DWF has advised Polish Enterprise Fund VIII, a private equity fund managed by Enterprise Investors, on an unspecified investment in the Vehis Group.

MGS Law has advised Orange Poland on two Power Purchase Agreements concluded with German renewable energy projects developer WPD regarding wind farms WPD will operate in Jarocin (5 MW) and Krotoszyn (10 MW).

Dentons has advised commercial real estate developer Cavatina Holding on the sale of three A-class office buildings in the Equal Business Park office complex in Krakow to a consortium managed by Apollo-Rida Poland. Penteris advised Apollo-Rida on the deal.

Piotr Zawadzki has joined Penteris as the new Head of IP & DP.

Bird & Bird has announced the addition of a new Forensic Services team in Warsaw.

Linklaters has advised Swedish real estate private equity firm NIAM on the sale of Silesia Business Park A and B in Katowice to the Philippine's ISOC Group, represented in Poland by Augusta Cracovia, which was advised by Hogan Lovells.

CMS has advised Grupa Azoty Polyolefins on financing it received from Grupa Lotos SA and South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and Korea Overseas Infrastructure & Urban Development Corporation for the Police Polimery polypropylene project in Poland, as well as on the implementation of the project. Baker McKenzie advised Grupa Lotos and DLA Piper advised Hyundai and Korea Overseas Infrastructure & Urban Development on the deal.

Anna Blonska has been promoted to Director of Legal (Investments) Office at the Polish Development Fund.

Act BSWW has advised the Adventum International investment fund on the acquisition of a 17,000-square-meter office building in Wroclaw, Poland, from EFL Service SA,, which is controlled by Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy SA. Deloitte Legal advised the sellers on the deal.

Eversheds Sutherland Wierzbowski has advised the Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator on an agreement regarding the construction of the Harmony Link submarine cable between Lithuania and Poland.

Ellex Valiunas has advised Energy Solar Projekty sp.z o.o on its receipt of a EUR 36 million loan from the EIB and DNB Bank Polska. Allen & Overy advised DNB Bank Polska on the loan, which is designed for the development of a solar power plant project in Poland.

“Apart from COVID-19, Poland is struggling with a constitutional crisis involving the Presidential election at the moment,” says Aleksander Stawicki, Senior Partner at WKB Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr. “Special legislation changed the voting system during the pandemic, in particular the organization of the election process and the way ballots are collected. This issue sparked a lot of controversy."

CMS Counsel Michal Andruszkiewicz has been appointed the new head of the firm’s Poznan office, replacing Partner Wojciech Koczara, who steps down from the role after eight years but will continue to work from the firm's Warsaw office.

All European countries are now facing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and each state is undertaking different measures to limit the spread of the virus. Recently, the Polish government has extended the so-called “export ban list” – a list of, in particular, medicinal products and medical devices the export or sale of which abroad may be subject to the objection of the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector. This list grew by over a thousand items in the past month and has changed from a list of products subject to parallel export due to price differences to a list of products that we want to keep in Poland. Also, the President of the Office for Registration has asked pharmaceutical companies to consider launching clinical trials in these unique circumstances.

BCGL has advised mBank S.A. on financing granted to PGB Holdco and its subsidiaries for the development and start-up of biogas plant facilities. Gessel advised PGB Holdco on the deal.

According to CEE Legal Matters’ 2019 By the Numbers report, the gender balance at commercial law firms in Poland up to the senior associate level is fairly even, with 44.58% being women. However, at the partner level things change drastically, with women representing fewer than 25%. Even then, other reports suggest, many of the women lawyers who do make partner do so not at the larger, high-profile law firms, but at smaller boutiques. The “Women in Law” foundation in Poland was created to address this imbalance, and other forms of gender inequality in the legal industry, with a special focus on legal tech.

Rymarz Zdort has advised a company controlled by a fund managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments on the refinancing of one of its photovoltaic portfolios with an aggregate capacity of 55 MW, located in Poland.

On 22 May 2020 the Government of Poland published a proposal for a new law on the screening of foreign investments in Poland. The new screening tool aims to protect public security, order and health during the COVID-19 pandemic, and will introduce a new notification obligation for investments into Polish companies.