Bartłomiej Woźniak PhD
Managing Associate
Advocate
Specializes in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Has been providing services to financial (PE/VC funds) and strategic investors for more than 10 years. Has experience of cross-border M&A transactions.
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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-outs (including LBOs and MBOs) and expansion capital deals. Has experience advising on structured sales processes, transactions involving representations and warranties liability insurance (W&I Insurance) and cross-border projects.
Advises on analysis and preparation of documents at every stage of the transaction process and supports clients at the transaction preparation and post-transaction integration stages, including the design and implementation of management option programs.
Experience
Selected projects
- Acquisition of shares in the share capital of SELT sp. z o.o. by Grupa Kęty S.A.
- Sale of shares in Velvet Care to Partners Group
- Sale of the MediSport Medical Centre to AFFIDEA
- Enterprise Investors fund’s investment in Bisar S.A. (Transaction value: PLN 125 million)
- Investment by Telko Poland, part of the Finnish Aspo corporation, in Eltrex sp. z o.o. sp. k.
- Anwim S.A.’s investment, a portfolio company of Enterprise Investors, in the Dutch company The Fuel Company Holding B.V.
- Sale of Asist to PIB Group, one of Europe’s largest agency and brokerage market groups
- MS Galleon AG’s (Michal Solowow’s group) investment in Rafako S.A.
- Sale of LENTEX Wykładziny sp. z o.o. by LENTEX S.A. to Unilin B.V., a Belgian company belonging to the American Mohawk Group
- Resource Partners fund’s investment in Buglo Play
- Acquisition of 100% of Skyrise.Tech shares by Finnish public company Etteplan Oyj
- Avallon‘s sale of a majority stake in EBS
- Avallon‘s sale of a majority stake in MPS International
- Polish Bank of Stem Cells S.A.’s investment in the English company Smart Cells Holdings Limited
- Investment of Polski Bank Komórek Macierzystych S.A. in companies operating stem cell banks in the Czech Republic (Rodinná banka perinatálních a mesenchymálních buněk s.r.o.) and Slovakia (Rodinná banka perinatálnych a mezenchymálnych buniek s.r.o.)
- Increased involvement of the Enterprise Investors fund in Anwim S.A., operator of MOYA gas stations
- Investment by Anwim S.A., a portfolio company of the Enterprise Investors fund, in the eMila chain of unmanned gas stations
- Sale of majority stake in Akomex Group by Highlander Partners fund
- Acquisition of a majority stake in Clovin S.A. by the Avallon fund
- Investment in Corab by the Black Forest fund
- Enterprise Investors fund’s sale of shares in Danwood S.A. to Korean firm GS Engineering & Construction (value of transaction: €140 million)
- Acquisition of 100% of Platinum Wines sp. z o.o. by Jantoń, a portfolio company of the Enterprise Investors fund
- Enterprise Investors fund’s sale of 100% of 3S S.A. shares to Play (value of the transaction: PLN 410 million)
- Enterprise Investors fund’s investment in a significant minority stake in Anwim S.A., operator of MOYA gas stations
- Sale of majority stake in Velvet Care sp. z o.o. by Avallon fund to Abris Capital Partners fund
- Polish Bank of Stem Cells S.A.’s investment in Portuguese company Stemlab S.A., the largest stem cell bank on the Iberian Peninsula
- Investment by FamiCord AG, a subsidiary of Polski Bank Komórek Macierzystych S.A., in Biocell Lugano S.A., a Swiss company
- Enterprise Investors fund’s investment in Jantoń
- Enterprise Investors fund’s sale of shares in Harper Hygienics S.A., a public company listed on the WSE, to Latvian firm iCotton SIA
- Resource Partners fund’s sale of Melvit stake to Polfood Group
- Acquisition of a majority stake in EBS by the Avallon fund
- Sale of 100% of SALMO to FOX International Group Limited
- Sale of 100% of shares in Casus Finanse S.A. to the Lindorff Group
- Investment of Polski Bank Komórek Macierzystych S.A. in Diagnostyka Bank Komórek Macierzystych sp. z o.o.
- Sale by the Highlander Partners fund of 100% of the shares of ProService Agent Transferowy sp. z o.o. to funds managed by Oaktree European Principal Group and Cornerstone Partners
- Sale by the Highlander Partners fund of 100% of the shares in ZREW Transformatory S.A. to Rauscher & Stoecklin International Holding
- Sale of 100% of SALMO to FOX International Group Limited
- Sale of 100% of shares in Casus Finanse S.A. to the Lindorff Group
- Avallon fund’s investment in the company EMERSON Direct Communication
- Sale by the Enterprise Investors fund of 100% of shares in GAMET S.A. to Stalmot & Wolmet S.A.
- Acquisition of DRUK-PAK by AKOMEX, a company backed by the Highlander Partners fund
News
& Insights
10.09.2024
We advised Grupa Kęty S.A.
We advised Grupa Kęty S.A. in the process of preparing, negotiating, and executing the transaction documentation related to the acquisition of shares in SELT sp. z o.o.,...
19.03.2024
Commentary to the Polish Companies Code – new edition !
We are happy to announce that “The Polish Commercial Companies and Partnership Code”. Merger, demerger, and transformation of companies. Commentary", a key reference for...
09.02.2024
We advised on the sale of the MediSport Medical Centre to AFFIDEA
We advised the majority shareholder of Centrum MediSport sp. z o.o. in Lublin - Mr Adam Lewczyk - in the transaction to sell this company to the AFFIDEA Group. MediSpor...
08.02.2024
We advised Polish Enterprise Fund VII (PEF VII) in the sale of the JNT Group
We provided comprehensive legal support to Polish Enterprise Fund VII (PEF VII), a private equity fund managed by Enterprise Investors, in the transaction for sale of th...
Education and achievements
- Doctorate at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (Ph.D. thesis entitled. “Surrogacy in rem in the context of protection of trust property in the European legal tradition”) (2019)
- Legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (2013)
- Study of finance and accounting at the Warsaw School of Economics (2013)
- Center for American Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw conducted in cooperation with the University of Florida (2013)
- Admitted to practice as an advocate in 2017
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