Global law firm Baker McKenzie organized a competition and regulatory conference for pharma in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in Warsaw. During the conference, Baker McKenzie experts highlighted the hot topics of recent developments in EU Competition Law and Pharmaceutical Regulation that have direct effect on companies in the pharma and life sciences sector, discussing practical and pragmatic solutions with special regard to regional aspects in CEE in two round tables. The first one looked at recent competition law developments.

On June 21, 2023, Poland's Ro Radwan-Roehrenschef Petruczenko announced the opening of its new office in Rzeszow – the firm's second after its Warsaw headquarters.

Wardynski & Partners, working with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, has advised the Barnes Group on its acquisition of MB Aerospace for an enterprise value of USD 740 million. WKB Lawyers, working with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, advised Blackstone portfolio company MB Aerospace on the sale. 

Cytowski & Partners has advised Poland-based ElevenLabs on its USD 19 million series A financing with Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. Gunderson Dettmer reportedly advised Andreessen Horowitz.

Hogan Lovells and its Hungarian affiliate Partos & Noblet have advised Nissan on the sale of its Polish business – Nissan Sales Central & Eastern Europe Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag – to Astara Mobility subsidiary Astara NIP Poland. Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka, working with Cuatrecasas, advised Astara.

White & Case has advised the STS Holding and its majority shareholders – MJ Foundation and Fundacja Zbigniew Juroszek – on the sale of the company to Entain Holdings. Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer reportedly advised Entain.

Allen & Overy has advised Polenergia on a PLN 300 million financing provided by Santander Bank Polska and Bank Pekao. Clifford Chance advised the banks.

Rymarz Zdort Maruta has advised both mBank Hipoteczny and mBank on spinning off a part of mBank Hipoteczny's business and transferring it to mBank.

DZP has advised the consortium of Centrum Elektronicznych Uslug Platniczych eService, PKO Bank Polski, and TECS Telecommunication & E-Commerce Solutions on a procedure conducted by the Ministry of Finance for the implementation of a 24/7 service for handling non-cash payments made by road toll system users in Poland.

Former DWF Partner Rafal Morek has joined CMS's dispute resolution team in Poland as Partner, along with Jan Markiewicz as Counsel and Andrzej Girdwoyn as Associate.

Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka has successfully represented PORR in two appeal proceedings before the National Appeal Chamber concerning the outcome of tenders for the expansion of Ore Quay III and Bytom Quay at the Port of Gdansk.

B2RLaw has advised UK-based construction equipment supplier CMT Group on the supply contract and the separate donation contract with the Polish Government Agency for Strategic Reserves for humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the form of power generators. The EUR 27 million contract was financed under the EU's Civil Protection Mechanism.

Clifford Chance has advised organizer and exclusive dealer Ipopema Securities on Echo Investment's issuance of five-year unsecured bonds with a total value of PLN 140 million.

Katowice-based GFKK Grzybczyk Kaminski Gawlik has advised Alicja Kubicka and Borja Martinez – of the Interplay Architects studio – on striking an agreement with the Polish Investment and Trade Agency for the design of Poland's Pavilion at the EXPO 2025 World Exhibition in Osaka.

Deloitte Legal has advised Airex on its execution of a call option for the acquisition of shares in JMB.

On June 7, 2023, the Arbitration Association of Central and Eastern Europe – ArbCEE – was officially launched in Bratislava.

CEELM: First, congratulations on your work on the deal picked by our jurors as the Deal of the Year! 

A building permit, according to Polish construction law, is the administrative decision authorizing the commencement and the carrying out of construction or the execution of building work other than construction of a building structure.