Magdalena Bachleda-Księdzularz
Biography
Overview
Magdalena Bachleda-Księdzularz is an attorney-at-law in the Debt Finance practice with over 18 years of professional experience working for both international financial institutions and international law firms. She specializes in financial restructuring, acquisition finance, bond issues, real estate financing and mezzanine financing including cross-border transactions.
Experience
Eastnine AB: representation of Eastnine AB, a Swedish real estate company, in connection with the financing of the acquisition of the Nowy Rynek D office property in Poznań from Skanska.
CCC Group: representation of the CCC Group in connection with the signing of an agreement with an entity from the Softbank Group, under which SoftBank Vision Fund 2 will invest PLN 500 million in eobuwie.pl S.A., the e-commerce platform of the Modivo Group.
GLP: representation of GLP, a leading global investment manager and business builder in logistics, real estate, insurance and related technologies, on the Polish aspects related to the financing of the acquisition of the Goodman Group’s Central and Eastern Europe logistics real estate portfolio.
K-Trust: representation of K-Trust, a South Korean fund, managed by JR AMC, in the financing of the acquisition of the Feniks office building located in Warsaw.
Benson Elliot: representation of Benson Elliot, a leading, independent pan-European private equity real-estate fund manager, in the financing of the acquisition of the Diamentum Office in Wroclaw.
Société Générale: representation of Société Générale in connection with the sale of Euro Bank, the retail banking subsidiary in Poland of Société Générale, to Bank Millennium.
BNP Paribas Group: representation of the BNP Paribas Group in connection with the acquisition of the core banking business of Raiffeisen Bank Polska S.A by Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas S.A.
Innova Capital: representation of Innova Capital, a private equity fund, on the acquisition of a majority stake in PEKAES S.A. from Kulczyk Investments S.A. and Kulczyk Holding S.A.
Bank Pekao S.A.: representation of Bank Pekao S.A., one of the largest creditors of PBG S.A. in the court-supervised restructuring of PBG’s debt, one of the largest such procedures in Poland’s history. The aggregate value of the receivables of PBG’s creditors exceeded PLN 3.2 billion.
Pfleiderer Grajewo S.A.: representation of Pfleiderer Grajewo S.A. in connection with refinancing and amendment of the existing indebtedness of the company and certain of its subsidiaries, which included a revolving credit facility agreement with tranches of EUR 60 million and PLN 200 million, ancillary facility agreements and notes in the amount of EUR 322 million.
Alior Bank S.A.: representation of Alior Bank S.A. in connection with the public program for the issuance of bonds for the amount of PLN 800 million.
Raiffeisen Polbank: representation of Raiffeisen Polbank in connection with the public offering and introduction to trading on the Bondspot market of Series A bonds with the value of PLN 500 million. The bonds are part of an issuance program with the total estimated value of PLN 2 billion.
Penta Investments Ltd.: representation of Penta Investments Ltd., a shareholder of Empik Media & Fashion (EMF), in connection with the refinancing of EMF’s PLN 1.2 billion debt. The transaction included the offering of PLN 128.8 million unsecured bearer bonds and EUR 38 million unsecured registered bonds of EMF, a mezzanine loan in the amount of approx. EUR 25 million and amendments to the credit facility and intercreditor agreements.
Cyfrowy Polsat S.A.: representation of Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. in connection with all aspects of the acquisition of Polkomtel sp. z o.o. including (i) negotiating agreements with existing shareholders, (ii) issuing Cyfrowy Polsat’s new shares and their admission on the WSE, as well as (iii) refinancing of the existing indebtedness of Cyfrowy Polsat and the Polkomtel capital group (Senior Notes, PIK Notes and Senior Facilities). The value of the transaction was PLN 6.15 billion.
A consortium of 20 banks: representation of a consortium of 20 banks in the restructuring of Celsa Huta Ostrowiec’s PLN 2 billion debt.
Spartan Capital Holdings: representation of Spartan Capital Holdings in connection with LBO financing for the acquisition of Polkomtel and the development of the LTE network.
Penta Investments Capital Group: representation of the Penta Investments Capital Group in connection with the acquisition of FLiD Drumet sp. z o.o. by Penta Investments.
CEDC: representation of CEDC in connection with a EUR 380 million and USD 380 million debt offering.
Pfleiderer AG: representation of Pfleiderer AG in connection with a collateral package and intercreditor agreement with a group of lenders.
Syntaxis Capital Limited: representation of Syntaxis Capital Limited in connection with its investment in the capital of Etos S.A. and mezzanine financing provided to Etos S.A.
Syntaxis Capital Limited: representation of Syntaxis Capital Limited in connection with providing mezzanine financing to Kerten Capital in an LBO of another company.
