Iwona Gielo-Benza
Senior Consultant
Real Estate
Specializes in real estate law and corporate services for companies. She has been advising Polish and international companies for over 15 years.
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BIO
Iwona specializes in providing day-to-day legal services to businesses, particularly on real estate and corporate issues. Prior to joining GESSEL, she worked with a Warsaw law firm and with the offices of French attorneys. Iwona has comprehensive experience in handling corporate processes and real estate transactions, including agricultural lands.
She works with commercial leases and drafts and negotiates lease agreements. She has worked on numerous due diligence studies of real estate and companies owning real estate and/or holding real estate in perpetual usufruct, as well as on the restructuring and liquidation of limited liability companies (especially with foreign capital). Iwona sat on the management boards of limited liability companies.
Experience
Selected projects
- Advised LUX MED on the acquisition of the Mental Path network of seven mental health centres operating in five cities across Poland
- Advised on real estate regulations in the transaction for acquisition by the development company Eco Classic of shares of the company I am Poznań (formerly H. Cegielski – Fabryka Silników Agregatowych i Trakcyjnych)
- Provided day-to-day services to a leading appliance/RTV/IT retail company in the process of preparing, negotiating and amending commercial leases
- Supported Luneos Green Energy sp. z o.o. in the acquisition of a 19 MW photovoltaic farm project
- Assisted in real estate issues for LGL, a company of the Lode Group, in the acquisition of approximately 90 hectares of agricultural land, and Altera, which operates the Sielanka Hotel on the Pilica River
- Participated in numerous due diligence studies (including for the transaction in which the LUX MED Group became a strategic investor in Swissmed Centrum Zdrowia and in the acquisition of St. Elisabeth’s Hospital, acquisition of companies operating retail parks, the investment of OEX S.A., a Polish provider of services and technology in the area of sales and customer service, in iPOS S.A., the investment of Enterprise Investors in Anwim S.A. operating the MOYA chain of petrol stations, the investment of Anwim S.A. in a chain of self-service gas stations under the eMila brand)
- Co-created the website dedicated to legal advice during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 (honoured in the 18th edition of the Ranking of Law Firmsof the daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita in the category: websites dedicated to legal advice during the epidemic)
News
& Insights
26.02.2026
GESSEL Real Estate Practice Summary 2025
We are pleased to present an overview of the GESSEL Real Estate practice, highlighting selected projects completed in 2025. The past year was marked by intensive work...
17.02.2026
GESSEL advises Velvet Care on a new production investment in Sulęcin
GESSEL advised Velvet Care on the acquisition of a 40,000 m² production and storage hall purchased from a private owner, as well as approximately 12 hectares of undevelo...
28.01.2026
GESSEL advised on the sale of a majority stake in Betasi to Spire Capital Partners
GESSEL advised the owners of Betasi sp. z o.o., a Polish provider of advanced software solutions for resorts, hotels and medical spas, on the sale of a majority stake to...
12.11.2025
GESSEL advised the LUX MED Group on the acquisition of the Mental Path Group network of psychotherapy centres
GESSEL advised LUX MED, a leading provider of private healthcare services in Poland, on the acquisition of the Mental Path network of psychotherapy centres. Pursuant to ...
Education and achievements
- Legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw
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