Profile
Izabela Żmijewska focuses her practice on real estate matters. She regularly advises clients on issues related to commercial real estate transactions, in particular in scope of negotiating and concluding lease agreements for commercial, office and warehouse space, and other real estate documents, as well as the performance and subsequent renegotiation of such agreements. Izabela has considerable experience in representing both landlords and tenants. She also advises on day-to-day services related to the management of clients’ real estate portfolios. She also has experience in legal analysis of the title to land intended for development with warehouse and commercial real estate before their acquisition and in handling real estate transactions, including financing and refinancing investments. Additionally, she provided day-to-day advice to manufacturers and dealers of luxury yachts.
Concentrations
- Lease of office and commercial space
- Real estate asset management
- Sale and acquisition of real estate
- Legal due diligence of commercial, office and warehouse facilities
- Real estate financing
Capabilities
Experience
- Participated in the work for the subsidiary Kulczyk Silverstein Properties in lease of the office and service space in the Ethos building in Warsaw.°
- Participated in work for Project Pruszkow sp. z o.o., a company from the ECC Real Estate group, in commercialization and day-to-day services related to the Nowa Stacja shopping center in Pruszków.°
- Participated in advising AFI Europe in negotiating lease agreements for space in the V.Offices building in Krakow.°
- Participated in advising Polish and foreign investors and investment funds in process of negotiation and conclusion of retail and office space lease agreements, mainly in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznań and Wroclaw, as well as warehouse lease agreements.°
- Participated in work for the subsidiaries of the Octava FIZAN investment fund, related to Octava S.A., in the legal due diligence and purchase transaction of the Obrzeżna building in Warsaw and the Baltic Business Center in Gdynia.°
- Participated in the work in the purchase of six office properties by the Octava FIZAN investment fund: FDS Plaza and Light House in Warsaw, Quattro Forum in Wrocław, Winogrady Business Center in Poznań, Red Tower in Łódź and Alfa Plaza in Tricity.°
- Participated in the work for a subsidiary of Rank Progress S.A. in the sale of Galeria Świdnicka.°
- Participated in preparation of contracts related to the sale of commercial real estate, also as part of the sale & lease back transaction.°
- Assisted clients in works connected with due diligence analyses related to properties, in particular in the scope of legal title to properties, lease and tenancy agreements.°
- Assisted clients in works connected with real estate financing and refinancing transactions.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Żmijewska prior to her joining GREENBERG TRAURIG Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokiński sp.k.
Recognition & Leadership
- EMEA Legal 500: Recommended in Real Estate (2023)
- Member, Bar Association of Warsaw
- Member, Women in Real Estate in Poland Association
Credentials
- Master of Law, Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, Catholic University of Lublin, 2010
- Semester completed as part of an Erasmus exchange, Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, Francja, 2010
- Three-year studies, Catholic University of Lublin and Chicago Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, American Law Center – American Legal Studies, 2009
- Advocate, 2017
- Poland
- Polish, Native
- English, Fluent
- French, Conversational