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White & Case M. Studniarek i Wspólnicy

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Law Firm of the Year, Poland
The Warsaw Real Estate practice at White & Case, led by partner Maciej Zalewski and local partner Jakub Kutzmann, focuses on advising institutional, international and large domestic clients on all of aspects of real estate business. We advise mainly investors, banks and developers in connection with their transactional activity on the Polish and European markets. We also advise on large real estate M&A deals where we combine the strength of our top M&A and real estate practices, creating a true powerhouse for this type of work. Our skilled Warsaw team is backed by our global real estate team, particularly in the CEE region. Our cross-border experience and perspective is often a deciding factor for clients when they choose to entrust us with major multi-jurisdictional real estate mandates.
Name of company
White & Case M. Studniarek i Wspólnicy
Department head or senior representative in Poland, real estate
Maciej Zalewski and Jakub Kutzmann
Department head or senior representative profile
Partner Maciej Zalewski and local partner Jakub Kutzmann co-head the Real Estate practice of White & Case in Warsaw. Maciej is a legal advisor with nearly 25 years of professional experience and focuses his practice on real estate, corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on M&A, private equity, project financing and procurement. Jakub is a real estate specialist who obtained local and cross-border professional experience while working on some of the biggest and most complex CEE deals.
Key current clients
Key clients of the practice are Generali Real Estate, Echo Investment, GLP Europe, Ghelamco, GS Engineering & Construction, Spravia (formerly, Budimex Nieruchomości), LaSalle Asset Management, Skanska, REICO, CTP Invest, FORUM Euro Nieruchomości FIZAN, Aurelius Group, Greenman Partners and many others.
Participation in property sales and acquisitions between October 2020 and June 2022
Advised Catella, a Swedish public company, on the establishment of its Polish operations through the acquisition of a 65% stake in Warsaw Property Partners. Advised the PPF Group, EC Investments and Rockaway Capital on the €881 million sale of the e-commerce assets of the Mall Group and the logistics assets of WE|DO (in Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland) to Allegro. Advised GLP on leasing a facility in the Łódź East logistics park to Castorama. Advised Global Compute Infrastructure on the acquisition of ATM, one of the largest data center operators and communications infrastructure businesses in CEE. Advised a fund managed by the REICO investment company on the acquisition of BWI Group’s R&D centre in Kraków. Advised the management of Polnord on the sale of a majority package of its shares (public M&A). Advised Globe Trade Centre on an investment in its shares by a potential investor by way of a tender offer for sale of 100% of the shares in the company (public M&A).
Participation in development projects between October 2020 and June 2022
Advised the CTP Group on the acquisition of a real estate portfolio from 7R with potential to develop 1.2 million sqm of GLA in logistics and industrial real estate. The portfolio consists of projects in Silesia and central and northern Poland that are in the development phase, such as in Warsaw and Katowice, as well as other sites across Poland that are still in the pre-development phase. Advised GS Engineering & Construction Poland sp. z o.o. in connection with a joint venture development project of a warehouse property in Lower Silesia. Advised Octopus Renewables on the acquisitions of (i) two onshore wind farms being constructed in Poland with a combined capacity of 58.8 MW from the PNE Group, a German developer of wind projects in Europe and (ii) a Polish wind farms portfolio of rated power of approx. 45 MW from OX2, a developer and seller of wind and solar farms.
Total value of the transactions on which your company advised between October 2020 and June 2022 (in EUR)
approx. EUR 3 billion
Please say why you should be considered for the award
Our strength is both in complicated and complex real estate transaction, where we can show our full scope engagement, unique technical legal skills and knowledge as well as daily asset management work. Due to our close and effective cross-practice co-operation region, we are able to advise on a large scale of real estate issues from complex inbound and outbound M&A deals, financings, development and constructions, property and asset management, as well as general corporate, litigation or insolvency matters, across the CEE region. Our team consists of some of the most experienced figures with a long track record of major real estate transactions within the CEE market.
Company website
www.whitecase.com