From its inception, our firm has cultivated a focus on merger and acquisition transactions, company law services, and the equity markets. True to this formula, we have:
- Advised on privatisation of state-owned enterprises ;
- Assisted state institutions (e.g. the Securities and Exchange Commission – since renamed the Financial Supervision Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Economy, the Ministry of Communications) on legislative solutions in the area of bonds and closed-end investment funds;
- Devised management option programmes; GESSEL has been in the vanguard of this area in Poland, formulating and implementing (for publicly listed as well as privately held companies) an assortment of incentive schemes employing bonds with preference rights, subscription warrants, and phantom options;
- Defended against hostile take-over bids .