Name of company
Clifford Chance, Janicka, Krużewski, Namiotkiewicz i Wspólnicy spółka komandytowa
Department head or senior representative in Poland, real estate
Daniel Kopania, partner, head of the Warsaw Real Estate & Construction Department
Department head or senior representative profile
Daniel is a qualified Polish legal adviser, partner (since 2010) and Head of the Real Estate & Construction Department. He has 25 years of professional experience advising on the largest greenfield and brownfield retail, office and warehouse developments in Poland. He has also advised on sales and acquisitions of major real estate assets including office, warehouse and retail, as well as the construction of the largest projects in Poland and major developments across the CEE Region and in Moscow
Key current clients
Our active clients are:
AEW,
Atrium (Aerium),
Blackstone,
Capital Park,
Carrefour,
CBRE GI,
Cerberus
EPF (Kwasa),
Hemisphere
Hillwood,
Hines,
KKCG,
mBank Hipoteczny,
Pacific AMC,
Prologis,
Resolution Property,
The Hut Group.
Participation in property sales and acquisitions between October 2018 and September 2019
Advised or advising:
• Hillwood on the disposal of the Encore portfolio of logistics assets in Poland acquired by Mapletree for ca. EUR 320m
• CBRE GI on the sale of the Wars Sawa Junior Shopping Centre in Warsaw to Atrium Real Estate for over EUR 300m, on behalf of the Property Fund Central and Eastern Europe
• Blackstone on the acquisition of the so-called Gemini logistics portfolio from Hines for over EUR 140m
• Blackstone on the sale of a portfolio of warehouses in Poland (including buildings leased to Amazon) to Mirae
• EPF on the acquisition of Gdański Business Center through the acquisition of several target companies, for over EUR 200m
• ECE and Resolution in connection with the financing for the Avenida shopping centre
• mBank Hipoteczny and mBank in connection with the syndicated financing of the development of two office buildings in Warsaw known as Wola Retro
• Resolution Property on the financing of Galeria Pomorska
Participation in development projects between October 2018 and September 2019
Advised or advising:
• Capital Park (a company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with Patron Capital being the major shareholder) on the development of the ArtN office-retail scheme in the centre of Warsaw (including the redevelopment of the former Norblin factory)
• GGH on the construction of the Mennica Legacy Towers in Warsaw, a class "A" office development in the centre of Warsaw
• Polskie LNG S.A. on an approx. EUR 700 million project aimed at developing the first LNG Terminal in Świnoujście, which will enable the off-take of natural gas in order to increase the energy security of Poland
Total value of the transactions on which your company adviced between October 2018 and September 2019 (in EUR)
Approximately EUR 1,350,000,000
Please say why you should be considered for the award
We feel that we deserve to be nominated for the 'Law Firm of the Year' award at the Eurobuild Awards 2019 in light of the complexity and value of the transactions our Warsaw-based practice has advised on over the past 12 months.
Our Real Estate team has acted on four of the largest Real Estate transactions in the Polish market in 2018 according to Forbes. The deals highlighted in the latest edition of Forbes include advising:
• Hillwood on the disposal of a logistics portfolio;
• CBRE GI on the sale of the Wars Sawa Junior Shopping Centre;
• The Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia on the acquisition of Gdański Business Center Building C and Building D;
• The Blackstone Group on the acquisition and financing of 24 logistics centres in Poland, Germany and France.
We have worked on some of the largest transactions on the market, with a smaller team than our main competitors, yet very efficiently. Our clients appreciate the commitment of our senior lawyers at all stages of a transaction
