Profile
Rafał Siwek focuses his practice on real estate. He advises international investors on real estate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals of commercial properties (shopping galleries, office buildings and logistics warehouses), including forward funding transactions and real estate related financing and refinancing projects. His experience includes also drafting and negotiating lease agreements, as well as complex legal assistance in corporate restructuring processes of real estate sector companies and day-to-day advisory on commercial and civil law matters.
Concentrations
- Real estate forward funding transactions
- Real estate sale and purchase transactions
- Construction law regulatory and litigation advise
- Real estate related restructuring and day to day advise
- Real estate finance
- Construction law
Capabilities
Experience
- Advised Invesco on two forward funding transactions of development of two single tenant built-to-suit distribution centers in Poland, with total GLA of approx. 300,000 sq. m.
- Advised Panattoni Europe on the forward funding transaction of three built-to-suit logistics/production centers in Łodź (leased to Decathlon), Poznań (leased to Trioline) and Sosnowiec (leased to Toy Story), with total GLA of approx. 90,000 sq. m.
- Advised Panattoni Europe on the forward funding transaction of development of a built-to-suit logistics center in Raszyn (leased to TNT).
- Advised Invesco on forward funding development of a Multitenant Logistics Park near Wrocław.
- Advised Invesco on the forward funding transaction of a built-to-suit logistics center for Castorama in Stryków, Poland, with area of 50,000 sq. m (including the day-to day advisory during the development process).°
- Advised Invesco on the forward funding transaction of development of a built-to-suit distribution center for Tesco in Gliwice, Poland, with GLA of 57,000 sq. m and value of EUR 37 million (including the day-to day advisory during the development process).°
- Represented Gdańsk-based company Torus in the sale of the Format office building to a Singaporean fund represented by Greenstone.
- Represented Invesco Real Estate, the global real estate investment manager, in the sale of a logistics park, with a total lease area of approx. 110,000 sq. m, situated in the vicinity of the Gdańsk international airport to EQT Exeter.
- Advised Invesco Real Estate, the global real estate investment manager, on a transaction concerning the sale of A2 Warsaw Park, the largest single warehouse project in the Warsaw area, to Savills IM, acting on behalf Savills IM European Logistics Fund 3. The total value of the transaction was EUR 112.5 million.
- Advised Torus on the sale of the Neon office building in Gdańsk, the fourth and final stage of the Alchemia business complex in Gdańsk, to the German fund DWS Grundbesitz GmbH Sp. z o.o. branch in Poland. The sale transaction, worth over EUR 80 million, is the second highest in the Polish developer’s history in terms of value and one of the largest in the history of the Tricity office market.
- Advised Invesco Real Estate in connection with the sale of a logistic centre in Łódź to Savills Investment Management acting on behalf Savills IM European Logistics Fund 2.
- Advised Heitman in connection with the sale of the Marynarska Business Park A-class office building complex located in the Mokotów district of Warsaw, to Benson Elliot.
- Advised a Spanish private equity fund, Azora Europa, on the sale of the Cristal Park and Mokotów Plaza office buildings located in Warsaw.
- Advised IREEF, managed by Invesco Real Estate, on the sale of its enterprise, i.e. IREEF-Crown Square Warsaw PropCosp. z o.o., the owner of the Crown Square office building to M&A Capital.
- Advised Invesco Real Estate on the sale of a logistics center in northern Poland, with an area of approx. 160,000 sq. m to Vestas Investment Management.
- Advised REINO Partners on purchase of Alchemia I Building in Gdańsk.
- Advised Invesco Real Estate in the sale of the Raiffeisen Business Center, an A class office building located in the center of Warsaw.
- Advised Invesco on the sale of logistics center of Castorama in Stryków, Poland, with area of 50,000 sq. m.°
- Advised Invesco on the sale of logistics center logistics center of Tesco in Gliwice, Poland, with GLA of 57,000 sq. m.°
- Advised Buma, Polish developer acting mostly in Southern Poland, in sale of an office building at ‘Green Office Complex’ in Kraków.°
- Advised Invesco on the sale of logistics center leased to H&M in Gądki, near Poznań, Poland, with GLA of 83,300 sq. m and value of EUR 64 million.°
- Advised Varscovia I CB, a Spanish group of investors managed by ARIS SC, on sale of “M76” office building in Warsaw.°
- Advised a leading owner and manager of shopping malls in Eastern and Central Europe on a EUR 1 billion internal restructuring and transfer of real estate across Poland.
- Advised various clients on construction law and planning law matters, including management and supervisory of due diligence processes in that respect, representation before administrative bodies and courts.
- Advised Invesco on a corporate and real property restructurings and transfer of real estate across Poland processes including office buildings and logistics centers.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Siwek prior to his joining GREENBERG TRAURIG Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokiński sp.k.
Recognition & Leadership
- EMEA Legal 500: "Next Generation Lawyer" in Real Estate and Construction (2017), recommended in Real Estate and Construction (2017)
- Member, Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law
Credentials
Education
- Legal Advisor
- Master of Law, Warsaw University, 2007
Admissions
- Poland
Languages
- Polish, Native
- English, Fluent