Greenberg Traurig has advised CP Retail BV, a Capital Park Group subsidiary, on the sale of a stake in Dakota Investment, the owner of the Eurocentrum Office Complex in Warsaw.

DWF has advised Sonoco Products on the acquisition by its subsidiaries of the Thermoform and Plastique Group. The unnamed sellers were reportedly advised by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner on the transaction, pending approval from regulatory authorities.

SMM Legal has helped the Polish Branch of Coventry University open a campus in Wroclaw.

Wojciech Kapica has been promoted to Partner at SMM Legal.

White & Case lawyers Jan Jakoubek, Karel Petrzela, Ida Kucerova, Jakub Wolkowicz, and Vladimir Ivanco have been promoted to Local Partner by the firm as part of its global promotion round, with those promotions becoming effective on January 1, 2020.

Former Gide Loyrette Nouel Counsel Konrad Kosicki has joined Wolf Theiss Warsaw to head its new Energy practice. 

Welcome corporate whistleblowers

Recently we have seen a growing interest in issues relating to whistle-blower protection and its role in modern business. The main emphasis in the discussion about whistleblowers and their duties, rights and obligations was put on the individuals involved in whistle-blowing. It was also focused on creating mechanisms allowing individual whistleblowers to feel safe once they make their notification, either internally within the organization or externally with public authorities.

However, it has to be noted that not only an individual can be a whistle-blower. In the Polish legal system, a number of regulations penalize individual and corporate behaviors and the list of such regulations is constantly growing.

Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka is set to advise the Ministry of Investment and Development of Poland and the Zarzad Morskiego Porty Gdynia on the construction of an outdoor port in Gdynia, Poland.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges has announced that it will be withdrawing from Poland, the firm's last presence in Central and Eastern Europe, with the firm's Warsaw-based partners to take over the business on January 1, 2020 and operating going forward as Rymarz Zdort.

Linklaters has helped Panattoni Europe negotiate the terms of a lease for logistics space consisting over 12,000 square meters in the Panattoni Business Center Lodz III with Sealed Air.

CMS has advised CEE Equity Partners — the investment advisor to the China Central and Eastern Europe Investment Co-operation Fund II — on its acquisition of a majority stake in EuroWagon Sp. z o.o. Grant Thornton's Poznan-based transaction advisory and legal arm advised the unidentified sellers.

Crido Legal has advised PZU Zdrowie on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Tomma Diagnostyka Obrazowa, a network of diagnostic centers, from the Tar Heel Capital private equity fund.

Noerr has advised TAG Immobilien AG on its EUR 85 million acquisition of Vantage Development S.A., a real estate developer operating in Western Poland.

Adam Brzezinski has been promoted to to Assistant General Counsel, Global Employment and European Privacy, with MoneyGram International in Warsaw.

SPCG has persuaded Poland's Supreme Court to dismiss a cassation complaint from the President of UOKiK (Poland's competition authority) regarding the alleged anti-competitive agreement of telecommunications providers.

Former Ramp General Counsel Artur Bilski has joined Poland's Alior Bank as its new Head of Legal.

Mrowiec Fialek and Partners has advised Schindler Polska sp. z o.o. on the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Torun-based DZWIG Polska sp. z o.o. Ostrowski and Partners advised DZWIG on the deal.

SK&S has advised IB Vogt, a German photovoltaic company operating in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, on its investment in a portfolio of PV companies in Poland.