There is a question circulating on the Internet right now: Who led the digital transformation of your company? Possible answers are: a) CEO; b) CTO; c) COVID-19. Which answer is correct?

Decisive Worldwide Szmigiel Papros Gregorczyk has advised the Skarbiec Dochodowych Nieruchomosci Fizan investment fund on the negotiation and sale of retail premises in Wroclaw’s Old Town.

Ewa Kurowska-Tober, Partner and Head of the DLA Piper’s Intellectual Property and New Technologies practice in Warsaw, has become a global Co-Chair of the firm’s Data Protection, Privacy, and Security Sub-Group, joining fellow Co-Chairs Andrew Dyson (in Leeds) and Carolyn Bigg (in Hong Kong).

Baker McKenzie has advised ElectroMobility Poland SA on agreements with Torino Design and EDAG Engineering Gmbh regarding the construction and assembly of electric cars in Poland.

The European Green Deal is a new growth strategy invented to reshape the EU economy. In the eyes of the European Commission, its scale exceed even post-war transformation in the West and post-Soviet transition in the East. The EU believes that is able to turn the urgent challenge of climate change into a unique opportunity to become a digital and green leader of the world.

Bird & Bird has advised Wento and Enterprise Investors on the EUR 50 million sale of Eco Power sp. z o.o. to PGE Energia Odnawialna. The Warsaw office of Norton Rose Fulbright advised the buyers on the deal.

Linklaters has advised Chariot Group, a company managed by Griffin Real Estate, on the extension of leases with Auchan Poland for six retail properties totaling 83,000 square meters. The KPRF Law Office advised Auchan Poland on the deal.

Baker McKenzie has advised PKN Orlen on a revolving facility agreement under English law with a consortium of 16 banks. Clifford Chance advised the lenders on the deal.

A three-person Products & Health team led by Agnieszka Majka has moved from Hogan Lovells to NGL Legal in Warsaw.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised Polish resin manufacturer LERG S.A. on the acquisition of CIECH Zywice, another Polish resin manufacturer. The value of the transaction, based on the purchase price of its shares, is approximately PLN 160 million (approximately EUR 36 million). 

Kochanski & Partners has successfully represented Polish journalist Mikolaj Podolski in criminal proceedings initiated against him.

New legislation that affects investments in Polish entities by investors from outside the EEA and OECD will enter into force on 24 July 2020. The Act on Control of Certain Investments (the "Act"), recently amended by the so-called Anti-Crisis Shield Act, empowers the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (the "OCCP") to review foreign investments on the grounds of public security, order and health. The new screening mechanism will apply over the next two years. 

Kochanski & Partners has successfully represented Ringier Axel Springer Polska in a dispute that reached Poland's Supreme Court with the Polish Filmmakers Association involving the calculation of royalties.

SSW Pragmatic Solutions has advised Kom-Eko on its acquisition of 69.46% of shares in Lubelska Agencja Ochrony Srodowiska.

Schoenherr has advised Panattoni Europe on its lease of space at Poland's Panattoni Park Ruda Slaska II to Dywidag-Systems International sp. z o.o., a producer of geotechnical and compression systems. 

CMS has advised Bonair on its sale to the Dutch group Fellowmind, which is owned by Sweden's FSN Capital private equity fund.

Noerr has advised Telekom Innovation, a strategic investment fund of Deutsche Telekom, on an unspecified equity investment in Poland's RemoteMyApp technology company. The Rapala Law Firm advised RemoteMyApp.

Aleksandra Krawczyk, Kinga Slomka, Dominika Szachniewicz, and Witold Slawinski have been promoted to Partner at SDZLegal Schindhelm in Poland.