JDP Drapala & Partners has advised Bas Lease B.V. on cross-border financing granted to Boekestijn Transport Holding B.V. for its acquisition of 100% of the shares in Baltic Trans sp. z o.o. from ECS Corporate N.V. Boekestijn Transport was advised by WKB on both the financing and the acquisition.

Former Olesinsky & Partners' head of M&A Szymon Syp has joined Zieba & Partners as Head of the firm's Venture Capital practice and co-Head of M&A.

Act BSWW has advised MK Holding Sarl on a joint venture project with a company in theDeA Capital Group, an Italy-based investment group focusing on real estate and equity investments.

Greenberg Traurig has advised Cyfrowy Polsat on the issuance of Series C green bonds with an aggregate nominal value of PLN 1 billion. The joint offering agents to the green bonds were Trigon Dom Maklerski S.A., Erste Securities Polska S.A., and Erste Group Bank AG and the joint arrangers of the issuance were Trigon Dom Maklerski S.A., Trigon Investment Banking, Erste Securities Polska S.A., Erste Group Bank AG, Santander Bank Polska S.A., and BNP Paribas Bank Polska S.A.

Act BSWW has advised Adventum International on the acquisition of the Katowice Business Point building in Katowice.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised the owner of Kospel S.A. on the sale of 100% shares in the company to the Viessmann Group. The transaction was recently approved by the President of Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.

Kondrat & Partners has successfully represented KA sp. z o.o. in a dispute with Poland's Chief Pharmaceutical Inspectorate in Warsaw regarding KA's preparation of homeopathic medicines on commission for another pharmacy.

Decisive Worldwide has advised the ENEL MED group on its lease of medical clinics in the Centrum Zana in Gdansk and in the React building in Lodz.

Schoenherr and Hugh Owen of Go2Law have advised UNIQA on its acquisition of AXA subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia for a purchase price of around EUR 1 billion. Clifford Chance advised AXA on the transaction, which remains subject to regulatory approvals.

Lawyers from CMS in Ukraine and Poland have joined the firm's multi-national team advising the EBRD on the acquisition of a stake in Uzbek food retailer Korzinka. Uzbek law firm Leges reportedly advised the EBRD as well, while Dentons advised the sellers.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised Unilink S.A. on its acquisition of a majority stake in Damo Ubezpieczenia. The sellers were advised by BCGL.

CMS has advised MEAG, a German renewable industry investor, on its acquisition of a 21 MW wind farm project located in Zary, in Western Poland, from Sweden's OX2 Wind International AB. The sellers were advised by Solivan and Studnicki, Pleszka, Cwiakalski, Gorski.

Greenberg Traurig has advised Union Investment on a preliminary agreement to acquire planned hotel properties in Katowice (the Hotel Mercure) and Krakow (the Hotel Ibis Styles) from UBM Development. Linklaters reportedly advised UBM Development on the transaction, which is valued at approximately EUR 86 million.

The Polish office of the multi-national CEE Attorneys alliance has left the network and now operates under a new brand: Decisive Worldwide Szmigiel Papros Gregorczyk.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the banks on financing provided to Vectra S.A. for its acquisition of Multimedia Polska S.A. Vectra was advised by Rymarz Zdort, while Multimedia Polska was advised by Allen & Overy. Multimedia Polska's creditors were advised by Greenberg Traurig.

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SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised SkinWallet on its receipt of PLN 3.4 million in financing from multiple unidentified investors.

Eversheds Sutherland Wierzbowski has advised IGT Global Services on the sale of 100% of the shares of BillBird to Centrum Rozliczen Elektronicznych Polskie ePlatnosci. Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr advised the buyers on the deal, which was finalized on November 25, 2019.