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Katarzyna Grodziewicz

Katarzyna Grodziewicz

Partner
Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspólnicy sp.k.

Biography

Katarzyna Grodziewicz is a partner in the capital markets practice at Baker McKenzie in Warsaw. She focuses on corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on securities law and M&A transactions, as well as on corporate governance and regulatory issues for clients from various sectors including, inter alia, tech/gaming, space and defense, banking and finance, retail, and pharmaceutical/healthcare. In 2020 Katarzyna was selected as Poland’s sole representative on the panel of international experts of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

She holds an LL.M. (with honors) from Chicago-Kent College of Law and completed postgraduate studies in intellectual property law at the Jagiellonian University.

Practice Focus

Katarzyna has advised on Polish and EU law issues in a number of public share issuances, and public and private debt issuances, for Polish and foreign entities. She has extensive experience leading and working within international teams of lawyers, providing advice to companies, financial institutions, selling shareholders, financial sponsors, strategic investors and investment banks on public and private equity offerings and M&A transactions.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised a consortium of banks, including WOOD & Company, Pekao Investment Banking, Bank Pekao Brokerage Office and IPOPEMA Securities, on the Rule 144A IPO of Rex Concepts CEE valued at approximately PLN 500 million.
  • Advised underwriters coordinated by Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE and J.P. Morgan SE, acting as global coordinators, on Polish law in connection with the IPO of Zabka Group shares, with a total value of EUR 1.72 billion. This was the largest IPO in Poland since 2020, the fourth largest in the history of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the fourth largest IPO in Europe in 2024.
  • Advised the selling shareholder, MidEuropa, in connection with the IPO of Diagnostyka S.A. shares with a total value of nearly PLN 1.7 billion (USD 420.5 million), and their admission and introduction to trade on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
  • Advised Enterprise Investors (the selling shareholder) and Studenac Ltd (the company) on an aborted Rule 144A IPO of Studenac Ltd., a Croatian retail chain, and its dual listing of the shares on the Warsaw and Zagreb Stock Exchanges.
  • Advised a syndicate of banks led by UniCredit Bank GmbH on Creotech Instruments’ accelerated bookbuilding transaction involving 650,000 shares and raising approximately PLN 481 million.
  • Advised CI Games SE on the accelerated bookbuilding of 28 million newly issued shares, raising PLN 70 million.
  • Advised the joint global coordinators - Jefferies GmbH, Santander Bank Polska - Santander Biuro Maklerskie, Banco Santander, WOOD & Company - on the successful accelerated bookbuilding process for Benefit Systems’s offering of 280,000 Series H shares with total value of PLN 742 million (c.a. EUR 172.5 million).
  • Advised Benefit Invest 1 Company on the accelerated bookbuilding sale of 453,691 Benefit Systems shares, resulting in the disposal of an approximately 14% stake valued at around PLN 1.4 billion.
  • Advised Fundacja Drzewo i Jutro on an accelerated bookbuilding offering of 208,497 Benefit Systems shares valued at approximately PLN 667 million, with strong demand enabling the sale of its entire stake.
  • Advised on InPost’s EUR 850 million cross-border high-yield bond issuance, offered to institutional investors in the United States under Rule 144A and internationally under Regulation S.
  • Advised the joint arrangers, dealers and bookrunners on the establishment and update of Bank Pekao’s EUR 5 billion EMTN programme and subsequent drawdowns under the programme.

Professional Honors

  • Band 4, Capital Markets: Equity, Chambers Global 2026
  • Band 4, Capital Markets: Equity, Chambers and Partners Europe 2026
  • Leading Associate, Capital Markets, Legal 500 EMEA 2026

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Member, Okręgowa Izba Radców Prawnych (Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law)
  • Member of the Consultative Working Group of the Issuers Standing Committee (ISC CWG), European Securities and Markets Authority

Admissions

  • Poland

Education

  • University of Gdansk
  • Jagiellonian University
  • Chicago-Kent College of Law (IIT)

Languages

  • English
  • German
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Spanish

Publications

Katarzyna has written several articles concerning securities laws and participated in various events as a speaker and panelist.

Co-author, "Cross-Border Listings – Poland Chapter," Baker McKenzie Cross-Border Listings Guide, February 2026

Co-author, "Global Public M&A Guide 2025 – Poland Chapter," Baker McKenzie Global Private M&A Guide 2025, January 2025

Firm Committee Memberships

  • Warsaw Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Committee - Member

 

Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspólnicy sp.k. with its seat in Warsaw, registered office: Chmielna 69, 00-801 Warsaw, Poland, entered in the register of business entities of the National Court Register maintained by the District Court for the Capital City of Warsaw in Warsaw, XIII Commercial Division of the National Court Register, KRS 0000136677, NIP 5262656141.

Partners: Weronika Achramowicz, Marcin Chyliński, Marcin Fijałkowski, Łukasz Hejmej, Marcin Iwaniszyn, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Tomasz Krzyżowski, Baker McKenzie Doradztwo Podatkowe sp. z o.o.

Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspólnicy sp.k. is a member of Baker & McKenzie International.