Mr Paweł Grześkowiak > Gide Loyrette Nouel > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile

The banking and finance team at Gide Loyrette Nouel frequently handles both domestic and cross-border transactions and advises on drafting the related documentation, corporate and real estate financings and regulatory issues. The group also providers borrowers and lenders with daily advice. Practice head Paweł Grześkowiak leads the firm’s private equity and venture capital departments, and along with Mateusz Gronau, boasts expertise in secured and structured financing operations, while Marta Karmińska is experienced in syndicated financings, as well as LBO transactions.

Gide Loyrette Nouel is well equipped to handle a range of DCM-related mandates for issuers, investors, investment banks and other financial institutions. It also boasts expertise in ECM matters, including in IPOs and delistings, rights offerings and public takeovers. Paweł Grześkowiak sits at the helm of the department, and he is ably assisted by Dawid Van Kędzierski.

Gide Loyrette Nouel‘s private equity and venture capital team advises clients on the entirety of corporate, regulatory, tax, financial and contractual elements of private equity work. More specifically, it frequently undertakes leveraged buyouts, venture capital transactions, real estate fund acquisitions, and exit matters. Paweł Grześkowiak leads the practice, which is sought after by local and international investors and sponsors. The practice is praised for demonstrating ‘a deep understanding of the complexities of private equity transactions‘.

Gide Loyrette Nouel‘s M&A and corporate law department, which is led by Dariusz Tokarczuk, is well placed to utilise the strengths of the firm’s wider banking and finance, private equity, and venture capital groups, which are headed up by Paweł Grześkowiak, to provide clients with a full-rounded offering. The practice has expertise in the creation and liquidation of companies, financing company operations, reorganisations, and daily corporate matters, to name a few areas of activity. Another key member of the team, Wojciech Czyżewski is lauded as ‘one of the best M&A lawyers on the Polish market‘, and his client base includes industry investors and private equity funds.

Gide Loyrette Nouel‘s employment group is adept at advising on the implementation of EU regulations relating to employment law, M&A transactions, employment restructurings, immigration issues and employment terminations. Paweł Grześkowiak heads up the practice but also brings expertise in banking and M&A to the group. Joanna Jasiewicz is a reputed litigator and has a strong focus on harassment, discrimination and gender pay gap issues.