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Aleksandra Rutkowska
Aleksandra Rutkowska
Aleksandra Rutkowska is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. She heads the Tax Litigation practice. She specialises in tax controversy and litigation matters and has more than 15 years' experience in assisting clients in tax, customs and fiscal inspections and in tax proceedings before the National Revenue Administration and administrative courts. As part of her litigation practice, she represents clients in disputes relating to corporate income tax, including transfer pricing and withholding tax, VAT, real estate tax and excise duty. She has represented the Republic of Poland on many occasions (as an employee of the Office of the Committee for European Integration between 2006 and 2010) and has represented clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Constitutional Tribunal. She has experience in tax risk assessment, including personal liability risk, and tax risk management. She assists clients in the development and implementation of tax procedures. Aleksandra acts as defence counsel for clients in penal fiscal proceedings against them. She represents clients in disputes concerning joint and several liability of board members for tax liabilities (arrears) of the companies. She also has extensive experience in providing day-to-day advice on excise duty.
Marcin Czajkowski
Marcin Czajkowski
Marcin Czajkowski is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and member of the Tax team. He specializes in corporate tax advisory (VAT, CIT and transfer tax) in particular for the real estate, hospitality, banking and oil & gas sectors. He has broad experience in tax planning and the implementation of Polish and international tax structures. For over 10 years he has regularly advised clients on tax insurance matters, financing, acquisition, construction and use of real estate as well as exit scenarios for corporate investors. Marcin also supports clients in tax structuring of M&A transactions and provides comprehensive transaction support and assistance with foreign investments in Poland. Moreover, he handles tax disputes with the authorities at the stage of inspections and proceedings in the jurisdictional phase, and in the administrative courts.
Adam Mycyk
Adam Mycyk
Adam Mycyk is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Adam has more than 30 years of experience advising both Ukrainian and international companies, banks, investment banks and a range of other financial institutions and investors on structuring and implementing debt and equity inward investments involving privatizations, mergers and acquisitions or joint ventures and on complex cross-border commercial and financing transactions and transaction on international capital markets. His experience and client base spans financial institutions and services, consumer products, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, and agriculture sectors. Adam is a US qualified lawyer, admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia (1993) and in Maryland (1991). Since relocating to Kyiv in 1994, he has led numerous acquisition and joint venture transactions and managed a variety of due diligence projects from different sectors.
Adriana Mierzwa-Bronikowska
Adriana Mierzwa-Bronikowska
Adriana Mierzwa-Bronikowska is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and head of the Infrastructure practice. She specializes in complex infrastructure projects, encompassing the entire lifecycle – from structuring and preparing project documentation and contracts to financing, including project finance and PPPs. For over 20 years she has been advising public and private partners, as well as financial institutions, across sectors including transportation, healthcare, energy, sports and leisure infrastructure, waste management and wastewater management. Adriana was involved in many of Poland’s major infrastructure projects, including A2 and A1 corridor concessions, two regional and four express road projects, municipal housing developments, dormitory concessions, hospitals, container ports and airports. Since 2005, she has been instrumental in advancing infrastructure expertise in Poland, actively contributing to legislative processes. Adriana co-authored Poland’s first governmental PPP Guidelines, covering the preparation of PPP projects, proceedings and contracts, which are broadly used across the country’s PPP market.
Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska
Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska
Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She heads Dentons' Competition practice team in Poland. Since 1998, she has represented clients in numerous EU and Polish competition authority proceedings and before Polish courts, in cartel and other antitrust investigations. She has also assisted clients during dawn raids and in over 100 merger control proceedings, before both the European Commission and the Polish competition authority. She works with clients to design and implement their distribution networks and provides practical support to in-house teams in implementing antitrust compliance initiatives with, including risk-mapping and comprehensive antitrust audits. She has extensive experience in day-to-day advice to clients on abuse of dominance and horizontal cooperation issues, as well as antitrust issues related to M&A contracts. She supports clients in many different sectors, including life sciences, automotive, FMCG, food, real estate, TMT, heavy industry, chemicals, energy, utilities, retail trade, transport, banking and insurance.
Agnieszka Gilowska
Agnieszka Gilowska
Agnieszka Gilowska is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. She specializes in public procurement law. Agnieszka has experience in legal advisory to bidders and awarding entities in public procurement proceedings. She also has experience in appeal proceedings before the National Chamber of Appeals at the Public Procurement Office. Agnieszka focuses on advising on the preparation of tender documentation in all forms of public procedure.
Agnieszka Wardak
Agnieszka Wardak
Agnieszka Wardak is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office, where she leads the Criminal Litigation and Internal Investigation practice. She also specializes in antibribery compliance and international sanctions. She is a seasoned litigator and a criminal defense counsel. With extensive experience in corporate crime matters, she represents companies and individuals in a wide range of white-collar crime cases, including fraud, bribery and corruption, insider trading, money laundering, liability for environmental damage, criminal bid rigging and other offenses. In addition, Agnieszka conducts internal investigations including those arising from whistleblower complaints. She often assists in criminal cases arising from violations of health and safety regulations, usually in connection with serious workplace accidents. Her practice also focuses on liability and risk mitigation issues. She has coordinated large-scale and multi-jurisdictional projects. Combining litigation and regulatory experience, she advises on corporate compliance matters.
Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Agnieszka Wojciechowska, counsel and a member of the Dispute Resolution practice group in Dentons' Warsaw office, where she heads the Construction Disputes team. She represents clients in domestic and international proceedings, before both state courts and arbitral tribunals. She handles matters related to a wide range of civil law including commercial and corporate disputes. Agnieszka has unique experience in construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC contract conditions. She advises private investors, public employers, contract engineers, contractors and subcontractors across the construction industry. In particular, she has experience in complex, high-value disputes across all key sectors: energy, oil and gas, roads, railway and real estate. She specialises in strategic and sensitive infrastructure projects. She has also developed a significant construction dispute avoidance practice.
