Weronika Guerquin-Koryzma
Biography
Weronika Guerquin-Koryzma is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Warsaw office. She is the head of the Warsaw Office Real Estate Practice. Before rejoining the Firm in 2021, she worked at a leading international law firm from 2006, and before that - from 2001 to 2006 - at Baker McKenzie's Warsaw office. She has been recommended by Chambers Europe and Legal 500 EMEA in the Real estate category.
Practice Focus
Weronika advises domestic and international investors, developers, investment funds and financial institutions on real estate transactions in the office, logistics, retail, hotel and residential sectors in Poland and CEE, in the field of acquisitions (including portfolio), real estate M&A transactions, structuring of joint ventures, sale and lease back transactions, as well as consultancy in the development process and in the commercialisation of projects.
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised one of the largest logistics developers in Poland on land acquisitions and disposals of the logistic projects throughout Poland.
- Advised an Austrian asset management company on the acquisition of two office buildings with a retail function located in the centre of Warsaw.
- Advised one of the largest residential, office and retail developer in Poland on acquisitions of brownfields in Warsaw, Poznan, Lodz and Krakow.
- Advised the owner of a branded hotel in Warsaw on the refinancing and the sale of the hotel to an institutional investor.
- Advised an institutional client on a joint-venture with one of the largest residential developers in Poland on setting up of a PRS platform and acquisitions of new PRS projects by the platform.
- Advised a UK institutional investor on the acquisition of a number of shopping outlet centres in Poland.
Professional Honors
- Band 4, Real Estate, Chambers and Partners Europe 2025
- Leading Partner, Real Estate, Legal 500 EMEA 2025
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Warsaw Chamber of Legal Advisors
- Urban Land Institute Poland
Admissions
- Poland (2005)
Education
- Warsaw University (Post Graduate Diploma in European Law) (2005)
- Warsaw University (Master of Law) (1999)
Languages
- English
- Polish
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, Piotr Rawski, Filip Uziębło, Baker McKenzie Doradztwo Podatkowe sp. z o.o.
Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspólnicy sp.k. is a member of Baker & McKenzie International.