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Solivan, SSW, and CMS Advise on WKN Sale of Polish Wind Farms to Wirtgen Invest and Stadtwerke Munchen

Solivan, SSW, and CMS Advise on WKN Sale of Polish Wind Farms to Wirtgen Invest and Stadtwerke Munchen

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Solivan, the Polish member firm of Pontes The CEE Lawyers network, has advised German project developer WKN on the sale of the 42 MW Barwice wind farm at the end of 2018 and the 132 MW Jasna wind farm now to Germany's Wirtgen Invest Energy GmbH and Stadtwerke Munchen, respectively. Wirtgen Invest was represented by SSW Pragmatic Solutions and Stadtwerke Munchen was advised by CMS in Germany and Poland.

According to Solivan, both wind farms are "ready for construction and awarded with a contract for difference after November 2018 auction." The firm also reports that "construction of both wind farms is expected to be complete at mid of 2020."

The Solivan Pontes team advising WKN — a member of the listed PNE Group — on Polish legal matters was led by Partner Christian Schnell, assisted by Associate Piotr Dziwniel. 

The SSW Pragmatic Solutions team advising Wirtgen Invest was led by Partner Dominik Strzalkowski and included Counsel Hubert Wysoczanski and Senior Associate Rafal Wlodarski.

CMS's German team consisted of Partners Carolin Armbruster, Jochen Lamb, Dorothee Janzen, Niklas Ganssauge, Kerstin Block, and Marc Seibold, Counsel Matthias Sethmann, Senior Associates Martina Meier-Grom and Tilman Lorenz Petersen, and Associate Birgit Schlemmer. The Polish team consisted of Partners Blazej Zagorski and Piotr Ciolkowski, Counsel Agnieszka Skorupinska, Senior Associates Grzegorz Paczek and Maciej Ziolkowski, Associates Joanna Białoskorska and Piotr Prawda,and Lawyers Mateusz Mazur, Ada Szon, Tomasz Pietrzyk, and Karol Jaworecki.

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CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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