Former Clifford Chance Counsel Grzegorz Abram has joined White & Case’s Global Debt Finance Practice in Warsaw.

Greenberg Traurig has advised Innova/5 on its sale of an unspecified stake in Pekaes to Geodis in Poland.

DWF has advised Sonoco Products Company on the USD 120 million sale of its Europe contract packaging business, Sonoco Poland-Packaging Services sp. z o.o., to Prairie Industries Holdings. Mayer Brown and the Polish office of Wolf Theiss advised Prairie Industries Holdings on the transaction, which remains subject to regulatory review.

Eversheds Sutherland Wierzbowski has advised the EEC Magenta fund on its PLN 12 million investment in CashDirector, a financial platform supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in liquidity management. White & Case advised CashDirector on the deal.

Crido Legal has advised the Avenger Flight Group on its entry onto the Polish market and establishment of a joint venture with Enter Air. DWF Poland advised Enter Air.

Dentons Poland has advised DNB Bank Polska on its PLN 155 million financing package for Wilko 5, a special purpose vehicle of the Helios Energy Investments Fund, for the construction of five wind farms in Poland’s Wielkopolskie region. Clifford Chance reportedly advised the borrowers on the deal.

DWF has advised Enertrag on the sale of the Dargikowo and Karlino windparks in Poland to Allianz Capital Partners. Norton Rose Fulbright reportedly advised Allianz Capital Partners on the deal.

Studnicki, Pleszka, Cwiakalski, Gorski has represented a group of former shareholders of Merlin.pl S.A. in a dispute with Switalski & Synowie Sp. z o.o.

Rafal Kaminski and Maciej Zalewski of White & Case have been promoted to Partner as part of the firm's global round, effective as of January 1, 2021.

Marcin Sledzikowski has been promoted to Partner at SDZLegal Schindhelm and will head the firm's new office in Gliwice, Poland.

Greenberg Traurig has advised the global coordinators, joint bookrunners, and lead managers on the initial public offering of shares in Allegro.eu and the admission of Allegro shares to listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Clifford Chance advised Allegro on the IPO.

Aleksy Miarkowski, the former Deputy Director of the Transfer Pricing Department of the Polish Ministry of Finance, has become a Partner at SSW Pragmatic Solutions in Warsaw.

Act BSWW has advised Pracuj Ventures on the acquisition of a minority stake in Gamfi.

Kochanski & Partners is representing Polish tennis player Katarzyna Kawa pro bono in her dispute against the International Tennis Federation and the French Tennis Federation.

Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr has advised Baltic Green I sp. z o.o., part of the KGAL Group, on contractor selection for the Katy Wind Farm project in Poland.

Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr has worked alongside lead counsel Osborne Clark in advising Giant Ventures on the Polish aspects of an unspecified investment in Airly sp. z o.o.

Both Poland's Kochanski & Partners (on behalf of Poland's Muszynianka Spolka z Ograniczona Odpowiedzialnoscia) and the Bratislava office of Squire Patton Boggs (on behalf of the Slovak Republic) are claiming victory in a dispute involving the Agreement on the Protection and Promotion of Investments between the Slovak Republic and the Republic of Poland.

Clifford Chance has advised mBank on a PLN 150 million loan to Polenergia granted for the financing of the VAT and costs of construction of the Kostomloty wind farm in Poland.