About Rafal Siwek

Rafal Siwek focuses his practice on real estate. He advises international investors on real estate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals of commercial properties (shopping galleries, office buildings and logistics warehouses), including forward funding transactions and real estate related financing and refinancing projects. His experience also includes drafting and negotiating lease agreements as well as complex legal assistance in corporate restructuring processes of real estate sector companies and day-to-day advice on commercial and civil law matters.

Concentrations

•Real estate forward funding transactions
•Real estate sale and purchase transactions
•Construction law regulatory and litigation advise
•Real estate related restructuring and day to day advise
•Real estate finance
•Construction law

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

EMEA Legal 500:
•Next Generation Lawyer in Real Estate and Construction (2017)
•Recommended in Real Estate and Construction (2017)
Lexology Index: Recommended in Real Estate (2025)
Who's Who Legal: Recommended in Real Estate (2024)

 

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Areas of Law

  • Real Estate

Practice Details

  • Languages
    Polish
    English
  • Firm Information
    Position
    Partner
    Firm Name
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Experience: Real Estate Forward Funding Transactions on Logistics Market: Advised Invesco on two forward funding transactions regarding the development of two single tenant built-to-suit distribution centers in Pol
    with a total GLA of approx. 300,000 sqm.
    Advised Panattoni Europe on a forward funding transaction regarding three built-to-suit logistics/production centers in lodz (leased to Decathlon), Poznan (leased to Trioline)
    Sosnowiec (leased to Toy Story) with a total GLA of approx. 90,000 sqm.
    Advised Panattoni Europe on a forward funding transaction regarding the development of a built-to-suit logistics center in Raszyn (leased to TNT).
    Advised Invesco on a forward funding transaction regarding the development of a Multi-Tenant Logistics Park near Wroclaw.
    Advised Invesco on a forward funding transaction regarding a built-to-suit logistics center for Castorama in Strykow, Pol
    with an area of 50,000 sqm (including day-to-day advice during the development process).Es
    Advised Invesco on a forward funding transaction regarding the development of a built-to-suit distribution center for Tesco in Gliwice, Pol
    with a GLA of 57,000 sqm
    a value of EUR 37 million (including day-to-day advice during the development process).Es
    EsThe above representations were h
    led by Mr. Siwek prior to his joining GREENBERG TRAURIG Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokinski sp. k.
    Real Estate Sale
    Purchase Transactions: Represented Gdansk-based company Torus in the sale of the Format office building to a Singaporean fund represented by Greenstone.
    Represented Invesco Real Estate, the global real estate investment manager, on the sale of a logistics park with a total lease area of approx. 110,000 sqm, situated in the vicinity of the Gdansk international airport to EQT Exeter.
    Advised Invesco Real Estate, the global real estate investment manager, on a transaction concerning the sale of A2 Warsaw Park, the largest single warehouse project in the Warsaw area, to Savills IM, acting on behalf Savills IM European Logistics Fund 3. The total value of the transaction was EUR 112.5 million.
    Advised Torus on the sale of the Neon office building, the fourth
    final stage of the Alchemia business complex in Gdansk, to the German fund DWS Grundbesitz GmbH Sp. z o.o. branch in Pol
    . The sale transaction, worth over EUR 80 million, is the second highest in the Polish developer's history in terms of value
    one of the largest in the history of the Tricity office market.
    Advised Invesco Real Estate in connection with the sale of a logistic center in lodz to Savills Investment Management acting on behalf Savills IM European Logistics Fund 2.
    Advised Heitman in connection with the sale of the Marynarska Business Park A-class office building complex located in the Mokotow district of Warsaw to Benson Elliot.
    Advised a Spanish private equity fund, Azora Europa, on the sale of the Cristal Park
    Mokotow Plaza office buildings located in Warsaw.
    Advised IREEF, managed by Invesco Real Estate, on the sale of its enterprise, i.e. IREEF-Crown Square Warsaw PropCosp. z o.o., the owner of the Crown Square office building to M&A Capital.
    Advised Invesco Real Estate on the sale of a logistics center in northern Pol
    with an area of approx. 160,000 sqm to Vestas Investment Management.
    Advised REINO Partners in connection with the purchase of the Alchemia I Building in Gdansk.
    Advised Invesco Real Estate on the sale of the Raiffeisen Business Center, an A class office building located in the center of Warsaw.
    Advised Invesco on the sale of Tesco's logistics center in Gliwice, Pol
    , with a GLA of 57,000 sq. m.Es
    Advised Buma, a Polish developer active mainly in Southern Pol
    , on the sale of an office building in the 'Green Office Complex' in Krakow.Es
    Advised Invesco on the sale of a logistics center leased to H&M in Gadki, near Poznan, Pol
    , with a GLA of 83,300 sqm
    a value of EUR 64 million.Es
    Advised Varscovia I CB, a Spanish group of investors managed by ARIS SC, on the sale of the 'M76' office building in Warsaw.Es
    EsThe above representations were h
    led by Mr. Siwek prior to his joining GREENBERG TRAURIG Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokinski sp. k.
    Real Estate Restructuring
    Day to Day Advise: Advised a leading owner
    manager of shopping malls in Eastern
    Central Europe on a EUR 1 billion internal restructuring
    transfer of real estate across Pol
    .
    Advised various clients on construction law
    planning law matters, including management
    supervisory of due diligence processes in that respect, representation before administrative bodies
    courts.
    Advised Invesco on a corporate
    real property restructurings
    transfer of real estate across Pol
    processes including office buildings
    logistics centers.
    The above representations were h
    led by Mr. Siwek prior to his joining GREENBERG TRAURIG Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokinski sp.k.
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Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    2007, Poland
    Memberships

    Professional & Community Involvement

    •Member, Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law

  • Education & Certifications
    Other Education
    Warsaw University
    Class of 2007
    Master of Law

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    Rafal Siwek speaks Polish.
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