Michal Wolangiewicz

Michal Wolangiewicz

Corporate/M&A Senior Associate, Warsaw

“I am a business savvy corporate attorney with extensive experience in private M&A transactions. I strive to provide clients with sound and efficient advice, tailored to their commercial and strategic needs.”

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Published works

Overview

Michał is a NY-qualified lawyer in Linklaters' Warsaw Corporate/M&A team. He specialises in corporate and commercial law, with experience in advising clients on private M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and general corporate advice. His professional experience focuses on Polish and multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions in the CEE and Eurasia regions.

Work highlights

  • Qatar Investment Authority: advising on the acquisition of an approx. 20% interest in the D.ream International global fine dining group, whose brands include the well-known Nusr-et (founded by Salt Bae) and Zuma.
  • Compagnie Plastic Omnium SA: advising the French listed company on the Polish aspects of a €600m strategic acquisition of Varroc Lighting Systems, a supplier of automotive lighting systems.
  • An American multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances: advising on the acquisition of a minority stake in a leading data analytics solutions provider in Poland, establishment of a JV with its founder with potential buy-out of the remaining stake in the future.
  • Kronospan: advising on the abandoned acquisition of 100% of shares in Pfleiderer Polska sp. z o.o. 
  • Unilever PLC: advising on the Polish aspects of €4.5bn sale of the world’s leading tea business to CVC Capital Partners.
  • ING Bank Śląski, a Polish subsidiary of ING Group: advising on its acquisition of 45% of shares in NN Investment Partners TFI (Polish asset management company) from NN Investment Partners International Holdings.

Professional experience

Michał is a contributor for Forbes Poland, writing op-eds on various socio-economic matters.

He is an alumnus of the PAGA Foundation’s Capital Market Leaders Academy.

Education and qualifications

Michał read law at Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, the London School of Economics (LSE) and the University of Wroclaw. Michał holds also a B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Wroclaw. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Polish Academy of Sciences.