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What we say about the firm's legal practice in Poland
Banking and finance
Within Banking and finance, Clifford Chance is a first tier firm,
Clifford Chance continues to house a ‘first-class’ banking and finance department. Office managing partner Grzegorz Namiotkiewicz has vast experience in the finance sector and Jan Zdzienicki represents banks and borrowers in property, acquisition and aircraft finance. Zdzienicki also acts in regulatory and consumer banking matters as well as loan restructuring projects. The team advised European Investment Bank in relation to a PPP project consisting of the financing, construction and operation of the Stryków-Pyrzowice 180km section of the A1 toll motorway in Poland.
Capital markets (debt)
Within Capital markets (debt), Clifford Chance is a first tier firm,
‘Simply fantastic for debt matters,’ Clifford Chance advised PGNiG on the up-to PLN3bn issue of bonds to finance PGNiG’s investment programmes. Grzegorz Namiotkiewicz is recommended.
Capital markets (equity)
Within Capital markets (equity), Clifford Chance is a third tier firm,
Clifford Chance recently advised Credit Suisse, UniCredit and Citi on the sale of a stake in the fully marketed offering of ENEA by the Polish Ministry of Treasury.
Competition/antitrust
Within Competition/antitrust, Clifford Chance is a second tier firm,
Clifford Chance’s counsel Iwona Terlecka is recommended for antitrust, cartel and state aid representation, as well as merger control assistance. The team continues to advise Lafarge Cement in horizontal cartel proceedings.
Corporate and M&A
Within Corporate and M&A, Clifford Chance is a first tier firm,
At ‘top-tier firm’ Clifford Chance, the team recently advised TVN on the acquisition of the remaining 49% stake in ITI Neovision, the Poland-based owner and operator of Polish digital platform N, from ITI Group. The practice also advised Abris-EMP Capital Partners in connection with the acquisition of Prime Car Management and Futura Leasing, operating under the name Masterlease, from GMAC. Agnieszka Janicka is recommended. Piotr Dulewicz and Michal Karwacki left for Salans.
Dispute resolution
Within Dispute resolution, Clifford Chance is a second tier firm,
Led by Bartosz Kruzewski, Clifford Chance’s experience spans both arbitration and litigation at domestic and international levels. Typical cases have emanated from the oil and gas sector, post-merger and privatisation disputes, investment-related cases, telecommunications issues, and construction and shareholders’ disputes. The team also advises in white-collar cases and contentious matters related to directors’ liabilities. Recent highlights include representing the Government of Poland in a €700m-plus international arbitration instigated by Mercuria Group, marking the third-largest claim ever launched against Poland by an investor.
Employment
Within Employment, tier 4
Clifford Chance’s recent highlights include advising PZU on employment restructuring issues involving approximately 6,600 employees. Team head Anna Halas-Jastrun is a key contact.
Energy and natural resources
Within Energy and natural resources, Clifford Chance is a second tier firm,
Clifford Chance’s corporate head Agnieszka Janicka and Tomasz Janas are noted for M&A and regulatory work in the conventional and renewable energy sector. Daniel Kopania and his construction team advised Gas Transmission Operator GAZ-SYSTEM and Polskie LNG on EPC contract, public procurement and EPC issues relating to an LNG terminal and acted for PGE Górnictwo i Energetyka Konwencjonalna on the performance of a turnkey contract for the construction of an 858MW power unit, the largest construction contract implemented in Poland.
Legal market overview
Within Legal market overview,
News of the year for the Polish legal market was the defection of Pawel Debowski and his prized real estate team to Salans from Clifford Chance. Salans’ own property group endured some losses, when Marek Grodek and three lawyers left for Dewey & LeBoeuf Grzesiak SP.K..
Real estate
Within Real estate, Clifford Chance is a second tier firm,
Clifford Chance endured the departure of real estate head Pawel Debowski, Piotr Szafarz and Maciej Ryniewicz to Salans. Now headed by recently promoted Daniel Kopania, the practice advised Skanska Development on its office developments in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lodz and Katowice.
