Beata has over 22 years of professional experience in corporate and transactional legal advisory. She combines legal expertise with business knowledge gained through experience & MBA.
Her experience includes advising foreign and Polish entities on capital markets with a focus on merger and demerger, public and private offers of securities and financial instruments, admitting and delisting shares to trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the non-regulated market – NewConnect, acquisition, and disposal of qualified holdings of shares in listed companies, buy-back programmes, establishing and operating in Poland foreign and Polish regulated entities such as management companies, investment funds, pension funds, banks, and brokerage houses.
Prior to joining LegalKraft , Beata worked in a variety of Polish and international law firms, both in Poland and the USA where she gained experience as an in-house lawyer in one of the top global industrial holdings.
Beata’s professional experience includes also work at the Legal Department of the Securities and Exchange Commission where she was responsible, in particular, for drafting legislation, implementing EU regulations into the Polish legal system, and reviewing companies’ prospectuses in terms of their compliance with binding legal regulations.
She has moderated panels at a number of conferences for public companies, banks, and investment funds. She is also a member of a number of Supervisory Boards.
Beata´s personal experience includes several landmarking projects in Poland and abroad, such as:
- advising GE Money Bank S.A. on merger with Bank BPH S.A.;
- advising PPF Group N.V. on merger with Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A.;
- representing the Polish Military Property Agency against Mazowieckie Voivodeship and the City of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in a joint-venture agreement on establishing Warsaw Modlin Airport;
- representing the Polish Military Property Agency against a Polish listed IT company (Techmex S.A.) in joint-venture agreement on establishing a company for satellite geo imagery (SCOR S.A.);
- advising a Canadian company (Wentworth Tech Inc.) on acquisition of a Polish listed company (Suwary S.A.);
- representing a private equity fund (Mid Europa Partners) on acquisition of a Polish listed company (Eko Holding S.A.);
- advising Impel S.A. on spin-off;
- advising Optimus S.A. on spin-off;
- advising a Czech listed company (CEZ a.s.) on shares buy-back programme;
- representing a Polish listed venture capital fund in IPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- advising an Israeli venture capital fund (GIZA Venture Capital) on establishing a fund with the Polish National Capital Fund (KFK S.A.);
- representing the Polish Institute of Directors, Polish Association of Brokers and Investment Advisers before the Minister of Finance, Minister of Treasury, and Minister of Justice in negotiating amendments to the financial market law proposed by the Polish Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Treasury, and Ministry of Justice;
- representing a UK insurance company listed on the London Stock Exchange (IPF-Provident) in a process of listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- representing the Polish Financial Supervision Authority in IPO of Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG (listed on the stock exchange in Vienna) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- Representing a Polish company (Vantage Development S.A.) in IPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- advising a Chinese company (Ming Le Sports AG) on IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and public offer in Poland;
- representing a Polish company (Ferro S.A.) in SPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- advising GE asset management (GE TFI) on various legal aspect of asset manager and fund's operations.
