Primarily driven by greenfield investments, supply chain overhauls, and geopolitical implications, the hottest practice of Noerr’s Warsaw office has been Real Estate, according to Associated Partner and recently appointed Head of Office Pawel Zelich.

Linklaters has advised Investika Realitni Fond and Bud Holdings on their acquisition of Luzycka Plus and the A, B, C, and D buildings of the Luzycka Office Park in Gdynia. 

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Panattoni on the construction of an 87,300 square-meter built-to-suit facility for Tedi and subsequent sale of the asset to Tedi affiliate HH Immo. Dentons advised Tedi on the acquisition. 

B2RLaw has advised Dentametr and its founders on the company's pre-seed financing round.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions and Rymarz Zdort have advised PGNiG on its merger with PKN Orlen. Gide Loyrette Nouel and Ellex advised PKN Orlen. Kwasnicki Wrobel & Partnerzy advised both companies' general shareholders' meetings and represented Orlen for the registration of the merger. White & Case advised joint lead manager Citigroup Global Markets Europe and SMM Legal advised Orlen on WSE-related matters. 

Former Spectris Head of M&A Legal Maciej Kalinowski has joined Energix - Renewable Energies in Poland as its Head of Legal.

Greenberg Traurig has advised Value4Capital’s Poland Plus Fund on its sale of Kom-Eko to a CEE Equity Partners fund. Baker McKenzie advised the buyer. 

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has helped Cloud Technologies obtain prospectus approval from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority regarding the transfer of the company's share listing from NewConnect to the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Contributed by Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners.

Clifford Chance has advised Catella Residential Investment Management on its EUR 60 million sale of residential and student housing properties in Warsaw and Krakow. Konieczny Wierzbicki & Partners advised Dutch buyer Van der Vorm Vastgoed on the acquisition of the Trio project in Krakow. 

Tomasz Romanowski and Piotr Kieloch have been appointed as Partners with Resist Rezanko Sitek.

Rymarz Zdort, working with Plesner Advokatpartnerselskab, has advised Equinor on its acquisition of BeGreen. Denmark-based Accura advised the sellers on the deal.

SSK&W has advised the investors in the Open Innovation by YNM-led investment round in Intelliseq. The Jakub Kapica law firm advised Intelliseq on the round.

B2RLaw has advised Auxilius Pharma and its founders on receiving investments from venture capital investors CofounderZone Corporate Angel Fund ASI and Augebit together with several business angels and existing investors. SSW Pragmatic Solutions advised CofounderZone.

Foundations, along with associations, are the most widely chosen legal form for Polish non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Due to the specific nature of their relationships with the state, doubt may sometimes arise as to whether foundations may be legally obliged to organize tender proceedings. This is because the Public Procurement Law (PPL) does not list foundations among other types of entities which may act as ‘contracting authorities’. Does this mean that no foundation under any circumstances will ever have to observe public procurement laws? Naturally, this question can only be answered in the negative, as in some cases a foundation may acquire ‘contracting authority’ status under the above-mentioned laws.

MFW Fialek has advised Milestone Real Estate on its acquisition of shares in the project companies that own the development projects of BlueRock in Poland.

Crido Legal has advised Amplifon on its full acquisition of a medical products company to expand its portfolio and market share in Poland.

On November 7, 2022, Sobczynscy i Partnerzy announced that Tar Heel Capital's acquisition of SmakMak (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on September 13, 2022) had closed.