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4 I Contents bne March 2017
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief
James R Hammond (Boston) publisher
Nicholas Watson (Prague) managing editor
Robert Anderson (Prague) news editor
Liam Halligan (London)
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Eastern Europe
Nicholas Allen (Berlin) bureau chief
Mark Galeotti (Prague) contributing editor
Central Europe
Tim Gosling (Prague) bureau chief
Southeast Europe
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 CEE’s legal market goes local
12 Suspicious minds to keep Chinese farmers from milking Russia
16 Russian list of 64 firms exempt from procurement rules raises eyebrows
20 Drug maker Richter sets innovative example for Hungary’s economy
23 Kazakh sovereign bond fails to spark hoped-for corporate issuance
25 Georgia and The Bitfury Group to expand blockchain land-titling project
27 Russia’s first IPO of 2017 is child’s play as Detsky Mir sells 33% stake
28 EU-Turkey customs union needs updating but obstacles lie ahead
30 A Czech central banker’s nightmare scenario: Switzerland 2015
SPECIAL REPORT – CEE Real Estate
31 Peak here, past nadir there COVER FEATURE
44 Romania shows the positive power of protest
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COMPANIES MENTIONED
AFI Development (Page 33) AFK Sistema (27)
Apsys (33)
ArcelorMittal (8)
ATF Bank (23)
Bank CenterCredit (9) Biogrowing Co (12) Business Parks CTP (33)
CA Immo (33, 42)
CBRE (33, 34, 37)
Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati (11)
Chadbourne & Parke (10) Clifford Chance (10)
CMS (10, 11)
Cobalt (11)
Colliers (33)
Credit Suisse (27)
Cushman & Wakefield (33, 36) CVC Capital (9)
Dentons (10, 33, 35, 38) Detsky Mir (8, 27, 28) Deutsche Bank (9)
Dvorak, Hager & Partners (11)
Ellex (11)
Erste Group Commercial Real Estate (33, 40)
Federation Tower (33)
Galenika (8) Garanti Bankasi (9)
Gedeon Richter
Gide Loyrette Nouel (10) Glatzova & Partners (11) Goldman Sachs (27) GTC (33)
Halyk Finance (24) Havel Holasek
& Partners (11) HB Reavis (33) Helaba (33, 42)
Immofinanz (33, 34) International Bank of Azerbaijan (9) Invesco (33) ITAR-TASS (18)
JLL (33, 36)
