Gawronski & Partners has advised Przedsiebiorstwo Wodociagow i Kanalizacji on its organization of a public procurement procedure for the construction of a pioneer nutrient recovery facility, which will recover phosphorus from reclaimed water in a sewage treatment plant in the Polish town of Cielcza.

Linklaters has advised the EBRD and BNP Paribas Bank Polska on financing provided to five Polish special purpose vehicles owned by the French renewable energy developer and operator Qair and the French infrastructure fund RGreen Invest and advised BNP Paribas Bank Polska on financing provided to three Polish special purpose vehicles of the same portfolio, with the total financing to the portfolio amounting to approximately PLN 700 million. Dentons advised Qair on the deal.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions, working with Germany's Schnittker Moellmann Partners, has advised Polish private equity investor ARIA Private Equity on its investment in Inuru, a company providing electronic packaging solutions. Taylor Wessing reportedly advised Inuru on the transaction, which was valued at EUR 2 million.

Linklaters has advised Polish Logistics LLP on the acquisition and financing of its first investment in Poland, a logistics park in Piotrkow Trybunalski near Lodz, from unnamed sellers.

Rymarz Zdort has advised a fund controlled by Aberdeen Standard Investments on its acquisition of a portfolio of 41 photovoltaic projects with a total capacity of over 40 MW from Lithuania-based Green Genius. CMS advised Green Genius on the deal.

On April 17, 2020, CEE Legal Matters reported that Linklaters had advised Penta Real Estate on the sale of the D48 office building in Warsaw to IAD Investments. We reached out to Damian Grzywacz, Managing Director in Penta Real Estate Poland, to learn more about the deal.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised a consortium of Polish banks consisting of mBank S.A. and Santander Bank Polska S.A. in relation to the financing of R. Power's 121 MWp PV installations in Poland.

Decisive Worldwide Szmigiel Papros Gregorczyk has advised Rengl Polska Sp. z o. o. on its acquisition of the assets of Krakow's Wenecja Advertising Agency. The CK Legal law firm advised the sellers on the deal.

Prior to the pandemic caused by the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the Polish Commercial Companies Code permitted limited liability companies and joint-stock companies to hold shareholders’ meetings by means of electronic communication. However, virtual (remote) shareholders’ meetings were to be an exception to the general rule of physical meetings, and were required to have been explicitly permitted in the company’s articles of association. Preventive measures introduced into Polish law in response to COVID-19 by the “Act of 31 March 2020 amending the Act on special arrangements for preventing and combatting COVID-19, other infectious diseases and the crisis situations caused by them and certain other acts”, changed this principle. Below we present the current rules and requirements related to virtual shareholders’ meetings.

JDP has helped a consortium composed of Intercor, Stecol, and Sinohydro to win a tender announced by PKP PLK S.A. and involving the construction of part of Rail Baltica, a railway corridor connecting Berlin, Warsaw, Kaunas, Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki.

Bird & Bird has advised mBank on an unspecified financing and refinancing transaction related to the construction of 28 solar farms in northwestern Poland owned by seven SPVs belonging to Denmark's Nordic Solar. SRC advised Nordic Solar.

Gide Loyrette Nouel has advised Sierra Gorda on its entrance into a credit facility agreement of USD 200 million with Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego. Gide also advised corporate guarantors KGHM Polska Miedz S.A., Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd, and Sumitomo Corporation. White & Case advised Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego on the deal.

Mateusz Prokopiuk has been promoted to Partner at Act BSWW. 

CMS has helped Polish power transmission system operator PSE negotiate a cooperation agreement with Lithuanian transmission system operator Litgrid AB regarding the the construction of Harmony Link, a new submarine connection between the two countries.

Former Grupa TVN Chief Legal Officer Marek Szydlowski has joined Komputronik S.A in June as General Counsel.

Rymarz Zdort has advised funds controlled by Aberdeen Standard Investments on the acquisition of a portfolio of 130 photovoltaic plants with a total capacity of 122 MW, from Poland's R. Power Group.

The Warsaw office of Gide has advised Archicom on its EUR 33.8 million sale of the City One office building in Wroclaw to an unnamed institutional investor.

Mrowiec Fialek & Partners has advised Polski Holding Nieruchomosci S.A. on the issuance of E series shares and on their admission to trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The nominal value is almost PLN 4.2 million.