Clifford Chance has advised lenders Santander Bank Polska, Alior Bank, Bank Millennium, Bank Polska Kasa Opieki, and the EBRD on their financing for Gemini Polska. E+H advised Santander Bank Polska. CMS reportedly advised Gemini Polska. 

Norton Rose Fulbright, Ionescu Sava, and Integrites have advised the EBRD on its EUR 42 million senior secured loan for Cersanit to improve its production facilities in Poland and Ukraine.

Norton Rose Fulbright and Stratulat Albulescu have advised the European Investment Bank on a EUR 104 million financing granted to the Maspex Group.

On May 21, 2023, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling announced they are merging into a fully integrated firm: Allen Overy Shearman Sterling – A&O Shearman for short.

Dentons has advised the Steag Group on its sale of SFW Energia to the Remondis Group. SSW Pragmatic Solutions reportedly advised Remondis.

The regulations allow, and even mandate, a consequential amending of a public contract in certain cases. However, they do not prejudge whether such an amendment is state aid.

Gessel has advised hospitality meat product supplier Ladros and its shareholders on securing Chefs Culinar as a strategic investor.

Starting on 22 May 2023, it will be possible to establish and register family foundations in Poland. The Polish legal system will thus be expanded by a new institution that allows assets to be accumulated and managed, and profits to be distributed to beneficiaries. The legislature wished to provide the means for family-owned businesses and their owners to engage in intergenerational wealth management and to grow their wealth over time while protecting it from dispersal to unrelated entities and persons. Hence, family foundations may serve as a means to retain and multiply a family's wealth, independent of inheritance law.

Rymarz Zdort Maruta has advised the Unilink Group and Enterprise Investors on their sale of the Unilink Group to Acrisure.

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WKB Lawyers has advised the KGAL ESPF 5 Holding on establishing its cooperation with Lasuno to develop renewable energy projects in Poland. BNT Attorneys advised Lasuno.

SSK&W and Stratulat Albulescu have advised venture capital fund CofounderZone and business angels on their investment in Romanian property technology company Milluu. Ventures-n-Law advised Milluu.

Gide Warsaw has advised B&B Hotels Polska on the facility lease agreement with Aviato and Harvent Capital for the B&B Hotel Kielce Centrum. JDP Drapala & Partners reportedly advised the lessors.

Partner Agnieszka Kulinska has been appointed the new Head of the Energy and Natural Resources practice in Dentons’ Warsaw office, taking over from Managing Partner Arkadiusz Krasnodebski. Warsaw and Munich-based Partner Christian Schnell will Co-Head the firm's Europe Energy practice group alongside Berlin-based Partner Tim Heitling.

CDZ Chajec & Partners has advised Samito on the sale of its e-commerce optimization organized business part to the Wirtualna Polska Group. Brzozowska & Barwinska reportedly advised Wirtualna Polska.

B2RLaw Partner Andrzej Zajac has been appointed as the new Head of the firm's Energy & Real Estate practice.

Schoenherr, working with Luther and Hogan Lovells, has advised the Cargo-Partner Group Holding on its EUR 1.4 billion sale of Cargo-Partner GmbH and 60 other subsidiaries to Nippon Express Holdings. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised the buyer.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Bank Pekao on its financing for the construction of the 9.6-megawatt Miloslaw wind farm in Palczyn, Poland, sponsored by ZE PAK. Greenberg Traurig reportedly advised the borrower.