Over the last ten years, we have worked for numerous investors developing new power generation and petrochemical facilities and other infrastructure projects in Poland. We provide legal assistance in all phases of a project, from initial project preparation and execution of material contracts facilitating project development, through securing the funding, construction and commissioning, up to the on-going support of a completed and operating facility. In providing advice on project funding, and specifically in negotiating loan agreements and associated documentation, we leverage our experience gained in working for both project sponsors and financing parties (banks, investment funds).
Our team have significant experience in the energy and motorway sectors. Our advice to private and public investors as well as parties providing financing for investments includes legal services in the following areas:
- Project finance
- Tax structuring
- Public Private Partnership formula
- Public tenders
- Construction law and zone planning
- State aid
- Environmental law
We are particularly proud of the comprehensive legal service provided to Grupa Lotos S.A. in the current $2.15 billion modernisation and expansion project of the refinery in Gdańsk (known as the 10+ Programme), which was recognised by Project Finance International as the 'European Petroleum Sector Transaction of the year 2008' and won the 'European Petrochemical Sector Transaction of the Year 2008' award for arranging the funding for the 10+ Programme, awarded by the prominent Project Finance Magazine, owned by the Euromoney Agency.
We are also advising the international consortium Gdańsk Transport Company SA as a concessionaire and borrower on the construction and operation of the A1 Toll Motorway in Poland.