Attorney-at-law, Partner who manages the Real Estate Team. For over ten years he has specialised in providing day-to-day and transactional legal advice to clients from the real estate, construction and automotive sectors. He handles transactions involving purchase, sale and lease of commercial properties. He also supports clients in financing and refinancing projects regarding investments in the real estate market. Moreover, he advises clients on joint ventures and restructuring of corporate groups, and antitrust questions.
Selected projects
- legal advice to a seller, a German commercial group, on the sale of over 100 supermarkets to the largest discount store operator in Poland;
- legal advice to a seller, a German commercial group, on sale of nearly 20 supermarkets to a French commercial group;
- legal advice to BMW on the long-term lease of a warehouse with an area of approx. 30,000 sq. m. in the “built-to-suit” formula;
- legal advice to Ontex on the long-term lease of a production building with an area of approx. 26,000 sq. m. in the “built-to-suit” formula;
- legal advice to a Polish company belonging to a German group on the sale of industrial and office properties;
- legal advice to entities from Mercedes-Benz group on the purchase of properties destined for car showrooms and service centres;
- legal advice to a holder of commercial facilities on the day-to-day management of over 100 commercial facilities with an area of 1,000–2,000 sq. m., including regulation of the legal status of the properties, management of relationships with lessees, lessors, and neighbours;
- legal advice to a German bank on the cross-border financing and refinancing of the acquisition of office premises in Warsaw and commercial facilities in Gdańsk and Katowice;
- legal advice to a German property fund on the cross-border restructuring of the financing of facility portfolios in four European jurisdictions in connection with bankruptcy of a bank acting as an insurance agent;
- legal advice to a holder of commercial facilities on the financing and refinancing of commercial facilities, as part of domestic and cross-border financing;
- legal advice to a Polish investor belonging to a German group on the new-build construction of a galvanising plant in central Poland;
- legal advice to a Dutch investor on the new-build construction of a food production plant in a special economic zone in western Poland;
- legal advice to Unternehmensgruppe-Melitta on the cross-border reorganisation of the group and the corporate structure of Polish companies from the group;
- day-to-day legal advice to a leading Canadian provider of services for the automotive sector on the financing of operations in Poland and use agreements;
- day-to-day legal advice to a German manufacturer of premium brand vehicles concerning all aspects of its operations, including the operations financing in the form of leasing and factoring.
Professional experience
- since 2009 JDP DRAPAŁA & PARTNERS, since 2015 Partner
- 2005–2009 Beiten Burkhardt
- 2005 P + P Pöllath + Partners, Rechtsanwälte und Steuerberater, Munich (Germany)
- Warsaw Bar Association, member
Education
- 2003–2005 Regensburg University, Fundamentals of German Law for Law Graduates of Foreign Universities Magister Legum – LL.M., postgraduate studies
- 1998–2003 University of Regensburg, Faculty of Law
- 1998–2003 Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
