Agnieszka Lipska will enhance the development of the project finance and acquisition finance practice at Dentons’ Warsaw office. With her she brings many years of experience in providing comprehensive advice on all types of financing deals to borrowers and lenders alike. Besides project finance and acquisition finance deals she has also successfully coordinated asset finance and property finance projects, bond issues and restructurings. More >>

Global law firm Dentons has strengthened its European Real Estate practice with the addition of a new partner, David F. Dixon. Dixon brings with him more than 25 years of professional expertise advising regional property funds, institutional investors and financial institutions on real estate transactions as well as investment banks and private equity funds on M&A deals across Europe. More >>

Dentons’ real estate team advised Atrium European Real Estate, a leading owner, operator and developer of shopping centers in Central and Eastern Europe, on the acquisition of the Focus Mall shopping center in Poland from Aviva Investors for €122 million. The transaction was financed using Atrium’s existing cash resources.

Focus Mall is currently the largest shopping center in Bydgoszcz, one of the ten largest Polish cities. Constructed in 2008 it comprises 41,000 sq.m. of retail space on two floors. It is nearly 100% let to anchor tenants, including a Saturn electronics store and a Cinema City, as well other high profile international and domestic retail fashion brands. More >>