B2RLaw is Poland’s law firm, formed through the merger of well-regarded Polish law firms, JS Legal and Zięba & Partners.

We have extensive experience acting in specialized and complex deals and disputes. With an emphasis on client service, we harness knowledge, technology and innovation to improve efficiency and deliver value. Working together as a team is paramount to how we operate, and we firmly believe in working with our clients with common business goals.

We have built a team with expertise to cater for the full lifespan of a business, from that early investor through venture capital, taking on debt finance to scale the business, to seeking a private equity sponsor to achieve globalisation, concluding with a full sale to an industry investor or an IPO on the Polish, or a foreign stock exchange.

Our Private Equity practice provides advice at every stage of a private equity fund’s lifecycle, including in respect to fund formation and assisting the fund’s ongoing operations, re-structuring of portfolio companies, leveraged finance, new investments and acquisitions including minority stakes, co-investment, buyouts, leveraged buyouts, ad-ons by portfolio companies as well as exits to industry investors and IPOs. Our team is experienced in working with owners and entrepreneurs for whom a PE investment is their first transaction as well as blue-chip managers.

We provide a wide range of services for both highly specialized innovative companies, business angels, Polish (including those financed by public means) and international Venture Capital funds in the field of technology transactions. Thanks to close cooperation within an international network of contacts, the founders of exciting growing Polish and CEE businesses are able to achieve their global aspirations.

As a team we have taken the pioneering approach of attracting international Venture Capital funds to the Polish market, whilst continuing to also work with the leading Polish and CEE Venture Capital funds. As a result, we have worked with Venture Capital funds from all over the world, including the UK, the USA, China, Israel, Japan, Turkey and India, and encourage them to invest in Polish companies. Our team is considered the go-to for Venture Capital in Poland, being the largest specialist team, and having advised on more deals than any other Polish legal team.

We advise on transactions and restructuring processes, with particular emphasis on the private equity and venture capital.

Our team provides legal advice for the buying /selling side in following transaction types:

• Private Equity
• Mezzanine
• Venture Capital
• Manager buyout
• Leveraged buyout
• Squeeze-out and sell-out
• Initial Public Offering
• Secondary Public Offering
• Privatization
• Mergers
• Restructuring

We also provide legal advice at every stage of the transaction, including:

• Strategy development
• Transaction and tax structuring
• Pre-transaction documentation
• Investment process preparation
• Financing
• Negotiations
• Agreements
• Corporate and administrative agreements
• Disinvestment

dr Rafał Stroiński LL. M., Bartłomiej Jankowski, Rafał Zięba