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 2023, the firm worked on over 70 projects with a total value of PLN 5 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:

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• an entity from the Play Group on the acquisition of 51% shares in Phobos Grupa Taurus sp. z o.o.
• 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
• XBS on refinancing its current loans and obtaining an investment loan
• Milestone Real Estate sp. z o.o. on the group reorganization process
• 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.
• Advising minority shareholders of a company operating in the IT sector in connection with the execution of a minority shareholder’s option to sell a minority stake in the company, as well as the execution of the earn-out
• 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
• Milestone Real Estate sp. z o.o. on the acquisition of 100% shares in a project company that owns an investment real estate
• 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
• A private equity fund on the sale of its majority stake in a portfolio company, including a management buyout
• The founders of ForMeds on their sale of shares to Novastone Capital
• Tutore Poland, a leading company in the educational sector, on its acquisition of the majority stake in LangMedia and its merger with ProfiLingua
• Develia on the joint venture with Hillwood
• PZU Zdrowie on the acquisition of all shares of a company from the medical industry
• Polish Development Fund on corporate financing projects under PDF’s Financial Shield Programme for Large Companies and the provision of liquidity and preferential financing
• Music & More on acquiring an international financial investor and the acquisition of the minority share of the client’s share capital
• Bielenda Kosmetyki Naturalne (Innova Capital portfolio company) on the acquisition of all shares in SHE Cosmetic Lab

Clients

• Private equity funds: Abris Capital, Jet Investment, 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