Aldona Kowalczyk
Aldona Kowalczyk
Aldona Kowalczyk is an attorney-at-law, partner, heading Dentons’ Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice in Poland and co-heading the Europe Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice. Aldona has counselled both contracting authorities and bidders/private partners in public procurement and PPP matters in Poland, acting for them in the National Chamber of Appeals and courts since 1998. For years Polish and foreign rankings of law firms have mentioned her as one of the most renowned specialists in the public procurement law in Poland. She is a co-founder and Chair of the Executive Board of the Public Procurement Law Association.
Aleksander Haleniuk
Aleksander Haleniuk
Aleksander Haleniuk is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Banking and Finance practice team. He specializes in banking, finance and civil law. He has extensive experience advising on various financing transactions, particularly in infrastructure and energy finance deals, including project finance and public-private partnership (PPP) structures, as well as corporate and real estate finance. He advises financial institutions, including banks and multilateral development institutions, as well as borrowers and sponsors, at all stages of Polish and cross-border financing projects. Aleksander is actively involved in the preparation and negotiation of financing documents and legal opinions. In 2020-2022, Aleksander was a staff member of the European Investment Bank's legal department responsible for financing projects in the Baltic Sea region.
Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka
Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka
Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka, advocate and patent attorney, is a counsel at the Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. For almost 20 years Aleksandra has been advising clients on matters related to intellectual and industrial property law. She specializes in disputes related to copyright law, trademarks, industrial designs, patents, unfair competition (including advertising) and protection of personal interests. She represents clients in civil and administrative courts of all instances as well as in disputes and matters pending before the Polish Patent Office, EUIPO and WIPO. Her particular areas of expertise encompass legal assistance for entities operating in the food industry, in particular with respect to similarity of packaging, advertising law and trademark portfolios. She also cooperates with clothing and cosmetic industries and advises film producers and broadcasters.
Aleksandra Danielewicz
Aleksandra Danielewicz
Aleksandra Danielewicz, advocate, LL.M., senior associate at Dentons' Warsaw Office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. She specializes in personal data protection, privacy and data security. Aleksandra has broad experience in providing legal advice on privacy to global clients. She has specialized in personal data protection breaches. She has conducted a range of initiatives and programs concerning implementation of the GDPR and CCPA, managed global privacy teams and advised local data protection officers on issues concerning data protection, such as data transfers, broad compliance programs in various jurisdictions, implementation of company rules, retention policies and data security audits. She has participated in the creation and implementation of innovative technological solutions, in particular involving solutions for managing incidents related to data security and personal data protection.
Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek
Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek
Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She is head of the Employment and Labor practice team. Aleksandra specializes in labor and employment law and also focuses on corporate issues. She has broad experience in individual and collective labor law issues, employment restructuring, collective dismissals, remuneration in the banking sector and employment-related aspects of corporate transactions. She advises clients in the banking, food, automotive and advanced technology sectors. Her experience includes representing clients in negotiations with employee representatives, drafting transactional documentation and advising on cross-border employment relations.
Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka
Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka
Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka, advocate and patent attorney, is a counsel at the Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. For almost 20 years Aleksandra has been advising clients on matters related to intellectual and industrial property law. She specializes in disputes related to copyright law, trademarks, industrial designs, patents, unfair competition (including advertising) and protection of personal interests. She represents clients in civil and administrative courts of all instances as well as in disputes and matters pending before the Polish Patent Office, EUIPO and WIPO. Her particular areas of expertise encompass legal assistance for entities operating in the food industry, in particular with respect to similarity of packaging, advertising law and trademark portfolios. She also cooperates with clothing and cosmetic industries and advises film producers and broadcasters.
Anna Szymańska
Anna Szymańska
Dr. Anna Szymańska is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a Head of Defense and Security practice, within the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. She specializes in public procurement law and PPP commercial and civil law, including contracts law since 2005. She is highly experienced in representing bidders as well as awarding entities in the course of public procurement proceedings and in dealings before the National Chamber of Appeals and courts. Among others, Anna has focused on infrastructure, energy, construction, railways, waste treatment, transportation, financial services, defense & security, medical & pharmaceutical, revitalization and telecommunications projects. Anna is a member of the Poland Public Procurement Council and a lecturer in Postgraduate Studies in Public Procurement at Warsaw University.
Anna Gulińska
Anna Gulińska
Anna Gulińska is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Competition practice team. She specializes in Polish and EU competition law, including antitrust, merger control, unfair commercial practices as well as consumer protection issues and competition litigation. She has experience in antitrust advice in the real estate, media and telecommunications, FMCG and consumer products, banking and industry sectors. Her experience includes merger control notifications to the European Commission and the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection, as well as coordination of multijurisdictional filings. She advises on commercial strategy applied by dominant undertakings and antitrust aspects of horizontal and vertical cooperation between undertakings. She conducts antitrust audits, provides behavioral advice, assists during dawn raids, represents clients in proceedings and drafts appeals against decisions of the Polish competition authority. She co-authored a study on the suitability of the regulations on Polish class action proceedings for damages claims on account of infringements of EU competition law. The work was part of a study commissioned by the European Parliament on collective redress for damage due to infringements of EU competition law. Anna initiated and led a working group of the Polish Competition Law Association which actively participated in the legislative process related to the implementation in Poland of the Damages Directive 2014/104/EU.
Anna Pukszto
Anna Pukszto
Anna Pukszto is a partner with Dentons. She heads both the Dispute Resolution practice group and the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group in Poland. Anna is a renowned expert in restructuring and insolvency, with extensive experience in managing cross-border bankruptcies and distressed asset acquisitions. She is also a seasoned litigator specializing in the financial services sector. Her client portfolio includes leading financial institutions and key players in the retail, manufacturing, real estate, infrastructure, energy, automotive, and TMT sectors. She was a World Bank consultant in a project involving the assessments of the Polish Bankruptcy and Rehabilitation Law and the instruments serving to protect creditors’ rights under Polish law. In her litigation practice, Anna focuses on cases involving financial institutions. She represents financial institutions in class action proceedings and disputes regarding the liability of investment fund companies, custodians, lenders, the validity of banking and investment products, including unit-linked life insurance policies, derivatives and sophisticated debt recovery proceedings. She has represented clients before the Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. In her arbitration practice, she has been involved in numerous high-profile disputes concerning foreign investments in Poland, including disputes under LCIA, ICC and VIAC rules and in related post-arbitration proceedings.
