Marcin Chylinski is a legal advisor and a partner in the Corporate Department of Weil. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1998. He is also a Stone Scholar Honors graduate of Columbia Law School (LL.M) in New York (2006). Marcin joined Weil in 1995. At first, he worked as a lawyer, then as a legal advisor trainee and subsequently as a legal advisor. In the summer of 2000 he worked in Weil’s New York office. From June 2006, he headed the capital markets department at the Warsaw office of leading international law firm. In 2009, he returned to Weil as a partner in the Corporate Department.
Mr. Chylinski specialises in corporate law and capital markets transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in leading teams of lawyers advising investment banks and issuers on a range of international and domestic initial and secondary public offerings, and public tender offers for the sale of shares, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He is a renowned specialist in securities law and is recommended by prestigious legal ranking publications such as Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 or IFLR 1000 for capital markets transactions in Poland. He is fluent in English and Italian and conversant in Russian.
Notable and recent experience whilst at Weil, at another international law firm, and since returning to Weil includes advising:
- Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, DM PKO BP and DM BOS, acting as the managers, in connection with the privatization of Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen S.A., Poland’s largest insurance company, by way of an international initial public offering and listing on the WSE;
- Bank Millenium S.A. in connection with its PLN 1.055 billion (approx. EUR 260 million) rights issue to domestic and international investors and the listing of the newly-issued shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- Poland’s largest retail bank PKO BP in connection with its USD 1.8 billion rights offering, the largest rights issue by a Polish company;
- UniCredit CAIB Poland S.A., as the lead manager, in connection with the contemplated initial public offering of shares in a leading Polish chemical company, ZAK S.A.;
- leading Polish telecommunications company Dialog S.A. in connection with the contemplated initial public offering of its shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- Credit Suisse as the global coordinator in connection with the contemplated initial public offering of shares in a Polish bank, BGZ S.A.;
- Luxembourg-based developer ORCO Property Group, listed on the Euronext Paris and the Prague Stock Exchange, in connection with its EUR 150 million public offering and listing of its shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the Budapest Stock Exchange;
- Polish developer Dom Development in connection with the USD 136 million initial public offering of its shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- Polish developer LC Corp in connection with the USD 374 million initial public offering of its shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- a leading international investment bank and UniCredit CAIB Poland S.A. in connection with the contemplated initial public offering of shares in LOT Polish Airlines; and
- the largest Polish chemical group Ciech S.A. (a public company) in a shareholders’ dispute;
- Polish gas monopolist PGNiG in connection with its privatization through the USD 832 million initial public offering of its shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- Polish power plant BOT Elektrownia Belchatow in connection with the construction of a new power unit and the modernization of existing facilities;
- the Warsaw-listed telecommunications company Netia in connection with its acquisition of all the shares and receivables of another telecommunications company, Regionalne Sieci Telekomunikacyjne El-Net;
- the Warsaw-listed developer Polnord in connection with its merger with the construction firm B.E. Energobudowa;
- Poland’s largest insurance group, PZU, in connection with its sale of shares in PZU NFI Management and three National Investment Funds managed by this company;
- a syndicate of ABN Amro and Merrill Lynch in connection with the planned initial public offering of shares in PZU, which was aborted shortly before completion;
- Polish Ministry of the State Treasury and a syndicate arranged by ABN Amro and Rothschild in connection with the first stage of privatization of PZU, the sale of 30% of the shares in the company to Eureko and BIG Bank;
- Netia in connection with its initial public offering on a US stock exchange, the first listing of shares in a Polish company on the NASDAQ.