DLA Piper has advised Eiffel Investment Group on the financing of photovoltaic systems in Poland built by Germany's SUNfarming Group. SUNfarming was advised by Roedl & Partner on Polish law matters and Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft on German law.

Jara Drapala & Partner has persuaded the Court of Appeal in Warsaw to dismiss an appeal of a judgment by the Regional Court awarding compensation to IT company and firm client Exorigo-Upos sp. z o.o. for "stock exchange damage."

Dentons has advised the LRC Group on its acquisition of 175 apartments and commercial spaces in a modern housing estate in Warsaw.

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This overview aims to highlight selected potential Polish law issues related to liability for damages caused by machine learning algorithms (MLA) which an entrepreneur operating, buying or selling a business based on MLA may face and should consider. Needless to say, the civil law liability touched upon here is not the only liability regime which should be borne in mind. For the sake of clarity, however, matters related to specific sector regulation (e.g. for medical devices), intellectual property rights, GDPR as well as criminal liability are not addressed below, although they are equally important for MLA-based business.

CEE Legal Matters has learned that, after ten years in CEE, and shortly after attending the annual Deal of the Year Awards Banquet in Budapest, Wolf Theiss Warsaw Co-Managing Partner Ron Given – a key member of the Deal of the Year Final Selection Committee, as he was last year – will be bidding adieu to the region and heading back home. We reached out to Given, a long-time friend of and supporter of CEE Legal Matters, to learn more, and to get his thoughts on a productive, profitable, and geographically-diverse decade in Central and Eastern Europe.

Greenberg Traurig has represented CCC S.A. in the execution of a complicated cross-border transaction which begins a business and capital cooperation with the HR Group, the second largest footwear retailer in Germany.

Clifford Chance has advised Mid Europa Partners and its recently acquired portfolio company Hortex on the conditional agreement to purchase Jurajska from Bewa. Weil Gotshal & Manges advised Bewa on the transaction, which remains contingent on the consent of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, expected to come in the first quarter of this year.

Medical Law experts Hanna Rubaszewska and Radoslaw Rubaszewski have joined BSJP Brockhuis Jurczak Prusak Sroka Nilsson's partnership in Poznan.

GFKK Grzybczyk Kaminski Gawlik has provided pro bono assistance to the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz 1st and 2nd Degree State Music School in Katowice for the renovation of its concert hall in the school building. The main work contractor was Dombud S.A.

Clifford Chance's Warsaw office has represented Hoist Finance, a Swedish financial services company active in nine European countries, on its acquisition of non-performing loans from Polish company GetBack. K&L Gates advised GetBack on the sale.

Dentons Warsaw has helped mBank prepare and negotiate the financial documents related to private equity fund MCI.EuroVentures’ acquisition of a 51% stake in software company IAI S.A.

Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii has advised Interbrands on the sale of 60% of the company to Orbico, one of the largest distributors of consumer goods in Central and Eastern Europe. Deloitte Legal advised Orbico on the deal, which remains contingent on the approval of the Romanian competition council.

On January 25, 2019, Poland's National Appeals Chamber dismissed an appeal of the results of the contest to develop the urban-architectural Music Centre and City Park concept in Krakow which was organized by the Malopolska Voivodeship and the Municipality of Krakow. The organizer of the contest was supported by WKB during the entire appeals procedure.

K&L Gates has successfully represented Chinese construction company China Overseas Engineering Group Co., Ltd in a dispute with a subcontractor involving its commitment to supply acoustic screens for the A2 motorway between Warsaw and Lodz, Poland.

Dentons has advised Hines Poland on the sale of the Graffit office building in Warsaw to Zeus Capital Management. DLA Piper advised the buyer on the deal.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has appointed Katarzyna Solarz and Marcin Cetnarowicz to the firm's partnership.

K&L Gates lawyers have advised Poland's Alfabeat venture capital fund in Poland on its investment in RoboCamp.