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Gold Partner: CMS Cameron McKenna

 

CMS Cameron McKenna is one of the largest law firms in Poland, with more than 100 lawyers (advocates, legal and tax advisors), including 21 partners and 4 of-counsels. With commencement of its Warsaw operations back in 1989, it is also one of the most experienced international law firms in Poland. CMS Cameron McKenna is regarded as the leading advisor on M&A and private equity transactions, competition law and project finance.

The firm’s business focuses around the following sectors: energy, infrastructure and construction, real estate, banking and finance, lifesciences, telecommunications, media and technologies (TMT). CMS Cameron McKenna is also proud to be a leader in dispute resolution and arbitration, with one of the largest teams of specialists in the Polish market.

CMS Cameron McKenna is part of CMS, an alliance of independent law firms, ranked as the leading European advisor in terms of volume and value of transactions. The Warsaw office works closely with other members of CMS, especially in the CEE region having their offices in Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Kyiv, Moscow, Prague, Sofia, and Zagreb.

CMS Cameron McKenna
CMS Cameron McKenna

Dariusz Greszta Spółka Komandytowa

Emilii Plater 53

00-113 Warsaw, Poland

+48 22 520 5555

+48 22 520 5556 www.law-now.com

Gold Partner: Poteza Ventures Advisory Ltd.

Poteza Ventures Advisory Ltd. is a specialised company offering investment consulting services to private equity investment funds and other private investment undertakings. It offers its customers an efficient primary overview of their investment potential, investment structuring by drafting industry reports and identifying investment opportunities. Poteza Ventures Advisory team of experts has specific skills in the field of private equity investment funds as well as practical experience in the field of corporate finance, investment banking and stock markets analytics. Skills, combined with great knowledge of economic, political and social conditions on the South Eastern markets ensure competitive combination of financial and consulting help to companies in these countries.

Currently the company is acting as consultant for Poteza Innovation and Growth Fund, a private equity fund which invests its assets in projects with high development potential. In most cases, these are young, small- and medium-size companies with limited opportunities of access to the capital but with a competitive advantage such as either an innovative product, service or merely a new and more efficient business model. The sectors in which the fund invests are marked by large global growth, e.g. the internet, IT, media, telecommunications, medical and biotechnological sciences, etc.

The fund, which has committed capital of EUR 38, 5 million, made two significant investments in 2008. It invested in a Slovenian company operating in a fast-growing branch of energy and energy management sector, already showing good results on the national as well as regional markets, and in a Croatian internet company combining knowledge in informatics and economy with excellent familiarity of the dynamics of real estate markets. The objective is to continue searching for companies with distinctive growth potential in order to invest a quarter of the raised assets by the end of 2008.

Poteza Ventures
Poteza Ventures Advisory Ltd.

Železna cesta 18

1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

+ 386 1 30 70 920

+ 386 1 30 70 761 www.potezaventures.com