Michał Bałdowski PhD

Senior Associate
Advocate
About

Michał specialises in mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies - with an emphasis on regulated entities from the financial and energy sectors, capital market transactions, and corporate law.

He provides transactional and corporate advice to leading financial institutions, investment banks and companies in the public and private sectors, covering mergers and acquisitions, JVs, divestitures, reorganisations, cross-border and domestic issuances of equity and debt securities, primary and secondary public offerings of shares, public and private offerings of bonds, and public-to-private transactions.

Professional QualificationsAdvocate (Adwokat) registered with the Warsaw Bar Association of Advocates (Okręgowa Izba Adwokacka w Warszawie)

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Polenergia on the establishment of PLN1 billion Green Bond issuance programme.
  • Advising Digia on the acquisition of digital technology provider Savangard.
  • Advising Daniel Truica and the management team on a roll-over related to Resource Partners' investment in Vola.ro and FRU.PL.
  • Advising shareholders of Symphar on sale to pharmaceutical manufacturer Farmak.
  • Advising IPF on issuance and settlement of Senior Unsecured Notes in Poland under EMTN programme.
  • Advising MJM Holdings Capital Group on strategic partnership with Leadenhall Insurance.
  • Advising Corsair Capital on acquisition of MJM Holdings.
  • Advising URGO Poland on acquisition of MyBestPharm.
  • Advising Booksy on acquisition of Znajdź Gabinet.
  • Advising ONDE and Neo Energy Group on sale of Szybowice wind farm.
  • Advising KI Chemistry, a Kulczyk Investments group company, on the conduct of a voluntary tender offer for the sale of shares in Ciech S.A..* 
  • Advising Value4Capital, a private equity firm, on the sale of 100% of the shares in Kom-Eko to a fund whose sole and exclusive investment advisor is CEE Equity Partners.* 
  • Advising PAK-Polska Czysta Energia on the acquisition of a special purpose company owned by the Neoinvestment Group, responsible for the construction of a wind farm situated in Człuchów, consisting of 33 wind turbines with a total capacity of 72.6 MW.* 
  • Advising Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Centerbridge on the completion of the sale of ROBYG S.A. to TAG Immobilien AG.* 
  • Advising Allianz on the acquisition of Aviva’s operations in Poland and Lithuania for over EUR 2.5 billion. The transaction involved Aviva’s life and non-life insurance operations as well as its pension and asset management businesses. Allianz also acquired a 51% stake in each of Aviva’s life and non-life bancassurance joint ventures with Santander Bank Polska.*

 

* Experience gained before joining DLA Piper.

Languages
  • Polish
  • English
  • Spanish

AWARDS

  • Recognised as Leading Associate in Commercial, corporate and M&A – Legal 500 EMEA 2025
  • Recommended in Capital Markets – Legal 500 EMEA 2024-2025
Education
  • University of Warsaw, Doctor of Laws (PhD), 2023
  • University of Warsaw, Master of Laws, 2017

Prior Experience

  • June 2023 - present, Senior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • January 2023 - April 2023, Senior Associate, law firm, Warsaw
  • April 2018 - December 2022, Associate, law firm, Warsaw

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Advocate (Adwokat) registered with the Warsaw Bar Association of Advocates (Okręgowa Izba Adwokacka w Warszawie)
  • Assistant Professor (Adiunkt) at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw