Banking & Finance

Deloitte Legal rises in the rankings thanks to further increasing its market presence and receiving strong feedback. The team assists clients with a range of matters, including acquisition and leveraged financing as well as debt refinancings. Its broad expertise also includes advising on project finance in the renewable energy sector, corporate loans, including capex facilities, as well as transportation asset finance. In addition to assisting corporate borrowers, the department frequently acts for domestic and international banks.

"Deloitte Legal's service is excellent. The team is highly motivated, drafts quickly and is open to providing in-depth answers to our legal questions."

"They are fully aware of a bank's commercial necessities and can transfer those very well into legal language."

"I particularly appreciate that they have English-law qualified individuals in their Warsaw office, so I have to reach out to their London colleagues."

"They are proactive and also take care of the non-essential things on their own. Hence they are very efficient with their work and come back to us with mostly commercial points."

"The lawyers are very good when it comes to negotiations."

Deloitte Legal advised Bank Pekao and Siemens Bank on PLN500 million financing for Eurowagon's acquisition of rolling stock.

Managing partner Tomasz Ostrowski is a well-established practitioner who advises both corporates and lenders. He assists with a broad variety of financing matters, including project and general corporate financing. Tomasz Ostrowski is dual-qualified in Poland and the UK. "We value Tomasz Ostrowski's level of sophistication and his excellent understanding of the Polish market."

Aneta Urban advises clients on financial restructurings and acquisition financing deals. "Aneta Urban has very strong negotiation skills, which helps when the other side is being difficult. Her extensive experience is the basis for quickly finding solutions to the problems."

Katarzyna Jakubiak enters the rankings thanks to strong client feedback, an increased market profile and high activity levels on sophisticated financing transactions. Her work includes rail, project and real estate finance as well as capex facilities. She primarily advises banks. "Although Katarzyna Jakubiak is a partner, she is really hands-on and it is very valuable to have a person with such vast experience be so involved. She brings a lot of value in transactions, because she empowers her junior team members and makes sure everything is delivered." "She is very hard-working and the speed with which she responds is incredible." "Katarzyna Jakubiak is a top legal professional with extremely deep knowledge, commercial drive and the proper approach to dealing with even the most difficult transactions." "She is actively engaged in every transaction, offering strong support in coordinating the deal dynamics and resolving the difficult issues. I feel a huge comfort cooperating with her on my transactions."