CMS

Real Estate & Construction

Senior Associate

Aleksander Grabecki is an advocate and senior associate in the Real Estate and Construction Department at CMS.

For more than a decade, he has advised on local and cross-border real estate transactions and major development projects in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe at every stage of the investment process and in all market segments. He specialises in office, retail, logistics and residential projects, in both the private and public sectors, as well as projects based on alternative asset classes, such as data centers and student housing. In addition, he advises on structuring transactions, financing and refinancing of real estate.

He is an expert in the field of commercial lease. He has extensive experience in particular in large projects in the office, retail, warehouse, and hotel markets, on both the landlord and tenant sides, as well as in the innovative area of green/sustainable lease. In addition, he supports clients in other real estate and asset management matters.

He also specialises in preparing and negotiating construction contracts, including FIDIC contracts, project management and development agreements, as well as design work agreements, including those based on BIM (Building Information Modeling).

In addition, he works with various entities on projects involving new technologies and digitisation, including the implementation of ESG and BIM (Building Information Modeling) in the real estate and construction sectors in Poland.

He is a guest lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology on ESG aspects related to construction.

Aleksander has a track record of pro bono consulting, including for leading cultural institutions in new construction projects. He also successfully represents clients in complex administrative and administrative-court cases as well as civil proceedings.

Polish, English

Warsaw Bar Association

University of Cambridge University of Warsaw