Tomasz Wickel

Partner _{Attorney at law, Tax advisor}

Tomasz specialises in the development and implementation of group restructurings aimed at increasing their tax efficiency. He also provides comprehensive tax assistance in international tax matters, including international tax planning. Tomasz assists the clients during the transactions relating to securities, shares, IP and real properties. He is an experienced litigator conducting tax and court proceedings. He has participated in and supervised numerous tax audits and tax due diligence projects.

Member of International Fiscal Association. Author of press articles and comments.

Tomasz is ranked by Chambers Europe for Tax work with the following comment: Tomasz enters the rankings on the back of market recognition. He is noted for his experience in transactional mandates, including group restructurings. Sources describe him as “very client-oriented” and praise his “good understanding of business reality”.

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Education

Postgraduate studies in European Union Law, University of Warsaw
Master’s degree in Law, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

Languages

English

Main areas

Taxes

Other areas

Family foundations

Succession planning

Private investors and clients

Mandatory disclosure rules (MDR)

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
He developed the concept and managed a team of Polish and foreign lawyers in the process of international tax restructuring of a leader FMCG player, involving several dozens of entities based in Poland, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Slovakia, Spain, Lichtenstein, Malta and the Netherlands, with very diverse legal profiles
He developed the concept and managed a team of Polish and foreign lawyers in the process of implementing international tax restructuring of a fertiliser producer. The restructuring covered entities located in Poland, Netherlands, Cyprus, Slovakia, Lichtenstein and China
He developed the concept of restructuring a capital group controlled by a Polish natural person conducting investment activities, including in the medical and real estate industry, and he managed a team of Polish and foreign lawyers to implement the process, The purpose of the restructuring was to increase the tax efficiency of investment activities, while ensuring the tax-optimal mechanism for reinvesting the profits obtained from individual investments in new ventures

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He developed the concept and managed a team of lawyers in the process of implementing the restructuring of one of the leaders on the consumer goods market in the field of uncollectible and difficult to collect debts owed to foreign entities
He developed and oversaw the implementation of the unique concept of purchasing a production company in the UK by a Polish capital group to increase the group’s tax efficiency
He developed and oversaw the implementation of the concept of acquiring a company from the medical industry in Switzerland by a capital group controlled by Polish individual investors