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Izabela Gębal

Counsel
Attorney-at-law
Her commitment went beyond the standards.
Legal 500 EMEA 2024 Commercial, Corporate And M&A
About

Izabela Gębal has more than 15 years of experience advising on corporate law and civil law.

She supports Polish and foreign clients on M&A transactions and private equity investments, structuring deals, negotiating conditions, drafting documentation and coordinating due diligence processes. She has worked on many of the most significant transactions on the Polish market in recent years, advising investment banks, private equity funds, international corporations and private individuals.

Thanks to her extensive transactional experience and in-depth knowledge of sale/purchase agreements (involving shares and other assets), Izabela has successfully assisted many sellers and purchasers, as well as entities from the insurance sector, in obtaining W&I insurance.

In addition, Izabela advises on the reorganising and restructuring of companies and capital groups, as well as providing ongoing corporate support to clients from various sectors and assisting foreign companies in entering the Polish market (establishing companies and branches).  

Izabela leads the W&I practice within the Corporate team of DLA Piper’s Warsaw office. Recognised as one of the few practitioners in Poland specialising in W&I, Izabela regularly authors publications and thought leadership pieces on liability issues in sale and purchase agreements, with a particular focus on W&I insurance.

She is also actively involved in professional associations and initiatives that promote the advancement and visibility of women in the legal profession.

 
Professional QualificationsAttorney-at-law (Radca prawny) registered with the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law (Okręgowa Izba Radców Prawnych w Warszawie), 2014

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Sprints on its minority investment in Base (Baselinker), a leading Polish e-commerce software platform.
  • Advising Belgian logistics group SEA-Invest Corporation on the sale of a majority stake in Port Północny (Northern Port) in Gdańsk. The transaction was named as a transaction of the year in Poland 
  • Advising Guidewire Software Inc., a leading provider of software solutions to the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry, on its acquisition of Quantee, a dynamic insurance pricing software company.
  • Advising Portugal’s Mota-Engil Group on its sale of a 100% stake in Mota-Engil Central Europe
  • Advising MJM Holdings, a leading business in Poland’s insurance distribution sector, on the acquisition of 100% of shares of five companies owned by GIA Investments.
  • Advising SIBS, a leading payment solutions provider, on the acquisition of a majority stake in ITCARD, one of Poland's largest payment services providers.
  • Advising Enterprise Investors, a private euity firm, on an investment of in eTravel S.A. 

Languages
  • Polish
  • English

Awards

  • Recommended in Commercial, Corporate and M&A – Legal 500 EMEA 2024-2025
Education
  • University of Warsaw, Master of Laws, 2010

Prior Experience

  • July 2023 - present, Counsel, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • October 2019 - June 2023, Senior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • October 2015 - September 2019, Senior Associate, CMS, Warsaw
  • October 2012 - September 2015, Associate, CMS, Warsaw
  • October 2010 - September 2012, Junior Associate, CMS, Warsaw
  • September 2009 - June 2010, Legal Assistant, Sołtysiński Kwęcki Szlęzak, Warsaw

Memberships

  • Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-law, 2014