CMS has advised Austria's Alpla on its acquisition of Polish pharmaceutical packaging producer Apon.

​​JDP Drapala & Partners has advised the Dutch SanoRice Group on its investment in a new production plant in Nowa Sol, Poland.

Krzysztof Cieplinski has been promoted to Partner in the Warsaw office of Gide Loyrette Nouel. He's active in the firm's Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, and New Technology & Infrastructure Projects practices.

Wardynski & Partners has advised Bergs Timber on the acquisition of Pinus from company owners and founders Jerzy and Mariusz Smolarczyk.

Wiercinski Kwiecinski Baehr has advised PKO and mBank on a financing for Electrum Concreo in the form of bilateral multi-product lines. Deloitte Legal reportedly advised Electrum Concreo.

Kondracki Celej has advised Credo Ventures and 500 Startups on participating in a EUR 3.4 million investment round in the Village Network.

In a Sale & Leaseback transaction, a property used for business purposes is sold and simultaneously made available for use by the seller under a lease or rental agreement.

Ever since the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (the "Directive") was adopted back in April 2019, its contents, especially regarding the liability of certain service providers, have sparked many controversies. According to the explanations provided by the European Council, the Directive's main goal was to protect press publication and reduce the "value gap" between the profits made by two main "entities": internet platforms and content creators. The Directive aimed to enhance collaboration between these two groups and to create copyright exceptions for text- and data-mining. However, Article 17 of the Directive proved difficult to accept within the internet sharing platform environment, as it replaces the "mere conduit" exemption from copyright infringement of online content sharing of the platform with a conditional exemption. Article 17 prohibits internet platforms from sharing and displaying unlicensed copyrighted contents on behalf of users.

White & Case has advised joint lead managers Banco Santander, Erste Group Bank, Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg, PKO BP, and UniCredit Bank on PKO Bank Hipoteczny's EUR 500 million issuance of mortgage-covered bonds. Reportedly, Allen & Overy advised PKO Bank Hipoteczny.

Partners-You-Trust has advised EEC Magenta on its investment in robot platform DBR77. Moskwa Jarmul Haladyj reportedly advised investor Level2Ventures. DB77 Tax & Legal reportedly advised DBR77's founders.

Linklaters and Paksoy have advised the Qatar Investment Authority on the acquisition of an approximately 20% interest in the D.ream International fine dining group from parent company Dogus Group, a Turkish conglomerate.

Under the CIT Act, taxpayers are normally required to file the TPR form and a statement on the preparation of the local file for 2021, by the end of the ninth month after the end of the financial year.

Partners-You-Trust has advised the founders of the Marketlab Group on the investment from a Value Quest-managed private equity fund. CDZ Chajec & Partners reportedly advised Value Quest.

Clifford Chance has advised the Getin Noble Bank on the synthetic securitization of its housing communities portfolio worth over PLN 500 million.

On July 4, DLA Piper announced that Echo Investment’s EUR 56 million sale of three office buildings within its mixed-use Fuzja revitalization project in Lodz to German investment manager KGAL Group (reported by CEE Legal Matters on January 28, 2022) had closed.

Linklaters has advised InfraVia Capital Partners on the PLN 1.775 billion acquisition of a 50% stake in Play Group subsidiary FiberForce.

Greenberg Traurig and Baker McKenzie have advised Echo Investment on the sale of the MidPoint 71 office building in Wroclaw to the Trigea Real Estate Fund.

Former Arena Advisory Partner Dominika Ramirez-Wolkiewicz has joined Gessel as a Partner and Head of the firm’s Tax Law practice.