Legal situation of cannabis in Poland

Malwina Niczke – Chmura Related Seminars and Products

Counsel

B2RLaw Jankowski Stroiński Zięba

Malwina has extensive experience in providing legal advice for business. The scope of her specialization includes life sciences & healthcare. She also has many years of experience in providing ongoing legal services to enterprises in the SME sector, conducting negotiations with domestic and foreign contractors, corporate matters and pharmaceutical and restructuring issues.

Life Sciences & Healthcare | Commercial Law | Trade & Distribution | FMCG, Food & Drink

Malwina specializes in life sciences & healthcare, from manufacturing and distribution issues, through product registration, to advertising law and regulation of clinical trials. In particular, she focuses on creating distribution structures in the pharmaceutical market, including foreign markets.

Restructuring

Malwina also has experience in the area of restructuring, including advising insolvent or threatened with insolvency debtors regarding the type of restructuring taken, as well as specific restructuring activities, advising creditors on insolvent debtors to protect the interests and minimize financial losses of creditors and supporting negotiations between debtors and creditors.

Corporate Advisory | Corporate & M&A

Malwina has many years of experience in legal advisory services to the SME sector. She has advised clients on the proper development of small and medium-sized enterprises, reorganization and entering foreign markets. Malwina has worked for Polish market leaders in the pharmaceutical and furniture industry, paints and consumer goods. She has also conducted a number of projects in close cooperation with foreign law firms (including in South Africa, China, Serbia and Macedonia). Malwina provides ongoing corporate advisory in the field of compliance, with particular attention to the issues related to transparency of internal and external processes, corporate governance and communication. She has participated in creating systems of internal procedures and codes of good practice. Malwina has also advised on a number of M&A transactions.

George Havaris Related Seminars and Products

Partner

B2RLaw Jankowski Stroiński Zięba

George Havaris, of Canadian/Greek background, is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. He is a corporate and banking lawyer with a broad experience of working on cross-border M&A and financing transactions. George heads our English Law Desk and is also a recognised lawyer in the emerging Polish cannabis industry.

Prior to moving to Poland, George worked at Linklaters LLP in London where he worked in the Corporate and Banking departments (and was awarded international secondments to the Linklaters Warsaw and Moscow offices).

Corporate & M&A | Private Equity | Venture Capital

George has represented domestic and international clients regarding their cross-border M&A activity. He advises corporates, private equity sponsors, venture capital funds and strategic investors on M&A (private and public) deals. He often leads and coordinates transactions across CEE and emerging Europe.

Finance | Financial Services & Insurance

George also advises lenders and borrowers on secured and unsecured investment grade, leveraged and emerging market financings (syndicated, club and bilateral loans), mezzanine as well as debt restructurings.