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Warsaw Regional M&A team

Warsaw Regional M&A team 

A well-established international team with a highly successful track record

Our Warsaw Regional M&A team supports our clients on M&A transactions across Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Eurasia region.

The team advises on some of the largest and most technically challenging cross-border M&A transactions on the market, including representing many of the world’s leading players across a range of industry sectors.

Clients benefit from the Warsaw Regional M&A team’s comprehensive experience across private and public M&A, carve-outs, joint ventures, corporate advisory, private equity and capital markets among others.

From its hub in Warsaw, the team has successively built a wealth of English law cross-border experience spanning from Turkey to the Baltics.  

  • We have the largest English-law qualified corporate team in Poland  
  • We are the only team in Poland to be recognised as a “Foreign Expert” across the CEE region and Turkey by Chambers & Partners 
  • We maintain a close network of ‘best friend’ local law firms and industry contacts across the region, travelling regularly and staying up-to-date on the latest legal and commercial developments in every country under our remit
"The firm's [Regional M&A team] is based in Warsaw and is key in cross-border M&A and private equity deals in the CEE region and also Ukraine and Turkey. Daniel Cousens is a key contact for clients.” Chambers Global, Corporate M&A: Foreign Desks (CEE)

Why us?

1

Corporate M&A expertise

Advising international clients on their most demanding regional corporate transactions under English law

Clients value our ability to execute deals seamlessly and efficiently while managing the risk profile which is appropriate to their circumstances: a vital requirement in today’s deal environment. 

Our Warsaw Regional M&A team is relationship driven with a clear focus on efficiency and agility. Not only are our Warsaw M&A lawyers experts in their field, they also combine commercial pragmatism with an understanding of the specialist issues that can arise as part of the negotiation process.

2

Warsaw based, regionally focused

A team with over 22 countries under its remit  

The Warsaw Regional M&A team supports the wider firm as a regional hub for inbound and outbound corporate and M&A transactions in jurisdictions across the CEE, Turkey, Ukraine, the Baltics, Israel and the Caucasus. 

Based in the region, the team maintain an in-depth knowledge of individual markets and can guide clients wherever they may need support, every step of the way and at every stage of the process. 

3

Working with local counsel

Combining global and local commercial and legal support with successful project management  

We are a full-service team with the expertise and capacity to provide a “one-stop-shop” by delivering efficient project management of the transaction and English law advice with coordinated local counsel assistance throughout the entire deal cycle. We work on a daily basis closely together with the best local law firms in the region to build perfectly tailored solutions for our clients. Where local counsel are appointed on a transaction, we can act as the central coordinator for all advice, distilling local input into final work products and incorporating management of local counsel’s fee updates and billing processes into our central coordinating role.

4

Tapping the global Linklaters network

An unparalleled global network of experts and knowledge at our clients’ disposal 

We have one of the world’s pre-eminent M&A practices. With award-winning corporate teams in every major market, we can support our regional clients with the best quality advice and support from around the world. The Warsaw Regional M&A team is further strengthened by our local and global teams of market-leading Linklaters experts in the fields such as tax, real estate, energy & infrastructure, employment and incentives, pensions, antitrust, competition & foreign investment, regulatory and litigation as well as teams offering the full range of finance support including all aspects of banking, capital markets and restructuring transactions.

“I have enjoyed working with the leading regional corporate groups and international investors on their acquisitions and joint ventures across Turkey, Ukraine, CEE over the last 15 years and am fortunate to have advised clients through to positive outcomes on some of the most significant and challenging transactions in diverse and sometimes difficult jurisdictions.”

Daniel Cousens, Corporate/M&A Partner

Daniel Cousens

Our deals

Our recent work in the region

Click on a country on the map to see some of our recently completed deals   

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