Bartłomiej Kordeczka
Bartłomiej Kordeczka
Bartłomiej is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and the deputy head of Real Estate practice group. He is also a member of the Hotels and Leisure sector team. Bartłomiej is a transactional lawyer with over 17 years of experience in advising clients on their investments in the property sector. He represents real estate investors, private equity or private funds, developers and asset managers on comprehensive real estate law matters including civil, administrative and commercial aspects. Bartłomiej has led or supervised numerous investment transactions (asset, enterprise and share deals) involving all kinds of property types like office buildings, warehouses, shopping malls, hotels as well as residential / student housing / PRS, also under sale and leaseback, forward purchase, forward funding or in joint venture structures. He is also experienced in negotiating agreements with hotel managers as well as hotel lease agreements.
Bartosz Dobkowski
Bartosz Dobkowski
Bartosz Dobkowski, attorney-at-law, senior associate at Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. Bartosz has extensive expertise in advising foreign and domestic clients on a wide range of TMT and IP matters. In his day-to-day practice, he focuses on telecommunications (electronic communications), media and IP law. Over the years, he has been supporting clients in various innovative projects, including projects concerning online and A2P (application-to-person) SMS messaging, permanent roaming, telematic and connected car technologies, satellite communications or asset tracking. He also regularly advises on issues related to the implementation of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) and assists clients in ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations. Bartosz also has hands-on experience in advising on various issues in the area of media and advertising law, as well as gambling regulations. He has advised clients, among others, on broadcasting licensing, regulatory aspects of the provision of audiovisual media services, personalized commercials using Dynamic Ad Insertion technology, financial obligations towards the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and royalties payable to collecting societies. He also advises on intellectual property matters, in particular trademarks and copyrights. His experience includes advising on the registrability of trademarks, developing brand protection strategies, representing and advising clients in proceedings before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the Polish Patent Office and the common courts, and handling anti-counterfeiting cases. In addition, Bartosz has vast transactional experience, regularly conducts complex IP due diligence analyses and assists clients in drafting and negotiating IP transfer, licensing and co-existence agreements.
Bartosz Nojek
Bartosz Nojek
Bartosz Nojek is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a Co-Head of the Banking and Finance practice team. He 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.
Cezary Przygodzki
Cezary Przygodzki
Cezary Przygodzki is the head of Dentons' Tax team in Poland, where he focuses on international tax planning and M&A structuring. He advises clients on the tax aspects of restructuring and reorganizing their businesses, as well as foreign investors in Poland, particularly with regard to the tax incentives and reliefs offered to investors. In addition, Cezary is available to assist clients with tax-related disputes, litigations, and administrative proceedings. His clients mainly come from the energy, media, technology, and real estate sectors, although he also has experience assisting financial institutions and private equity funds. Cezary has been recognized as the Leader in transactional advisory services in Poland by Rzeczpospolita's Ranking of Tax Advisory Firms 2024. Clients In 2024 Cezary advised such companies as ‣ Accor, leading company in the hotel industry ‣ CPI Property Group and its subsidiaries, a leader in commercial and hotel real estate in Central and Eastern Europe and in Germany ‣ Flextronics International, a global manufacturing partner that provides design, build, and support services for a diverse range of industries ‣ Palmira Capital Partners, a leading investment manager specializing in logistics and industrial property, on acquisition of commercial properties ‣ Skanska, one of the world’s largest development and construction companies ‣ Rolmex, a Polish capital group active in international commodity trading, real estate trading and equity investments. Work Highlights ‣ Accor: advising on comprehensive transfer pricing aspects of the development and implementation of settlement mechanisms for intra-group transactions in the CEE region. ‣ CPI Property Group: advising the client and its subsidiaries CPI FIM SA and Czech Property Investments on a partnership agreement to sell a 49% common equity stake in Vulcanion (now CPI Project Invest and Finance (“CPI PIF”)), to funds managed by Sona Asset Management. The investment is worth €250 million. ‣ Skanska: advising on the legal and tax aspects of Skanska's sale to Eastnine AB (a Swedish real estate company focused on modern and sustainable office and logistics properties) of Building E of the Nowy Rynek complex. The investment is worth €79 million. ‣ Rolmex: advising on the sale of the Indykpol Group – a leader in the Polish turkey meat market – to the LDC Group, one of Europe's largest poultry producers.
Christian Schnell
Christian Schnell
Christian Schnell is a partner, co-head of the Energy & Natural Resources practice team in Dentons’ Warsaw office and co-head of the Europe Energy group. He also practices in the Firm’s Munich office. Christian has more than 25 years of experience in advising on developments, acquisitions, disposals, EPCs, PPAs and heat supply agreements in the renewable energy sector in Poland, Central-Eastern and Southeast Europe. Christian has a varied client base, advising direct investors, renewable energy and infrastructure funds, private equity and private debt, international developers and financial institutions in respect of development, construction and operational projects. Christian has been leading transactions on numerous energy projects and has broad experience of premium support schemes, but also non-subsidy renewable energy projects, mainly onshore wind and ground-mounted solar PV projects. He has a profound knowledge about energy markets, strategic market forecasts and sector integration technologies. Christian has also longstanding experience with offshore project development and advises since many years on heat investments and heat supply contracts.
Dagmara Cisowska
Dagmara Cisowska
Dagmara Cisowska is a tax advisor and counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. She leads the Transfer Pricing practice. Dagmara is highly experienced in transfer pricing and has taken part in a number of projects involving intercompany financial arrangements in corporate groups, transfer pricing documentation, benchmarking studies, and requests for advance pricing agreements. Her project experience includes transfer pricing policy creation, verification and implementation in corporate groups, as well as business restructuring. She specializes in representing clients during tax audits, transfer pricing proceedings and disputes, including the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP). Dagmara is an active member of the Transfer Pricing Forum, an advisory body to the Polish Ministry of Finance, which aims to prepare recommendations, opinions, analyses, conclusions and proposals to simplify and tighten the functioning of the tax system in the field of transfer pricing.
