SPCG has advised on the creation of Beta ETF WIG20TR, the first Polish closed-end investment fund, which has been just authorized by Polish Financial Supervision Authority.

Eversheds Sutherland has successfully represented InterRisk TU SA in a dispute with a contractor.

Dentons’ Warsaw has advised BGZ BNP Paribas on a EUR 17 million financing granted to three Yareal Group companies to refinance the purchase costs of three properties in Warsaw intended for the construction of residential buildings.

Greenberg Traurig has advised Societe Generale on the sale of Euro Bank, its retail banking subsidiary in Poland, to Bank Millenium. Clifford Chance represented the buyers.

Bird & Bird lawyers Izabela Kowalczuk in Poland and Laszlo Nanyista in Hungary have been promoted to partner as part of the firm's global promotion round.

The real estate market is booming in Poland and other CEE countries, as it has been for the last several years. New investments are being made to develop commercial centers, office buildings, residential properties, and logistic centers.

In The Corner Office we ask Managing Partners across Central and Eastern Europe about their unique roles and responsibilities. The question this time around: Who was your mentor, and what was the most important lesson you learned from him or her?

Act BSWW has advised a member of the Ideal Idea group on its acquisition of real property located on the border of Warsaw and the nearby village of Raszyn.

Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland has advised the Warsaw University of Technology on its entrance into an agreement with Lotos Lab sp. z o.o. to cooperate on R&D projects involving low-emission transportation and energy storage.

KKLW has represented Poland's State Enterprise Porty Lotnicze on the takeover of the Radom Airport. According to a Porty Lotnicze press release, “in the place of the old facility, which hasn’t been functional for years now, the new owner intends to build a bigger facility.”

Dentons has advised BGZ BNP Paribas on a EUR 9 million and PLN 7 million financing granted to PDC Industrial Center 59, a joint venture of Panattoni and Marvipol, for the construction of the  Panattoni Park Warszawa Annopol warehouse, which will cover over 15,000 square meters.

Dentons has represented Generali on its acquisition of a 100% stake in Polish asset management company Union Investment TFI S.A. from Union Asset Management Holding AG. Weil, Gotshal & Manges advised the sellers on the transaction, which remains subject to approvals by regulatory and antitrust authorities in Poland and abroad.

Dentons has advised Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego on financing the building and the equipping of a local hospital in Zywiec, southern Poland. The project will be executed in the public-private partnership formula.

CMS has advised logistics company PCC Intermodal S.A. on its delisting from the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the re-materialization of its shares.

Dentons has advised Skanska on the EUR 48 million sale of Spark C to KGAL Investment Management GmbH & Co. KG, a German independent investment and asset manager. Greenberg Traurig advised the buyer.

Studnicki Pleszka Cwiakalski Gorski Limited Partnership has successfully represented the Tesco Poland retail chain in an arbitration dispute before the Court of Arbitration at the Confederation of Lewiatan. The dispute involved the admissibility of turnover-based bonuses by the retail chains of use in trade.

On October 2, 2018, the European Parliament approved the amendments to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2010/13/EU (AVMS Directive) and the Council’s approval is expected imminently. Twenty days after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, it shall enter into force, and the Member States will need to transpose it into their national legislation within 21 months, probably in mid 2020.

Gide has advised Orpea Polska on its acquisition of a property in Warsaw from Orange Polska.