With an ‘exceptional combination of expertise, legal skills and a business-oriented approach', the capital markets team at Baker McKenzie Krzyzowski i Wspólnicy Sp.k. frequently coordinates with the firm’s banking and finance, tax and M&A practices to provide major financial institutions and private equity funds with an all-encompassing offering. This includes daily advice on investor relations and corporate governance mandates, implementing stock option plans and advising on the regulatory aspects of public trading. Marcin Chyliński heads up the ECM side of the practice, while Michał Głowacki chairs the DCM-focused group. The ECM group provides support with IPOs, secondary offerings, private placements and public M&A transactions, while the DCM team handles Eurobonds, EMTN programmes, convertible and exchangeable bonds, and green bonds. Katarzyna Grodziewicz is another core member of the team, with particular expertise public and non-public issuance of debt securities.
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‘The capital markets team at Baker McKenzie has very extensive experience in debt securities transactions. Baker McKenzie's lawyers stood out first and foremost for their up-to-date transactional experience, were highly pro-active, suggested alternative solutions to various problems, made appointments, made sure that the transaction settled, were always ready to help and, above all, were very friendly.’
‘Katarzyna Grodziewicz is an exceptional lawyer, operating at a level well above her counsel level. Both commercially and technically gifted. Proactive and client focused.’
‘We rely on Baker McKenzie's vast experience in the area of capital markets law and their excellent assessment and understanding of the regulatory and market situation - in our opinion incomparable to other law firms on the market. They understand our and other parties' perspectives and keep a careful eye on deadlines, continuously supporting all parties in order to achieve a smooth, secure and efficient execution of each issue.'
- 'Baker McKenzie lawyers are reliable, highly-experienced and knowledgeable. Deep legal expertise is combined with extensive experience and practical knowledge.'
- 'Michał Głowacki is a true trend-setter on this market. Very experienced, with large net of connections with different banks, brokerage houses and investment firms.’
‘Both Michał Głowacki and Bartosz Ordon have specialist knowledge in the field of financing through corporate bond issues. What is very important in this type of transaction, they take great care to implement the particular stages of the process in accordance with the schedule.'
Key clients
- Bank Pekao
- Huuuge, Inc.
- Cyfrowy Polsat
- Archicom
- ECHO Investment
- Ghelamco Invest
- Ginger Capital
- Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy
- Kernel Holding
- Wirtualna Polska Media
- Trigon Dom Maklerski
Work highlights
Advised Bank Pekao S.A., the second largest Polish bank, on all aspects of the establishment of the EUR 5bn EMTN programme and the issuance of EUR 500m of SNP (senior non- preferred) green notes under this programme.
Advised Echo Investment Group companies (Grupa Archicom, Echo Investment S.A. and DKR Echo Investment) on an offering of 10,000,000 new shares in Archicom and DKR Echo Investment's sale of 6,107,432 existing Archicom shares carried out under an accelerated book-building process within a hybrid version.
Advised a consortium of banks on the establishment and execution of all public offers of green bonds listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange by Ghelamco (a European real estate developer) under its EUR 150m bond issue programme, secured by a surety granted by a Cypriot guarantor.
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Practice head
Marcin Chyliński; Michał Głowacki
Other key lawyers
Marcin Iwaniszyn; Katarzyna Grodziewicz; Bartosz Ordon; Jerzy Bombczyński; Marta Rykalovska