Clifford Chance has advised private equity fund Cornerstone Investment Management on the establishment of a food-producing joint venture with Kartesia and Okechamp, through its acquisition of Greenyard Prepared Netherlands from Greenyard. Dentons and Linklaters also advised CIM on financing and antitrust aspects of the deal, respectively. Filipiak Babicz advised Okechamp and Stibbe advised Kartesia. Allen & Overy reportedly advised Greenyard.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised Aion Bank on its entry into the Polish market.

Gide Loyrette Nouel has advised Okam Capital on the acquisition of a 62-hectare plot located in Warsaw's Zeran suburb. 

Act BSWW has advised Strabag Real Estate on the sale of a real estate asset in Canaletta Street in Warsaw to Puro Hotels chain. Cherka advised Puro Hotels on the deal.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised a club of Polish banks including BNP Paribas Bank Polska and Santander Bank Polska on their PLN 242 million financing for R. Power. Deloitte Legal advised the borrower on the deal.

BSJP has advised French group Alliando on the acquisition of Polish joint-stock company Bayleg from shareholders Andrzej Woznica, Aleksandra Kopral-Woznica, Marta Woznica, and Krzysztof Iwan. Russell Bedford Poland advised the sellers on the deal.

RKKW – Kwasnicki, Wrobel & Partners has successfully protected the intellectual property rights of the Historical Museum in Sanok by blocking the sale of almost ten thousand illegal digital reproductions of works by Zdzislaw Beksinski.

Gide Loyrette Nouel has advised the Haitong Bank and mBank on arranging Cognor’s PLN 200 million bonds issuance. BCGL Balicki Czekanski Gryglewski Lewczuk advised the issuer.

Act BSWW has advised Cordia Polska on the issue of three-year PLN 68.8 million A-series bonds.

CMS has advised Partner in Pet Food on its acquisition of Polish pet food producer Mispol S.A. from Lithuania-based NDX.

DWF has successfully represented the interests of Multikino S.A. in proceedings over lease agreements.

Linklaters has advised Bain Capital Credit on a strategic joint venture with White Star Group. The joint venture will invest in logistics projects in Poland and the CEE. Dentons advised White Star Group on the deal.

Soltysinski, Kawecki & Szlezak, working with Winston & Strawn, has advised Los Angeles-based investment firm Diversis Capital on the acquisition of image recognition platform developer Shelfwise. Chabasiewicz Kowalska, working with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, represented the sellers on the deal.

Linklaters has advised industrial and warehouse developer Panattoni on its lease of logistics spaces to DHL Supply Chain and MidOcean. Nikiel Wojcik Noworyta advised MidOcean on the deal.

Baker McKenzie has advised Lesjofors on its acquisition of the Alcomex Group from Nordian Capital. Dutch law firm Corp. reportedly advised the seller.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on Poland, as it has on other European countries. In April, Poland recorded by far the biggest number of COVID-19 fatalities since the onset of the pandemic in March of last year. Consequently, most of the government’s plans to reform healthcare/pharmaceutical legislation have been either frozen or postponed. Most recent legislation has been aimed at legalizing the lockdown or enacting other pandemic measures, such as social distancing and mask-wearing in public spaces, as well as speeding up the vaccination rollout across the country. However, these new laws were essentially technical adjustments to the current framework, rather than revolutionary changes.

The Polish economy has recovered quickly following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions and the number of transactions is fairly consistent across various industries, reports Radoslaw Biedecki, Partner at Noerr in Poland. The country is pushing for further digitalization of its public services, but draft legislation on media ownership has him concerned.

White & Case has advised Celon Pharma S.A. on its second public offering of 6 million series D shares. Greenberg Traurig advised global coordinators and joint book-runners Dom Maklerski Banku Handlowego, Citigroup Global Markets Europe, Erste Group Bank AG, and Erste Securities Polska, joint book-runners Jefferies GmbH and Jefferies International Limited, and co-lead manager Trigon Dom Maklerski.