What's new in Polish corporate law?

SSK&W has advised CofounderZone, business angels, and Ciech Ventures on their investment in coffee waste processing company Ecobean. Sole practitioner Marta Malasiewicz reportedly advised Ecobean.

On December 1, 2022, SMM Legal announced that MOL's acquisition of Lotos Paliwa (reported by CEE Legal Matters on February 2, 2022) had closed. Subsequently, Baker McKenzie announced that Orlen Unipetrol's acquisition of Hungarian petrol stations from MOL (reported by CEE Legal Matters on February 1, 2022) had closed as well. 

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised Jeronimo Martins on a long-term power purchase agreement with GoldenPeaks Capital.

On November 30, 2022, the BLS-CEE Law Firm announced that Wirtualna Polska’s acquisition of the Szallas Group from Portfolion Capital Partners and private individuals (reported by CEE Legal Matters on September 16, 2022) had closed.

DLA Piper has advised DHL on the sale of a real estate portfolio including ten sites across Poland and five other European markets.

Former Hogan Lovells Senior Associate Mateusz Dereszynski has joined Eversheds Sutherland's Polish office as a Partner and Head of the firm's Banking & Finance practice effective December 1, 2022.

White & Case has advised MidEuropa on its acquisition of a majority stake in Optegra. Eversheds Sutherland reportedly advised the seller.

Rymarz Zdort and Maruta Wachta have announced they will merge into Rymarz Zdort Maruta.

Former BDO Legal-affiliated firm BDO Legal Latala i Wspolnicy has spun off to launch Forton Legal in Poland with Wieslaw Latala and Katarzyna Zajan-Aydogan as Partners.

Greenberg Traurig’s Warsaw office has launched its new Environmental, Social, and Governance practice led by Senior Associate Joanna Kuc.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised the Photon Energy Group on the increase of its stake in Lerta from 24.27% to 56.75% through an acquisition from PGE Ventures, Newberg, and the ASI Valuetech Seed Fund for approximately EUR 6.9 million.

History shows that the last bastion of freedom of speech, which guarantees these values, is the free press. But it’s no secret that since 2015, key constitutional values have been in crisis. Over the past three years, there have been repeated legal actions by state institutions, state-owned companies, businessmen and other lobbying organizations aimed at stifling the work of journalists, publishers and NGOs.

Clifford Chance has advised Baltic Hub on the expansion and refinancing of its existing debt and the construction of the third deep-water sea container terminal in Gdansk.

Former Counsel Katarzyna Czwartosz-Liber and former Associate Monika Duzynska have been promoted to Local Partners with White & Case's Warsaw office, effective January 1, 2023, as part of the firm's global promotion round. 

Soltysinski Kawecki & Szlezak has advised Altiplano on the construction agreement for a 137-megawatt wind farm with a consortium of ONDE and P&Q.

Ellex and Wardynski & Partners, working with Thommessen, have advised Hampidjan on its acquisition of the Morenot Group from FSN Capital Partners. Norway's Haavind and Iceland's BBA Fjeldco advised FSN Capital.

Hogan Lovells and PRK Partners have advised Polish-Czech RGW Express Group owner Hartmut Luetz on the sale of all shares in the company to French Groupe BBL.