Dariusz Stolarek
Dariusz Stolarek
Dariusz Stolarek is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. He has led numerous M&A projects involving comprehensive international and domestic transaction tax structuring, tax due diligence and W&I / tax specific risk insurance. His areas of expertise extend to corporate and project finance and business restructuring. He has represented his clients in tax litigations and has assisted in establishing internal tax risk management procedures. Dariusz has broad experience in tax advisory for real estate, financial, renewables, insurance, and IT sectors. Dariusz is a leading tax advisor in the new and rapidly growing Polish tax insurance sector, both in relation to specific tax risk insurance projects and warranty and indemnity insurance accompanying M&A transactions. Dariusz has strong relationships with the major tax insurance players in Poland and Europe.
Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz
Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz
Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz is a Partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She also co-heads Dentons’ Environmental Protection Practice in Europe. With more than 24 years of professional experience, Ewa covers all aspects of business operations from the angle of environmental protection law and climate change regulations. She advises Polish and foreign companies (top players, mainly from the manufacturing, energy, real estate, and industrials sectors) and public bodies on issues regarding Polish and EU environmental protection law. Her professional experience includes advising on environmental protection in construction projects, environmental litigation, Environmental Impact Assessment and IPPC procedures (including litigating against NGO participation aimed at blocking investments), climate change issues, compliance / non-compliance, emissions trading, land remediation, regulations governing geological and mining activities, oil and gas (upstream and downstream). Ewa is one of co-founders and co-organizers of Dentons’ European Environmental Law Academy (DEELA), established in 2015 as a platform for developing and strengthening the core of legal knowledge in environmental law matters across all our offices in Europe and the UK, to enable our specialist environmental teams in Europe and UK to deliver seamless advice of unparalleled quality.
Jakub Sobotkowski
Jakub Sobotkowski
Jakub is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the Real Estate practice team and of the French Desk. Jakub has almost 20 years’ experience in advising domestic and international investors and developers on a wide range of projects, including real estate transactions, development of real properties and lease projects as well as financing real estate investments and sale-and-leaseback deals. Jakub focuses in particular on logistics sector, actively advising clients in the full life cycle of the investment process, from land acquisitions and lease negotiations, through zoning, development and construction matters and day-to-day operations, to complex sale and purchase transactions (asset, enterprise, share deals and joint ventures).
Jakub Zienkiewicz
Jakub Zienkiewicz
Jakub Zienkiewicz is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Banking and Finance practice team. He has more than 10 years’ experience in real estate finance, project finance, general corporate lending and acquisition finance as well as soft financial restructurings. He has been involved in several of the biggest real estate financing transactions in the Polish market, which related to a wide variety of assets, including student housing, residential rentals, warehouses, office and retail.  He provided advice on numerous complex cross-border transactions. He assists both investors, including private equity funds, public and private companies, as well as Polish and foreign financial institutions. He advises clients on all stages of transactions and works on deal structuring, term sheets, loan agreements, including contracts based on the LMA standard, intercreditor agreements and security documents.
Jakub Celiński
Jakub Celiński
Jakub Celiński, PhD, is Poland Co-Managing Partner at Dentons and a member of the Capital Markets and Corporate practice groups. Jakub focuses on equity and debt instrument offerings, securitization transactions and public M&A deals. He has vast experience in cross-border transactions, especially in the IPOs of foreign companies with listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and dual listing deals. He frequently represents Polish and multinational companies actively engaged in capital markets. He is proficient in the legal aspects of financial services regulatory issues, employee equity benefits plans and private banking.
Jarosław Witek
Jarosław Witek
Jarosław Witek, partner, responsible for leading the multidisciplinary Defense and Security group in Poland. Jarosław is a legal adviser with nearly 15 years of experience in defense, public security and aerospace projects, particularly offset, industrial cooperation, and defense and security procurement. He represents suppliers of military and aerospace equipment in negotiating supply contracts with the Polish Armaments Inspectorate/Armament Agency and supply-related offset projects. He also assists clients in negotiating offset agreements with the Polish Ministry of Defense as well as technology transfer agreements and license agreements with designated Polish partners. He has security clearance with the European Union, NATO and European Space Agency.
Kamil Januszek
Kamil Januszek
Kamil Januszek is an advocate and associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. He specializes in intellectual property law, media and IT law and advises TMT sector players. He represents international telecoms in litigation and regulatory matters before the Office of Electronic Communications. He also participates in a range of projects for TV broadcasters and film producers. Kamil also specializes in advising clients with respect to intellectual property protection in share deal and asset deal transactions, in particular in the real estate market. Experience Global telecom: Representing the client before public authorities, in particular before the Office of Electronic Communications; regulatory advice. Global VOD platform: Advice with respect to the sale of rights to original Polish films and serials to another global VOD platform. TV producer: Advice with respect to production contracts and registration of a TV format. Intellectual property in transactions: Agreements for the transfer of intellectual property and license agreements; execution of due diligence reports and transactional advice concerning intellectual property, in particular in the real estate market.
Karol Laskowski
Karol Laskowski
Karol Laskowski is a partner at Dentons’ Warsaw office, Head of Europe TMT Sector Group and Head of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. He is a high-profile media and telecommunications professional, with years of experience in advising major television broadcasters, satellite and cable operators, music publishers, telecom operators and film producers. As Head of the IP/TMT practice team he runs one of the largest and most experienced intellectual property, technology, media and telecommunications practices in Poland. The award-winning members of his practice are top-class practitioners with experience in delivering projects for international clients. The team is responsible primarily for advisory to Telecommunication, Media and Technology clients, but also provides comprehensive support in IP, Trademarks, IT, Data Protection & Regulatory matters to clients from other sectors. Together, they address complex legal requests with advice tailored to specific business needs and provide practical and insightful guidance on protecting IP rights, data security issues, technology licensing and sourcing strategies. His key focus is advisory to international Media, Technology and Telecom groups on key areas of their business activities in Poland and elsewhere − Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.
