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Poland
Banking and finance
Banking and finance - ranked: tier 3
Gide Loyrette Nouel
At Gide Loyrette Nouel, the team provides transactional advice, as well as day-to-day regulatory assistance to Polish and international banks, insurance companies, leasing companies, financial institutions and businesses. Practice leader Paweł Grześkowiak advised KGHM on a €212m second financing facility granted by the European Investment Bank to support a modernisation programme. Marta Kamińska is recommended for structured financing mandates.
Commercial, corporate and M&A
Commercial, corporate and M&A - ranked: tier 3
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gide Loyrette Nouel's group is led by Dariusz Tokarczuk, who is supported by Paweł Grześkowiak. Tokarczuk and Marcin Muszel advised Auchan on the spin-off of its businesses into Immochan Polska; a matter that included real estate and employment-related issues.
Competition/antitrust
Competition/antitrust - ranked: tier 4
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gide Loyrette Nouel handles competition matters that arise out of business operations, proceedings before the authorities and compliance issues. Practice head Dariusz Tokarczuk is advising Auchan Polska on supply policy issues. Szymon Chwaliński is recommended for his expertise in competition, consumer protection and distribution law.
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Szymon Chwaliński - Gide Loyrette Nouel
Dispute resolution
Dispute resolution - ranked: tier 3
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gide Loyrette Nouel handles a variety of civil and criminal litigation, as well as arbitration before domestic and international courts. The group has particular expertise in commercial defamation cases. The General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways remains a client for practice head Piotr Sadownik, who represents the authority in a number of proceedings related to the construction of main roads in Poland. He is also representing PGNiG in a series of claims made by and against the client. Counsel Krzysztof Ciepliński specialises in commercial disputes.
Employment
Employment - ranked: tier 3
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gide Loyrette Nouel has a niche in transport sector-related employment issues, including litigation related to social dumping and posting of workers. It also handles collective bargaining agreements, restructurings and lay-offs. The team is led by Paweł Grześkowiak, who is coordinating a number of litigation cases in relation to benefits to international drivers, including night-time allowances, EU minimum wages, as well as collective and individual labour law issues. Associate Joanna Jasiewicz is another name to note.
Energy and natural resources
Energy and natural resources - ranked: tier 3
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Highlights for Gide Loyrette Nouel's practice head Piotr Sadownik included advising PGNiG on a potential expansion abroad. Konrad Kosicki is assisting Tauron Polska Energia with compliance issues relating to the EU directive on markets in financial instruments II and all associated legislation. Grzegorz Banasiuk is recommended for public procurement and privatisation matters.
Intellectual property
Intellectual property - ranked: tier 4
Gide Loyrette Nouel
At Gide Loyrette Nouel, practice head Piotr Sadownik is representing L’Oréal in claims brought by copyright holders pertaining to music used in the client's product advertising. Krzysztof Ciepliński is another name to note.
Private equity
Private equity - ranked: tier 4
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gide Loyrette Nouel's team leverages the firm's corporate, finance, regulatory, tax and contract law expertise to provide a full service to private equity funds, their sponsors and investors. Department head Paweł Grześkowiak advised Enterprise Investors on the acquisition of a 38% stake in Unilink, in a deal that will consist of a capital increase and partial buy-out.
Public law
Public law - ranked: tier 2
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Public procurement constitutes a core competency of Gide Loyrette Nouel's Warsaw office, which handles public investments including motorways, pipelines, railways, sea and air terminals and other infrastructure projects. Dariusz Tokarczuk and department head Piotr Sadownik are advising KGHM Polska Miedź on matters pertaining to a project to expand the headquarters of the Żelazny Most Mining Waste Disposal Facility. Paweł Grześkowiak represented Leonardo Group in negotiations with the Armament Inspectorate of the Ministry of National Defence concerning a contract to supply four M-346 jet training aircraft.
Leading individuals

Piotr Sadownik - Gide Loyrette Nouel
Real estate
Real estate - ranked: tier 2
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Real estate is a core practice at Gide Loyrette Nouel, which advises on transactions across the commercial, office, hospitality, residential, elderly care and logistics sectors. Błażej Czwarnok (who 'understands clients' needs perfectly') advised Yareal on the acquisition of the Soho Factory area in Warsaw from Soho Developments. Practice head Marcin Muszel advised Griffin Real Estate on the sale of property in central Warsaw to Dom Development. Tomasz Roszczyc is another contact of note.
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Tomasz Roszczyc - Gide Loyrette Nouel
Restructuring and insolvency
Restructuring and insolvency - ranked: tier 3
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gide Loyrette Nouel handles bankruptcy proceedings and restructuring operations for companies with domestic and cross-border operations. Practice head Piotr Sadownik is advising the Polish road administration authority on a risk assessment relating to the potential impacts of a request to open bankruptcy proceedings by Portuguese company MSF Engenharia.
Tax
Tax - ranked: tier 4
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Highlights for Gide Loyrette Nouel's Dariusz Tokarczuk included advising Lactalis Polska on the tax-efficient rearrangement of suppliers' schemes in relation to the limitations on the tax deductibility of royalties and intangible services. Ewa Żbikowska is another tax adviser of note.
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Algeria
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France
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- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Compliance
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution: commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Employment
- Environment
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus : Industry focus: energy
- Industry focus : Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus : Industry focus: IT, telecoms and the internet
- Industry focus : Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Insolvency
- Insurance
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property: copyright
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Media and entertainment
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity : Private equity: Fund formation
- Private equity : Private equity: venture/growth capital
- Project finance
- Real estate
- Tax
London
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- Dispute resolution : International arbitration
- Finance : Derivatives (including commodities)
- Finance : Structured products and securitisation
- Foreign firms : European firms in London: France
Morocco
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- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Employment
- Intellectual property
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- Tax
- Tourism and real estate
Poland
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- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition/antitrust
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- Intellectual property
- Private equity
- Public law
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
Tunisia
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Turkey
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