Profile
Karolina Kuźniak focuses her practice on real estate and land development. Karolina assists foreign and domestic investors providing advice on all legal aspects of real estate including acquisitions and disposals of commercial properties, forward founding transactions and real estate financing projects. She is also experienced handling lease agreements, corporate restructuring processes of real estate sector companies (including mergers and transformations), and day-to-day matters involving commercial, administrative and civil law matters.
Concentrations
- Real estate sales and acquisition
Capabilities
Experience
- Advised Credit Suisse Asset Management Global Real Estate in connection with the acquisition of Ethos premium office building located in Warsaw.
- Advised Credit Suisse Asset Management Global Real Estate in connection with the acquisition of Nowy Targ office building located in Wrocław.
- Advised Credit Suisse Asset Management Global Real Estate in connection with the acquisition of two office buildings comprising part of High5ive office complex located in Kraków.
- Advised Credit Suisse Asset Management Global Real Estate in connection with the acquisition of the Astoria Premium Offices located in Warsaw.
- Represented Deka Immobilien – Global Real Estate Investments in connection with the acquisition of Generation Park Z office building located in Warsaw.
- Represented Invesco Real Estate in connection with the acquisition of Q22, one of the most iconic and modern office buildings located in Warsaw. The acquisition of Q22 was the largest investment transaction for an office building on the real estate market in Poland in 2016 and one of the largest transactions in the CEE region.
- Advised CNIC Corporation Limited in connection with the acquisition of two logistics centers in Poland.
- Advised Invesco Real Estate in connection with the forward funding of two logistics centers in Poland in cooperation with Panattoni Europe.°
- Advised Hines Polska in connection with the acquisition of a warehouse portfolio.°
- Represented Invesco Real Estate, the landlord, in connection with the signing of a lease agreement for retail space in the Plac Unii office and retail complex in Warsaw with Carrefour Polska.
- Represented Credit Suisse Asset Management Global Real Estate in connection with leasing of retail and office space in Astoria, Ethos, Nowy Targ and High5ive office buildings.
- Represented Invesco Real Estate in connection with extension of a lease agreement with Deloitte for office space in Q22 office building in Warsaw.
- Advised Ryanair Ltd. in connection with the leasing of aircraft hangars.°
- Advised New Look in connection with the leasing of retail space in shopping centers in Bydgoszcz and Kraków.°
- Advised Ivona Software (an Amazon group company) in connection with the execution of an office and laboratory premises lease agreement.°
- Advised Prudential PLC in connection with the leasing of office premises in Warsaw, Wrocław, Katowice and Poznań.°
- Advised Panattoni Europe in connection with the acquisition of real property in Wrocław.°
- Advised Goodman Poland in connection with the acquisition of undeveloped land for the purpose of logistics center development.°
- Advised a leading European manufacturer of wood products in connection with the development of a manufacturing plant in Poland.°
- Advised Lear Corporation in connection with the forward funding of a manufacturing and warehouse building.°
- Advised an international producer of aluminum products in connection with the purchase and redevelopment of a manufacturing plant.°
- Advised a Pramerica group company in connection with modernization of the CBC office building in Kraków.°
- Advised an Invesco group company in connection with a transaction comprising the acquisition of a shopping center in Kraków.°
- Advised Heitman group companies in connection with a transaction comprising the acquisition of a shopping center.°
- Advised MID Europa Partners in connection with the contemplated acquisition of 100% of the shares in companies co-owning food industry chain stores.°
- Advised Regus PLC in connection with the acquisition of 100% of the shares in a company providing business workspace and support services.°
- Advised a private equity fund in connection with a sale of shares in a company providing mass catering services in Polish stadiums and sports facilities.°
- Advised Vattenfall AB in connection with a transaction comprising the divestment of its Polish assets (a transaction relating to the sale of shares in Górnośląski Zakład Elektroenergetyczny S.A. to Tauron Polska Energia S.A.).°
- Represented Invesco Hotel Investments in connection with disposal of hotels in Gdańsk and Wrocław.
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Kuźniak prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokiński sp.k.
Recognition & Leadership
- EMEA Legal 500 Green Guide: Green Ambassador (2024)
- Chambers USA Award for Excellence: Team Member, Real Estate (2017)
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Member, District Chamber of Attorneys-at-law, 2011
Credentials
Education
- Attorney-at-law, 2011
- Master of Law, The University of Łódź, 2005
- Erasmus Scholarship Programme, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2004
Admissions
- Poland
Languages
- Polish, Native
- English, Fluent
- French, Conversational