Maciej Marek
Maciej Marek
Maciej Marek is a counsel in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the Competition practice team. For more than a decade, he has represented clients before competition authorities, advised on mergers and acquisitions and helped develop compliance programs. Maciej has advised national and international leaders across the digital, IT, e-commerce, consumer electronics, industrial, chemical, and energy sectors, including numerous Fortune Global 500 companies. He has represented clients in many proceedings before the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, the European Commission, as well as before Polish and EU courts. His experience includes negotiating complex conditional merger approvals, representing in proceedings to amend conditional merger approvals, advising on the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, conducting internal competition law compliance audits, and participating in a precedent-setting trials, including on the liability of Internet intermediaries. Maciej has also led a number of multi-jurisdictional projects requiring the coordination of economists, legal tech service providers and lawyers from different jurisdictions or different specialties.
Marceli Kasperkiewicz
Marceli Kasperkiewicz
Marceli Kasperkiewicz is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice teams. Marceli has over 15 years of transactional experience, particularly in M&A and corporate restructurings. He provides legal advice to both foreign and domestic companies, focusing on M&A, corporate, commercial and financial institutions practice. He advises clients on all types of share and asset acquisitions (in both public and private sectors), IPOs, mergers, spin-offs, LBOs and other types of corporate and financial restructurings. His practice focuses in particular on energy, manufacturing, real estate and retail sectors. He also specializes in structuring and setting up complex domestic and cross-border joint ventures.
Marcin Przybysz
Marcin Przybysz
Marcin Przybysz, advocate, senior associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Practice Group. He regularly advises global and local clients on the intellectual property rights protection, which includes developing IP strategies, combating and litigating infringements on all court levels, negotiating transfers and licensing of digital products and new technologies, as well as conducting due diligence audits for the purposes of transactions. He has also advised clients on data protection compliance, including on the GDPR, with a particular focus on e-commerce and online gaming sectors. Marcin has extensive experience in working for global video gaming sector companies, including as an in-house lawyer seconded to a sister company of Poland’s largest video game developer, where he advised on various aspects of operation of a digital distribution platform, in particular in connection with the licensing of IP rights, privacy, consumer protection, marketing campaigns and collaboration with influencers. Experience Leading social media app provider: Regular advice on brand protection and combating infringements, including trademark litigation and domain arbitration as a result of which the client won back its .pl domain. Developer and operator of a popular online game: Advice on a lawsuit against a defendant accused of infringing copyrights to certain game elements and enabling unauthorized online gaming. Video games distributor: Negotiating a licensing of a video games portfolio and strategic partnership with a global video gaming partner. Developer of popular MMOG video games: Reviewing user agreements and privacy-related policies, as well as advising on the implementation of a monetization scheme, including in terms of compliance with consumer and gambling laws. Global streaming service provider: Advising on data privacy, consumer protection and marketing campaign compliance, as well as conducting litigation concerning similar trademark filings made by competitors. Mobility as a Service app provider: Advising on an investment agreement and a transaction involving sale of rights to the application. Global FMCG manufacturer: Conducting a number of proceedings before the Polish Patent Office, administrative courts (incl. the Supreme Administrative Court), concerning similar trademark filings made by a supermarket chain. Global FMCG manufacturer: Litigating and pursuing claims in connection with placing products using the client's 3D trademark on the market by the competitor. Leading lighting manufacturers: Conducting a number of court proceedings and pursuing claims in connection with placing products using the clients’ Community designs on the market by their competitors. Airlines: Managing a trademark portfolio.
Mark Segall
Mark Segall
Mark Segall is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and Co-Head of the Banking and Finance practice. He is a recognized lawyer with 25 years of experience across a broad spectrum of banking and finance transactions and covering numerous jurisdictions in the CEE region and beyond. He focuses mainly on acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance and sustainability-linked loans. He also advises international clients on cross-border syndicated lending and other structured financing projects. He is acknowledged as a banking sector expert and also has particularly deep experience in the sectors of energy and natural resources, telecoms and logistics. Mark also has significant experience advising on NPL disposals, secondary debt trading, workouts and out-of-court restructuring, having been involved in numerous stressed and distressed situations in CEE. Previously, he headed the Central and Eastern Europe banking and finance practice at CMS.
Marta Cichomska
Marta Cichomska
Marta Cichomska, PhD, counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Dispute Resolution team. She specializes in international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration. She has extensive experience in representing domestic and foreign clients in complex civil and commercial disputes before common courts and arbitration tribunals, as well as in mediation proceedings and settlement negotiations. Marta has represented private and public entities in disputes concerning, among others, infrastructure projects, telecommunications, real estate, the mining industry, M&A transactions, state aid, gambling and duty free. Her legal experience also includes public international law, private international law and European Union law (including appearing before the EU Court and the CJEU).
Marta Piotrkowicz
Marta Piotrkowicz
Marta Piotrkowicz is a senior associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Banking and Finance practice team. She specializes in financial, banking, commercial and civil law. She has exceptional expertise in project finance, acquisition finance and property finance. She advises at every stage of a transaction and represents Polish and foreign lenders, including banks, funds, and financial institutions, as well as borrowers. Marta has participated in several of the largest real estate finance transactions in the Polish market, involving a diverse range of assets, including student housing for rent, warehouses as well as offices, such as the financing of the development of one of Warsaw's most prestigious office buildings. She has also provided counsel on numerous complex cross-border transactions. Her experience includes drafting and negotiating financing documentation, such as facility agreements, including LMA standard loan documentation, intercreditor agreements, hedging agreements and security documents. She also prepares legal opinions, manages the process of fulfilling conditions precedent for loan disbursements, and conducts due diligence on financial indebtedness-related documentation.
