Partner, Baker McKenzie Warsaw Weronika Achramowicz co-heads Baker McKenzie’s mergers and acquisitions group and heads the international commercial and trade team in the Baker McKenzie Warsaw office. Weronika regularly advises Polish and foreign private and public clients on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and general corporate and commercial strategy or compliance matters, focusing on businesses operating in complex global environments or with international nexus. She leads clients through all stages of their investments and international transactions in a wide range of product and service sectors – tech, gaming, consumer, and industrial. Weronika also actively supports Polish businesses expanding abroad and impact investing projects – an investment strategy of companies and private equity funds that aims to generate specific ESG- effects and financial gains. Weronika Achramowicz is recommended by The Legal 500 and Chambers Global as a leading individual. She has also been recognised as one of the 25 business lawyers by Forbes Women Poland.

Senior energy advisor, Baker McKenzie Brussels Klaus-Dieter Borchardt is a senior energy advisor at the European and competition law practice in the Baker McKenzie Brussels office. He joined the firm in 2020. Klaus-Dieter worked for 33 years at the European Commission, including four years at the European Court of Justice. When he left the European Commission, he was deputy director-general for energy. Klaus-Dieter is also an expert in EU law, having spent 12 years in the Commission’s legal service, responsible for state aid, internal market and agriculture. He is a professor at the Julius-Maximilians-University, author of a standard textbook on EU law and co-editor of a commentary of the EU treaties.

Partner, Baker McKenzie London Jo Hewitt is a partner in the corporate department of Baker McKenzie London and advises clients on a wide range of corporate law matters.

General counsel, Pillarstone Silvio Cavallo is the general counsel of Pillarstone, a platform sponsored by KKR and established to partner with European banks to manage their exposure to non-core and underperforming assets. Pillarstone provides long-term capital and operational expertise to help the businesses that underpin these non-performing and non-core exposures stabilise, grow, and create value.

Investment director, Mirova Environment Acceleration Capital Joanna Parent worked for more than six years at SUEZ Groupe, as an investment director for SUEZ Ventures and as a M&A director for smart and environmental solutions business unit.