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Sylwia Czerwik

Counsel
I worked with Sylwia Czerwik, who demonstrated great knowledge of the market, understanding of the client’s needs and industry/cultural specifics. She is very patient, responsive, attentive to details, her availability and readiness to help impressed me.
— Legal 500 EMEA 2024, Public Procurement
Warsaw
About

Sylwia Czerwik provides comprehensive advice to clients in real estate transactions (both asset deals and share deals), including conducting due diligence reviews, negotiating sale agreements (including the sale of real estate portfolios), and assisting in matters related to real estate management and commercialisation. She has extensive experience in negotiating complex leases for office and retail space, warehouses and hotels, representing both landlords and tenants.

In addition, Sylwia advises clients on all aspects of construction processes, including raising financing, drafting various types of contracts, and dealing with ongoing issues.

Her clients include household names such as KGAL Investment Management & Co., Savills Investment Management, 7RLEGO, BNYMellon Poland, Capgemini Polska, London Stock Exchange Group, BASF, Societe Generale, OMNICOM Group and Netflix. 

 
Areas of FocusReal Estate
Professional QualificationsAttorney-at-law (Radca prawny) registered with the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law (Okręgowa Izba Radców Prawnych w Warszawie), 2012

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising KGAL, a company managing investment assets of EUR20.5bn, on the purchase of two office buildings in Warsaw – Prosta Office Centre (POC) and Building K in Brovary – and an office complex in Łodź.
  • Advising Marriott Group on its expansion into several Polish cities (Lublin, Katowice and Poznań) in order to operate hotels under one of the Marriott brands. The issues included cooperation with a future franchisee, due diligence analyses of the properties, and the investment processes.
  • Advising LEGO on the opening of shops in several Polish cities (Warsaw, Gdańsk and Katowice).
  • Advising BNY Mellon, the world's largest custodian bank with USD1.8 trillion in assets under management and USD44.3 trillion in assets under custody, on the signing of the largest lease agreement on the property market in Wrocław since 2020. The bank will occupy 20,300 sq.m. of office space and 191 parking spaces in the Centrum Południe II complex in Wrocław, developed by Skanska.
  • Advising London Stock Exchange Group on a lease agreement for 10,545 sq.m of office space located in an office building in Gdynia.
  • Advising a number of banks on financing/refinancing the construction of several factories, hotels, shopping centres, offices and warehouses. The advice included a legal examination of the planned investments and of contractual provisions contained in the transactional documents.
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Education
  • University of Warsaw, Master of Laws, 2007

Awards and Recognitions

  • Recognised as a Rising Star in Real Estate – Legal 500 EMEA 2024
  • Recommended in Real Estate – The Legal 500 EMEA 2022-23
  • “Sylwia Czerwik is able to get all issues resolved quickly and efficiently.” – The Legal 500 EMEA, Real Estate 2022

Prior Experience

  • July 2024 – present, Counsel, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • April 2018 – June 2024, Senior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • March 2015 - March 2018, Senior Associate, law firm, Warsaw
  • August 2014 - February 2015, Associate, law firm, Warsaw
  • October 2011 - June 2014, Associate, global law firm, Warsaw
  • March 2009 - September 2011, Lawyer, Polish law firm, Warsaw
  • March 2008 - February 2009, Junior Lawyer, Polish law firm, Warsaw

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