On April 5, 2022, leading lawyers from across all of CEE will be coming together for the Dealer's Choice Conference and Deals of the Years Awards Banquet. Leading up to the event, we spoke with Oana Ijdelea of Ijdelea & Associates to learn what they are looking forward to the most.

On December 22, 2021, CEE Legal Matters reported that Baker McKenzie had advised polish developers 7R and VRE on its EUR 101 million sale of 7R Park Beskid II on behalf of Vestas Investment Management. CEE In-House Matters spoke with Lukasz Jachna, Member of the Board and Chief Capital Markets Officer at 7R, to learn more about the deal.

Former Chairman of the British Polish Chamber of Commerce David Thomas and former Noerr Counsel Konrad Werner have joined Kochanski & Partners. Both join the firm as Partners, with Thomas to head International Finance and Werner to lead the Banking and Finance practice.

Osborne Clarke has announced its entry into the CEE market by opening a new office in Poland and scooping up multi-professional services firm MDDP’s legal arm along with other lawyers.

Three of the world’s most influential institutions have established expert teams to gather as much data as possible in order to make sense of the nature of the changes currently affecting the global labor market. Many law firms are already on board and are implementing strategies that will meet these changes head-on.

Sylwia Zielezinska, Dominika Leszczynska, Jakub Adamski, and Mateusz Kotowicz have been promoted to Partner at Ro Radwan-Roehrenschef Petruczenko. The firm also shortened its name from the previously used Ro Radwan-Roehrenschef Petruczenko Tokarzewska.

ESG, compliance, laws incentivizing companies to run their offices in Poland, and the tax "Polish Deal" are among the most debated legislative issues in the country, says B2RLaw Partner Aleksandra Polak.

From the Polish law perspective, clearance of a joint venture establishment is different as compared to the EU law perspective. In this article we shine light on these key differences.

Karol Brzoskowski was appointed Partner, while Paulina Kimla-Kaczorowska, Barbara Pancer, Kamil Majewski, and Rafal Siwek have been promoted to Local Partners with Greenberg Traurig's Warsaw office, as of January 1, 2022.

Jaroslaw Kolkowski has joined Andersen’s Warsaw office as a Partner on February 1, 2022. He will be responsible for the firm's Litigation & Arbitration and Corporate Law practices.

KWKR Konieczny Wierzbicki and Partners has promoted Krakow-based Head of TMT Lukasz Wieczorek to Partner.

On December 1, 2021, CEE Legal Matters reported that Greenberg Traurig had advised CA Immo on the sale of the Wspolna 47-49 office building in Warsaw to Yareal Polska. CEE In-House Matters spoke with Ingo Steinwender, Group Head of Legal at CA Immobilien, to learn more about the sale.

Blazej Czwarnok has been promoted to Partner at Gide’s Warsaw office. He heads the local Real Estate practice. 

REITs first appeared in the US in the 1960s, and the American REIT market has enjoyed considerable growth over the last quarter of a century. From there, REITs have spread to most developed economies, including many EU member states, and can presently be found in approximately 40 countries. In the US, the total return on investment in REITs making up the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index reached 1,225% over the last 25 years, which translates into an average annual return of 10.9%. This, coupled with the good performance of REITs in other countries, contributes to an increased interest in this type of legal structure in jurisdictions where such solutions have yet to be introduced.

On October 18, 2021, CEE Legal Matters reported that Katarzyna Sulimierska had joined Schoenherr as Head of Real Estate in Warsaw. We spoke with Sulimierska to learn more about her and her practice.

CEE Legal Matters spoke with CMS Partner and Head of Environmental Law Practice in Poland and CEE Agnieszka Skorupinska and CMS Turkey Managing Partner Done Yalcin about the impacts of the EU Green Deal and the rise of ESG in Europe and beyond.

Former Dentons Senior Associate ​​Andrzej Wloch has joined the Real Estate practice at SSW Pragmatic Solutions as a Partner.

Wiercinski Kwiecinski Baehr Partners Anna Flaga-Martynek, Marta Midloch, Marcin Smolarek, Maciej Szambelanczyk, Anna Wojciechowska, and Anna Wyrzykowska have become Equity Partners, while Counsels Agata Szczepanczyk-Piwek, Sergiusz Urban, and Jordan Zafirow have been promoted to Partner, as of January 1, 2022.