Cases
Experience: Mergers
acquisitions: Represented CVC Capital Partners in connection with the PLN 2.64 billion acquisition of Comarch S.A. through a tender offer for all shares in Comarch
delisting from the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Represented Banco Sant
er Group in connection with the PLN 3.1 billion acquisition of 60% of the shares of Sant
er Consumer Bank by Sant
er Consumer Finance from Sant
er Bank Polska.
Represented Velo Bank
Cerberus in connection with the PLN 1.1 billion acquisition of Bank H
lowy's consumer business in Pol
.
Represented Banco Sant
er S.A. in connection with the sale of a 49% stake in Sant
er Bank Polska S.A. for EUR 6.8 billion
50% of Sant
er's Polish asset management business (Sant
er TFI) for EUR 200 million to Erste Group Bank AG. The total transaction value is EUR 7 billion.
Represented Qemetica in the acquisition of PPG's precipitated silica business for approximately PLN 1.2 billion (USD 310 million).
Represented Bogdan
Elzbieta Kaczmarek
private equity fund Innova Capital in connection with the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Pfleiderer Polska, in a corporate carve-out transaction from Pfleiderer Group, owned by funds managed by the global investment firm Strategic Value Partners.
Represented Abris Capital Partners, the ESG transformation specialist private equity investor
B Corp, in connection with the sale of Velvet CARE, Pol
's leading manufacturer of paper-based personal care products, to Partners Group, a global private markets firm.
Represented CVC Capital Partners in connection with the sale of 100% of the shares in PKP Energetyka S.A. to PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A.
Represented Bricks Acquisitions Limited in the sale of ROBYG S.A. to a wholly owned subsidiary of TAG Immobilien AG.
Represented PCF Group in the public offering of newly issued shares, which were almost entirely subscribed for by KRAFTON, a South Korean video game developer. The value of the transaction was almost PLN 135 million.
Represented Allianz SE in connection with the EUR 2.5 billion acquisition of Aviva's Polish life
non-life insurance, pensions
asset management businesses,
51% stakes in life
non-life bancassurance joint ventures with Sant
er.
Represented the CCC Group in connection with a transaction that will result in two new minority investors becoming shareholders of eobuwie.pl S.A. - the leader in the online footwear market in Central
Eastern Europe. Cyfrowy Polsat S.A.
A&R Investments Limited, one of the shareholders of InPost S.A., signed conditional preliminary agreements regarding the sale of two 10% stakes in eobuwie.pl for PLN 500 million each.
Represented Cyfrowy Polsat S.A.
Polkomtel sp. z o.o. ('Polsat Group') in connection with the sale of a 99.99% stake in Polkomtel Infrastruktura, a subsidiary of Polsat Group, to Cellnex Pol
sp. z o.o., a subsidiary of Cellnex Telecom S.A., Europe's leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure. The value of the transaction exceeded PLN 7 billion (EUR 1.6 billion).
Advised Abris CEE Mid-Market Fund III L.P., managed by Abris Capital Ltd., in connection with the acquisition of Scanmed S.A.
Advised OANDA Global Corporation on the acquisition of Dom Maklerski TMS Brokers S.A.
Advised Madison International Realty in connection with the acquisition of a 46.5% stake in European Logistics Investment, holding a Polish real estate warehouse portfolio.
Advised Cyfrowy Polsat on the joint venture agreement with Discovery Communications Europe
TVN regarding the establishment of a new OTT platform.
Advised the WING Group, one of the largest privately owned real estate companies in Hungary, specializing in office, industrial, retail, residential, hotel
special projects primarily in Budapest, on an agreement to acquire Lisala sp. z o.o. from Echo Partners B.V. Echo Partners is owned by affiliates of Oaktree
PIMCO,
through Lisala it holds 55.95% of the shares of Echo Investment S.A.
Advised Madison International Realty LLP, a global real estate private equity firm, on the indirect acquisition of a controlling 65.99% stake in Capital Park S.A. from Patron Capital Partners. Capital Park manages a portfolio of properties with a total area of 304,000 sqm
is the developer of the ArtN complex in Warsaw.
Advised the BNP Paribas Group on its acquisition of the core banking operations of Raiffeisen Bank Polska, to be combined with the subsidiary of BNP Paribas in Pol
, Bank BGZ BNP Paribas. The transaction, valued at PLN 3.25 billion, was implemented through a demerger of Raiffeisen Bank Polska by spin-off of its core business to Bank BGZ BNP Paribas.
Advised Deutsche Bank AG on its sale
demerger of Deutsche Bank Polska S.A.'s local Private & Commercial Banking business to Sant
er Bank Polska S.A. (formerly Bank Zachodni WBK) for a transaction price set at approximately PLN 1.29 billion.
Advised Societe Generale on its disposal of Euro Bank, its retail banking subsidiary in Pol
, to Bank Millennium for f PLN 1.83 billion.
Advised Goldman Sachs International on its PLN 1 billion tender offer for 100% of the shares in ROBYG S.A., one of the leading Polish stock exchange listed developers.
Advised CVC Capital Partners with respect to its acquisition of Zabka Polska from Mid Europa Partners. The sale of Zabka was the largest ever transaction in the Polish food retail sector
the largest ever private equity exit in Pol
.
Advised Rentokil Initial plc on its joint venture with PCI Pest Control Pvt. Ltd., creating the largest provider of pest control services
products in India.
Advised a telecommunications/infrastructure group in connection with its circa EUR 98 million disposal of certain European carrier
high b
width businesses to a US entity listed on NYSE.Es
Advised a JV in connection with the disposal of a hotel in Edinburgh to an institutional investor based in the Middle East.Es
Advised Finsbury Food Group plc in connection with its reverse takeover of Fletchers Bakeries for consideration of circa GBP 56 million.Es
Advised Deloitte UK in connection with the disposal of its stake in Ingeus UK, a provider of employability
training programs
specialist support for local communities, as part of a wider acquisition of the Ingeus group by the NASDAQ-listed Providence Service Corporation for consideration of up to USD 225 million.Es
Advised RWE in connection with the disposal of its stake in Horizon Nuclear Power Limited, a joint venture between RWE
E.ON, for GBP 696 million.Es
Advised CBPE Capital LLP in connection with its acquisition of a majority stake in Sofa.com, an omnichannel producer
retailer of sofas, armchairs
beds.Es
Advised Sovereign Capital LLP
other investors in connection with their disposal of interests in the Choice Care Group, a provider of personalized residential care
supported living for adults with learning disabilities.Es
The above representations were h
led by Mr. Pietrzak prior to his joining GREENBERG TRAURIG Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokinski sp.k.
