B2RLaw has advised Apis Venture on an unspecified investment in the Polish video games developer Byte Barrel.

Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr has advised E&W, which belongs to Danish Eurowind Energy A/S and Windbud Sp. z o.o., on agreements to construct four wind farms in Poland.

Clifford Chance's Warsaw office has advised a consortium of banks including Santander Bank Polska S.A., Bank Millennium S.A., and Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A. on financing in the form of credit facilities and factoring granted to Gemini Polska. CMS advised Gemini Polska on the deal.

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B2RLaw has advised KnowledgeHub on its EUR 1 million investment in Genomtec. Solo practitioner Jakub Kapica advised Genomtec on the deal.

Rymarz Zdort has advised shareholders Mariusz Cieply and Maciej Jarzebowski on the sale of their shares in LiveChat Software S.A. in an accelerated bookbuilding process in Poland.

Polish Parliament is currently working on changes to tax law imposing a 19% corporate income tax on limited partnerships. The changes, which will enter into force in 2021, are meant to tighten up the tax system and curb international tax optimisation. Unfortunately, even a cursory glance at the current ownership structure of limited partnerships in Poland will tell us that the proposed solutions will be felt mostly acutely by Polish entrepreneurs.

B2RLaw has advised the Life Science Innovation Fund on an unspecified investment in telemedicine startup Aidlab.

Former Linklaters Senior Associate Michal Pekala has become Head of Gaming at Maruta Wachta in Warsaw.

Gessel has advised the Polish high-tech company DataWalk on the public offering of its new issue of shares to qualified investors via a book-building process. The total value of new issue of shares is estimated at PLN 65 million.

Decisive Worldwide Szmigiel Papros Gregorczyk has advised France’s Nexity Group on an agreement to work on an unspecified development project with Erbud.

Greenberg Traurig has advised the Innova/6 private equity fund on its acquisition of a majority stake in Poland-based software developer STX Next from Maciej Dziergwa and other, unnamed, shareholders.

Rymarz Zdort has advised MCI.PrivateVentures (a subfund of MCI.EuroVentures 1.0) and AMC Capital IV Albatros S.a r.l. (a company advised by Mezzanine Management) on their sale of 100% of the shares in ATM S.A. to Global Compute Infrastructure LP, a platform supported by the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division. White & Case advised Global Compute Infrastructure on the transaction.

Gessel has advised Poland-based paraffin producer Polwax on the public offering of its shares with subscription rights and admission of shares to trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The value of the bonds is estimated at PLN 20 million.

CMS has reported earnings in excess of PLN 124 million in Poland in 2019, representing, the firm says, "an almost 17% increase year-on-year."

Deloitte Legal has announced that a dozen lawyers will be leaving White & Case in Poland — including Tomasz Ostrowski (who will take over at Deloitte Legal Warsaw as Managing Partner), Aneta Urban, Katarzyna Jakubiak, Sylwia Opiatowska, and Michal Oles — to join its Warsaw office.

Gessel has advised Benefit Systems on its issuance of Series A and B bonds valued at PLN 100 million and their admission to trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange's Alternative Trading System platform, as well as the bookrunner on the issuance, Poland’s branch of Haitong Bankas.

Eversheds Sutherland Wierzbowski has advised Ricoh on the acquisition of Polish IT company SimplicITy.