Expertise

Monika is a Polish qualified lawyer (adwokat) with over 14 years of experience in the real estate sector. Her expertise focuses on advising investors and developers in real estate transactions, including acquisitions and sales of office buildings, shopping- and mixed-use centres, logistics parks, and hotels (also as real estate M&A, portfolio transactions, and forward sale/purchase transactions), mergers, real estate joint ventures, corporate and organisational restructurings, as well as financing and refinancing of real estate transactions. Monika also has deep knowledge in all aspects of the development process, in particular in build-to-suit and build-to-own formulas.

Work highlights*

• Signal Capital Partners: advising a UK-based private asset management firm, acting as the preferred equity partner, on the joint venture with Ghelamco, followed by €280m sale of the Warsaw UNIT office building by Ghelamco to Eastnine AB. The sale was the largest office transaction in Europe in 2024.
• Nrep: advising on the acquisition of an 80% stake in 7R, one of Poland’s largest logistics developers. Nrep invested approximately €200m into the company.
• Somerston Group: advising on the sale of Newbridge Poland, an asset manager and developer, to Greenman Group. Portfolio of Newbridge Poland, rebranded into Greenman Poland, comprises of retail parks and shopping centres.
• Echo Investment: advising on the €47,3m sale of the office building Moje Miejsce I in Warsaw to an institutional investor.
• REINO, Grosvenor, IO, acting through the Polish Logistics vehicle: advising on the acquisition and financing of its first investment in Poland, a 135,000 sqm logistic park in Piotrków Trybunalski near Łódź.

* Experience gained prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard