GESSEL advises VirtusLab Group on a landmark merger in the IT sector
12.04.2023 Case studies Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
GESSEL provided multidisciplinary legal support to VirtusLab in its takeover of SoftwareMill, a computer programme consultant. We are proud to have assisted our Client in what is another step of a strategy geared at nurturing a group of diverse, autonomous tech outfits.
Our lawyers conducted due diligence, assessed the antitrust aspects, advised on bank financing, and drafted the transaction documentation. Throughout the process, GESSEL served as lead counsel, coordinating the input of advisors from Poland, the UK, and Luxembourg.
VirtusLab
The VirtusLab Group is active in software engineering and IT consulting. Its 500 staff members liaise closely with technical services on the client side, attending to successful IT transformation, development of native cloud applications, and execution of data science and data engineering projects.
SoftwareMill
SoftwareMill is a consulting agency and a producer of tailormade software, proactively supporting its clients in implementation of cloud computing, big data, stream processing and machine learning technologies.
Authors
Partner
Advocate
A partner in the M&A practice. Gaines his experience in transactions in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), renewable energy, healthcare and aviation sectors. Michał advised buyers and sellers in some of Poland's largest transactions, particularly technology transactions involving global private equity funds, payment institutions, e-commerce entities and software providers (including SaaS). Is actively involved in global le...

Małgorzata Badowska
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Banking and Finance | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Małgorzata joined GESSEL in 2010, initially as managing associate and then, from 2016, as partner. She heads the Banking & Finance practice. She specializes in aqcuisition of financing transactions and advises at every stage of them. She works with both the providers of financing (banks, financial institutions, private debt funds) and the beneficiaries of such financing. The team she leads prepares and negotiates loan documentation, docume...

Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Competition and consumer law
Partner
Attorney-at-law
After a brief period as a junior judge, Bernadeta developed an interest in competition law, then a new discipline in early 1990s Poland. After her first stint at UOKiK, she spent one year leading the legal department of UPC and then joined GESSEL in 2001. In 2014, after moving to the head office of UOKiK, she oversaw the authority’s activities in the realms of corporate concentrations, market collusions, and abuse of dominant market positions....

Michał Boryczka
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Corporate law | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
With GESSEL since 2004. Initially joined our tax law team, then gained experience in capital markets and M&A before assuming a senior role at our corporate law practice. Several years of experience gained in many areas of law allow him to take an interdisciplinary approach to the cases he handles. Currently, his main specialties comprise corporate reorganizations, both domestic and cross-border (he has advised on a number of cross-borde...
Counsel
Attorney-at-law
Klaudia specializes in transactions related to obtaining financing, in particular in negotiating and concluding loan agreements, advising banks and borrowers, as well as in bond issues via private placements. Also provides day-to-day advice on business law. Her experience includes negotiating and executing loan agreements for the acquisition of companies, financing real estate and energy projects. She has several years’ experience providing le...

Edyta Podgórska
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Corporate law
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Specializes in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions and corporate law. Has extensive experience in providing comprehensive corporate services to commercial law companies, including foreign entities, especially as regards transformation processes and M&A. Participated in numerous M&A transactions at all their stages, including in particular due diligence and drafting and negotiating transaction documentation. On many occasio...
Senior Associate
Advocate
Daria joined GESSEL in 2022. She represents clients before the civil, administrative, and criminal courts, before the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Her experience encompasses registration and annulment of industrial property rights as well as drafting and negotiation of contracts concerning intellectual property rights, e-commerce, and personal data. She has applied her...
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Emilia joined our firm in 2022. Emilia specializes in corporate and commercial law. For years, she has been advising companies in their day-to-day operations, in particular supporting entities in the conduct of their corporate affairs, working with their governing bodies. She has extensive experience in carrying out reorganizations of companies, also on an international scale. Assists in due diligence studies.
Associate
Karol advises on reorganization and restructuring procedures of commercial companies, i.e. mergers, divisions and transformations, conducts due diligence, prepares corporate documentation of enterprises, etc. In the scope of his research as a doctoral student, Karol analyses conflict-of-law issues of cross-border reorganizations of commercial companies in the European Union. His professional experience to date was with renowned internationa...
Associate
Karolina’s professional focus is consumer protection law (including reviews of general terms and conditions and contract templates, proceedings before the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection concerning violation of collective consumer interests) and competition law (advice on merger notifications and securing antitrust clearance for concentrations, competition-inhibiting practices – especially abuse of dominant market position by enterp...
Associate
Maria joined GESSEL in 2022. She contributes to M&A transactions – also ones with international elements – at all their stages. She prepares transactional and corporate documentation, and she has experience in due diligence on companies as well as advising on day-to-day corporate operations. Prior to joining GESSEL, she worked with a renowned international law firms, handling mergers and acquisitions, corporate services for commercial comp...
Associate
Joined GESSEL in 2021. Gained experience at a renowned Warsaw law firm and a leading international law firm in the areas of mergers and acquisitions transactions, corporate law, corporate governance principles and capital market law, among others. Author of the monograph "Corporate Governance through the eyes of Warren Buffett" published in 2021 by C.H. Beck publishing house. A co-author of articles on corporate law and constitutional la...
Associate
Joined GESSEL in 2021. Prior to joining GESSEL, worked at leading Polish law firms. Has experience in corporate and transactional consulting, including for foreign businesses. Has participated in numerous due diligence studies of corporate entities and of real estate assets. Provides ongoing advice in the area of corporate law and corporate governance principles. Experienced advisor on anti-money-laundering compliance.
Associate
Prior to joining GESSEL, gained professional experience with Wrocław law firms dealing with civil and commercial disputes and day-to-day corporate services for commercial law companies.
Lawyers involved in the project

Małgorzata Badowska
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Banking and Finance | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Competition and consumer law

Michał Boryczka
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Corporate law | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

Edyta Podgórska
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Corporate law
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