Magdalena Gajur

Associate
Trainee Attorney-at-law
About

Magdalena Gajur advises on direct and indirect taxes and MDR reporting (DAC6).

She supports Polish clients with WHT compliance and assists foreign clients, including investment and pension funds, in recovering WHT. She also provides tax-related transactional advice to clients on property acquisitions and securitisations.

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising VEHIS, one of Poland’s leading sales financing businesses operating in the auto leasing industry, on the conversion of its warehouse financing structure into Poland’s first public securitisation transaction worth PLN 1.35 billion (USD 372.5 million). The transaction involved a PLN 1.35 billion (USD 372.5 million) portfolio of auto leases originated by VEHIS being sold to an Irish Designated Activity Company (DAC) through a true-sale securitisation, helping VEHIS raise financing, which was underwritten by the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund and Banco Santander.
  • Advising Wealthon, a fintech company that provides loans to SMEs, on a warehouse securitisation in its capacity as the originator. The transaction concerned a portfolio of SME loans, originated by Wealthon companies, and the issuance of notes by an Irish SSPE of up to PLN 500 million that were purchased by private international investors.
  • Advising Panattoni Group on a number of real estate transactions.
  • Advising KGAL Real Investments on tax structuring and on a number of real estate transactions.
  • Advising foreign investment funds and pension funds in the course of proceedings concerning the refund of withholding tax.
  • Advising HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH on the tax aspects of a transaction with Żory Municipality concerning the implementation of a project in the public/private partnership formula.
  • Advising the founders of S-Druk (now Netbox) on the tax aspects of the sale of 100% of its shares to the Netbox Group,
  • Advising Gulermak in the course of proceedings concerning the refund of real estate tax.
  • Providing general tax advice to a number of Polish clients from various sectors (eg Emsur, WeBuild and Warbud).
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Education
  • Student of BLC Diploma in English and European Law (organised by the University of Cambridge at the University of Warsaw), 2019
  • University of Łódź, Master of Laws, 2017

Prior Experience

  • July 2024 - present, Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • November 2019 - June 2024, Junior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • June 2019 - October 2019, Paralegal, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • August 2018 - May 2019, Trainee, DLA Piper, Warsaw

Areas of Practice

  • Withholding tax (WHT) compliance and recovery
  • Securitisation
  • Property acquisition
  • General tax advice
  • DAC6 compliance
  • Tax analyses, including due diligence reviews

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Trainee Attorney-at-law, Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-law