M&A 2024 Yearbook
31.01.2025 News Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
In line with our tradition, we are once again pleased to present the M&A Yearbook, summarizing the transactions completed by our M&A practice in 2024.
In 2024, thanks to the trust of our clients, we successfully executed 27 transactions with a total value of PLN 6.7 billion.
In this yearbook, we share details of selected projects that we consider particularly noteworthy.
Authors

Marcin Macieszczak
Managing partner
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity
Managing partner
Attorney-at-law
Marcin joined GESSEL law firm in 1999. In 2007, he became a partner, and in 2017 – managing partner. He leads the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Private Equity practices. Marcin specializes in capital transactions in the public and private markets. He has over 20 years’ experience advising on M&A transactions, both on the seller's and buyer's side. An important part of Marcin's practice is working with private equity and ven...

Maciej Kożuchowski
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity | Energy, public procurement, infrastructure projects
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Joined GESSEL as a trainee in December 2005. A member of the team continuously since March 2006, and a partner in GESSEL’s M&A practice since 2016. Specializes in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, services for commercial companies (including negotiation of strategic contracts related to operations) and legal aspects of financing processes for entrepreneurs. Much of his practice to date has been devoted to M&A transactio...

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...

Michał Bochowicz
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity | Corporate law
Partner
Attorney-at-law
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...
Partner
Advocate
Works with Polish and international funds and international banks and advises at all stages of complex transactions (on the buyer and seller sides) on share deal and asset deal transactions and corporate restructuring. Advises Polish and international companies, founders and listed companies. Has structured many transactions, demonstrating his excellent analytical skills and extensive knowledge of various legal fields. Has repeatedly demonstra...

Karolina Krzal-Kwiatkowska
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity | Competition and consumer law
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Advises on merger control, competition-restrictive practices and cases that violate the collective interests of consumers. Conducts proceedings before the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection. Provides legal services for M&A transactions involving domestic and foreign enterprises, working in particular with private equity and venture capital funds, including preparing and negotiating transaction documentation, conducting and coord...

Bartłomiej Woźniak PhD
Managing Associate
Advocate
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity | Corporate law
Managing Associate
Advocate
Joined GESSEL in 2014. Has been a Managing Associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions team since 2020. Specializes in M&A transactions in the private market. Has more than 10 years of experience advising financial investors (including PE/VC funds), strategic investors and company founders. Advises on share deal and asset deal transactions on both the buyer and the seller sides. Has participated in acquisitions conducted in the form of buy-o...

Aleksandra Szyszko-Kamińska
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Aleksandra has 18 years of experience in providing legal services to business entities, gained with law firms (14 years) and with a private equity fund (4 years) as an in-house lawyer, a track record which affords her instinctive understanding of the perspectives of various participants in complex projects. Advises Polish and foreign clients, including private equity and venture capital funds, at every stage of the transaction, from structurin...

Michał Osowski
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity
Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law
Michał has nearly a decade of professional experience in corporate law, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Joined GESSEL in 2016, since then has advised on numerous asset deals and share deals, both on the buy-side and the sell-side, for a variety of clients, including founders, private equity funds and venture capital funds. Has a particular focus on alternative investment funds, including their formation and operations.

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

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
Joined GESSEL in2021. Prior to that, worked with leading international and domestic law firms specializing in banking and finance. Has several years of experience supporting both banks and borrowers, including companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, in financing transactions in the banking market, in particular in drafting and day-to-day servicing of loan agreements and collateral documents, as well as in preparing due diligence reports...

Rafał Smolik
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Corporate law
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
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.
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Katarzyna has extensive transaction experience in providing legal services for investment processes in the private equity and venture capital markets, with a particular focus on the high-tech, IT and e-commerce sectors. She advises clients on PE/VC investment processes as well as on corporate matters, in particular on transformations, mergers and various changes in company structures. Katarzyna regularly contributes to share deal as well as as...
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Damian joined Gessel in 2024. Previously, he gained experience in law firms in Warsaw, serving business entities at various stages of advancement, from high-risk capital investment, through mergers and acquisitions of developed enterprises, to handling public companies in terms of mandatory information obligations and conducting proceedings before the Financial Supervision Authority. Professionally, he focuses on prepari...
Associate
Advocate
Karolina deals with M&A transactions and day-to-day corporate law services for companies. She has experience in drafting transaction documentation for M&A projects and of corporate documents. She advises on all stages of the transaction process, including due diligence, preparation and negotiation of transaction documentation and finalization of transactions. Her practice also includes cooperation with private equity funds. Prior to...
Associate
Since joining GESSEL in 2021, Marcin has contributed to share deal and asset deal M&A transactions both on the sell side and the buy side. He has drafted transaction documentation, corporate documents (for the purpose of specific transactions, as well as of day-to-day legal services) and due diligence studies. Prior to joining GESSEL, he gained experience at renowned international law firms, dealing with tax and competition law issues.
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.
Junior Associate
An expert in commercial and civil law, she has provided ongoing corporate advisory services. She has advised clients on M&A transactions, private equity deals, including complex cross-border transactions, legal due diligence, and corporate governance matters. Her previous experience was gained at prestigious Polish and international law firms. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw in 2022. ...
Junior associate
Magdalena joined the GESSEL law firm in 2023. She participates in the work on M&A transactions. In the transaction process, she prepares documentation at all stages and participates in conducting due diligence of companies. She supports companies and entrepreneurs in the day-to-day legal support of their operations by preparing corporate documentation for these purposes. During her studies, she gained experience in Warsaw notary offi...
Junior Associate
Zuzanna joined GESSEL in 2023, bringing her energy to complex M&A projects in the domestic as well as international markets. She assists with transaction documentation, due diligence studies, and various aspects of company law. Zuzanna’s professional experience to date has been with a large e-commerce platform, at which she worked with international clients from the fashion industry, advising them on contract law matters.
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