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Jakub Szczygieł

Senior Associate
Advocate
About

Jakub Szczygieł specialises in commercial law, in particular company law, and has extensive experience in transactional matters. He advises clients on mergers and acquisitions (buy & sell side), including company founders and industry/financial investors (including private equity investors).

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

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising the shareholders of Bisar, a process outsourcing company, on the sale of a minority 40% stake to Polish Enterprise Fund VIII, managed by Enterprise Investors.
  • Advising the shareholders of Efigence, a leading Polish UX company, on the sale of a majority stake to Riyad Bank, a leading Saudi bank.
  • Advising shareholders (founders and venture capital funds) on the exit of Applica AI, a leading global document automation artificial intelligence company, to Snowflake, a leading global cloud computing company.
  • Advising Generali PTE on the acquisition of the NNLife PTE and NNLife DFE pension funds from NN Group.
  • Advising the shareholders of Orbitvu, a company that automates so-called product photography, on the sale of a majority stake of 60% to the Abris CEE Mid-Market III LP fund.
  • Advising the Resource Partners fund on the acquisition of a majority stake in 7Anna, a Polish company operating in the premium bicycle segment.
  • Advising Żabka Polska on the acquisition of Maczfit from the Resource Partners fund.
  • Advising International Personal Finance plc, a global personal finance company listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Warsaw Stock Exchange, on a tender offer, the acquisition of treasury shares and delisting from the WSE, and proceedings before the FSA.
  • Advising Mid Europa Partners, a leading financial investor in Central and Southeastern Europe, on the acquisition of a majority stake in GWD Concept ("Displate"), from its founders, Credo Ventures and Miton Capital.
  • Advising ETHworks (a blockchain software house) on the sale of a stake to TrustToken, the first major M&A transaction in Poland paid for in cryptocurrency.
  • Advising the Resource Partners fund and minority shareholders on the sale of all their holdings in Golpasz (a major producer of industrial feed for livestock) to Royal DeHeus.
  • Advising the FIZAN Foreign Expansion Fund, managed by PFR TFI, on a joint investment with Elemental Holding in PGM of Texas, a US company active in the processing of used automotive and industrial catalytic converters.
  • Advising the shareholders of Solid Brain on the sale of 100% of the company’s shares to IT Konkrakt, a company belonging to the capital funds Oaktree Capital Management and Cornerstone Partners.*
  • Advising Kreditech Holding on the sale of the Czech company Kreditech Česká Republika to the Polish company Kancelaria Medius.*
  • Advising Revico on the sale of shares in Chemoservis-Dwory, a company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.*
  • Advising Work Service on the sale of shares in IT Kontrakt to the fund Oaktree Capital Management, represented in Poland by the fund Cornerstone Partners.*
  • Advising Mid Europa Partners on the sale of the Żabka Polska retail chain.*

*Denotes experience from a previous firm.

Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Education
  • University of Warsaw, Degree: Master of Laws, 2016
  • University of Florida Levin College of Law, Center for American Law Studies, 2014

Prior Experience

  • May 2021 - present, Senior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • September 2019 - April 2021, Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • February 2016 - August 2019, Lawyer, leading international law firm, Warsaw
  • September 2014 - March 2015, Intern, leading international law firm, Warsaw

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Warsaw Bar Association of Advocates

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