Krystian Trzciński

Senior Associate _{Tax advisor}

Krystian specialises in advising on legal and tax issues which affect all stages of M&A transactions and intra-group restructurings, from the planning stage to conducting tax due diligence analyses, obtaining individual tax interpretations and calculating tax settlements. He also advises High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWI). He has extensive experience in conducting tax disputes, including tax disputes arising from anti-avoidance regulations (GAAR) and withholding tax collection (WHT).

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Education

Master’s degree in Law, University of Warsaw

Languages

English

Main areas

Taxes

Selected projects

Advising Baltic Power, a joint venture between ORLEN Group and Northland Power, on the first offshore project finance transaction on the Polish market. The financing obtained by Baltic Power with a total value of over EUR 4.7bn. The advice included negotiating the provisions of loan documentation and hedging contracts based on currency and interest rate derivatives with a consortium of 25 financial institutions
Advising a company which trades and supplies electricity, by preparing a tax opinion on changing the method of settling remuneration with energy producers
Advising a private higher education institution, including advice on its sale to an investor
Advising LERG and conducting successful tax proceedings to refund a CIT overpayment resulting from the application of an unfavourable allocation of tax costs related to a transaction to acquire shares in another company
Advising a company operating in the renewable energy industry by drafting a memorandum on financing and group structure – assessing CIT, VAT and TP liabilities
Obtaining a safeguarding opinion from the Head of the National Tax Administration confirming that the client’s planned debt restructuring, which produced a tax benefit, did not constitute a tax avoidance scheme
Advising a professional investor on the sale of shares in a company and securing property succession to the seller’s family, taking account of international tax planning which arose given the foreign residence of the seller and his family