In The Debrief, our Practice Leaders across CEE share updates on recent and upcoming legislation, consider the impact of recent court decisions, showcase landmark projects, and stay up to date with the latest developments impacting their respective practice areas. 

Former Local Partner Rafal Kluziak has been appointed an Equity Partner and former Counsels Katarzyna Waclawek and Piotr Miller have been promoted to Partner positions with DLA Piper in Warsaw.

On April 27, 2023, Wardynski & Partners announced that OT Logistics’ debt restructuring (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on June 26, 2019) had closed.

WKB Lawyers has advised CVI Dom Maklerski on the exit of its managed fund, Noble Fund Mezzanine Fizan, from Exact Systems. MJH Moskwa, Jarmul, Haladyj i Partnerzy advised buyer Accession Capital Partners. Rymarz Zdort Maruta reportedly advised Exact Systems.

Gessel has advised VirtusLab on its merger with SoftwareMill. DSK Kancelaria advised SoftwareMill.

DWF has advised the sole shareholder of Unitrailer Holding on the sale of the company to Vaalon Capital. Schoenherr advised Vaalon Capital.

SSK&W has advised bValue and THC Pathfinder on their investment in Innential. Osborne Clarke reportedly advised Innential.

Kochanski & Partners has advised Jansen on the structuring and execution of a management buyout.

Dentons, working with Kirkland & Ellis, has advised AXA IM Alts on its sale of data center platforms Data4 to Brookfield Infrastructure.

Dentons Partners Anna Pukszto and Bartlomiej Kordeczka have been elected the new Poland Co-Managing Partners following a vote of the Partners in Warsaw. They take over from Arkadiusz Krasnodebski, who stepped down after serving as Managing Partner in Poland since 2014.

White & Case has advised Columbus Energy on the admission and listing of all the company's shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange main market and the transfer of its shares from the NewConnect alternative market, on which the company had been listed since 2011.

Taylor Wessing has advised a consortium of banks and financial institutions on the PLN 1.65 billion financing provided to Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa under a sustainability-linked loan formula. White & Case advised JSW.

DWF has advised Nebo Solar on the sale of its 100-megawatt solar projects portfolio to Hep Global. Osborne Clarke reportedly advised Hep Global.

Clifford Chance has advised a club of banks led by Ceska Sporitelna – including UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia and the Czech branch of Citibank Europe – on a CZK 1 billion club financing for Packeta and its subsidiaries. Wolf Theiss advised Packeta.

Norton Rose Fulbright, working with Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law, has advised Bank Polska Kasa Opieki on financing the construction of a 67.7-megawatt portfolio of 36 PV installations sponsored by Lithuania's Lords LB Asset Management. SSW Pragmatic Solutions reportedly advised Lords LB.

DWF has advised KGAL Investment Management on two long-term power purchase agreements with Lafarge Cement Polska for the Krasin and Rywald onshore wind farms owned by the KGAL ESPF 4 Renewable Energy Fund. Elzanowski & Partnerzy advised Lafarge Cement.

A new promotion round saw 62 lawyers become Partners at CMS – spanning 25 cities across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America – including Arno Zimmermann, Hans Lederer, and Klaus Pateter in Vienna, Alicja Zalewska-Orabona in Warsaw, and Mihai Jiganie-Serban in Bucharest.

Wolf Theiss has advised Mitiska REIM on its acquisition of the Europa Centralna retail center located in Gliwice, Poland.