MFW Fiałek

MFW Fiałek is a Polish law firm with a deep specialism in advising on transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, sales of enterprises, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital, restructuring as well as public offerings and capital market transactions.

The firm is a trusted advisor for domestic and international corporations, private equity firms, large and small companies, financial advisory firms, banks, development funds, and other participants in corporate transactions. Over the last years, MFW Fiałek has handled numerous complex domestic and cross-border deals across a range of industries.

The firm's team combines deep knowledge and insight with a pragmatic and commercial approach to any transaction. Clients appreciate the firm’s creativity, efficiency, and effectiveness in managing deals and value the exceptional quality of services equal to that offered by leading international law firms.

MFW Fiałek and its team are consistently ranked in all major legal directories and have won numerous awards from industry publications. In 2024, the firm worked on over 70 projects with a total value of PLN 6 billion.

Main Areas of Practice

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Venture Capital
• Investor Acquisition
• Corporate & Commercial
• Competition & Antitrust
• Financing
• Real Estate
• Due Diligence
• Restructuring
• Bond Issue
• Share Offers
• Dispute Resolution
• Collateral Administration
• Capital Market Transactions
• Investment Funds
• Regulatory Advice
• Management Option Programme
• Employment
• Intellectual Property
• Data Protection

International Work

MFW Fiałek is an independent law firm with a strong international focus, resulting in a consistently increasing number of clients based outside Poland. Strategic investors, international corporations and private equity funds from Europe, North America and Africa benefit from the firm’s local market knowledge and the team of lawyers with specialist expertise within foreign investments and cross-border deals. The firm has a significant network of similar law firms across Europe, in order to offer its clients truly cross-border and top-quality advice.

Recent work highlights include advising:

• Orkla ASA portfolio company on the exit of a minority shareholder from Orkla business
• Custodia Capital and Custodia Capital ZZASI sp. z o.o. FO Opportunities ASI S.K.A. on the acquisition of a majority stake in Profi S.A.
• Solidstudio sp. z o.o. and its shareholders on the sale of a part of the shares in the company to the bValue fund and fund’s equity investment in the form of a take up of shares in the increased share capital as part of a multi-stage process
• Lindström Oy on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in HTS Rental sp. z o.o., a subsidiary of Hollywood S.A.
• the Austrian company viridiusLAB AG, specialized in the laboratory testing industry with operations in various CEE countries and Italy, on an acquisition of the 100% of shares in Ośrodek Badań Podstawowych, Projektów i Wdrożeń Ochrony Środowiska i Biotechnologii „OIKOS” sp. z o.o.
• Enterprise Investors on the acquisition of a majority stake in Salus Centrum Medyczne sp. z o.o.
• Hartenberg Capital on the acquisition of a controlling stake in the 4Kraft sp. z o.o. and its subsidiaries, i.e. 4Kraft LLC and Suzhou Kinderkraft Trading Co., Ltd.
• Enterprise Investors fund on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in the Private Healthcare Facility “Śródmieście – Biały Kamień” sp. z o.o.
• Deutsche Private Equity and Swiss law firm Bär & Karrer in the Polish aspects of the international acquisition of a majority stake in IMPAG Group
• Orkla Food Ingredients and its group entities on the acquisition of the plant owned by Eurohansa sp. z o.o.
• TM TRADE POL and the Lithuanian law firm NOOR in a transaction concerning the sale of shares in the company to a Lithuanian investor
• Tutore International S.à r.l. on Innova Capital’s investment in Tutore Poland
• Tutore Poland sp. z o.o. on the transaction to acquire 100% control of Langmedia sp. z o.o.
• Goliath International Holding B.V. on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Lucky Duck Games sp. z o.o.
• an entity from the Play Group on the acquisition of 100% shares in the in Miconet sp. z o.o., which operates in telecommunications services
• to the seller in the sale of 100% of Bioproten sp. z o.o. shares to ENERIS BIO, which acquired the shares
• Takoni Sp. z o.o. on the acquisition of 100% of shares in Metkom Król Sp. z o.o. and SW Armatura Sp. z o.o., specialized in pipeline, gas, and power solutions
• Develia S.A. in connection with the conclusion of a cooperation agreement within a joint venture with investment funds managed by TFI Rockbridge S.A. and Derby Investments sp. z o.o.
• Scanmed Group, Abris Capital portfolio company, on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Centrum Rehabilitacji sp. z o.o. with its seat in Chorzów
• Cogito Capital Partnerson the Series A investment round in SKY ENGINE AI, a London-based vendor of Generative AI Synthetic Data Cloud platform for deep learning in vision AI, and its Polish subsidiary – Sky Engine Sp. z o.o.
• CofounderZone fund on the Aleet sp. z o.o.financing round. CofounderZone acted as the lead investor, angel investors as co-investors and FundingBox fund as the second close investor
• Solita – technology, data, and design company – on a project involving investment and integration with Future Mind
• Scanmed Group, Abris Capital portfolio company, on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Med-Lux sp. z o.o.
• Tutore International Luxembourg S.à r.l. in the acquisition of exclusive control over Tutore Poland sp. z o.o.
• the shareholders of Dom Whisky Group’s companies on the sale of 80% of shares to an external investor – United Beverages
• an entity from the Play Group on the acquisition of 100% shares in the Syrion sp. z o.o.
• the shareholders of Renters.pl on the sale of a majority stake in the rental management company to Polish Enterprise Fund VIII, a private equity fund managed by Enterprise Investors
• Orkla ASA on its acquisition of shares in Da Grasso
• Tar Heel Capital on its acquisition of the majority stake in SmakMak
• the shareholders of Grupa Nowy Szpital Holding on the sale of all company shares to PHPL s.r.o. belonging to the Penta Hospitals International Group
• Vantage Capital on its investment in the development of educational facilities based on the Canadian bilingual education system
• The founders of ForMeds on their sale of shares to Novastone Capital

Clients

• Private equity funds: Enterprise Investors, Abris Capital, Jet Investment, Hartenberg Capital, Innova Capital, Value4Capital, Tar Heel Capital, Advent International, Bridgepoint, ESO Capital, Vantage Capital, Custodia Capital, Emma Capital, Argus Capital, Enterprise Investors, CEE Equity
• Corporations: Solita, Orkla Group, Culligan International, Schindler, Play, Develia, PZU, FB Serwis, CHL, Ceramika Nowa Gala, Konsalnet, Polnord, UPC
• Financial Institutions: Polish Development Fund (PFR), Ipopema, CVI, Kredyt Inkaso, Allianz
• Enterprises: Scanmed, Takoni, Bioproten, XBS, Renters.pl, Formeds, Grupa Nowy Szpital Holding, Tutore Poland, Music & More, Bielenda, Biomed-Lublin, Picodi.com, Work Service, Ferro, Centrum Rozliczeń Elektronicznych Polskie ePłatności, Lime Access, OCRK, Clovin, Alvo, Pentacomp, Agnella, ZAP Sznajder Batterien, Redan, Fabryka Pizzy, Matexi, Milestone Real Estate