Real estate

We advise Polish and foreign entities on their real estate investments. We support investors, developers, lenders, borrowers, landlords, tenants, landowners and others interested in acquiring real estate.

Our experience and practical knowledge enables us to provide legal and tax advice which supports your investments, transactions and property commercialisation.

Our team’s extensive experience includes negotiating and drafting all forms of office, retail and warehouse leases, including triple-net, build-to-suit, turn-key, ground leases, sale-and-leasebacks, subleases and more.

How can we help?

Investment in the property market

Identifying investment opportunities;
Advising on joint ventures;
Structuring transactions (e.g. share deal vs. asset deal, organised parts of companies, sale of individual properties or entire portfolios);
Negotiating transaction terms;
Coordinating financial and commercial due diligence of assets included in the transaction;
Organising and evaluating tender processes;
Identifying transactional risks;
Advising on investments in all classes of assets: both commercial real estate (retail, office, warehouse) and PRS (private rented sector), hotel & leisure or student housing.

Transaction support and property valuations

Advising on trading real estate located both in Poland and abroad;
Transactional support:
- at the pre-investment stage (preceded by appropriate legal due diligence, highest best use etc.);
- when purchasing of real estate (ownership / perpetual usufruct);
- in obtaining financing/refinancing for the investment;
- when commercialising and managing the project;
- in ensuring a safe sale.

Commercialisation and administration of real estate

Real estate financing

Identifying capital requirements;
Preparing and implementing financial strategies.

Tax advice

Identifying tax risks;
Implementing procedures to reduce the risks of penal fiscal liability;
Preparing and implementing strategies to optimise tax liabilities.

Selected projects

Advising Waimea Holding on a project concerning a warehouse-logistics-production centre in Rzepin. The subject of the transaction included 2 warehouse halls with a total area of approximately 52,000 m², which was 100% commercialised and released to the tenant;
Advising Steinpol Central Services on the portfolio acquisition of 7 production properties for its furniture manufacturing business;
Advising Bainbridge Poland on the sale of CH Bemowo as part of a share deal;
Advising Baytree Real Estate Opportunities Limited (BREOL) on negotiating a joint venture agreement to develop a residential project in a prestigious location in Gdańsk (so-called Polski Hak);
Advising on the acquisition of office buildings, including. WFC, CEDET, Green Corner, Equator I, Equator II, Equator IV;
Helping an investment fund to acquire shopping malls, including Magnolia Park;
Advising on the acquisition of the Budimex and Archicom portfolio;
Advising on the acquisition of warehouse properties e.g. for MARK and Exeter.

Awards

Legal 500 EMEA 2024 recognised SSW in fourteen categories: Banking and Finance (Tier 3), Capital Markets (Tier 2), Commercial corporate and M&A (Tier 4), Construction (Tier 1), Data privacy and Data protection (Tier 4), Dispute Resolutions (Tier 3), Energy and Natural Resources (Tier 2), Intellectual Property (Firms to Watch), Investment Funds (Tier 2), Private Client (Tier 1), Private Equity (Tier 2), Public Procurement (Tier 2), Real Estate (Tier 3), Restructuring and Insolvency (Tier 3).
Legal 500 EMEA 2023 recommended SSW in 16 categories: Banking and Finance (Tier 3), Capital Markets (Tier 2), Commercial, Corporate and M&A (Tier 3),Construction (Tier 2), Data Privacy and Data Protection (Tier 3), Dispute Resolution (Tier 3), Energy and Natural Resources (Tier 2), Intellectual Property (Firms to Watch), Investment Funds (Tier 2), Private Client (Tier 1), Private Equity (Tier 2), Public Procurement (Tier 3), Real Estate (Tier 3), Restructuring and Insolvency (Tier 3), Tax (Tier 3), TMT (Firms to Watch).
Legal 500 EMEA 2022 recommended SSW in 15 categories: Banking and Finance (Tier 4), Capital Markets (Tier 3), Commercial, Corporate and M&A (Tier 4),Construction (Tier 3), Data Privacy and Data Protection (Tier 3), Dispute Resolution (Tier 4), Energy and Natural Resources (Tier 2), Intellectual Property (Firms to Watch), Investment Funds (Tier 2), Private Client (Tier 1), Private Equity (Tier 3), Real Estate (Tier 3), Restructuring and Insolvency (Tier 3), Tax (Tier 3), TMT (Firms to Watch).
Legal 500 EMEA 2021 recommended SSW in 13 categories: Banking and Finance (Tier 4), Capital Markets (Tier 3), Commercial, Corporate and M&A (Tier 4), Construction (Tier 3), Data Privacy and Data Protection (Tier 3), Dispute Resolution (Tier 4), Energy and Natural Resources (Tier 2), Investment Funds (Tier 2), Private Client (Tier 1), Private Equity (Tier 3), Real Estate (Tier 3), Restructuring and Insolvency (Tier 3), Tax (Tier 3).
Legal 500 EMEA 2020 recommended SSW in 13 categories: Banking and Finance (Tier 5), Capital Markets (Tier 3), Commercial, Corporate and M&A (Tier 4), Construction (Tier 3), Data Privacy and Data Protection (Tier 3), Dispute Resolution (Tier 4), Energy and Natural Resources (Tier 3), Investment Funds (Tier 3), Private Client (Tier 2), Private Equity (Tier 4), Real Estate (Tier 3), Restructuring and Insolvency (Tier 3), Tax (Tier 3).
Legal 500 EMEA 2019 recommended SSW in 10 categories: Banking and Finance (Tier 5), Capital Markets (Tier 4), Commercial, Corporate and M&A (Tier 4), Dispute Resolution (Tier 5), Energy and Natural Resources (Tier 3), Investment Funds (Tier 3), Private Client (Tier 2), Private Equity (Tier 4), Real Estate (Tier 3), Tax (Tier 3).

15.01.2024

SSW recognised in fourteen categories in the Legal 500 EMEA 2024 ranking

28.03.2024

Our experts

Andrzej Włoch Partner

Robert Wodzyński Partner

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