Bartłomiej Grela

Associate
About
Bartlomiej Grela advises clients – both banks and borrowers - on financing processes, including financing in the form of credit and the issuance of bonds. He has extensive experience in real estate, corporate and cross-border projects. Furthermore, Bartlomiej has also advised on M&A transactions and represented clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings. 
Areas of FocusFinancial Services

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Polish various banks on numerous real estate financing transactions, including development projects and office space purchase projects.*
  • Advising a number of German banks on the Polish law aspects of a EUR65m loan. The financing concerned the acquisition of Polish enterprises from the food products industry.*
  • Advising several foreign investment funds on adjusting transactional documentation regarding the financing of companies involved in the maintenance of railway lines throughout Europe. The transaction consisted of mezzanine financing and securing claims under a parallel debt arrangement.*
  • Advising a British investment fund on financing the acquisition of a number of Polish companies from the food industry, including the preparation and negotiation of transaction security documents, accession to financing, and representing the security agent.*
  • Advising a Dutch factoring services company on its entry into the Polish market, including the preparation of factoring documentation (including the factoring agreement and the T&Cs document) and on financing the transactions of the Polish branch.*
*denotes experience from previous firm
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Education
  • Professional title: advocate, 2021
  • University of Wrocław, Master of law, 2015
  • School of American Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wroclaw, 2014

Prior Experience

  • November 2022 - present, Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • November 2019 - October 2022, Managing Associate, Polish law firm, Warsaw, Poland
  • February 2019 - October 2019, Associate, Polish startup development company, Warsaw, Poland
  • March 2018 - December 2018, Junior Lawyer, Polish law firm, Wroclaw
  • July 2017 - February 2018, Acting Assistant Judge (in Polish: p.o. asystenta sędziego), District Court for Wrocław-Fabryczna in Wroclaw, Commercial Division

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Warsaw Bar Association of Advocates, 2021

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