiaries – Pentalog Romania S.R.L. and Pentalog HR Romania S.R.L. The transaction was part of a global reorganization process that Globant designed in order to continue and accelerate its expansion worldwide, including in Romania ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) was part of the international team of advisors that assisted the Chinese Inner Mongolia Mengtai Group Co., Ltd. with the acquisition of the Alu Menziken Group from Montana Aerospace AG.NNDKP provided legal assistance in the Romanian jurisdiction. The project was coordinated by the German law firm HEUKING, which acted as lead counsel in the transaction and coordinated local counsel in Switzerland, Austria and Romania ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) has assisted CTP, Europe’s largest listed developer, owner, and manager of industrial and logistics properties by gross lettable area (GLA), in acquiring the logistics portfolio fully owned by Globalworth, the largest office investor in CEE, with leading positions in Romania and Poland ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) earns top recognition in the 2024 Legal 500 rankings, EMEA edition ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) announces it has achieved high rankings in the recently published 2024 edition of Chambers Europe. The results reconfirm the firm’s leading position on the Romanian business law market, NNDKP being ranked in each of the 9 areas of practice researched in Romania, namely Banking & Finance, Competition/Antitrust, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Intellectual Property & TMT, Projects & Energy, Real Estate and Tax ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) assisted a syndicate of banks in providing a loan facility totalling EUR 101.5 to RodBun Group, by refinancing and increasing existing facilities by EUR 37.14 million. RodBun is an integrator of agricultural products and solutions, and one of Romania’s most important players in this field.The syndicate of banks included Banca Comercială Română S.A ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) has assisted a syndicate of banks with the amendment and extension until 2026 of USD 150 million working capital credit facilities for ALRO S.A., one of the largest vertically integrated aluminium producers in Europe, by production capacity.The syndicate of banks was coordinated by Exim Banca Românească and included Banca Comercială Română SA (BCR), OTP Bank Romania, CEC Bank, UniCredit Bank, Alpha Bank Romania and Banca Transilvania ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) was part of the international team of advisors that assisted Insight Enterprises, a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator focused on driving client success through digital transformation, in acquiring Amdaris, a software development and digital services company based in the UK, with service delivery centres located in several Eastern European countries ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) was named Romania Tax Disputes Firm of the Year at the 2023 edition of ITR EMEA Tax Awards organized by International Tax Review. The 18th edition of the awards acknowledges the innovative approach, performance, and key role played by the strongest tax, tax disputes and transfer pricing teams of experts across 34 jurisdictions throughout the region in developing the global advisory services market ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) has assisted a syndicate of banks in providing EUR 550 million in financing to the Swiss group Ameropa, which owns some of the largest local agribusiness companies - Azomures, Romania's largest fertilizer producer, Ameropa Grains SA, a major grain trader, and Chimpex, a leader in port operations ...

NNDKP has successfully finalized the two successive arbitration cases related to the design and execution of one of the four sections of the Sebes-Turda motorway ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) successfully represented a major local food supplier in connection with the annulment of the contravention fine imposed by the Competition Council following an investigation initiated in 2009 for alleged anti-competitive agreements between several suppliers and retailers operating in the domestic food sales market. The court validated the arguments raised by NNDKP concerning the unlawfulness of the Competition Council’s decision ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) was part of the international team of advisors that assisted NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, Inc., one of the world’s leading logistics companies, in acquiring the shares of the multiple subsidiaries of Cargo-Partner Group Holding AG ("Cargo-Partner"), which provides global logistics services through its main business sites in Central and Eastern Europe ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) was part of the international team of advisors that assisted CANCOM SE, one of the leading integrated IT service providers in Germany, in the acquisition of K-Businesscom-Group and all its subsidiaries, Austria’s leading provider of IT&C solutions and services. The transaction will result in the creation of one of the largest IT corporations in the DACH region ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) successfully represented Hammerer Aluminium Industries Santana S.R.L., a producer of semi-finished castings from aluminium recovered from recyclable materials for various uses, in a complex dispute related to transfer pricing aspects before the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) assisted Holcim Romania, one of the leaders in the construction materials industry in Romania, with the expansion of its aggregates division through the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Stones Business Development SRL, which operates an aggregate station and a sand and gravel mining exploitation ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) confirms that Grupo Bimbo has included Romania in its global growth strategy and has completed the acquisition of Vel Pitar as nation-wide development platform. NNDKP acted as local legal counsel for Grupo Bimbo, advising on all aspects of the acquisition of Vel Pitar, from transaction structuring to negotiation and completion ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) has assisted OTP Bank Romania and OTP Group in a EUR 57.80 million financing for Exigent Property Investment SRL to fund the development of phase 5 of Exigent Plaza Residence, the largest residential project in Bucharest, located in Militari area ...

The Bucharest Court of Appeals has recently decided to refer several questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of the EU law to clarify the lawfulness of the electrical energy production surcharge imposed by Law 259/2021. The request came from a company operating in the renewable energy sector, represented by Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) successfully represented ENEL (E-Distributie Banat) in a complex tax dispute relating to the possibility of the taxpayer deducting the value of tax depreciation for tangible assets (electricity grid connectors) acquired from the company’s clients through transfer, for the calculation of corporate income tax ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) successfully assisted International Game Technology PLC (IGT), one of the global leaders in gaming, in a multi-jurisdictional transaction for the acquisition of iSoftBet, an online games supplier and content aggregator. The transaction included the jurisdictions of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Malta, Romania and the UK and the total deal value amounted to approximately EUR 160 million ...

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP) advised PepsiCo in the transaction to acquire a minority shareholding in AQUA Carpatica, the Romanian spring water brand owned by Carpathian Springs SA company, controlled by the businessman Jean Valvis ...