Jury Awards

Name of company

A&O SHEARMAN

Department head or senior representative in Poland, real estate

Michał Matera

Department head or senior representative profile

Michał Matera is a partner and Head of the Real Estate practice in A&O Shearman's Warsaw office. He focuses on commercial real estate transactions, including divestments, acquisitions, sale and lease-back, joint ventures, and asset management. He also advises on real estate aspects of financing, restructuring, and insolvency projects. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and mentors in the ULI Poland Mentorship Programme and the Top Woman in RE programme.

Team description including the major achievements

Our Real Estate department is known for full-spectrum real estate advice. We are able to assist in all stages of real estate transactions in any asset class. Our team advises on acquisitions and disposals of commercial real estate; joint ventures related to commercial real estate; real estate development, construction and leasing projects.

We also advise on strategic mandates. In our practice, we focus on helping our clients with their most strategic and complex mandates to drive their real estate business, eg advising on acquisitions and sales of cross-border property portfolios, or transactions in the PRS in Poland.

We have an innovative approach to handling transactions to ensure that we are well placed to meet the demands of our clients and the marketplace; when necessary, we are able to manage the largest deals on the market by using a project management team and devices such as electronic deal rooms.

Our team includes 1 partner, 1 counsel and 4 associates.

Key current clients

Echo Investment, Skanska, Ghelamco, Goodman, Panattoni, P3, Blackbrook Capital, M7 (Oxford Properties), LaSalle Investment Management, AEW, FLE, Solida Capital, Indotek, Mapletree, 7R, Sona Asset Management, Globalworth, I Asset Management, Europi Property Group, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Aareal Bank.

Participation in property sales and acquisitions between July 2023 and June 2024

- Skanska on the sale of the Studio B office building in Warsaw to Stena Real Estate for EUR86 mln
- Solida Capital on the acquisition of the G5 office building at ul. Grójecka 5 in Warsaw from Cromwell European REIT for EUR 15.86 mln
- Grupa Archicom on the acquisition of the real estates in Warsaw at 18A and 18B Postepu Street and 41 Domaniewska Street from MBP I, a subsidiary of Immofinanz Services Poland, for EUR 28.5 million
- Globalworth on the sale of the Bliski Centrum office building in Warsaw to a private Polish investor
- Goodman, a leading global developer and manager of industrial and logistics real estate, on the sale of a warehouse in Toruń to EQT Exeter, a value-add real estate fund
- Europi Property Group in a transaction involving the management buyout and delisting of Capital Park S.A. and the subsequent acquisition of certain assets of the Capital Park group by a joint venture of the managers and Europi Property Group

Total value of the transactions on which your company advised between July 2023 and June 2024 (in EUR)

Well above EUR 1bn.

Please say why the compamy should be considered for the award

- We offer all services relevant for the investors, developers, tenants and financing institutions being active on commercial real estate market.
- We have a strong footprint in CEE with own offices in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Bratislava.
- Our integrated team has been working together for a long time, possesses in-depth knowledge of local issues and transaction structures and is able to advise clients from all perspectives.
- We are innovative and flexible in our approach to handling transactions to ensure that we are well placed to meet the demands of our clients and the marketplace; when necessary, we are able to manage the largest deals on the market by using a sophisticated project management team and devices such as electronic deal rooms.
- We offer collaboration among teams and flexibility to bring together specialists from our international offices to create teams tailored to a specific deal and who are able to provide comprehensive legal advice on cross border issues

Company website

www.aoshearman.com