Ewelina Szlachcic

Associate

Emailewelina.szlachcic@dlapiper.com

Call+48 22 540 74 75

Warsaw

About

Areas of FocusCorporate Finance Real Estate Finance Structured Finance and Securitization

EXPERIENCE

Advising Corsair Capital on obtaining financing for the acquisition of companies from the MJM Holdings group.
Advising OX2 on the construction of the 41.2 MW Grajewo wind farm in north-eastern Poland.
Advising a company within a financial group on a complex international bankruptcy case involving a cryptocurrency trading company in which the client was secured as a pledgee under a share pledge agreement with the sole shareholder of a Polish subsidiary. The advice included an analysis of the implications of the Polish bankruptcy proceedings for the client and the enforcement of the share pledge, the client's right to actively participate in the potential bankruptcy proceedings, the possibility of initiating restructuring proceedings, and the risks associated with the appointment of a member of the management board of the Polish company against which the bankruptcy petition was filed.
Advising Aareal Bank AG on all Polish aspects of the refinancing of Globalworth's acquisition of Skylight Lumen and Hala Koszyki in Warsaw from Rodamco.
Advising a consortium of banks, with Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A. as lead bank, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego and BNP Paribas Bank Polska S.A., which provided more than PLN 248 million of construction and investment loans and a PLN 15 million VAT loan for the construction of five PRS projects for Resi4Rent.
Advising Pekao and Mota-Engil as senior lender on a project to design and build, under a concession formula, an underground car park with 420 parking spaces under plac Powstańców Warszawy in the centre of Warsaw. The car park will be managed by the concessionaire for 40 years.
Advising Pekao as senior lender on a project to design, build and maintain multi-storey car parks in several locations in Łódż under a concession formula. The car parks will be operated by the concessionaire for 40 years.
Advising the borrower and its subsidiaries on the financial restructuring of the whole group. The restructuring process, which took almost ten months, was divided into the bridge financing phase and the long-term financing phase and involved two main creditor groups - insurance companies and banks. The scope of the advice also included the restructuring of the group's internal financial debt. As a result of the advice, the group restructured its financial debt and a new shareholder entered the shareholding structure. The transaction was nominated as ‘Transaction of the Year 2019’ by the Polish legal portal www.RynekPrawniczy.pl.

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Education

Koźmiński University, Warsaw, Master of Laws, 2018

Prior Experience