White & Case has advised Play Communications and its shareholders, Novator and Olympia, on the EUR 2.2 billion sale of all of its shares to French telecommunication provider Iliad SA. Bredin Prat reportedly advised the buyer on the deal.
According to White & Case, “Play Communications is a network operator in Poland with over 15 million customers and a 28 percent market share. Novator specializes in investing in companies across the telecommunications, health, and media/technology sectors. Olympia is an international investment group primarily focused on retail, manufacturing, distribution, business software, telecommunications, and real estate sectors.”
White & Case’s team, included, in Warsaw, Partner Marcin Studniarek, Local Partner Rafal Kaminski, Counsels Jakub Gubanski and Grzegorz Jukiel, and Associate Damian Lubocki, and in London, Partners Ian Bagshaw and Marc Israel and Associates Ben von Maur and Elena Ruggiu.
Editor's note: After this article was published, Bredin Prat confirmed that it had advised Iliad on the deal, and CEE Legal Matters learned that Soltysinski, Kawecki & Szlezak had advised the Iliad Group as well. The Bredin Prat team consisted of Partners Olivier Assant, Florence Haas, Yelena Trifounovitch, Julien Gayral, Laetitia Tombarello, and Samuel Pariente, Counsel Aurelien Jolly, and Associates Marine Blottiaux, Lea Francis, Sophie Tricot, Apolline Vanackere, Clemence Carlier, Thibault Sire, Camille Marpillat, Paul Cauchin, Anne-Sophie Arbide-Vignarte, and Vincent Delcourt.
The SK&S team included Partners Marcin Olechowski, Slawomir Luczak, and Krzysztof Kanton, Senior Counsels Andrzej Motyka, Witold Kurek, and Marta Kupczak-Strzelecka, Counsel Justyna Mlodzianowska, Senior Associate Karol Skibniewski, and Associates Anna Bartosiewicz and Magdalena Polak.
