Anna Chrabota-Bajson
CounselAnna Chrabota-Bajson has over 12 years of professional experience advising on complex M&A and private equity transactions, both domestic and cross-border. She provides end-to-end transactional support to leading Polish and international private equity funds, strategic investors, and founder-led businesses across the entire deal lifecycle – from deal structuring and legal due diligence to closing, corporate reorganisations, and post-merger integration.
Anna is recognised for her strong negotiation skills, project leadership, and ability to manage multi-jurisdictional workstreams involving numerous stakeholders and advisers. Her experience spans a wide range of sectors, including e-commerce, fintech and payments, technology and software, industrials, construction, consumer goods and renewable energy. She has extensive experience working with Asian investors and corporates, having spent over a year and a half living in Singapore.
Anna is also an active member of WOM&AN – Association for Women in M&A, which focuses on building a stronger and more visible community of women in dealmaking. She contributes by organising and moderating discussions that share practical experience and encourage greater participation in the M&A space. Anna also supports academic programmes by taking part in M&A-focused seminars for students, sharing insights from her advisory work.
In addition to transactional mandates, Anna advises clients on general commercial and corporate governance matters, as well as equity capital markets issues.
She joined DLA Piper Poland in 2018, following several years at the Warsaw office of another international law firm.
EXPERIENCE
- Advising SIBS International, a leading Portuguese payment services provider, on numerous projects, including:
- its first investment in Poland involving the acquisition of shares in PayTel (a Polish payment institution) – a process spanning more than three years, during which SIBS International first acquired a controlling stake and subsequently increased its shareholding through gradual acquisitions, while also integrating its business with the target;
- its bid for Polskie ePłatności (a payment processing company), which represented one of the largest private equity exits in Poland in recent years;
- the acquisition of the ITCARD Group, one of Poland’s largest payment service providers, covering ATM and payment processing operations (transaction ongoing).
- Advising Allegro, the owner of Poland’s most popular e-commerce platform and a portfolio company of Cinven and Permira, on a number of acquisitions and other strategic projects, including all of its acquisitions in Poland, e.g.:
- the acquisition of eBilet Polska, Poland’s leading online ticketing platform, initially through the purchase of an 80% stake and subsequently the remaining 20%;
- the acquisition of Opennet, a leading provider of technology solutions for the logistics sector;
- the acquisition of FinAi, a company offering products and services for the financial sector, from its founders and the investment fund Fidiasz FIZ;
- the acquisition of X-press Couriers, one of Allegro’s key logistics partners specialising in same-day delivery.
- Advising Azelis Group, a leading innovation service provider in specialty chemicals and the food ingredients industry, on the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Hortimex, a leading Polish distributor of food ingredients with a focus on non-meat applications.
- Advising bValue Growth, a specialised growth equity investment firm that partners with tech and tech-enabled businesses in CEE on an investment in Sportano.pl, a Polish leading sports e-commerce platform, which, since its launch in 2022, has expanded into 12 countries. Sportano aims to exceed PLN 300 million in 2024, maintaining year-over-year growth rate of 90%.
- Advising Ingenix.AI, a breakthrough biotech AI startup, and its founders, on EUR 9 million seed round led by Inovo Venture Partners, OTB Ventures and IFC. Ingenix is developing a proprietary multimodal generative AI co-pilot designed to accurately simulate clinical drug trials.
- Advising Affidea, a leader in diagnostic imaging and medical specialties in Europe, on the acquisition of Medisport Medical Center – the group’s first acquisition in Poland.
- Advising key shareholders of PGS Software, a leading IT services company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, on a strategic options review and the contemplated sale of shares to Xebia Group, the Netherlands-based multinational IT group, which is controlled and supported by the private equity firm Waterland Private Equity Investments. The value of the transaction exceeded PLN 390 million.
- Advising Sygnity and its key shareholders on obtaining a strategic investor – Total Specific Solutions. The value of the transaction was PLN 197 million.
- Polish
- English
Awards
- Recommended in Capital Markets – The Legal 500 EMEA 2022-2023
- University of Warsaw, Master of Laws, 2015
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, Erasmus Exchange, 2014
Prior Experience
- July 2024 – present, Counsel, DLA Piper, Warsaw
- May 2020 – June 2024, Senior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
- February 2018 – April 2020, Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
- September 2015 – January 2018, Associate, International law firm, Warsaw
- November 2014 – August 2015, Paralegal, International law firm, Warsaw
- August 2013 – September 2013, Legal Assistant, law firm, Warsaw
- March 2013 – April 2013, Legal Assistant, National Centre for Cultures, Warsaw
- August 2012 – September 2012, Legal Assistant, National Centre for Cultures, Warsaw
- September 2011 – October 2011, Intern, Law firm, Warsaw
- November 2010 – May 2011, Intern, Law firm, Warsaw
Memberships And Affiliations
- Warsaw Bar Association of Advocates, 2019
