Norton Rose Fulbright advises Accolade on two new significant transactions following successful cooperation in recent years
Mondial | Press release - Business | octobre 2022
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright advised ACCOLADE Group on its land acquisition and development of:
- a 30,000 square-metre new multi-tenant logistics park in Zielona Góra, Poland; and
- a 50,000 square-metre new multi-tenant logistics park in Piła, Poland.
Both facilities will have a BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) rating of “Excellent”.
Work on the transactions was led by senior associate Jakub Kowalczyk from Warsaw’s real estate and construction team and supervised by partner Magdalena Zienkiewicz.
Since acquisition of the first development in Lublin in August 2015, we are proud to support Accolade in their growth on the Polish market, having assisted them in almost 40 acquisitions and developments of warehouse-logistic facilities, totalling in over 1,300,000 square metres of A+ warehouse-logistic space.
Lukáš Répal, Chief Operating Officer of Accolade Group, commented: “Norton Rose Fulbright is our strategic partner, since we entered the Polish market. They advise us on topics related to the land acquisition and negotiating contracts for the development and lease of warehouse space. We are pleased with the closure of another process together and looking forward to our future cooperation.”
Magdalena Zienkiewicz who heads the Warsaw real estate and construction practice commented: “Accolade Group is a key and long-standing client, whom we have been advising since it entered the Polish market in 2015. We are proud to have been a part of so many successful and notable investments of Accolade and we are grateful for their continuing trust. We look forward to many more years of successful cooperation and interesting and challenging projects.”
Accolade Group, one of Norton Rose Fulbright’s key clients in Poland, is an international investor on the industrial real estate market operating in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands with a portfolio worth almost EUR 2.5 billion.