Mr Aleksander Grabecki > CMS > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile

CMS
Varso Tower
Chmielna 69 St.
00-801 Warsaw
Poland

Work Department

Real Estate & Construction

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Aleksander Grabecki is an advocate and senior associate in the Real Estate and Construction Department at CMS.

For more than a decade, he has advised on local and cross-border real estate transactions and major development projects in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe at every stage of the investment process and in all market segments. He specialises in office, retail, logistics and residential projects, in both the private and public sectors, as well as projects based on alternative asset classes, such as data centers and student housing. In addition, he advises on structuring transactions, financing and refinancing of real estate.

He is an expert in the field of commercial lease. He has extensive experience in particular in large projects in the office, retail, warehouse, and hotel markets, on both the landlord and tenant sides, as well as in the innovative area of green/sustainable lease. In addition, he supports clients in other real estate and asset management matters.

He also specialises in preparing and negotiating construction contracts, including FIDIC contracts, project management and development agreements, as well as design work agreements, including those based on BIM (Building Information Modeling).

In addition, he works with various entities on projects involving new technologies and digitisation, including the implementation of ESG and BIM (Building Information Modeling) in the real estate and construction sectors in Poland.

He is a guest lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology on ESG aspects related to construction.

Aleksander has a track record of pro bono consulting, including for leading cultural institutions in new construction projects. He also successfully represents clients in complex administrative and administrative-court cases as well as civil proceedings.

Languages

Polish, English

Memberships

  • Warsaw Bar Association

Education

  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Warsaw

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Construction

CMS boasts a sizable construction team renowned for regularly handling both contentious and non-contentious matters related to some of Poland’s most complex investment projects on behalf of contractors, designers and investors. Clients highly commend the practice for its ‘keen focus on aligning legal strategies with specific business types and interests‘. Agata Jurek-Zbrojska heads up the team. Lidia Dziurzyńska-Leipert advises on construction projects in both the private and public procurement sectors. Michał Bork, stands out as an expert in investment law, while Piotr Stenko specialises in litigation and arbitration involving investments in the infrastructure space. Associates Aleksander Grabecki and Mateusz Jaworski are also notable.