WARSAW, August 31, 2021 - The Warsaw Office of Greenberg Traurig was awarded the Pro-Women Company award in the fourth edition of the Top Woman in Real Estate Gala, which celebrates women and companies supporting women’s professional development and promotes good practices and business relations in the real estate and construction sector. The special award category - Pro-Women Company is addressed to companies operating in the real estate sector, which focus on women’s growth in business and in the previous year showed outstanding results in this area.
Małgorzata Madej-Balcerowska, Local Partner in the Greenberg Traurig real estate department, won the award in the Legal Advisory Services category, addressed to women providing legal advisory to clients in the real estate sector, who had outstanding achievements in the past year.
Greenberg Traurig was also recognized as a World Changer Company for its continuous support to real estate women provided in the Top Woman in Real Estate mentoring programme.
The Warsaw office, where almost 60% of the team are women, was recently awarded the prestigious Poland Firm of the Year award at the highly esteemed Euromoney Legal Media Group “Women in Business Law Awards 2021 Europe”. The awards celebrate law firms that have developed strong innovative practices and projects that highlight gender diversity, as well as women lawyers working in business law.
“Greenberg Traurig is honored to be selected as the Pro-Women Company 2021. This is yet another exceptional recognition this year. We are also delighted that since the first edition of the Top Woman in Real Estate Gala the Greenberg Traurig Warsaw team has been recognized for both individual and office-wide achievements. For many years now we have been actively supporting progressive initiatives for the inclusion of women in the legal profession and the Top Woman in Real Estate mentoring programme is an excellent example of such an initiative,” said Jolanta Nowakowska-Zimoch, partner heading the real estate practice.
Jolanta Nowakowska-Zimoch will soon become the new Managing Partner of the Warsaw Office of Greenberg Traurig and together with Rafał Baranowski and Radomił Charzyński, the management team will succeed Jarosław Grzesiak who has led the office for over 20 years.
The recent announcement of the leadership change marks the 30th anniversary of the presence of the firm's team on the Polish market and is the culmination of a long-term transformation plan and implementation of the firm's strategy.
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, multi-practice law firm with approximately 2200 attorneys serving clients from 40 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Greenberg Traurig Grzesiak sp.k. was named the 2021 Poland Firm of the Year award at the highly esteemed Euromoney Legal Media Group “Women in Business Law Awards 2021 Europe” and the 2021, 2019, 2018 Law Firm of the Year in Poland by International Financial Law Review (IFLR). The Warsaw office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP provides legal services to clients in Central Europe and beyond and consists of approximately 100 lawyers. Team members are regularly recognized as leaders in numerous practice areas. Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, IFLR1000 and EMEA Legal 500 consistently rank them among the top tiers the areas of Corporate/M&A, Capital Markets, Real Estate, Private Equity, Tax, Banking and Finance, Project Finance, Energy, Dispute Resolution and TMT.
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