Katarzyna Olszak

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 asset deal transactions in the private market involving funds and business enterprises, representing both domestic and foreign clients.

Her practice encompasses a broad spectrum of activities aimed at a satisfactory closing of an investment, in particular the drafting and negotiation of transaction documentation – both on the seller and buyer sides. She provides active support starting from the moment of transaction structuring, during transition periods, but also after the closing of a given investment process, in connection with post-closing obligations.

She coordinates and supervises not only the course of transactions, but also legal due diligence processes, in which she herself also participates. She advises on gauging the scale of identified legal risks, their effective mitigation, and duly addressing them in the transaction documentation.

Katarzyna has frequently advised corporate clients on design and implementation of private equity incentive programmes based on a broad catalogue of legal instruments, including options, warrants as well as shares. She has conducted numerous training sessions for managers and employees covered by such programmes.

At the same time, she provides day-to-day legal advice to business enterprises and their owners in the field of business and corporate law, assisting clients during the negotiation of key business contracts as well as the implementation of corporate documentation.