Name of company
DLP DUCH, LISICKI & PARTNERS
Department head or senior representative in Poland, real estate
Maciej Duch, Managing Partner and Head of Real Estate and Construction practice. Advocate with over 15 years’ of professional experience. Maciej acts for a wide range of RE investors, such as property funds, property companies, financial institutions as well as commercial and residential developers.
Department head or senior representative profile
Maciej’s practice covers all aspects of CRE deals for acquisition and sale of commercial assets, JVs, co-investments, forward deals, DMAs, financing and BTS/BTO development projects. Appointed in 2021, named as a recommended lawyer in the 2023 Legal500 and Rzeczpospolita rankings. Leader of the transaction teams and exclusive advisor to 7R, Rohlig Suus, Peakside, H&M, Trilux, Auto Partner (over 65 DD projects and 35 transactions of total value exceeding EUR600M and GLA over 500,000 sqm).
Key current clients
7R SA, Peakside Capital Advisors, Origami / 4 Friends, Skanska Residential, Panattoni, Rohlig Suus, Prime Kapital / MAS Real Estate, Echo Investment, Grupo Lar, Equilis, IMMO Mousquetaires, Lemon Tree, Basecamp, Schrack Technik, Trilux Group Management, Pekabex Group, Multishop, CRM Students, H&M, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Naspers, Auto Partner S.A., Real Management, Esmetric, Plug-Sun, Parkerlane Group, Torpol Oil & Gas, Himolla, EWL Group
Participation in property sales and acquisitions between July 2022 and June 2023
PROCHEM/LFI 1 FIZAN - sale of the Astrum Business Park office complex in Warsaw offering total leasable area of over 23,000 sqm; POLISH INVESTMENT FUND - acquisition of an ongoing development in the Tricity (logistic center), structured as a forward purchase deal (27,000 GLA under construction); TRILUX - opening of a new production facility in Poland, including negotiation of a lease agreement for a BTS warehouse-production hall, leading to the signing of a 15-year lease for approximately 23,000 m2 of space in the new development; SUUS Holding - establishment by Marvipol Logistics, Suus Holding and Panattoni of a joint ventures (JV) for the construction and commercialization of a warehouse park near Łódź (45,000 GLA) and logistic center within Panattoni Park Poznań West Gate 1 (60,000 GLA); AUTO PARTNER - BTS project - construction of a new logistics center of 30,000 GLA in MLP Zgorzelec; new lease agreements for 45,000 GLA (Bieruń Logistics Park) and for 14,500 GLA (MLP Poznań West)
Total value of the transactions on which your company advised between July 2022 and June 2023 (in EUR)
EUR 600M
Please say why the compamy should be considered for the award
Our real estate practice with 15 lawyers is one of the largest in Poland in this area of specialization. The members of the team are highly experienced and the whole firm has a holistic approach based on an understanding of the client's business and advising comprehensively, and thus not only on purely real estate, but also on corporate, project structuring, financing, and tax issues. The firm has a simple structure, which allows smooth and direct contact with partners as well as other team members, and this streamlines work on projects. We focus on high responsiveness, effective communication, and pragmatic approach, work intensively and very efficiently, which is why clients come back to us. We are always available to clients. We focus on quality of our services in general, with strong emphasis on effective project management, and transparent communication and at the same time consistently shifting our role from being only legal advisors to being mainly business partners.
