Expert in the domain of professional contracts, with particular focus on investment contracts as well as real estate law. Her practice also includes company restructuring and full legal support for transactions in various economic sectors.

Her expertise also includes aspects related to company counselling in the field of consumers contracts, with particular focus on preventing the use of forbidden contractual clauses.

EXPERIENCE

Katarzyna Ostrowska has been frequently counselling in business-structuring and processes, proposing tailor-made legal solutions which enable the realisation of client's business goals.

Moreover, she has a rich professional experience, gained in the course of several major transactions on the real estate market (especially in Warsaw). She also worked on construction development projects, including investments in the field of renewable energy. She counselled in major transactions leading to the acquisition of real estate. The work included conducting due diligence, preparation of drafts of contracts related to the acquisition and negotiating the terms of the acquisition of real estate.

She also provided the legal support for lease and rent transactions of commercial real estate and has a wide practice in drafting and negotiating contracts.

COMPLETED PROJECTS

drafting of consumer contracts for a chain of parental care institutions,

supervision and provision of complex legal services for the investment project consisting on the creation of a chain of parental care institutions. The work included financial and corporate structuring as well as the legal assistance in the negotiation of investment agreements and real estate acquisition agreements,

legal counsel to a retail trade entrepreneur in a bankruptcy procedure,

legal counsel to a real estate buyer for the acquisition of a PLN 200 000 000 property, including the legal audit of the property,

complex legal advice in the restructuring process of a group of companies holding a nationwide chain of sporting stores (restructuring of the form of business, of the debt and employment),

execution of a complex legal audit for an ongoing investment concerning the construction of an office and residential building of a planned height of 160 meters,

coordination of legal services provided to the tenant in the case of renting premises in prestigious districts of Warsaw and Krakow for restaurants.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, major: Law,

Warsaw School of Economics, postgraduate studies "Preparation and evaluation of innovative investment projects",

Warsaw School of Economics, postgraduate studies "Legal issues pertaining to the investment process in real estate".