On August 3, 2022, SMM Legal announced that the merger between PKN Orlen and Grupa Lotos (initially reported by CEE Legal Matters on May 23, 2018) had closed.

Linklaters has advised Iberdrola on acquiring a 98-megawatt portfolio of wind and solar projects in Poland from Augusta Energy. DWF advised Augusta Energy, a joint venture between GreenVolt subsidiary V-ridium Power Group and KGAL.

Rymarz Zdort has advised Bank Millennium on the consolidation of its brokerage business into the capital group and represented the bank before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority for the extension of its brokerage license.

Greenberg Traurig has advised JV partners 7R, MFC Real Estate, and DIL Polska Baumanagement on the sale of the 7R City Flex Warsaw Airport I logistics complex to Macquarie Asset Management.

Pawel Cholewinski has been appointed as the Partner in charge of Kochanski & Partners’ Transactional Practices group.

Former Skanska Central Europe General Counsel Agnieszka Dziegielewska-Jonczyk has joined Nordea as its General Counsel, Poland.

Functioning in an information society generates a number of challenges that both economic operators and private citizens must face. The foundation of a healthy system relies on the ability to sift true information from false, which today is becoming increasingly difficult in an increasingly complex and technological world.

On 13 October 2022, the Act amending the Commercial Companies Code and certain other acts (“Act”) will come into force. Companies, especially those operating under a management agreement between a parent company and a subsidiary, will have to reorganise their structures to some extent in order to comply with the new regulations.

On March 1, 2022, CEE Legal Matters reported that KWKR Konieczny Wierzbicki had advised Knacks's owners on their sale of a majority stake in the company to RightBridge Ventures. CEE In-House Matters spoke with Dawid Szymanski, CEO at Knacks, to learn more about the sale.

Taylor Wessing has advised the MLP Group on a public bond offering and listing on the Catalyst alternative trading system. Pekao Investment Banking was the issuing agent.

Former Naspers and Prosus Group Senior Privacy Counsel Marcin Czarnecki has joined PayU in Poland as the company's Chief Privacy Officer.

Greenberg Traurig has advised the Stock Spirits Group on the acquisition of Polmos Bielsko-Biala. Deloitte Legal advised Polmos Bielsko-Biala on the deal.

Although the term ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) has been around for years, its full application is still quite daunting. Companies face the challenge of integrating ESG values into their strategy, operations, and decision-making processes in order to respond to the increasingly influential voice of stakeholders: citizens, consumers, NGOs, governments, and investors.

Gessel has helped Synthos Green Energy obtain regulatory clearance from the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection for the establishment of the Nuclear Energy International LLC joint venture with GE-Hitachi.

On July 12, four leading lawyers from Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania sat down for a virtual round table moderated by CEE Legal Matters Managing Editor Radu Cotarcea to discuss the latest in ESG developments with a focus on green financing, its regional and local drivers and roadblocks, its impact on non-financial reporting, and what it all means for the legal profession.

MFW Fialek has advised Develia on forming a joint venture with corporate venture-builder company The Heart to develop a flat rental management platform. Solo practitioner Jakub Koziol advised The Heart.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised Kom-Eko subsidiary Eko-Azbest on the acquisition of an asbestos landfill site from Srodowisko i Innowacje – Skladowisko, previously spun off from Srodowisko i Innowacje. Reportedly, Viroux and Partners advised the sellers.

Havel & Partners has helped Orlen Unipetrol petrochemical company obtain regulatory clearance from the Slovak Antimonopoly Office for the acquisition of Oliva petrol stations.