CK Legal Chabasiewicz Kowalska has advised Kruk on its first EUR-denominated bond offering addressed to retail investors and, following high demand, on an additional issuance as well, for total proceeds of EUR 10 million.

Soltysinski Kawecki & Szlezak has advised limestone product supplier Nordkalk on the sale of its Szczecin harbor limestone milling plant to Lafarge Kruszywa i Beton. Sole practitioner Tomasz Parus reportedly advised Lafarge.

Gide has advised Internet Ventures FIZ on its sale of a stake in Focus Telecom to MCI.Euroventures in a transaction that saw the MCI fund acquire 80% of Focus Telecom for a total of PLN 80.1 million. Porebski and Partners reportedly advised the Focus Telecom founders. Dubinski Jelenski Masiarz and Partners reportedly advised MCI.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the Eiffel Investment Group on financing the grid deposits for a 6-gigawatt photovoltaic and battery storage portfolio sponsored by Sunly, in Poland.

Poland’s legal landscape is characterized by the increased mobility of lawyers and legal teams, while its markets are feeling optimistic following the results of the recent elections, according to Schoenherr Poland Managing Partner Pawel Halwa, and everyone is waiting for the new government’s investment and legislative priorities to come into focus.

WKB Lawyers has advised Volvo Polska on its acquisition of the truck service business previously operated by Serwisy Jozef Skrzypa.

Greenberg Traurig has advised Abris Capital Partners on the sale of paper hygiene product manufacturer Velvet Care to the Partners Group. Gessel advised the Velvet Care management. Clifford Chance, working with Latham & Watkins, advised the Partners Group.

DLA Piper has advised International Personal Finance on the successful PLN 72 million issuance and settlement of senior unsecured floating-rate notes under the IPF’s EUR 1 billion medium-term note program.

Studnicki, Pleszka, Cwiakalski, Gorski has announced the appointment of Jakub Gorski, Slawomir Dudzik, and Piotr Kaminski as the firm's new Managing Partners.

Allen & Overy has advised MBDA UK Limited on its GBP 4 billion agreement with Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa to support PGZ's delivery of the NAREW air defense program for the Polish Armed Forces.

MFW Fialek has advised Solita on its investment in and integration of Future Mind. DLA Piper advised Future Mind.

Wardynski & Partners has advised the Futureal group on its acquisition of the Lipowy Office Park complex in Warsaw from the WP Carey group. Linklaters reportedly advised WP Carey.

Rymarz Zdort Maruta has advised multi-functional industrial and logistics facility developer CL Property on the lease agreement and related documents for its Citylink-branded Technological Research and Development Center to be located in Wroclaw.

Is the M&A market facing a further slowdown due to the macroeconomic situation? Or, following the recent parliamentary elections in Poland, will the market quickly rebound after a brief pause and continue to experience the best economic period in modern history? Can we expect more records to be broken? The truth may lie somewhere in the middle, as there is no shortage of challenges lying in wait for the economy.

MJH Moskwa, Jarmul, Haladyj has advised BA Glass on its acquisition of the glass production business in Orzesze, Poland, from the Canpack Group's CP Glass.

With CMS’s recently published European M&A Outlook report taking the temperature of the M&A activity across the continent, CMS Romania Managing Partner Horea Popescu and CMS Vienna Partner Alexander Rakosi share their insights on M&A trends in the CEE region.

Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka Managing Partner Krzysztof Zakrzewski, DWF Poland Managing Partner Michal Pawlowski, and MFW Fialek Managing Partner Miroslaw Fialek look at the current state of the Polish legal market and some of the challenges it faces despite increased volumes of work.

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Poland has found itself at the forefront of NATO’s eastern flank, sharing a border with a country embroiled in a full-scale war. DLA Piper Partner Marta Frackowiak and Dentons Partner Jaroslaw Witek talk about how this geopolitical reality has prompted a significant shift in Poland’s defense strategy.