Paulina Walczak

Associate, Warsaw

Biography

Overview

Paulina Walczak focuses her practice on the real estate sector. Paulina has provided real estate law, building law and environmental law advice in connection with cross-border transactions, including due diligence exercises and preparation of the transaction documentation.

She advises prime developers, real estate funds and banks on various aspects of their activity including acquisition/disposal transactions (asset deals, share deals, sale and leaseback transactions) and due diligence reviews including complex cross-border real estate portfolio acquisitions/disposals (office, logistics and retail properties). Paulina also assists clients with issues pertaining to negotiations and preparing lease agreements and has participated in various transactions concerning the financing and refinancing of real estate.

Bars and Courts
Poland, National Council of Legal Advisors
Education
Postgraduate studies in Negotiations, Mediation and ADR
University of Warsaw

Faculty of Law and Administration

Master's Degree
Faculty of Law and Administration
University of Lodz
Erasmus scholarship
University of Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Languages
Polish
English

Experience

CTP: representation of the CTP Group in the acquisition of a real estate portfolio from 7R, a Polish industrial developer, with potential to develop 1.2 million sqm of GLA in logistics and industrial real estate. The portfolio consists of projects in Silesia and central and northern Poland that are in the development phase, such as in Warsaw and Katowice, as well as other sites across Poland that are still in the pre-development phase.

An investor: representation of an investor in connection with the acquisition of a solar farm project in Poland.

Real estate investor: representation of a real estate investor, a global market leader in logistics real estate, in connection with refinancing/acquisition of real estate.

Consortium of banks: representation of banks in connection with the financing a wind farm project in Poland.

Consortium of banks: representation of banks in connection with the refinancing of office and warehouse buildings located, among others, in Katowice, Kraków, and Bydgoszcz.

Real estate investor: representation of real estate investors in connection with the commercialization of a portfolio of offices located in Poland.

Real estate investors: representation of real estate investors, global market leaders in logistics real estate, in connection with various aspects of their construction projects in Poland.

Real estate investor: representation of a real estate investor, a leading global investor, developer and manager of real estate, in connection with the purchase and development of several real properties in southern and central Poland.

A leading global real estate asset manager: representation of a leading global real estate asset manager, and provision of daily legal advice to a Generali Group company, Skanska and a leading global real estate asset manager in connection with the operation of office buildings in Poland.

Participation in M&A, joint venture and real estate transactions, including due diligence reviews and preparation of the relevant corporate and contractual documentation.