Tax
Within Tax, Clifford Chance is a third tier firm,
Clifford Chance’s Wojciech Dmoch and Tomasz Szymura are noted for specialist transactional tax advice, including tax structuring asisstance. The team advised Ghelamco Poland on the tax aspects of an acquisition of a majority stake in Bellona, a well-known Polish publishing house specialising in historical and military literature.
What we say worldwide
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United Arab Emirates
Offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Investment funds : Investment funds
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
- Real estate : Real estate
Australia
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Energy and resources : Energy and resources
- Foreign firms : Foreign firms
Belgium
Offices in Brussels
- Banking, finance and capital markets : Banking, finance and capital markets
- Competition : Competition
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping : Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- EU regulatory : EU regulatory: Information technology
- Information technology : Information technology
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
China
Offices in Shanghai and Beijing
- Banking and finance : Foreign firms
- Corporate & M&A : Beijing
- Corporate & M&A : Foreign firms
- Dispute resolution : Foreign firms
- Private equity/venture capital : Foreign firms
- Projects and energy : Foreign firms
Czech Republic
Offices in Prague
- Banking, finance and capital markets : Banking, finance and capital markets
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Real estate and construction : Real estate and construction
Germany
Offices in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, and Munich
- Antitrust : Antitrust
- Banking and finance: Bank lending : Banking and finance: Bank lending
- Banking and finance: Project finance : Banking and finance: Project finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A: Large deals : Corporate and M&A: Large deals
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Information technology and outsourcing : Information technology and outsourcing
- Insolvency and restructuring: Restructuring : Insolvency and restructuring: Restructuring
- Investment funds : Investment funds
- Private equity : Private equity
- Public sector : Public sector
- Real estate and construction: Real estate : Real estate and construction: Real estate
- Structured finance and securitisation : Structured finance and securitisation
- Tax : Tax
- Telecoms : Telecoms
Algeria
Spain
Offices in Madrid and Barcelona
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- EU and competition : EU and competition
- Employment : Employment
- Environment : Environment
- Insurance : Insurance
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
- Real estate : Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT : TMT
- Tax : Tax
France
Offices in Paris
- Administrative and public law : Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation : Dispute resolution Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration : Dispute resolution International arbitration
- EU competition and distribution : EU competition and distribution
- Employment : Employment
- IT, telecoms and the internet : IT, telecoms and the internet
- Insolvency : Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Full-service firms : Intellectual property: Full-service firms
- Mergers and acquisitions : Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity : Private equity
- Project finance and energy: Project finance : Project finance and energy: Project finance
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Ghana
Hong Kong
Offices in Hong Kong
- Asset finance : Asset finance
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets (debt) : Capital markets (debt)
- Capital markets (equity) : Capital markets (equity)
- Corporate (including M&A) : Corporate (including M&A)
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Dispute resolution International arbitration : Dispute resolution International arbitration
- Employment : Employment
- Insurance : Insurance
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property
- Investment funds : Investment funds
- Private equity : Private equity
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
- Real estate : Real estate
- Regulatory : Regulatory
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
- Structured finance and securitisation : Structured finance and securitisation
- Tax and trusts : Tax and trusts
Indonesia
India
Italy
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Administrative law : Administrative law
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets: Debt : Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity : Capital markets: Equity
- Corporate and M&A: Milan and Rome : Corporate and M&A Milan and Rome
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- EU, regulatory and competition law : EU, regulatory and competition law
- Employment : Employment
- Energy : Energy
- Real estate : Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax : Tax
Japan
Offices in Tokyo
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : International firms and joint ventures
- Capital markets : International firms and joint ventures
- Corporate and M&A : International firms and joint ventures
- Dispute resolution : International firms and joint ventures
- Real estate and construction : International firms and joint ventures
- Structured finance/securitisation : International firms and joint ventures
Kuwait
London
Offices in London E14 and London EC2R
- Corporate and commercial : Overview
- Corporate and commercial : Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial : EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial : Equity capital markets: UK capability
- Corporate and commercial : Equity capital markets: US capability
- Corporate and commercial : Financial services
