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Type of firm

Law firm

Company description

Type of business

Law Firm

Relation to VC/PE industry

Due to our longstanding reputation for excellence as private equity advisors, we have worked on the vast majority of the top private equity deals in the Polish market over the past few years. We advise most of the leading private equity houses operating in Poland and are involved in most of the big-ticket private equity transactions.

Our practice is multi-disciplinary, and we work closely with our colleagues throughout the firm’s other practice groups to meet the full range of our clients’ legal needs. By combining the capabilities and international experience of our lawyers advising on fund formation, corporate and securities law, tax, energy, infrastructure, real estate, insurance, bankruptcy, and restructuring, we are able to support our clients in maximizing value from any given private equity transaction.

Our private equity team advises on four primary fields:

  • Acquisitions of portfolio companies;
  • Fund formation;
  • Advice to portfolio companies regarding corporate and securities matters, financings, and reorganizations; and
  • Exit strategies

Areas of particular interest

The Warsaw office offers complex legal services in:

  • private equity
  • mergers & acquisitions
  • equity and debt capital markets
  • banking & finance, including financial restructuring and bankruptcy
  • real estate
  • intellectual property
  • litigation and arbitration
  • tax structuring
  • competition and consumer protection
  • labor law

The Warsaw office works with the firm’s other offices around the globe in order to advise clients on complex cross-border transactions and financings in global markets.

Among the firm’s clients are leading Polish and international financial institutions, private equity sponsors and companies, as well as the Polish government and Polish state-owned companies. The Greenberg Traurig Warsaw team represents clients across a wide range of sectors, including banking & finance, energy, mining, TMT, real estate, medical and healthcare.

Partners, key shareholders

Jolanta Nowakowska-Zimoch - Partner Zarządzający
Andrzej Wysokiński - Partner
Lejb Fogelman - Senior Partner