WARSAW, August 9, 2021 - The Warsaw office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig has agreed a 10-year lease with HB Reavis, a leading international workspace provider, for 5,000 sqm of workspace in the brand-new Varso Tower – the tallest structure in the European Union. The state-of-the-art new offices will span over three floors – levels 31-33 – of Varso Tower. The relocation of the Warsaw team is scheduled for autumn 2022.
“With many challenges and opportunities ahead of us and the continuous growth of our Warsaw team, the office needs to relocate from its long-time home in the Warsaw Stock Exchange building to an excellent new location in one of the most technologically advanced projects being built in Europe today. Varso Tower definitely fits the bill and Greenberg Traurig will make the most of this new space,” said Richard A. Rosenbaum, Greenberg Traurig's Executive Chairman, closely involved with the firm's offices in the European region.
“This is a 10-year commitment – made not only to our clients and the market but also to future Greenberg Traurig generations – to grow together as we enter the 'next normal'. The firm's legacy is based on our commitment to excellence and we need to make sure we provide our colleagues with the best possible environment in which to collaborate and develop,” added Lejb Fogelman, the Warsaw office's long-serving Senior Partner.
“While adjusting to this new reality, we always need to remember to plan ahead. We are already impressed by the possibilities that Varso Tower has to offer – an excellent combination of comfort, well-being, and safety along with its best-in-class sustainability standards. Varso Tower has the potential to serve as a new benchmark for the office sector over the next decade,” concluded Jolanta Nowakowska-Zimoch, Warsaw office Partner and Head of its Real Estate Practice. Nowakowska-Zimoch is slated to soon become the new Managing Partner and, together with Rafał Baranowski and Radomił Charzyński, the management team will succeed Jarosław Grzesiak, who has led the office for over 20 years.
Varso Tower was designed by Foster + Partners, a global studio renowned for pioneering design. Scheduled for completion in spring 2022, the skyscraper is clad in a 4 m tall glass curtain wall that filters an abundance of natural light onto the wide office floorplates. Varso Tower also holds the highest BREEAM and WELL certifications, proving its impressive energy-saving, safety and comfort credentials and making it one of the country’s greenest buildings.
Apart from offices, the tower will feature two public observation decks – one twice as high as the viewing platform at Poland's Palace of Culture and Science – and a signature restaurant and bar with skyline views. Varso Tower is the final showpiece of Varso Place, a mixed-use development by HB Reavis consisting of offices, a hotel, an innovation hub and retail situated in the heart of Warsaw.
Savills is providing end-to-end technical advisory to Greenberg Traurig, including project and design management as well as comprehensive commercial support for the tenant in the lease process.
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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