Venture Capital / Private Equity, M&A, securities and finance, arbitration, administrative proceedings, litigation, labour law, management contract, intellectual property, investment funds, foreign investments, capital markets, privatization, anti-monopoly law, corporate & commercial, e-commerce, e-business, e-commerce, telecommunications, tax, property, real estate, energy, insurance.

Mergers and acquisitions, with especial emphasis on cooperation with the private equity sector, have been a focus of GESSEL’s specialisation from the very beginnings of the firm. Dr Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, GESSEL’s founder, was advising on the very first private equity transactions in Poland already in 1990. From that time onwards, over the 30 years of GESSEL’s existence our lawyers have worked on over 300 M&A transactions, advising Polish as well as international companies active in various sectors of the economy, many of them publicly listed. Our legal specialists have advised on privatisation and restructuring processes of individual companies and of entire corporate groups. Year in, year our, GESSEL is recommended and distinguished in the areas of M&A and PE in a variety of Polish (Rzeczpospolita, Forbes Polska) as well as foreign (Chambers Europe, The Legal 500) rankings of law firms.

GESSEL’s M&A department (which also handles PE/VC work) is our largest practice, and it is led directly by Marcin Macieszczak, managing partner. It is one of the largest and most experienced M&A teams in the Polish legal market. Apart from Marcin Macieszczak, the partners managing GESSEL’s M&A practice are Maciej Kożuchowski, Małgorzata Badowska, Michał Bochowicz and Karol Sokół; all three are recommended by Chambers Europe in M&A or PE.

Marcin Macieszczak (managing partner), dr hab. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz (senior partner), Leszek Koziorowski (partner), Christian Schmidt (partner), Aldona Pietrzak (partner), Piotr Schramm (partner), Małgorzata Badowska (partner), Krzysztof Marczuk (partner), Maciej Kożuchowski (partner), Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik (partner), Michał Bochowicz (partner), Adam Kraszewski (partner), Karol Sokół (partner), Maciej Boryczko (partner), Dominika Ramirez-Wołkiewicz (partner).