In a bid to enhance its real estate offering in Central Europe, Greenberg Traurig last month recruited 12 lawyers to its Warsaw office from Allen & Overy (A&O) and Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF).
Joining Greenberg is A&O’s Warsaw real estate head Radomił Charzyński and NRF’s Warsaw real estate head Agnieszka Stankiewicz. Charzyński brings with him three others, including senior associate Karol Brzoskowski, who becomes a partner at Greenberg, and two senior associates, while Stankiewicz, named a leading individual in The Legal 500 for Polish real estate, brings with her local partner Magdalena Życzkowska-Jóźwiak, one senior associate and five associates.
A&O said it would now service the market through Warsaw-based banking partner Arkadiusz Pedzich.
Both Charzyński and Stankiewicz will work alongside Warsaw partner and head of the real estate group Marek Grodek. The hires gives the firm a real estate team totalling 30 lawyers and the expanded group will work with the office’s capital markets, finance and M&A practices.
‘When I joined from Dewey & LeBoeuf in 2012, Greenberg had ten lawyers; we now have 80.’
Jarosław Grzesiak, Greenberg Traurig
Speaking to Legal Business about the growth of the firm’s real estate piece, Warsaw managing partner Jarosław Grzesiak said: ‘When I joined from Dewey & LeBoeuf in 2012, Greenberg had ten lawyers; we now have 80. We are top tier in M&A, but the modern day real estate practice is becoming multi-faceted and now includes capital market and finance aspects.’
Earlier recruitment drives in this area saw the firm hire Dentons’ London-based co-head of global real estate Eric Rosedale as its co-chair of international real estate last June, a newly created role that tasked Rosedale with co-ordinating the firm’s practice outside of the US, spreading his time across London, Amsterdam and Warsaw.
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