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recommended in the Real Estate and Capital Markets (Debt) category in the Chambers Europe Guide for 2018. 

Michał Wielhorski, one of BSWW’s Managing Partners, is also recommended as one of top Real Estate Lawyers in Poland. 

One client offers the following testimonial, „They possess understanding of the real business risks that we face“, while other sources describe our lawyers as „flexible, responsive, hands-on and customer-oriented”.

Find the details on the Chambers profile: https://www.chambersandpartners.com/Europe/firm/22752433/act-bsww

act legal Germany advises Clarion Events Limited (London) on its acquisition of the Premium Exhibitions Group (Berlin).

The M&A team of AC Tischendorf was led by Dr. Matthias Müller, MBA (Corporate, M&A) and Dr. Tara Kamiyar-Müller (Real Estate) and further consisted of Fabian Brocke, LL.M. (Corporate), Dr. Florian Wäßle, LL.M. (IP, IT) and Dr. Fabian Laugwitz, MBA, LL.M. (Real Estate).

Premium Exhibitions Group is the organizer and owner of the leading fashion shows in Germany. One of its sellers was the international Waterland Private Equity group.

Clarion Events Limited is owned by the private equity investor Blackstone and is one of the world’s leading event organisers. It is headquartered in London and has offices in Continental Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, APAC and North America.

Kulczyk Silverstein Properties (the lessor) relies on BSWW with respect to lease agreement negotiations with tenants of retail and office spaces, incl. HBO and Hogan Lovells.

The law firm’s Warsaw-based team is supporting the client during the leasing process, i.e. in negotiations of lease agreements’ provisions with prospective tenants of retail and office areas. The team is made up of Marta Kosiedowska (legal counsel), Magdalena Banaszczyk-Głowacka (legal counsel) and Izabela Żmijewska (attorney-at-law).

“We are happy to see that Kulczyk Silverstein Properties continues to use our services when it comes to leasing subsequent parts of the ETHOS building. It is worth noting that the occupancy rate has already reached 70%,” says Marta Kosiedowska.

 ETHOS office and retail building, located at Plac Trzech Krzyży, in a prominent quarter of Warsaw, offers a total of 17,000 square meters of office and commercial space. Approx. 5,000 square meters is intended for stores of prestigious and exclusive brands, including ones which have been absent from Poland thus far. The complex features c. 180 underground and surface parking spaces. The investor will soon announce the names of new tenants that have decided to tap into an opportunity to locate their premises in the heart of the so-called “Royal Route,” close to the Warsaw Stock Exchange, Sheraton Hotel, government buildings, the Parliament, the Senate and numerous diplomatic buildings.

BSWW has provided legal consulting services in relation to an internal merger of subsidiaries to its client FORTUNA Online Zakłady Bukmacherskie sp. z o.o.

Marta Kosiedowska, partner and legal counsel of act legal Poland, was running the project, supported by Marlena Suchonos, trainee attorney-at-law. The Warsaw-based team was responsible for preparing merger documentation and ensuring adequate completion of the whole process.

“FORTUNA is the leader of the Polish sports betting industry. We are happy to have been given the opportunity to support our client in consolidation of the companies belonging to its group. We believe that this is a good decision from the profitability and competitiveness point of view,” says Marta Kosiedowska.

FORTUNA Online Zakłady Bukmacherskie Sp. z o.o. offers betting services, allowing its clients to predict the outcome of sports, social and political events. The company belongs to Fortuna Entertainment Group, the largest operator in the betting industry, boasting 20 years of experience. It operates in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Romania.

Dr. Roman Hager, LL.M. (act legal Austria) and Dr. Sven Tischendorf, MBA (act legal Germany) were cited in the popular Austrian newspaper “Der Standard” about difficult restructuring with borrower’s note loans. 

Based on the problems of Kika/Leiner’s parent company Steinhoff regarding this particular financing instrument the authors are explaining that all its advantages are accompanied by disadvantages in case of a company’s crisis.

Dr. Sven Tischendorf, MBA from act legal Germany is lecturer on the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management’s M&A master course. The business school has been listed number three amongst all German business schools in the Financial Times European Business School Ranking 2017.

On 16 January 2018, Dr. Sven Tischendorf, MBA will give a lecture on “Distressed M&A”. He will talk about possible courses of action in crisis, the distressed M&A process itself and liability risks in insolvency.

The authors outline of the relevant legal provisions for asset manager and capital market participants by taking into account the new regulation which is relevant since beginning of 2018.

Our lawyers from act legal Austria, WMWP, and act legal Germany, AC Tischendorf, are inviting to the act legal workshop „Companies‘ Data Protection“ (in German language).

Data Protection – a recent topic which is important to every company in Europe: the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has to be implemented until 25 May 2018. 

Therefore, Dr. Paul Koppenwallner, LL.M., Mag. Martin Mutz, LL.M., Dr. Thomas Block, MBA and Dr. Florian Wäßle, LL.M. will present you the important requirements of the GDPR in Germany and Austria and their best practice recommendations during this workshop.

The workshop will take place on:

● 16 January 2018 in Vienna

● 30 January 2018 in Frankfurt

Please send your registration until 23 January 2018 to vienna@actlegal-wmwp.com or frankfurt@actlegal-act.com accordingly.

Find more details in the PDF document on the right.