Gessel has advised hospitality meat product supplier Ladros and its shareholders on securing Chefs Culinar as a strategic investor.

Starting on 22 May 2023, it will be possible to establish and register family foundations in Poland. The Polish legal system will thus be expanded by a new institution that allows assets to be accumulated and managed, and profits to be distributed to beneficiaries. The legislature wished to provide the means for family-owned businesses and their owners to engage in intergenerational wealth management and to grow their wealth over time while protecting it from dispersal to unrelated entities and persons. Hence, family foundations may serve as a means to retain and multiply a family's wealth, independent of inheritance law.

Rymarz Zdort Maruta has advised the Unilink Group and Enterprise Investors on their sale of the Unilink Group to Acrisure.

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WKB Lawyers has advised the KGAL ESPF 5 Holding on establishing its cooperation with Lasuno to develop renewable energy projects in Poland. BNT Attorneys advised Lasuno.

SSK&W and Stratulat Albulescu have advised venture capital fund CofounderZone and business angels on their investment in Romanian property technology company Milluu. Ventures-n-Law advised Milluu.

Gide Warsaw has advised B&B Hotels Polska on the facility lease agreement with Aviato and Harvent Capital for the B&B Hotel Kielce Centrum. JDP Drapala & Partners reportedly advised the lessors.

Partner Agnieszka Kulinska has been appointed the new Head of the Energy and Natural Resources practice in Dentons’ Warsaw office, taking over from Managing Partner Arkadiusz Krasnodebski. Warsaw and Munich-based Partner Christian Schnell will Co-Head the firm's Europe Energy practice group alongside Berlin-based Partner Tim Heitling.

CDZ Chajec & Partners has advised Samito on the sale of its e-commerce optimization organized business part to the Wirtualna Polska Group. Brzozowska & Barwinska reportedly advised Wirtualna Polska.

B2RLaw Partner Andrzej Zajac has been appointed as the new Head of the firm's Energy & Real Estate practice.

Schoenherr, working with Luther and Hogan Lovells, has advised the Cargo-Partner Group Holding on its EUR 1.4 billion sale of Cargo-Partner GmbH and 60 other subsidiaries to Nippon Express Holdings. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised the buyer.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Bank Pekao on its financing for the construction of the 9.6-megawatt Miloslaw wind farm in Palczyn, Poland, sponsored by ZE PAK. Greenberg Traurig reportedly advised the borrower.

JDP Drapala & Partners has advised the Sanok Rubber Company on its acquisition of ventilated facade and fixing technology service provider BSP Bracket System Polska.

Rymarz Zdort Maruta has advised Polska Grupa Energetyczna on the formation of PGE PAK Energia Jadrowa – a joint venture of PGE and ZE PAK, each with a 50% shareholding – for the development of Poland’s second nuclear power plant to be constructed in Patnow. 

Dentons has advised arranger, original lender, agent, and security agent Raiffeisen Bank International on a EUR 21.9 million term loan facility for the development of a 31.5-megawatt portfolio of eight photovoltaic power plants in Romania to companies owned and operated by Photon Energy NV.

WKB Lawyers has advised Centrum Rozliczen Elektronicznych Polskie ePlatnosci on its acquisition of a stake in mobile application developer QRTAG.

DLA Piper has advised Halma on its acquisition of Sewertronics for an initial sale price of EUR 41 million. Gomez-Acebo & Pombo and Wardynski & Partners reportedly advised the sellers.

Former Baker McKenzie Partner Magdalena Nasilowska has joined Allen & Overy’s Warsaw Corporate Practice as a Partner. Counsel Piotr Szczecinski and Associate Jakub Zebrowski also joined the firm alongside Nasilowska.