- Corporate and commercial : M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, 250m+
- Corporate and commercial : Private equity: transactions
- Corporate and commercial : VAT and indirect tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing : Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing : Fraud: corporate crime
- Dispute resolution : Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution : Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution : International arbitration
- Dispute resolution : Public international law
- Finance : Overview
- Finance : Acquisition finance
- Finance : Asset finance and leasing
- Finance : Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance : Commodities: derivatives
- Finance : Corporate restructuring and insolvency
- Finance : Debt capital markets
- Finance : Derivatives and structured products
- Finance : Emerging markets
- Finance : High yield
- Finance : Investment funds
- Finance : Islamic finance
- Finance : Securitisation
- Finance : Trade finance
- Human resources : Overview
- Human resources : Employee share schemes
- Human resources : Employment
- Human resources : Immigration
- Human resources : Pensions
- Insurance : Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Insurance : Insurance: insolvency and restructuring
- Insurance : Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance : Product liability: defendant
- Insurance : Professional negligence
- Private client : Contentious trusts and probate
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Infrastructure
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Private finance initiative (PFI)
- Public sector : Administrative and public law
- Public sector : Civil liberties and human rights
- Public sector : Public affairs
- Real estate : Overview
- Real estate : Commercial property
- Real estate : Construction
- Real estate : Environment
- Real estate : Planning
- Real estate : Property finance
- Real estate : Property litigation
- Real estate : Social housing: finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) : IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) : Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) : Media and entertainment
- Transport : Rail
Luxembourg
Offices in Luxembourg
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Insurance : Insurance
- Investment funds : Investment funds
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Morocco
Netherlands
Offices in Amsterdam
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Arbitration : Arbitration
- Asset finance and structured finance : Asset finance and structured finance
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Commercial litigation : Commercial litigation
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- EU and competition : EU and competition
- Employment : Employment
- Energy : Energy
- Environment and planning : Environment and planning
- Information technology : Information technology
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property
- Mediation : Mediation
- Private equity : Private equity
- Project finance and PFI : Project finance and PFI
- Real estate : Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax : Tax
Oman
Philippines
Poland
Offices in Warsaw
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets (debt) : Capital markets (debt)
- Capital markets (equity) : Capital markets (equity)
- Competition/antitrust : Competition/antitrust
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Energy and natural resources : Energy and natural resources
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Qatar
Offices in Doha
Romania
Offices in Bucharest
- Banking, finance and capital markets : Banking, finance and capital markets
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources : Energy and natural resources
- IT, telecoms and media : IT, telecoms and media
- Public private partnership and procurement : Public private partnership and procurement
- Real estate : Real estate
Russia
Offices in Moscow
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A: Moscow : Corporate and M&A: Moscow
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Energy and natural resources : Energy and natural resources
- Public private partnership : Public private partnership
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Singapore
Offices in Singapore
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Asset finance : Foreign firms
- Banking and finance : Foreign firms
- Capital markets : Foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A : Foreign firms
- Projects and energy : Foreign firms
- Restructuring and insolvency : Foreign firms
- International arbitration : International arbitration
South Korea
Taiwan
Thailand
Offices in Bangkok
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A (including capital markets) : Corporate and M&A (including capital markets)
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
- Real estate and construction : Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT : TMT
- Transport : Transport
Tunisia
Turkey
Offices in Istanbul
Ukraine
Offices in Kiev
- Banking, finance and capital markets : Banking, finance and capital markets
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Real estate and construction : Real estate and construction
United States
Offices in Washington DC, New York, and Menlo Park
- Finance : Asset finance and leasing
- Finance : Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance : Corporate restructuring
- Finance : Project finance
- Finance : Structured finance
- Investment fund formation and management : Private equity funds
- Investment fund formation and management : Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Litigation : White-collar criminal defense
- Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts : M&A: large deals ($1bn-5bn)
- Real estate and construction : Real estate
- Tax : Domestic tax: East Coast
- Tax : Employee benefits and executive compensation
- Tax : Financial products
- Tax : International