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Rafał Kwiatkowski, board member and chief operations officer has a multi-faceted role at leading real estate investment company Echo Polska Properties (EPP) that includes heading EPP’S legal operations. EPP was created in 2016 as a result of a joint venture between Echo Investment and Redefine Properties – Kwiatkowski had previously held the chief legal officer role at Echo Investment and assumed the most senior legal role at the new company when the deal was completed. The transaction involved Redefine Properties acquiring a 70% controlling stake in the company that owned 18 commercial properties for €1.2bn – the largest ever Polish commercial real estate deal. Praised for his role in managing and leading the oversight of this complex transaction, a nominator claims Kwiatkowski has achieved something that ‘very few in-house lawyers have done within such a short space of time’. This included achievements such as ‘leading the IPO of EPP in Holland, then EPP’s dual listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, a further fund raising of Johannesburg, whilst also managing the acquisition of a further five commercial real estate properties in Poland – all within the space of just over one year’.