Marta Stefanowicz
Marta Stefanowicz
Marta Stefanowicz, Brand Protection & Trademark Lead in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Practice Group. Before joining Dentons, Marta worked with top-tier law offices in Madrid, Warsaw, and Dubai, managing and developing IP strategies for the world’s most valuable brands. She is delivering comprehensive and innovative solutions for clients looking to effectively protect intellectual property assets in a multinational and digital landscape. Marta has advised on brand portfolio management and structured IP strategies for 2 out of the world’s top 3 technology companies, directly leading international teams of lawyers and external counsels across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She advised on groundbreaking brand acquisitions, coordinated rebranding strategies, and developed effective trademark portfolio optimization schemes. Marta has advised on a variety of trademark mattes before EUIPO, WIPO and national IP offices on oppositions, cancellation and invalidation proceedings. She effectively led challenging domain name disputes before WIPO, resulting in the successful recovery of numerous Domain Names. Ensuring her clients' needs are met in a highly multinational environment, she provides advice in English, Spanish and Polish. Experience Delivery Hero: Seconded as an Interim Head of Global IP, multinational online food-delivery service based in Berlin. Managing a variety of IP issues across 70+ countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Middle East; advised on international trademark strategies, IP portfolio optimization, trademark disputes and enforcement, copyright infringement, software licensing. The world’s largest multinational e-commerce company: Managed an IP transfer project in a ground-breaking acquisition of the biggest e-commerce platform in the Middle East, provided trademark due diligence, trademark rebranding and new filing strategies for 19 jurisdictions. American multinational technology company: Advised on complex trademark disputes, counselled on trademark oppositions, cancellations, and invalidation proceedings across the Middle East and Africa. American multinational technology company: Advised on Domain Name Disputes before WIPO, with an extensive track record of successfully recovered domains. American multinational technology company: Managed a change of name IP project across the Middle East and Africa, managed a trademark change of name recording concerning the client’s entire regional IP portfolio. Leading multi-channel retail group: Devised an IP portfolio optimization and rebranding strategy across over 30 jurisdictions in the Middle East and Asia, diagnosed protection gaps and prepared new filing programs to maximize global IP coverage.
Mateusz Machalski
Mateusz Machalski
Mateusz Machalski, an attorney-at-law, tax advisor and counsel in Dentons' Warsaw office, is a member of the Tax team. Mateusz's main focus is advising on indirect taxes, particularly VAT. He has more than a decade of experience in supporting both Polish and international clients, including in the financial, FMCG and IT sectors. His projects have included day-to-day and transactional advice, preparation of tax procedures and tax reviews, as well as supporting clients in implementing technology solutions for tax purposes. Mateusz has extensive experience in representing clients before tax authorities and administrative courts. In addition, Mateusz also specializes in advising on Mandatory Disclosure Rules and developing tax strategies.
Michał Wasiak
Michał Wasiak
Michał Wasiak is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice team, which focuses on advising private equity funds and strategic investors on investments in Poland. Michał specializes in civil and corporate law, particularly from the M&A angle, and in corporate restructurings. He has participated in a number of various M&A / corporate projects, including takeovers of private and of public companies (P2P), multijurisdictional co-investments and joint-ventures, cross-border mergers, etc. Michał’s corporate experience includes advising the clients on post-acquisition corporate restructurings and the introduction of equity based management incentive programs.
Michał Bernat
Michał Bernat
Michał Bernat, is a managing counsel in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team.  Michał specializes in state aid law and tax advisory. His professional track record includes internships with the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, as well as employment with a consulting firm and in reputable Polish laws firms. Michał gained practical experience in state aid law dealing with issues such as EU funding, individual investment packages for major investors, advice to undertakings operating in special economic zones, advice relating to public services, support for major infrastructure projects (including some of fundamental significance for the country’s economy and national security), long-term programs, restructuring aid and state aid in privatisation projects, corporate restructuring (M&A) and relocation. He successfully represented clients in proceedings concerning unlawfully granted state aid, as well as in notification proceedings. Michał also prepared and conducted proceedings before the Commission launched in response to complaints concerning state aid granted unlawfully to other market players. His clients include undertakings from the shipbuilding, steel, pharmaceutical, processing, household appliances, motor, construction, food, chemical, arms, financial services, and mega store distribution sectors, as well as public institutions in charge of motorway and railway networks construction and management, or involved in regional transport, airports, waterways, sea ports and subway projects, and also railway transport companies, operators of power infrastructures, including nuclear power infrastructure, aircraft equipment manufacturers, advisory firms and municipal entities. Michał is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars and has authored numerous publications dealing with state aid and tax issues. He speaks Polish, English and French.
Michał Jochemczak
Michał Jochemczak
Michał Jochemczak is a partner at Dentons in Poland. He heads the Arbitration team and is a member of the Dispute Resolution practice group in the firm’s Warsaw office. With over 20 years of experience, Michał focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration, advising a broad range of private businesses. His practice covers domestic and international construction projects, real estate transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate law and financial services. He regularly advises clients on international civil law matters, particularly those involving jurisdictional issues, the enforcement of judgments, and conflict of laws. He is also well-versed in competition law, including corporate and procedural issues. Michał has earned a strong reputation for representing clients in large infrastructure disputes. His practice includes advising and representing both domestic and international clients at every stage of a complex project’s lifecycle, from negotiations and contract performance to contract management, dispute avoidance, and dispute resolution, whether through arbitration or court proceedings. His portfolio encompasses a variety of major projects such as LNG terminal, power plants, wind farms, waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities, power stations, electricity lines, railways and roadways. Michał has significant experience in shareholder disputes and post-M&A disputes, representing majority and minority shareholders, investors, founders and corporate boards in high-stakes conflicts over governance, fiduciary duties, shareholder agreements, and equity rights. He has successfully advised on disputes involving valuation disagreements, breaches of representations and warranties, earn-out provisions, and contested buyouts. His deep understanding of corporate law and the practical dynamics of business relationships enables him to develop creative, client-focused solutions, whether through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation. His approach is characterized by proactive risk management and a clear-eyed strategy for achieving favorable outcomes in some of the most complex and contentious corporate and transactional disputes. Michał also sits also as an arbitrator, having received his first appointment in an international arbitration under the ICC Rules at the age of 30.
