Greenberg Traurig has advised Animex Foods on its acquisition of an 80% stake in DeVeris Polska from an unidentified majority shareholder and Amencer International Polska. Meissner Koziol Kaczmarek & Partner advised the sellers.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Play Group and Infravia joint venture Polski Swiatlowod Otwarty on a PLN 5.13 billion financing for the upgrade and expansion of its data network infrastructure across Poland. Allen & Overy advised the lenders. Linklaters and Luther reportedly advised Infravia.

Gessel has advised Bioceltix on a non-brokered public offering of shares carried out under an accelerated book-building procedure and the related private placement.

Binder Groesswang has advised Orlen on its acquisition of the Turmoel filling station network in Austria via the acquisition of Doppler Energie. Oberhammer advised Doppler.

Gessel has advised Genomtec on a non-brokered public offering carried out under an accelerated book-building procedure and the related private placement of the company’s newly issued shares.

Wolf Theiss has announced the expansion of its Polish Corporate/M&A practice with the addition of seven Partners, at the core of a 27-strong team, from Wardynski & Partners. The move includes Partners Izabela Zielinska-Barlozek, Anna Dabrowska, and Krzysztof Libiszewski – who will also lead the WT Corporate/M&A practice – and Bartosz Kuras, Maciej Szewczyk, Marcin Pietkiewicz, and Katarzyna Wojcik-Bakowska.

RTPR and Allen & Overy have advised Innova Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in EMI Equipement Maintenance Industrie from Morphosis Capital, Belemi, and founder Jerome France.

Former Counsels Jan Czerwinski, Tomasz Michalczyk, and Grzegorz Sprawka and former Senior Associate Rafal Karbowniczek have been appointed as Partners with Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka on July 1, 2023.

Kochanski & Partners has supported insurance sector company Ergo Hestia in obtaining its ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 information security certifications.

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Agnieszka Skorupinska has joined the ranks of Rymarz Zdort Maruta as a Partner to head the firm's newly established Environmental Law and ESG practice.

White & Case has advised issuer PKO Bank Hipoteczny and joint bookrunners Erste Group Bank and PKO Bank Polski on PKO Bank Hipoteczny's second PLN 500 million issuance of mortgage-covered bonds in 2023.

Greenberg Traurig has advised Symfonia on a growth buyout investment from Accel-KKR. Goodwin Procter advised Accel-KKR on the acquisition while Kirkland & Ellis advised the investor on the debt financing. 

The crypto-assets sector — which includes unbacked and asset-stabilised digital currencies, securities tokens, utility tokens, non- fungible tokens and services related to them — has potential benefits, but is turbulent. During 2022, it experienced valuation plunges, a stablecoin's collapse, the exchange FTX's bankruptcy and concerns about decentralised finance (DeFi) arrangements.

Gessel has advised the Avallon MBO fund on its acquisition of sports and branded apparel retailer SAT.

E+H and Wardynski & Partners have advised Coveris on its acquisition of Polish packaging film company D.K. Lamin. SSW Pragmatic Solutions advised the sellers.

On June 29, 2023, Greenberg Traurig announced that KI Chemistry’s acquisition of Ciech shares in a voluntary tender offer (reported by CEE Legal Matters on May 3, 2023) had closed.

Sobczynski and Partners has advised Tar Heel Capital on the acquisition – on behalf of its Dentity dental chain – of a 70% stake in Warsaw's Dental Medicenter. Michaliszyn Koska Saluda advised the Dental Medicenter shareholders.