The restructuring team at Norton Rose Fulbright frequently handles mandates for entities active in the banking sector, including a range of domestic and cross-border financial institutions. Its offering spans debt restructuring, pre-insolvency restructuring, and enforcement proceedings, and the team benefits from the firm’s global network of offices. Grzegorz Dyczkowski and Tomasz Rogalski jointly lead the group, and the latter was promoted to the partnership at the beginning of 2023.

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Key clients

  • Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A.
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • Alior Bank S.A.
  • Bank Ochrony Środowiska S.A.
  • BNP Paribas Bank Polska
  • HSBC
  • ING Bank Śląski S.A.
  • Accession Capital Partners
  • Obotritia Capital

Work highlights

  • Advised the lenders and hedge counterparties, led by ING Bank Śląski S.A., on the restructuring of trade finance facilities and enforcement of security, as well as representing them in bankruptcy proceedings initiated with respect to Hermes Energy Group S.A.
  • Advising banks on amendments to financing documents related to the development of the 38MW Golice wind farm in Western Poland operated by Acciona Energia, and providing day-to-day regulatory advice on the renewables regulatory environment in Poland which has changed and put the Golice wind farm into financial difficulties.
  • Advising Alior Bank S.A. on amendments to financing documents related to the development of the 25.3MW Jóźwin wind farm in Poland operated by Max Bogl and Vortex to reflect restructuring arrangements agreed between the parties to the development financing.

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Grzegorz Dyczkowski, Tomasz Rogalski

Other key lawyers

Marta Kawecka, Jacek Smardzewski, Daniel Popek