‘The real estate finance team has an excellent understanding of the market and practice area. Client-focused, efficient, reliable and accessible.’

‘During the process of picking the legal adviser for a significant syndicated deal, which I had the pleasure to coordinate on behalf of the agent, the CC team-members were very convincing, open-minded, and much more impressive than many other well known competitors.’

‘The banking and finance team, managed by Andrzej Stosio, turned out to be very competent, open-minded, creative in preparing specific solutions that were needed to close this complicated and innovative deal.’

‘Strong banking and energy due diligence team with sufficient capabilities to run complicated project financing in short period of time and in professional way.’

‘The biggest law firm in Poland. Full stop.’

‘Bartosz Nojek is my pleasure to work in the Dentons team. Bartek is a rising star among the lawyers specializing in banking. Huge knowledge, experience and constant commitment mean that I do not hesitate to entrust Bartek with our next projects.’

‘Understanding of client needs and acting to help customers.’

‘Pace of work. They are fast and help their clients achieved their goals.’

‘They have been very professional, efficient, commercial and focused on achieving the goals of the transaction. Our cooperation has been very smooth and effective.’

‘We have primarily worked with Piotr Nerwiński, who is very responsive, open-minded, focused on detail and on providing solid and resolving legal solutions to any situation. He is also very experienced, understands the business and brings a wealth of knowledge to his advice. He is also open to discuss the fee arrangements, shows the required flexibility on this front and full understanding on the borrower’s processes – which is extra important when, as the borrowers, we are paying legal fees of Dentons acting for the financing bank.’

‘Due to the knowledge about our way of working, experience and expectation the cooperation was very effective and not so much time consuming.’

‘Olga Koszewska coordinates all the issues between the B&B team and is absolute front line person for our group.’

‘CMS banking team delivers high quality documents within agreed time. They are very engaged and available.’

‘Jakub Podkowa is a very business-oriented person who is aiming to achieve compromise over spending unproductive time on exchanging unnecessary comments.’

‘I believe they are quite flexible in respect of pricing.’

‘Competent and trustworthy.’

‘Michal Mezykowski is calm and professional.’

‘Very experienced lawyers, find the solutions to different scope of issues. Understand not only client’s needs but also the other party.’

‘Transactional knowledge and flexible approach.’

‘Katarzyna Wacławek is a very experienced lawyer with a focus on closing deals, and above all, a very nice and intelligent person to work with.’

‘The strength of DLA Piper is definitely its strong presence and knowledge of the local market and its legal/tax capabilities. That added to strong international experience provides the good service for securitisation transaction.’

‘The people understand my team and our clients. DLA Poland knows what we like and don’t like which is important because we have clients who are very particular about their legal process.’

‘They actually listen and try to accommodate to what we and our clients need. Katarzyna Wacławek and her team actually listen to us. We have found other lawyers in Poland tend to focus on their own process and how they want to do things, which does not work for our clients.’

‘Very good for sponsor-side work. Good understanding of the business of their clients, strong backing of their clients’ interests but commercial approach.’

‘Andrzej Wysokiński – tough negotiator but commercial and very good lawyer. Paulina Kimla – highly professional, good quality lawyer. Aleksander Janiszewski – commercial, reasonable but tough negotiator.’

‘Norton Rose Fulbright Warsaw banking team is a world-class banking team with a focus on diverse types of banking transactions. They are very helpful and easy to work with’

‘We particularly like working with Tomasz Rogalski. Tomasz is very bright and knowledgeable banking lawyer who knows the banking documentation inside out and offers very good legal and business advice. We appreciate Tomasz’s availability and willingness to spend time looking for practical solutions.’

‘I am pleased to work with them due to their professional skills, high dedication of the team to close smoothly the transaction, ability to sufficiently address our expectations in the documentation and full availability of the main team throughout the transaction period.’

‘I worked with Grzegorz Dyczkowski – partner and Marta Kawecka – counsel. Both of them are fully professional banking lawyers with sufficient experience and skills to navigate the transaction to the successful end. They are good in negotiations using the relevant arguments basing on knowledge and experience.’

‘Extensive experience in company financing contracts and M&A’

‘Availability, mostly immediate solution to the problem’

‘The banking and finance team has the features to ensure optimal results: outstanding lawyers with in-depth knowledge of the regulatory environment, a broad market overview and a strong understanding of clients’ business goals. They are not limited to presenting the simplest (and therefore usually the least attractive) interpretations and solutions, but they look for a safe compromise between regulatory requirements and running a successful business.’

