Category: Poland

Gessel has advised Polski Bank Komorek Macierzystych on its acquisition of 70% shares in the newly created Famicord-Acibadem company. Caliskan Okkan Tokker reportedly advised PBKM as well, while Esin Attorney Partnership advised Acibadem on the transaction.

PBKM is the largest stem cell bank in Poland, and it leads the international FamiCord Group, which manages stem cell banks located in Europe and Turkey.

The Acibadem Health Group, which was founded in 1991 and is a private health institution in Turkey, operates 21 hospitals and 13 clinics in four countries.

Gessel’s team included Partner Maciej Kozuchowski and Senior Lawyer Piotr Rysiak.

Esin Attorney Partnership’s team included Partner Caner Elmas and Associates Sila Pinar and Defne Sahin.

SMM has helped Energa-Obrot S.A. settle its seventh and final dispute in a series of conflicts involving green certificates with unnamed business partners involving wind farms.

SMM Legal’s team consisted of Partner Pawel Lacki and Senior Associate Patrycja Starczewska. The firm, which reports that it “has been providing legal support throughout the process concerning the invalidation of framework agreements, said it was unable to provide additional information.

Zieba & Partners has advised EG A/S on its acquisition of Holte AS. Norway’s Thommessen Law advised the sellers on the deal.

Zieba & Partners describes Holte as “a Norwegian provider of workflow management software for the SME building construction industry,” and reports that “it employs 135 people … in Oslo, Tonsberg, Trondheim, and Gdansk.”

EG A/S is Scandinavian supplier of industry-specific software.

Zieba & Partners’s team was led by Partner Aleksandra Polak and included Partners Marcin Huczkowski and Anna Cichonska and Associates Bartosz Jussak and Aleksandra Kuliczkowska.

Dentons has helped Pro Patria Electronics win a public contract bid to deliver 104 battlefield reconnaissance radar sets in Poland.

The contract procedure for the project started in 2015, with 13 prospective contractors involved. According to Dentons, “the Polish Armaments Inspectorate found the bid put forward by [Pro Patria Electronics] to be superior to all the others submitted in the procedure and the contract for the delivery of the radars was duly executed on March 10, 2020.”

Dentons’ team included Managing Counsel Anna Szymanska, Senior Associate Agnieszka Gilowska, and Paralegal Adam Krolak.

Penteris has advised Immofinanz on its sale of the Equator I office building in Warsaw to CPI Property Group. Dentons advised the buyers on the deal.

Equator I is an A-class office building just outside the Warsaw city center with a total rental area of around 19,000 square meters.

Penteris’ team included Partners Agnieszka Pytlas and Dawid Demianiuk and Associate Kamil Osowksi.

Dentons’ team consisted of Partner Monika Sitowicz, Senior Asscociate Andrzej Wloch, and Associate Karolina Ostrowska.

Rymarz Zdort has advised Innova Capital and OPTeam on the sale of Centrum Rozliczen Elektronicznych Polskie ePlatnosci to Rementi Investments, a subsidiary of Nets A/S, a pan-European payment processing company based in Denmark. White & Case advised Rementi Investments on the transaction.

The preliminary agreement was executed on March 11, 2020, and with the transaction value is estimated at EUR 405 million. The deal remains subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2020.

Polskie ePlatnosci is the third-largest payment card operator in Poland. It operates more than 125,000 POS terminals and offers a broad range of payment solutions.

Rymarz Zdort’s team included Managing Partner Pawel Rymarz, Partners Jacek Zawadzki, Monika Kierepa, Iwona Her, and Marcin Iwaniszyn, Counsel Marek Kanczew, Senior Associates Leszek Cyganiewicz, Barbara Skardzinska, and Tomasz Bakowski, and Associates Aleksander Jakubisiak, Michal Szczepanski, Szymon Cieniawski, Arkadiusz Karwala, Michal Kostewicz, Weronika Szyszka, and Piotr Stawowski.

White & Case’s team included Warsaw-based Partner Marcin Studniarek, Local Partner Marek Sawicki, Counsels Jakub Gubanski and Malgorzata Pasnik, and Associates Karolina Kalucka, Malgorzata Herda, Iwo Malobecki, and Radomir Szewczuk. Its team in London included Partner Richard Jones and Associate Jessica Sullivan.

Editor’s note: On November 12, 2020, White & Case reported that it had helped Hellman & Friedman and its subsidiary Nets obtain approval for the acquisition from the President of the Competition and Consumer Protection Office in Poland. In addition to the lawyers who worked on the deal itself, White & Case’s team included Associate Maciej Gac.

Zieba & Partners has advised Gamma Communications on Polish Law aspects of its acquisition of Exactive Holdings Limited. England’s Moore Blatch advised Exactive.

Exactive specializes in Unified Communications as a Service and offers a multi-tenant Microsoft Teams PSTN routing platform.

According to Zieba & Partners, “Gamma is a technology-based provider of communications services to business markets in the UK and the Netherlands. Post-acquisition, Gamma will be able to provide a complete range of services for Microsoft Teams.”

Zieba & Partners’s team was led by Partner Aleksandra Polak, with support from Partners Marcin Huczkowski and Anna Cichonska, and Associates Bartosz Jussak and Aleksandra Kuliczkowska

Act BSWW has advised the Management Boards of the Buma Group companies on the sale of its real estate assets to Reino RF CEE Real Estate, a joint venture established by Reino Capital and RF CorVal International Holdings Limited. Clifford Chance, Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka, and Oles & Rodzeynkiewicz advised the sellers on the deal, while Greenberg Traurig advised the buyers.

The total value of the assets sold by Buma, which include office and residential buildings, land intended for residential and office development, and ongoing construction projects, runs in excess of PLN 1.3 billion.

The assets will go to Reino RF CEE Real Estate, The final agreements are to be executed by the end of June this year. The total value of the assets sold by Buma runs in excess of PLN 1.3 billion.

The Act BSWW team was led by Managing Partner Michał Wielhorski and included Partner Michal Soltyszewski and Senior Associate Mateusz Prokopiuk, among others.

Clifford Chance’s team included Senior Associate Joanna Satkiewicz and Counsels Bartosz Kaniasty and Tomasz Derda.

Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka has advised TECS Telecommunication & e-Commerce Solutions GmbH on a tender for the implementation of a project for handling cashless payments and settling transactions in the Electronic Toll Collection System that was conducted by Poland’s General Inspectorate of Road Transport.

GIRT awarded the project to a consortium that TECS led, which also included PKO BP and Centrum Elektronicznych Uslug Platniczych eService. The estimated value of the project is PLN 23 million.

According to DZP, “GIRT has been responsible for the administration of the toll collection system since November 2018 and is responsible for developing and implementing new e-toll solutions and other tasks. At the end of last year, GIRT announced a tender for the handling and authorization of cashless payments and settlement of transactions using Payment Cards and Fleet Cards in the Electronic Toll Collection System. Thanks to this contract carriers will not have to make payments in cash and the National Toll Collection System will continue to operate smoothly.”

Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka’s team included Counsels Wojciech Hartung and Pawel Gruszecki, Senior Associate Michal Wojciechowski, and Associate Karolina Kulikowska.