Weil, Gotshal and Manges – Paweł Rymarz sp.k.

Award: Law Firm of the Year, Poland
Name of company: Weil, Gotshal and Manges – Paweł Rymarz sp.k.
Department head or senior representative in Poland, real estate: Jakub Kutzmann - senior representative
Short description of the company and team: Weil’s Warsaw office opened in 1991 and is one the most experienced law firms on the Polish market, employing around 80 attorneys, mostly Polish legal advisors, as well as attorneys licensed to practice law in the U.S. and the UK. Four attorneys are very experienced in real estate matters, with two of them considered to be among the top specialists in real estate: Roman Rewald and Jakub Kutzmann.
Key current clients: Capital Park; Eastbridge Group; Echo Investment S.A.; Globe Trade Centre S.A.; Griffin; NBGI Private Equity Limited; Oaktree Management Fund; Patron Capital Advisers LLP; PKP (Polish railways); Rockcastle Global Real Estate, HB Reavis.
Participation in property sales and acquisitions between November 2014 and October 2015: Weil Warsaw advised, in particular, Rockcastle on the acquisition of the Solaris Shopping Centre, the Platan Shopping Centre and two other ongoing shopping centre development projects, NBGI Private Equity Limited on all of its current real estate matters in Poland, Griffin on the acquisition of a stake in Echo Investment, Eastbridge on the sale and restructuring of real properties and GTC on its sale of Kazimierz Office Centre.
Participation in development projects between November 2014 and October 2015: Weil’s Warsaw office has advised on prominent development projects in Poland, including: (i) Sinfonia Varsovia on its development of a new concert hall seating 1,800 persons; (ii) NBGI Private Equity Limited, on the development of the extension and leasing of its logistics property in Poland to Faurecia Polska – an automotive industry giant; and (iii) Rockcastle Global Real Estate, on a development in the form of a private-public partnership project with the City of Opole.
Total value of the transactions on which your company adviced between November 2014 and October 2015: For the first six months of 2015, the total value of the transactions in which Weil was a legal advisor exceeded PLN 7.63 billion. The total value of the real estate transactions in the same period was PLN 2.7 billion.
Please say why you should be considered for the award.: Weil is one of the best law firms in the world, its breadth of experience is unique among the world’s major law firms. Weil’s Warsaw office is one of the top-ranking law firms according to the best global rankings: Legal 500, IFLR, Chambers and Partners and Rzeczpospolita ranked Weil as the number one law firm in a ranking that assessed firms based on the total number of the most prominent transactions in Poland serviced in the past year. Weil’s Warsaw-based real estate lawyers have consistently been ranked as one of the best in Poland by most of the leading publications which utilise peer and client reviews to rate law firms. Legal 500 ranked Weil among the top law firms for real estate and Jakub Kutzmann is recommended as one of the top law firms for real estate by the Chambers Europe.
Company website: http://www.weil.com/
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