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Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is proud of its 30 year presence in the Central and Eastern European market, considering the region as its home market with subsidiary banks set up in each jurisdiction of the area. Among the Bank’s nearly 50,000 employees that service its 16.7 million customers, is the company’s relatively large and highly regarded legal team. In 2017, it played an integral role in the merger of RBI and its former majority owner Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich (RZB) which saw RBI take over all rights, obligations and duties of RZB. This entailed a monumental effort by the team that private practice peers were keen to highlight during this year’s research. Since then, the legal team has excelled in other areas such as helping execute a strategic partnership with SEE Link in June 2018 that sees RBI’s Group Securities Services Operations Center acting as post-trade infrastructure for trading on SEE Link, an innovative regional platform linking Bulgarian, Croatian and Macedonian bourses and supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).