Bird & Bird has advised Wento and Enterprise Investors on the EUR 50 million sale of Eco Power sp. z o.o. to PGE Energia Odnawialna. The Warsaw office of Norton Rose Fulbright advised the buyers on the deal.

Linklaters has advised Chariot Group, a company managed by Griffin Real Estate, on the extension of leases with Auchan Poland for six retail properties totaling 83,000 square meters. The KPRF Law Office advised Auchan Poland on the deal.

Baker McKenzie has advised PKN Orlen on a revolving facility agreement under English law with a consortium of 16 banks. Clifford Chance advised the lenders on the deal.

A three-person Products & Health team led by Agnieszka Majka has moved from Hogan Lovells to NGL Legal in Warsaw.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised Polish resin manufacturer LERG S.A. on the acquisition of CIECH Zywice, another Polish resin manufacturer. The value of the transaction, based on the purchase price of its shares, is approximately PLN 160 million (approximately EUR 36 million). 

Kochanski & Partners has successfully represented Polish journalist Mikolaj Podolski in criminal proceedings initiated against him.

New legislation that affects investments in Polish entities by investors from outside the EEA and OECD will enter into force on 24 July 2020. The Act on Control of Certain Investments (the "Act"), recently amended by the so-called Anti-Crisis Shield Act, empowers the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (the "OCCP") to review foreign investments on the grounds of public security, order and health. The new screening mechanism will apply over the next two years. 

Kochanski & Partners has successfully represented Ringier Axel Springer Polska in a dispute that reached Poland's Supreme Court with the Polish Filmmakers Association involving the calculation of royalties.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised Kom-Eko on its acquisition of 69.46% of shares in Lubelska Agencja Ochrony Srodowiska.

Schoenherr has advised Panattoni Europe on its lease of space at Poland's Panattoni Park Ruda Slaska II to Dywidag-Systems International sp. z o.o., a producer of geotechnical and compression systems. 

CMS has advised Bonair on its sale to the Dutch group Fellowmind, which is owned by Sweden's FSN Capital private equity fund.

Noerr has advised Telekom Innovation, a strategic investment fund of Deutsche Telekom, on an unspecified equity investment in Poland's RemoteMyApp technology company. The Rapala Law Firm advised RemoteMyApp.

Aleksandra Krawczyk, Kinga Slomka, Dominika Szachniewicz, and Witold Slawinski have been promoted to Partner at SDZLegal Schindhelm in Poland.

Greenberg Traurig has advised UBS and Ipopema Securities on Ryvu Therapeutics' PLN 140 million new share offering. CK Legal advised Ryvu Therapeutics.

Clifford Chance has advised a consortium consisting of the EBRD, ING Bank Slaski, mBank, and Santander Bank Polska on financing in the aggregate amount of PLN 480 million to Polenergia for the construction of a 121 MW wind farm in Debsk, Poland. Allen & Overy advised Polenergia.

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Rymarz Zdort has advised PGNiG S.A. on the execution of a five-year agreement with Klaipedos Nafta for the use of the entire capacity of its liquid natural gas tanker truck reloading station in Klaipeda, Lithuania.

Soltysinski Kawecki Szlezak has advised IKEA Industry Poland, a member of the IKEA Group, on the sale of its furniture factory in Konstantynow Lodzki to a member of Latvia's Vakaru Medienos Grupe. Kurzynski Kosinski Lyszyk Wierzbicki advised Vakaru Medienos on the deal.