Katarzyna Grodziewicz

Katarzyna focuses her practice on corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on securities law and M&A transactions, as well as on corporate governance issues for clients from various sectors, including IT, banking and finance and energy.

She has advised on Polish and EU law issues in a number of public issuances of shares and in public and non-public issuances of debt securities of Polish and foreign issuers. She has extensive experience in acting as a key lawyer in international teams of lawyers, providing legal advice to companies, financial institutions, selling shareholders, financial sponsors, strategic investors and investment banks in numerous international and domestic, initial and secondary, public and private equity offerings and M&A transactions.

Katarzyna has been recognised by international legal rankings such as Chambers & Partners Europe and The Legal 500 as, respectively, an up and coming and a rising star in Poland for equity capital markets. In 2018 she was ranked as a “Rising Star” among 30 leading young senior lawyers in Poland in the ranking "Rising Stars: Lawyers – leaders of tomorrow"; organized by Wolters Kluwer, publishing house and “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”, the legal and business daily.

• Advised Bank Pekao S.A., the second largest Polish bank, on all aspects of the establishment of a EUR 5 billion Euro Medium Term Note programme and issuance of EUR 500 million 5.50% Senior Non-Preferred Green Notes due 2027 under the programme.

• Advised Echo Investment Group companies Grupa Archicom, Echo Investment S.A. and DKR Echo Investment on an offering of 10,000,000 new shares in Archicom and DKR Echo Investment's sale of 6,107,432 existing Archicom shares. The total value of the transaction was PLN 220 million. The role of offer manager in connection with the transaction was performed by the PKO BP Brokerage Office.

• Advised Huuuge, Inc. in connection with the process of purchasing the company's own shares, listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, by way of a time-limited share buy-back. The share buy-back involved transactions totaling approximately USD 150 million.

• Advised a shareholder of Mo-BRUK S.A. in the sale of tranche of the company's shares through an accelerated book-building process (ABB). The value of the shares sold was over PLN 142.3 million.

• Advised Morgan Stanley as financial advisor and placement agent in connection with a USD 290 million equity private placement by Elemental Holding, a global urban mining and recycling company originating from Poland, with its headquarters in Luxembourg.

• Advised shareholders of Benefit Systems S.A. in the sale of shares through an accelerated book-building process. The value of the sold shares was approx. PLN 158 million.

• InPost S.A., a leading e-commerce enablement platform, and its majority shareholder private equity fund Advent International, on InPost’s first public offering and listing on the Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchange - this was one of the largest IPOs of a business group from Poland (IPO’s value: EUR 3.2bn), and the first IPO of a Polish company on Euronext Amsterdam (the transaction won the 2021 Polish Deal of the Year Award form CEE Legal Matters).

• Grupa Azoty Zakłady Chemiczne “Police” S.A. as an issuer on the secondary public offering with a value of more than PLN 500m (approx. EUR 108m), being the first public offering conducted and the first issue prospectus approved by the Polish Supervisory Authority (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego) under the new Prospectus Regulation, and introduction to trading of shares in Grupa Azoty Zakłady Chemiczne “Police” S.A. on the regulated market of the WSE.

• Dino Polska S.A. – representation of PKO BP S.A. Oddział – DM PKO BP w Warszawie, as Global Coordinator, Joint Bookrunner and Offering Agent, UBS Limited, WOOD & Company Financial Services, a.s. S.A., Oddział w Polsce, as Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners, and Erste Group Bank AG as Joint Bookrunner, on the PLN 1.65bn (approx. EUR 388m) IPO and admission to trading of shares in Dino Polska S.A. on the regulated market of the WSE.

• Prime Car Management S.A. – representation of Banco Espirito Santo de Investimento, Oddział w Polsce, Jefferies International Limited and Dom Maklerski mBanku in connection with the PLN 210m IPO and the WSE listing of shares of Prime Car Management S.A., one of the leaders in car fleet management and leasing services in Poland.