GESSEL advises Enterprise Investors on its investment in BISAR S.A.
16.12.2022 News Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) Competition and consumer law
Polish Enterprise Fund VIII, one of the funds managed by Enterprise Investors, will take a 40% stake in BISAR S.A. – a dynamically growing process outsourcing company established in 2015, presently expanding into new markets around Central and Eastern Europe – for a capital commitment of PLN 125 million.
GESSEL advised Enterprise Investors on various aspects of this complex project, performing due diligence, drawing up and negotiating the transaction documents, and preparing the antitrust filing (finalisation of the transaction remains contingent upon clearance from UOKiK).
Marcin Macieszczak, our managing partner, led a multidisciplinary team whose members included Michał Boryczka, managing associate (coordinator of the due diligence studies), Krzysztof Jasiński, managing associate and Diana Strzałkowska, senior associate (working on the transaction documentation), and Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik, partner and Karolina Olszewska, associate (working on the antitrust aspects).
Enterprise Investors, whom GESSEL is proud to count among its clients of long standing, is a leading private equity firm focused on Central and Eastern Europe. Active since 1990, EI currently manages nine funds which have invested and committed a total of EUR 2.2 billion, taking stakes in 152 companies and effectuating 136 exits (many of these investments and subsequent exits involved GESSEL as counsel).
Authors
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....
Krzysztof Jasiński
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity | Corporate law
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Krzysztof joined GESSEL in 2016 as an associate. He has been a senior associate since 2017 and a managing associate since 2021. As part of his practice, he leads M&A transactions and supervises and coordinates the work of junior lawyers and the transaction team. He advises private equity funds, private investors, and start-ups, acting on both the seller and buyer sides. Krzysztof analyses and drafts documents at every stage of the transact...
Diana Strzałkowska-Grad
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Joined GESSEL in 2019, having previously worked with an international private equity fund and with a Polish law firm specializing in M&A and PE/VC.
Senior 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...
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