Rafał Smolik
Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law
Specializes in mergers and acquisitions and corporate law.
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BIO
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.
Experience
Selected projects
- Advised the co-founders of Surfer on a complex M&A transaction involving a number of separate issues related to their relationship with France’s Positive Group
- Advised the owners of KARTON-PAK on the sale of 100% of the company’s shares to Pella Capital.
- Sale of the operator of the Pizzeria Stopiątka network to Domino’s Pizza
- Acquisition of Sefko by Estiko-Plastar AS
- Deplilacja.pl‘s acquisition of a majority stake in Yasumi Polska
- Sale of a majority stake in Hymon Fotowoltaika sp. z o.o. to a consortium of Kajima Partnership Europe and Griffin Capital Partners
- BaseLinker’s acquisition of investment from Kulczyk Investments
- Sale of a stake in VirtusLab sp. z o.o. to Aquiline Capital Partners LLC
- Sale of SoftwareMill company to VirtusLab
News
& Insights
27.10.2025
GESSEL’s Special Cases / Risk&Support team advised the co-founders of Surfer on a complex M&A transaction involving a number of separate issues related to their relationship with France’s Positive Group
A team led by GESSEL partner Piotr Schramm advised the co-founders of Surfer, a leading Polish technology company in the field of AI-SEO, on a multi-faceted transaction ...
08.10.2025
GESSEL advised on the sale of KARTON-PAK to Pella Capital
GESSEL provided legal and tax advice to the owners of KARTON-PAK S.A. on the sale of 100% of the company’s shares to Pella Capital sp. z o.o. The project involved a bro...
22.04.2025
GESSEL advised on the sale of the operator of the Pizzeria Stopiątka chain to Domino’s Pizza Poland
GESSEL provided comprehensive legal advice to the founder and sole owner of Mastergrupa sp. z o.o., the operator of the nationwide franchise network Pizzeria Stopiątka, ...
31.01.2025
M&A 2024 Yearbook
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, ...
Education and achievements
- Legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (2018)
- Commenced his training articles (2019)
