Bio

Katarzyna Solarz is an attorney at law who has been cooperating with SSW Pragmatic Solutions for over 6 years. She specializes in corporate law, investment funds, mergers and takeovers. Katarzyna is experienced in implementation of complex and multi-stage corporate restructuring processes, which include mergers, transformations, divisions, company liquidations and structuring of groups of companies. The projects she provided her advice for included cross-border elements with a special emphasis put on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, including coordination of cooperation with local administrators and law firms. Her professional interests are focused on the establishment, regular operation and liquidation of investment funds, including alternative investment funds as defined in the Directive 2011/61/EU of June 8th, 2011 on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (so-called AIFM Directive). Katarzyna advises during the so-called AIC tests which enable company managers to learn whether their company meets the criteria of eligibility to be an AIC (alternative investment company). She also represents companies in proceedings related to their entry to the AIC register. Katarzyna has carried out numerous transaction projects and has taken part in all stages of the investment process – she has performed due diligence analyses (including coordination of this kind of processes), co-developed and negotiated transaction dossiers, coordinated the fulfillment of conditions required to close deals in interim periods, advised at the stage of deal closures and at the post-transaction stage. Katarzyna’s experience includes both asset and share deals as well as investments involving issue of new equity interests, with a special focus on block transactions which imply the need for further cooperation between the investor and their partners. Her excellent knowledge of corporate law enables her to build a corporate governance tailored to the needs of each Client, e.g. using mechanisms of control takeover over a given company in case of dissatisfactory results used first and foremost by corporate investors, post-transaction incentives for founder partners, a wide range of instruments structuring property settlements at the post-transaction stage, including puts, calls, drag along & tag along rights or forced redemption of shares. She published the study entitled „Should an obligatory share capital in limited liability companies be abolished? A study of alternative creditor protection mechanisms”, centered around the function of share capital in share-holding companies as well as an article on the so-called downstream mergers -. „O dopuszczalności downstream mergers w świetle regulacji Kodeksu Handlowego.” [On the acceptability of downstream mergers in the light of the Commercial Companies Code]. Katarzyna has also frequently discussed the legal regulations applicable to operation of AFI funds. She delivered a lecture during the workshops called „Amendment of the act on investment funds: implementation of UIFM and UCITS directives”. Before she started cooperating with SSW Pragmatic Solutions, she had been gaining experience in one of the largest Polish law firms.