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Agata del Rosal-Iżyk focuses her practice on counseling corporate clients with regard to mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and regulatory matters.

Concentrations

  • Private and public mergers & acquisitions
  • Corporate restructurings
  • Regulatory advice

Capabilities

Experience

  • Advised Animex Foods Sp. z o.o., a leading Polish food processing company, on the acquisition of an 80% stake in DeVeris Polska, an innovative Polish producer of poultry-derived protein products.
  • Advised Allianz S.E. in connection with the EUR 2.5 billion acquisition of Aviva Poland insurance companies (life and non-life), mutual funds manager and pension funds manager, and the acquisition of a 51% stake in Aviva Poland's life and non-life bancassurance joint ventures with Santander.
  • Advised Echo Investment S.A. on the indirect purchase of a majority stake in Archicom S.A. After finalizing the transaction, the Echo-Archicom group became the largest residential developer in Poland.°
  • Advised Onduline Group on the acquisition of CB S.A., a company specializing in the production of roofing solutions and waterproofing systems. The transaction resulted in the creation of the international Ondura Group.°
  • Advised Optimum Ventures Magántőkealap on the Polish aspects of transactions and capital markets law in the acquisition of a 61.49% stake in the Globe Trade Center S.A., a real estate development company, whose shares are listed on the stock exchanges in Warsaw and Johannesburg.°
  • Advised Mansa Investments sp. z o.o. on concluding an investment agreement and a shareholder agreement with a company related to Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. ("Investor"). Under the agreement, the Investor, acting in concert with Mansa Investments sp. z o.o., announced a tender offer addressed to other shareholders of the Company for 100% of Polenergia S.A. shares and acquired over 20% of Polenergia S.A. shares. As a result, Mansa Investments sp. z o.o. and the Investor jointly own over 70% of Polenergia S.A. shares.°
  • Advised Cavatina on the sale of a block of shares in Murapol S.A. The buyer was a joint venture established by Ares Management and Griffin Real Estate, which as part of the transaction purchased from the existing shareholders a total of 98% of Murapol shares.°
  • Advised Cyfrowy Polsat on the joint venture agreement with Discovery Communications Europe and TVN regarding the establishment of a new OTT platform.
  • Advised CCC S.A. in connection with the establishing of strategic business and capital cooperation in Germany with HR Group, second largest specialized footwear retail chain in Germany. As part of a complex cross border transaction CCC S.A. acquired 30.5% shares in HR Group and sold 100% of shares in CCC Germany GmbH.
  • Advised CCC S.A. in connection with the announced tender offer for 100% of shares in Gino Rossi S.A., the execution of a conditional agreement on the sale of Gino Rossi S.A. receivables with Bank PKO BP S.A. and the signing of agreements with certain minority shareholders of Gino Rossi S.A. regarding their participation in the tender offer process.
  • Advised Telewizja Polsat sp. z o.o. in connection with the establishing of strategic cooperation with Eleven Sports Network Ltd. and the acquisition of a majority share in the Polish company Eleven Sports Network sp. z o.o.
  • Advised Algonquin regarding the sale of the company operating the Sheraton Grand Kraków in connection with the share purchase agreement. The value of the transaction was EUR 70 million.°
  • Advised Puratos in connection with the acquisition of a bakery enterprise from the Nurtico Group.°
  • Participated in the work related to the execution and implementation of the location gérance agreement concerning an enterprise with a value of several tens of million of EUR.°
  • Advised Owens Corning in connection with the acquisition of the Paroc Group.°
  • Represented the Allianz Group in the course of proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority in connection with corporate mergers of Allianz Poland and Aviva Poland insurance companies (life and non-life, respectively), mutual funds managers, and pension funds managers as part of the integration of Aviva Poland companies, acquired by the Allianz Group in 2022, with Allianz’s operations in Poland.
  • Represented the Allianz Group in the course of proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority in connection with the acquisition of Aviva Poland insurance companies (life and non-life), mutual funds manager, and pension fund manager, and the acquisition of Aviva Poland joint venture companies with Santander.
  • Advised the seller of a majority stake in a telecommunications sector company, being a protected entity under Poland’s foreign direct investments regime.°
  • Advised an energy sector company in the course of proceedings before the Minister of Energy and Minister of State Assets, respectively, in connection with a transaction resulting in the indirect acquisition of a controlling stake in a company being a protected entity under Poland’s foreign direct investments regime.
  • Participated in works connected with the restructuring of chains of pharmacies, following the enactment of the “Pharmacies for pharmacists” rule and the introduction of demographic and geographic criteria for opening new pharmacies.°

°The above representations were handled by Ms. del Rosal-Iżyk prior to her joining GREENBERG TRAURIG Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokiński sp.k.

Recognition & Leadership

  • Member, Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law

Credentials

Education
  • Attorney-at-law, 2020
  • Master of Law, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2015
  • M.A., English Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, 2008
Admissions
  • Poland
Languages
  • Polish, Native
  • English, Fluent