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Kochanski & Partners Offices

Kochanski & Partners
METROPOLITAN BUILDING
PL PILSUDSKIEGO 1
00-078 WARSAW
Poland
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Mr Rafal Rapala

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Work Department

Transactional Practices Group

Position

Attorney-at-law / Partner / Head of Corporate Law and Corporate Litigation / M&A and Private Equity Transactions

Career

Rafał has over 25-years’ experience in managing complex M&A transactions, structuring joint ventures, and advising on high-value and multi-jurisdictional deals, including portfolio sales and restructurings of capital groups.

He advises on the full spectrum of corporate work supporting buyers and sellers, investors and owners, private equity and venture capital funds, in public takeovers, private M&A, equity capital markets, private equity projects, commercial partnerships, disposals, and board advisory issues. He is experienced in acting as leading counsel in cross-border projects.

Rafał assists clients in all aspects of commercial law, corporate governance and ownership conflicts. He develops litigation strategies and represents clients in dispute resolution before courts of all instances, and during negotiations. He also deals with multistakeholder ownership, financial and asset restructuring.

His clients include, among others, companies from the FMCG, TMT, energy, automotive, pharmaceutical, military, manufacturing, and real estate sectors, as well as banks and financial institutions.

Awards: The Legal 500 EMEA in the field of Commercial, Corporate and M&A, Private Equity, Restructuring and Insolvency. IFLR1000 in M&A

Languages

Polish, English

Memberships

The Warsaw Bar Association

Education

Faculty of Law and Administration at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Restructuring and insolvency

The restructuring and insolvency team at Kochanski & Partners predominately supports creditors and investors, which mainly include financial institutions and private equity funds, as well as financially distressed entities. Its offering encompasses advice on out-of-court and in-court restructurings and bankruptcy proceedings, corporate and employment restructurings, and post-restructuring disputes, as well as insolvency proceedings. Corporate lawyer Rafał Rapala is notable for his expertise in restructuring projects of capital groups, and head of the litigation practice Mateusz Ostrowski is another notable name in the team.

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