Monika Sitowicz
Monika Sitowicz
Monika is a Real Estate partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She serves as the Deputy Head of Real Estate in Poland. She is a transactional lawyer with over 20 years of experience in advising Polish and international clients on their investments in the commercial property sector. Monika handles matters related to the acquisitions and disposals (asset and share deals), especially in the office, warehouse and retail sectors. She has been involved in the financing and refinancing of real estate investments as well as portfolio transactions in Poland and across CEE. She has also supervised and coordinated major multi-location due diligence projects.
Patrick Radzimierski
Patrick Radzimierski
Patrick Radzimierski is a senior counsel at Dentons in Poland and a member of the Dispute Resolution team. He specializes in civil litigation and, as a former judge, brings unique experience in court proceedings. He handles disputes in civil and commercial law, product liability, healthcare, infrastructure and transport, real estate, intellectual property and personal rights, unfair competition, finance, insurance and capital markets, public procurement and labor law. He represents clients from various industries before common and arbitration courts, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland. Patrick leads the firm's pro bono activities and conducts precedent-setting anti-discrimination and human rights litigation. He acts as defense counsel for Polish judges in disciplinary proceedings and has experience representing pro bono clients before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, including before the Court's Grand Chamber. He cooperates with NGOs such as the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, the Association for Legal Intervention, the Ocalenie Foundation, as well as the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights and the Polish Judges Association “Iustitia”. Patrick is a recognized professional in class actions and co-author of the leading commentary on the Act on Pursuing Claims in Group Proceedings. He lectures on the Court system and civil procedure.
Paulina Galewska
Paulina Galewska
Paulina Galewska is a senior associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Capital Markets practice group. She specializes in corporate law and securities law, focusing especially on acquisitions of companies, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, investment processes and ongoing advisory to both listed and private companies. She has participated in preparing transactional documentation (share purchase agreements, corporate governance documents, bond issue terms and conditions) and documents related to current operations of commercial companies. Her experience includes projects in various sectors of economy, including manufacturing, retail, aviation, IT and renewable energy sources.
Paweł Gruszecki
Paweł Gruszecki
Paweł Gruszecki, attorney-at-law, counsel at Dentons' Warsaw office, member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies team. He mainly deals with issues in the area of IT contracts, cyber security, cloud services, telecommunications, as well as personal data protection. As part of his career, he has advised the largest telecommunications operators (fixed and mobile), search engine operators, international and domestic Internet services, the largest energy companies in Poland, as well as the largest manufacturers in the automotive and defense sectors. In addition, he has worked for a number of start-ups that implement solutions in areas such as Internet of Things, network security, development of advanced digital products (digital agencies), artificial intelligence, software (software houses), e-sports, cloud computing or database brokerage. He also has experience as a lecturer on the law of new technologies at national universities and as a plenipotentiary of the largest association of Internet advertising entrepreneurs during legislative work in the Polish Parliament. He is a member of the program board of one of the largest cyber security sector conferences in Central Europe.
Paweł Grabowski
Paweł Grabowski
Paweł Grabowski is Poland Co-Managing Partner at Dentons and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice groups. Paweł's practice focuses on M&A and private equity transactions. He advises clients on all types of share and asset acquisitions (both public and private), mergers, leveraged and management buyouts and other forms of corporate restructuring. Paweł also specializes in the structuring and establishing of complex joint ventures. He has extensive experience in leading cross-border, multi-disciplinary teams in high-value transactions and projects. Before coming to Warsaw, Paweł worked at the Salans legacy firm New York and London offices, where he advised on matters related to corporate governance, securities offerings, and mergers and acquisitions.
Piotr Dulewicz
Piotr Dulewicz
Piotr Dulewicz is head of the Warsaw M&A and Private Equity groups. He also co-heads Dentons Private Equity group in Europe. Piotr specializes in private equity funds, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and corporate restructuring. He has 25 years of transactional experience. He has advised leading private equity funds and a number of international corporations on acquisitions and disposals of assets/companies. He has conducted many corporate restructurings in various sectors of the economy. Piotr has also advised on the formation of complex joint venture projects.
Piotr Szafarz
Piotr Szafarz
Piotr is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office heading the Real Estate practice in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe. Piotr has specialized in real estate since 1995, his main focus being on investment, development and finance work. He has led and negotiated multiple single asset and portfolio transactions (notably in sale-and-leaseback, forward purchase and funding structures), primarily in the retail, logistics and office sectors. During his career, he has been involved in a number of institutional and landmark projects, like acquisitions of the largest retail assets in the CEE region, and advanced revitalization schemes regarding historic buildings and town planning. Piotr regularly advises on forming joint venture structures.
Piotr Staniszewski
Piotr Staniszewski
Piotr is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office, a member of the Real Estate team and Co-Head of the Construction Practice Group. He focuses on real estate, corporate and commercial law. Piotr is experienced in advising domestic and international investors on development and re-development of real properties in the retail, office, logistics and residential sectors. Piotr advises clients with respect to construction planning and permitting as well as on negotiation and enforcement of construction contracts. Piotr is also involved in real estate transactions and lease projects, including office and industrial investments and shopping mall developments. Piotr has acted for international financial institutions in the context of financing real estate investments. As a Board Member of the Polish Council of Shopping Centers (“PCSC”), he supports its member companies (landlords and tenants) in the rapidly changing legal environment.
Piotr Machnikowski
Piotr Machnikowski
Prof. Piotr Machnikowski is of counsel in the Dispute Resolution practice group at Dentons in Poland. With civil and business law as his areas of focus, he advises clients on complex litigation matters. He has extensive experience as an arbitrator in both permanent courts and ad hoc arbitrations. He has chaired arbitral tribunals and participated in the resolution of numerous international and domestic disputes. Piotr is also the head of the Department of Civil Law and Private International Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław. He authored more than a hundred publications on Polish, European and comparative private law. His expertise is highly regarded, and he is known for his prominent commentary to the Polish civil code, monographs on the law of obligations, as well as many other books and articles. Additionally, Piotr served as a member of the Civil Law Codification Committee of the Republic of Poland from 2013 to 2015 and was reappointed to the Committee in 2024, continuing his contribution to legislative work in his field.
