As a nearly 2-year-old local boutique company Koda. has managed to attract international core, opportunistic, and value-add investors, advising on the biggest European office deal of 2024 in their first year on the market [Warsaw Unit] or a pearl of the Polish hotel sector - Sofitel Grand Sopot, as well as supporting the introduction of new market players to Poland. Koda. actively promotes development of the market on various occasions: i) running panel discussions at international trade fairs, ii) educating market participants, iii) actively getting involved in expert lobbying activity towards the creation of Polish REITs, and proving that local Polish companies are capable of contributing expertise, quality, and network relations to international big players. At the same time, Koda. provides advisory services to local market leaders, allowing them to accumulate Polish equity in various forms, including family foundations.
Name of company
KODA ADVISORY
Department head or senior representative in Poland, real estate
Małgorzata Dankowska
Department head or senior representative profile
Co-founder of Koda, a passionate tax advisor with a penchant for transactional advisory and simplification of complex projects, and 19 years of professional experience. Board member of Stowarzyszenie REIT Polska | Mentor supporting programs of Urban Land Institute and Top Woman in Real Estate | Member of NEXT GEN committee at ULI |Chair of the Program Council of Fundacja Mam Marzenie | Guest lecturer at SGH and Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
Team description including the major achievements
Local team of tax/accounting and financial experts with long years of market experience and recognized position.
- landmark real estate transactional projects
- setting up family foundations and contributing assets to existing ones
- cross-border structuring of market entry as well as restructurings [Luxembourg / Malta / Lithuania / Czechia / South Africa / Germany / Switzerland and other sources of equity]
- successful refunds of property taxes in PRS projects
- tax modelling
- withholding tax advisory
