Expertise

Michał is a NY-qualified lawyer with a strong corporate and commercial focus, experienced in guiding clients through private M&A transactions, complex joint ventures and corporate reorganisations in the CEE region and beyond. His practice centres on cross-border deals across a broad spectrum of industries, with a particular emphasis on advanced industrials and financial institutions.

Experience
  • Advising Digital Realty on the acquisition of Telepoint, a leading Bulgarian data centre.
  • Advising VeloBank on the acquisition of majority stake in Noble Funds, a fund management company.
  • Advising Cerberus Capital Management on its PLN 1 billion acquisition of 100% of the shares of VeloBank, a leading global bank in Poland.*
  • Advising a Polish private jets producer on the establishment of its joint venture with a leading capital group located in a Gulf country.*
  • Advising Qatar Investment Authority on the acquisition of an approximately 20% interest in the D.ream International global fine dining group, whose brands include the well-known Nusr-et (founded by Salt Bae) and Zuma.*
  • Advising Unilever PLC on the Polish aspects of a EUR 4.5 billion sale of the world’s leading tea business to CVC Capital Partners.*

*experience gained prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard

Education

Michał read law at Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, the London School of Economics (LSE) and the University of Wroclaw. Michał holds also a B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Wroclaw. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Publications
Year qualified
  • 2020, New York Bar