Profile
Samanta Wenda-Uszyńska focuses her practice on real estate transactions and corporate matters. She assists foreign and domestic investors on commercial real estate sales and acquisitions, as well as financing and refinancing of acquisitions of real properties. Her practice also includes providing advice on legal aspects of corporate restructuring and legal due diligence of companies and real properties.
Concentrations
- Real estate transactions
- Corporate
- Real estate finance
Capabilities
Experience
- Advised AT Capital on the sale of a real estate property situated at the intersection of Grzybowska and Żelazna in the Wola district of Warsaw to the Dantex and Cavatina development group companies acting in consortium.
- Advised NEPI Rockcastle in connection with the acquisition of Forum Gdańsk Shopping Centre, for EUR 250 million from Multi Veste 339 B.V., an entity ultimately owned by Blackstone-managed funds. The acquisition, by value, represents one of the largest single asset shopping centre transactions in Europe, and the largest in the Central and Eastern Europe in 2022.˚
- Advised a global investment firm in connection with a joint venture to invest in and develop a logistics portfolio in Poland.˚
- Advised a leading real estate investor in connection with the sale of an A class office building located in Warsaw.˚
- Advised Vestinlog from KKCG Group in connection with the sale of portfolio of five industrial logistics and production assets located in Poland to Jet Industrial Properties Poland SE, a Jet Investment’s subsidiary.˚
- Advised Hines Pan-European Core Fund in connection with the acquisition of a mezzanine warehouse facility in Wrocław from GLL Real Estate Partners, manager of a fund in the Macquarie Group.
- Advised KGAL Investment Management in connection with the acquisition of Spark C, an office building located in Warsaw.
- Advised Somerston Group on the acquisition of three shopping centers in Poland (Czyżyny in Kraków, Bielawy in Toruń and Guliwer in Łódź).
- Advised Union Investment Real Estate GmbH in connection with the acquisition of the Holiday Inn in Gdańsk.
- Advised CA Immo in connection with the acquisition of the Warsaw Spire Building C for ca. EUR 100 million.
- Advised Madison International Realty in connection with the acquisition of 50% of the Warsaw Spire A office building and a joint-venture agreement with Ghelamco Group.
- Advised CA Immo in connection with the acquisition of all shares and all rights and obligations of the general partner of Warsaw Spire sp. z o.o. Pl. Europejski 6 S.K.A., a company holding two buildings within the Warsaw Spire office complex: Warsaw Spire B and the Genesis restaurant building.
- Advised Goldman Sachs International, through its affiliate Bricks Acquisition Limited, in connection with a PLN 1 billion tender offer for 100% of shares in ROBYG S.A.
- Advised 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 in the real estate market in Poland in 2016 and one of the largest transactions in the CEE region.
- Advised Rockcastle Global Real Estate in connection with the acquisition of Bonarka City Center - a shopping center located in Kraków. The value of the transaction was EUR 361 million, which made it the largest single transaction in Poland in terms of price in 2016.
- Advised an international investor in connection with the acquisition of the Prosta Office Centre and Trinity Park II office buildings through the acquisition of special purpose vehicles holding the above real properties.
- Advised Hansainvest Hanseatische Investment in connection with the acquisition of Atrium 2, an A class office building located in Warsaw city center.
- Advised Skanska Property Poland on various acquisitions of real properties in Warsaw and Wroclaw for the investment portfolio.
- Advised a leading owner and manager of shopping centers in Central and Eastern Europe on a EUR 1 billion internal restructuring and transfer of real estate throughout Poland.
- Advised a leading developer in Poland on a EUR 500 million internal restructuring and transfer of real estate throughout Poland.
- Advised Altona Investments sp. z o.o. in connection with sale of Browar Piastowski in Wrocław for the purpose developing a residential complex.
- Assisted in conducting a due diligence analysis related to real properties, in particular in the scope of spatial planning, construction, environmental law issues and intellectual property.
- Advised eRecruitment Solutions, a company from the capital group of Grupa Pracuj S.A., on the acquisition of all shares in HRlink from Agora S.A. and two individual minority shareholders.
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Wenda-Uszyńska prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokiński sp.k.
Recognition & Leadership
- Member, Bar Association of Warsaw
Credentials
Education
- Advocate, 2021
- LL.M., Banking & Finance, the University College London, 2020
- Master of Law, the University of Warsaw, 2017
- Diploma in American Law, with distinction, the University of Warsaw/the University of Florida Center for American Law Studies, 2015
- Diploma in Italian Law, with distinction, the University of Warsaw/the University of Catania School of Italian and European Law, 2014
Admissions
- Poland
Languages
- Polish, Native
- English, Fluent
- French, Fluent
- Italian, Fluent