Stanisław Sołtysik
Stanisław Sołtysik
Stanisław Sołtysik, PhD, is a partner at Dentons and a member of the Dispute Resolution and Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice groups in the firm’s Warsaw office. He represents Polish and international clients in litigation, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings. He focuses on advising financial institutions on litigation matters, particularly those involving potential liability toward clients, such as disputes related to loan agreement terminations, investment fund management or depositary services for such funds (both B2B and with consumers). Additionally, he advises clients in the FMCG industry in a variety of litigations and handles cross-border disputes involving contractual claims across multiple jurisdictions and sectors. Stanisław specializes in both in-court and out-of-court restructuring proceedings, acting for creditors in complex bankruptcy matters, including those with cross-border elements. He advises on the recovery of distressed assets and has successfully handled high-value cases, such as the takeover and resale of over USD 15 million worth fuel pledged to a Polish bank. His experience also includes debt collection, both in court and through alternative recovery methods. He is the author of academic publications on civil procedure, international commercial arbitration and bankruptcy law as well as holds a PhD in the fields of civil procedure and international commercial arbitration.
Sylwester Kuchnio
Sylwester Kuchnio
Sylwester Kuchnio is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. Sylwester has 15 years of experience in the area of public procurement and civil law matters. Sylwester has provided legal advice in procurement-related matters to contracting authorities and contractors, overseeing tender proceedings and state funding. Sylwester Kuchnio gained extensive experience in this respect in, among others, the NGO sector, various levels of local government and central government agencies (e.g. Public Procurement Office, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Central Statistical Office). He worked for many years as an arbitrator in matters involving public procurement at the National Appeals Chamber. Sylwester provides advisory on, among others, projects and disputes in the areas of infrastructure, energy, construction, treatment of waste, transport, financial services, defense, medicine and pharmacy.
Tomasz Trocki
Tomasz Trocki
Tomasz Trocki, PhD, is a partner at Dentons in Poland, where he leads the Consensual Restructuring team. He specializes in financial, restructuring and bankruptcy law. With a wealth of experience in major debt restructuring transactions on the Polish market, Tomasz is highly regarded for his advice on complex restructuring matters. He is well-versed in financing transactions, including leveraged and project finance, as well as refinancing. Tomasz authored numerous publications in restructuring and bankruptcy law, in addition to other civil law issues related to consensual restructuring. In his PhD thesis, titled “The impact of bankruptcy and the opening of restructuring proceedings on the admissibility of statutory and contractual set-off", he delved into the complexities of bankruptcy and restructuring law. In 2020 he completed the LEAD program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Tomasz Krasowski
Tomasz Krasowski
Tomasz is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. He has over 20 years of transactional experience in tax advisory with a strong focus on real estate clients. Tomasz focuses on effective tax planning methods. He specializes in transactional tax advisory, M&A tax structuring, business restructuring and reorganization, fund structuring, tax support of foreign investments in Poland. He also advises on various operational aspects, particularly in the real estate industry (such as WHT, minimum CIT levy, obligations of real estate companies or tax aspects of various tenant incentives). Clients In 2023 Tomasz advised such companies as Cavatina (a leading commercial real estate developer), CBRE (a global leader in commercial real estate services and investment), IntReal (Palmira) (a pan-European investor and asset manager for logistics and corporate real estate), Nexity (France’s leading real estate group) and Skanska (one of the world’s largest development and construction companies). Work Highlights ‣ Nexity: advising on sale of shares in its Polish subsidiaries to Develia – one of the largest real estate developers in Poland, listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The transaction concerned sale of 100% of shares in 19 Polish subsidiaries of Nexity. ‣ Palmira Capital Partners: advising on the acquisition of a 15,000 sq. m. build-to-suit (BTS) warehouse facility in Swarzedz, Poland, from Akron Group. The project was purchased for the European Core Logistics Fund (ECLF), and its tenant is Magna International, a Canadian automotive parts supplier. ‣ Palmira Capital Partners: advising on the purchase of the Silesia East logistics park in Sosnowiec. The transaction took the form of the purchase of a company that owns a 32,000 sqm Class A warehouse facility forming part of a major logistics hub around Katowice, Poland. ‣ Skanska: advising on the Polish tax aspects of a sale of building D in the Nowy Rynek complex, located at the former site of Poznan’s central coach station, to Eastnine AB, a Swedish real estate company focused on modern and sustainable office and logistics properties. This €121 million investment deal was the first transaction between the two parties in Central and Eastern Europe and the first real estate investment of Eastnine AB in Poland.
Tomasz Dąbrowski
Tomasz Dąbrowski
As Chief Executive Officer of Dentons Europe and a member of the Global Management Committee and Global Board, Tomasz Dąbrowski is responsible for developing and overseeing Dentons’ strategy for continental Europe and Central Asia. Working out of the Prague office, he leads the Firm’s operations across 26 offices in 19 countries as well as the Firm’s Prague based central administration. Under his leadership, Dentons has experienced unprecedented growth in Europe and Central Asia, almost doubling revenue, attracting top talent, and opening seven new offices in key European markets. Before taking the role of the Europe CEO in 2014, he co-chaired the Europe Corporate group and managed the Central and Eastern Europe region. In addition to his leadership role, Tomasz Dabrowski is a leading Polish M&A and transactional lawyer in Central and Eastern Europe. He has more than 25 years’ experience representing international companies, private equity funds, banks and other institutional clients in acquisitions, equity investments, corporate restructurings, privatizations, real estate, greenfield projects, structured finance and large asset finance transactions.
Tomasz Zwoliński
Tomasz Zwoliński
Tomasz Zwoliński is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Banking and Finance practice team. He 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. Tomasz has been 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. Concerning leveraged/acquisition finance transactions he has advised private equity funds and their lenders on multiple LBO transactions and has advised a consortium of lenders on the financing of a PLN 500 million public tender announced on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.