Rafał Dostatni

Counsel

Tax advisor

Rafał Dostatni is very responsive and offers commercial and pragmatic advice. He is great to work with.

— Legal 500 EMEA 2024, Tax

Emailrafal.dostatni@dlapiper.com

Call+48 22 540 74 59

Warsaw

About

Rafał specializes in tax and transaction advisory (CIT, VAT, PIT, RET, TCLT) for both Polish and foreign companies, mainly from the manufacturing, construction, finance, insurance and FMCG sectors. He also advises investment funds on large transactions, with particular focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, as well as foreign companies on starting greenfield investments in Poland.

Areas of FocusTax International Tax and Structuring Financial Services

EXPERIENCE

Advising Nethone in the process of acquiring Advent International as a new majority investor and joining the MANGOPAY.com Group. The advice included tax structuring and supporting of the management team in relation to various exit options.
Advising Future Mind and its founders in the process of selling the company to an external investor - Finnish international investor Solita. The scope of services included tax warranties and indemnities and negotiation with the buyer party of certain tax aspects related to the transaction.
Advising Promethean on a wide range of issues arising from the valuation of the acquired business, including corporate and transfer tax, and on the preparation of transaction documentation in light of Promethean's global structure and future intra-group settlements, commenting on cross-border arrangements in conjunction with DLA's US office.
Advising the Ministry of National Defence and the Polish Development Fund on joining the Nato Innovation Fund. The fund will invest EUR1bn in early-stage start-ups developing emerging and disruptive technologies and other venture capital funds developing emerging and disruptive dual-use (deep tech) technologies. Poland has committed to invest almost EUR45m in the fund.
Advising PSA Baltics N.V., a member of PSA International, on the acquisition of an 85% stake in Pickhill Investments. Advice included structuring the transaction, preparing and negotiating the transaction documentation, including the share purchase agreement, shareholders' agreement and documents related to the provision of debt financing to Loconi Group companies.
Advising Advent International/InPost on the IPO of InPost on Euronext in Amsterdam – the largest Polish IPO to date (worth over EUR8bn).
Advising Amundi, a global real estate fund with AUM of over EUR 1.6 trillion, on corporate and tax structuring their European investment vehicles and entry into the Polish market (acquisition of Nowogrodzka Square – a commercial office building in the center of Warsaw and Neopark – a commercial office in Warsaw-Mokotów).
Advising in setting up mAccelerator, a VC investment fund from Commerzbank group with over EUR 50m initially invested. Subsequent on-going legal and tax support in the fund's acquisitions and developing portfolio companies.
Providing an ongoing tax advice to Polish Development Fund.
Advising Corum Asset Management on the international tax structuring and the acquisition of the Łopuszańska Business Park in Warsaw from Starwood Capital Group.
Advising Meyra Group’s shareholders on the corporate and tax planning of a new vehicle for cross-border investments, multijurisdictional restructuring of current assets and the sale of minority stake in Meyra to H.I.G. Capital.
Advising Panattoni on legal and tax aspects of various warehouse development projects and lease agreements with tenants.
Restructuring of the insurance agency model of Commerzbank (mLeasing) in Poland and dvising on the sale of insurance business of mFinanse to Asekum – a subsidiary of mLeasing.

Languages

Education

University of Warsaw, Master of Law, 2015

University of Oxford, MSc in Law and Finance, 2016

Awards

Recommended in Tax – The Legal 500 EMEA 2023-2024
Finalist of the Rising Stars – Leaders of Tomorrow 2022 – contest for the most talented lawyers below 35 in Poland and organized by Wolters Kluwer.

Prior Experience