‘Wojciech Iwański, apart from outstanding intelligence and a great sense of humour, is a guarantee of excellent legal skills. Clients are provided with a full overview of the available interpretations of ambiguous regulations. Wojtek’s assessments are always balanced, reliable and well-justified.’

‘In few words, high level of competence, flexibility, and customer needs’ care.’

‘The biggest advantage of the team is their flexibility which allows them to answer any customer need.’

‘They always try to put themselves in our shoes, they want to understand better to define the right solution for the question asked.’

‘A very committed team that helps us with advanced legal solutions in relation to financial technologies, including payment services.’

‘Competences and knowledge of the law of payment services which allows the implementation of the most innovative solutions.’

‘Very in-depth and comprehensive knowledge of payment services, both at the level of EU and national regulations.’

‘Collaboration, business approach, great knowledge on market practices, great technical expertise with ability to propose solutions.’

‘Mateusz Ordyk – Collaboration, business approach.’

‘The Deloitte team members we work with are high-level professionals with practical knowledge that we can use to consult on our innovative business solutions.’

‘Mateusz Ordyk – deep knowledge of financial and civil law, broad perspective on legal issues embedded in specific business conditions, outstanding creativity, high level of communicativeness.’

‘Very high operational excellence and legal support, which is based on the previous White & Case Banking and Finance team. All people are highly keen with regards to the negotiations and leading the legal works on the transaction.’

‘Michał Oleś is probably one of the best lawyers in Warsaw amongst the banking lawyers. The guy knows his craft extremely well, from small and mid-cap deal up to the largest CEE jumbo deals. He easily transfers the legal clauses from largest deals into a small caps, which give a huge comfort on the Lender’s end.’

‘Knowledge and experience of French market.’

‘I highly recommend Gide’s banking and finance team. We could count on their support and professionalism also in such a difficult period as the Covid pandemic. Thanks to them, we were able to carry out large and difficult projects even during the pandemic. We highly appreciate the transparent terms of cooperation, availability and quick response time. Working with Gide’s banking and finance team, we know that we will always receive the highest quality legal services.’

‘Gide have been our advisers for many years; they are extremely professional and competent and we have never been disappointed with them. The team has a very good understanding of our business and we have found them to be reliable in both local and cross-border projects’ 

‘Super responsive team, always meeting deadlines and achieving goals that we set. One can always rely on them. They are also flexible – using all available technology and communication means.’

‘Mateusz Gronau is our go-to lawyer on strategic assignments. We very much value his legal expertise as well as the ability to explain and address often complicated legal structures in a clear and precise way. He never let us down.’

‘This team is really engaged, They plan the whole transaction and the contact is very good. Their understanding of business is unique. Mateusz Dereszyński being a leader in the transaction is perfect negotiator, knowing the habits of the lender and the internal procedures as well as the client’s perspective. Meetings via Zoom are not boring. It is fruitful and interesting to work with them.’

‘I would point out at Mateusz Dereszyński and Monika Knothe as a very good team.’

‘Hogan Lovells (Warsaw) is a very capable, even if not the biggest team on the market. What I truly appreciate about them is that they would most usually assign a senior lawyer with a great deal of transactional experience to be involved in the matter we instruct them. They are prepared to work hard and work fast, if and when it matters.’

‘For most part, I have cooperated with Mateusz Dereszynski, a senior associate leading property finance team at Hogan Lovells in Warsaw. Whether acting on our or on lenders’ side, Mateusz is a very responsible, dedicated and sensible lawyer. He would usually go straight to the point and let us know what issue could be important and where some difficulty might appear. His legal knowledge is truly vast and IS paired with his practical experience in relation to transactional know-how.’

‘Sound legal knowledge and tireless work to support the client. Very strong up and down the ranks from partner to junior associate level.’

‘Jakub Rachwol has very strong legal knowledge, which is combined with commercial pragmatism. Tireless focus on client needs.’

‘Attention to detail, ability to handle even multi-layered complex cases.’

‘Zofia Frydrychowicz remains a key contact. Solution-solving approach is very appreciated.’

‘Very good communication and explanation of various topics for new and experienced clients. Wide experience of a team give lot of examples which are used during different discussion, negotiation. Team gives enough and clear information if a decision has to be taken.’

‘Extremely available team, high quality in deliveries each time, very good English skills and good understanding of market practices. Since working with them for the first time, we have come back several times and also recommended them to others.’

‘Great understanding of complex transaction (LBO, complex refinancing and public to private deals) connected with experienced senior team and very promising young lawyers.’

