Diana Strzałkowska-Grad

Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

Specializes in M&A and company law; built up her experience in this area advising domestic and international clients on the buyer and seller sides.

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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.

 

Experience

Selected projects

  • 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.
  • Resource Partners fund’s investment in Buglo Play
  • Avallon‘s sale of a majority stake in EBS
  • 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.).
  • Acquisition by Columbus Energy S.A. of shares in twenty-seven special purpose companies holding rights to photovoltaic farm projects

News
& Insights

14.02.2024

We advised the partners and founders of PROFIT4YOU Group

We advised the partners and founders of PROFIT4YOU Group in the transaction to sell the company to the TEP Capital fund. On the part of GESSEL, the project was managed ...

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We advised the partners and founders of PROFIT4YOU Group

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...

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We advised on the sale of the MediSport Medical Centre to AFFIDEA

29.11.2023

We advised the partners of User.com sp. z o.o. and Vercom S.A.

We advised the partners of User.com sp. z o.o., viz: Grzegorz Warzecha - the founder, and Vercom S.A. - which is a financial investor, on the transaction concerning the...

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We advised the partners of User.com sp. z o.o. and Vercom S.A.

26.06.2023

We advised the Avallon MBO Fund III on its acquisition of a 70% stake in Letniskowo sp. z o.o.

GESSEL supported the Fund at all the stages of the transaction, conducting legal due diligence, drafting and negotiation of the transaction documentation (also with resp...

Case studies
We advised the Avallon MBO Fund III on its acquisition of a 70% stake in Letniskowo sp. z o.o.
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Education and achievements

  • Legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (2017)
  • The British law program co-organized by the University of Warsaw and Cambridge University (2014 – 2016)
  • Admitted to practice as an attorney in 2022