Tomasz Trystula

Tomasz Trystula

Managing Associate, Warsaw

“I provide comprehensive legal advice to Polish and foreign entities in real estate transactions across Poland and CEE. I bring my extensive and in-depth experience to lead clients through the whole process of real estate transactions, particularly the ones with structured portfolio.”

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Overview

Tomasz is a Polish qualified lawyer (adwokat). He has over 12 years’ experience in providing comprehensive legal advice to Polish and foreign entities in major real estate transactions in Poland and in the CEE region. He advises on investment and construction processes, as well as on sales and purchases of shopping centres, industrial buildings and offices. Tomasz’s particular focus is on structured portfolio transactions.

Work highlights

Tomasz’s recent highlights include advising:

  • Develia: advising one of Poland’s largest developers on the €100m acquisition of the Polish subsidiaries of Nexity, the leading French developer. With the acquisition, Develia increased the number of residential units under construction by ca. 1,400, and its land bank by ca. 2,200 units, in Warsaw, Kraków and Poznań.

  • NEPI Rockcastle: advising on the acquisition of: (i) Silesia City Center in Katowice for €405m; (ii) the Magnolia Park shopping centre in Wrocław from Union Investment for €373m; (iii) Forum Gdańsk Shopping Centre from Multi Veste 339 B.V., owned by Blackstone-managed funds, for €250 million; and (iv) Atrium Copernicus Shopping Centre in Toruń from G City Europe for €127m. 

  • A leading investment firm: advising on the establishment of a joint venture holding a portfolio of nine shopping centres and two retail parks across Poland.
  • Chariot Top Group: advising on the €1bn acquisition of a portfolio of 28 retail assets including nine M1 shopping centres in Poland, from funds managed by Ares Management L.P., AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets and Apollo Rida, including the subsequent re-sale of part of the portfolio to EPP at €700m.
  • Resi4Rent: advising on the acquisition of the apartment buildings from Echo Investment for the purposes of long-term rental in Wrocław, Łódź and Warsaw.
  • Globalworth: advising on the €190m acquisition of the Skylight and Lumen office buildings located in Warsaw from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield.
  • W. P. Carey: advising on the acquisition, in a sale and leaseback formula, of 123 Żabka retail stores in Poland's high-traffic urban areas. Żabka is a leading convenience store chain in Poland

Professional experience

Tomasz joined Linklaters in 2011.

Education and qualifications

Tomasz studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Tomasz is a Polish qualified lawyer (adwokat).

He speaks Polish, English and Spanish.