‘They helped us to shape sophisticated financial transactions, enabling us to anticipate issues, manage the risks and succeed in our endeavours.’

‘We had the opportunity to work with two extremely professional counsels – Piotr Grabarczyk and Michal Kalincki, who led us hand by hand in two complicated financing transactions including certain facilities. Both Piotr and Michal had vast and professional experience of optimizing the transactions on our behalf, finding creative and out of the box solutions to overcome critical paths being part of the transactions.’

‘Flexibility, problem-solving orientation.’

‘Przemek Kozdój has experience, high flexibility and a problem-solving attitude.’

‘At the moment, I think that their key strength is an excellent knowledge of the legal regulations that proved to be crucial for banks in recent years, such as AML, outsourcing, ESG or BMR. Its just a pure pleasure to work with PwC Legal team.‘

‘I would definitely like to highlight the work of Aleksandra Bańkowska. I highly appreciate our cooperation for the individual approach to the problems faced by banks and the flexibility in the proposed solutions to these problems.’

‘They have got unique knowledge regarding the EBA guidelines about outsourcing.’

‘What makes the PwC Legal banking & finance practice unique is an excellent ability of its lawyers to identify legal trends and interpret new regulations. Banks greatly appreciate their work on innovative regulatory issues (e.g. standpoint of Polish regulator on social media use). They set trends in the field of new legal acts and guidelines of Polish and European supervisory authorities in both Polish and EU markets. I would definitely recommend working with them.’

‘I would definitely recommend Aleksandra Bańkowska and Łukasz Łyczko. Working with them is a great pleasure (both at personal and merit level). Recently Konrad Frąckowiak was noticeable in our work. This team of lawyers just keeps surprising the Polish banks with very good interpretations of new regulations.’

‘The team delivers very good quality for a competitive price, with a practical approach and a drive to close matters. While there are larger firms out there in the market, Schoenherr showed personal involvement, commitment to our matter and the right level of expertise.’

‘Paweł Halwa is very efficient and has a ‘can-do’ approach – both in terms of commercial arrangements and the legal advice he provides. Marcin Antczak is very skilled technically and able to find the right solutions to balance the interest of the parties.’

‘We have been working with the law firm’s team for a long time. It is the best team in the market, available 24 hours, lawyers can call us at any time, especially in a situation that requires a quick response, very high level of knowledge, finding a solution for every situation, very good manners. We definitely feel very cared for and the work is always done flawlessly.’

‘We cooperate with many law firms, but cooperation with Paweł Zagórski from W&C means that we do not have to worry about possible errors in transactions and documentation. Everything is always done perfectly and every case is taken care of. Attorney Zagórski is also characterized by an extraordinary personal culture, composure necessary in numerous negotiations that he conducts. He is able to find a solution that will satisfy both parties.’

‘They are business-oriented, skilled lawyers, who are always looking for good business solutions. The team is skilled across several areas, including projects, equity financing, especially in renewables sector. Increasingly active in debt refinancing and restructuring matters. Particularly impressive financial services regulation practice, advising leading banks, insurance companies and financial institutions.’

‘Tomasz Kaczmarek is always very calm and focused on the objective to achieve. He is able to handle unforeseen complications with great mastery. What I appreciate is that the partner is always truly involved. Team led by Tomasz is also always well-staffed and deadline oriented.’

‘From our perspective the banking and finance practice at Eversheds Sutherland Poland possesses in-depth legal knowledge regarding all aspects of the consumer lending business, especially when it comes to dealing with debt sale transactions.’

‘Kochanski & Partners supports the financial sector by providing high quality legal opinions and contributing to the cross-sector initiative aimed at helping banks with adopting cloud technology, while staying compliant with law and regulations.’

‘Expert local knowledge of the payments market, both Poland / PSD2 europe and expertise in all areas of the payments ecosystem, including EU funding, patents.’

‘Business-oriented, “can do” approach. There are no irrelevant questions or problems for them. TKP becomes a part of a project team, working hand in hand with a customer to deliver business value and applicable solution. After finishing the project, they are still open to explain or fine-tune the result.’

‘Jan Byrski and Karol Juraszczyk working together constitute a powerful team. Great internal communications, short and precise answers and recommendations.’

‘What makes this practice unique is the experience of the lawyers. I think that potential clients would wish to know about the team’s experience the most since it is the key capability of the team.’

‘Well-experienced, meritocratic and punctual.’

‘Michał Wielhorski is experienced and organized, reasonable, open for discussion and ready to find compromises.’