Hall of Fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Grzegorz Namiotkiewicz specialises in banking and securities law. Grzegorz has vast experience in the finance sector and for the last ten years has been voted one of Poland's leading finance lawyers by both Polish and foreign legal directories and newspapers.
Rising stars
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Advocate, Associate, Member of the Banking and Finance Practice
Senior Associate in Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Practice. Advises on transactions involving financing and establishing legal security for receivables as well as on M&A transactions, both in Poland and internationally. He also deals with public offerings and regulatory issues in the financial and payment institutions sector. His experience covers drawing up financial documentation (including collateral documents), share purchase agreements and other acquisition related documents as well as legal opinions on regulatory issues, and advising on civil law and commercial law.
Marta is a Counsel in the Finance & Financial Regulation team in Warsaw.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Bartosz Nojek concentrates on banking, financial, commercial and civil law. His main areas of interest focus on corporate financings provided by syndicate banks, acting on both the lenders’ and the borrowers’ side. He has led or participated in numerous finance transactions, including project finance, acquisition finance, asset finance and real estate finance, as well as restructurings. His experience covers drafting and negotiating credit documentation, in particular LMA standard loan documentation, term sheets, intercreditor agreements, as well as security documents. He represents leading Polish and foreign banks and borrowers, including listed companies, private equity funds and private investors. In 2016 Bartosz completed a six months long secondment with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, where he was responsible for cross-border projects, diverse types of financings, including bilateral and syndicated loan agreements, restructurings, re-financings and project finance transactions, mainly concerning renewables, in Cyprus, Romania, Albania, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Ukraine and FYR Macedonia.
Tomasz Zwoliński specializes in banking and finance transactions with particular focus on project finance, export finance (with or without official support from export credit agencies), financing of PPP projects, financing of infrastructure, energy, international trade and factoring, general corporate lending, leveraged/acquisition finance and financial restructuring. He was engaged in key transactions financing Polish exports, highway construction in Poland and Ukraine, hotels and office buildings, as well as many industrial projects (some worth in excess of PLN 5 billion) service and residential developments. He also handles financing of renewable energy schemes in the auction support system.
Leading individuals
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Piotr has broad experience in acting as both lender’s counsel and borrower’s counsel at all stages of domestic and cross-border financings. He has closed a number of key financing transactions, including project finance, real estate finance and acquisition finance projects. He also specializes in financing of renewable energy sources, including the ones with awarded auction support. He advised on financing of some of the biggest onshore wind farms and portfolios of PV power plants. In 2019-2020, he advised on several RES projects with a total capacity exceeding 700 MW. His clients include banks and international investors as well as international financial institutions, such as European Investment Bank, Danish Export Finance Agency and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). In 2015 and 2016 Piotr completed two six months long secondments with the EBRD in London, where he worked on transactions of financing projects in the SEE, CEE and CIS regions.
Mateusz Toczyski specializes in banking law, project finance and financial restructuring, including in particular financing transactions in the sectors of infrastructure, energy and renewables, real estate, manufacturing, FMCG, and oil and gas. He acts for both financial institutions as well as borrowers, and has led numerous complex financing projects in Poland and across the CEE region. He participated, as an expert, in the legislative processes related to regulatory changes in Poland, including the implementation of the bankruptcy law and the Act on registered pledges.
