Partners & Patrons 2025

Partners 2025

Addleshaw Goddard (AG) is a London headquartered, international, full-service law firm that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes for our clients globally. With a 250-year history, the firm comprises over 1,500 lawyers in 20 offices, who together support more than 5,000 of ... the world’s most respected organisations. We help them in over 50 areas of business law, across more than 100 countries. The Warsaw office of AG provides comprehensive legal services to clients doing business in Poland and throughout Central and Eastern Europe, combining global expertise with in-depth knowledge of both local law and economic conditions. The firm’s main areas of specialisation include corporate matters (covering mergers and acquisitions), private equity, real estate, competition law, energy and infrastructure law, EU law, banking and capital markets, restructuring, TMT/IP, employment law, tax, as well as litigation and arbitration. Our Warsaw-based team includes over 80 Polish-law, UK and New York qualified practitioners. For many years, independent analysts, including Chambers and Legal 500 EMEA, have ranked our office among the top international law firms operating in Poland.
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aedifion helps to manage buildings sustainably, efficiently, and transparently. Based in Cologne, Germany, with over 90 employees, we operate Germany’s leading software solution for optimizing building operations. For aedifion, digitalization is the key to energy transition.... That’s why we combine the latest technologies with a positive vision: to connect one million buildings, ensuring their future viability and value stability.
At the core of our technology is an AI-based cloud platform that reduces energy consumption, CO₂ emissions, and operating costs by up to 40%. Our plug-and-play solution collects real-time operational data, identifies malfunctions, provides actionable recommendations for optimization, and autonomously manages operations using real-time data such as weather forecasts and user behaviour. This is how we pave the way for efficient, sustainable and stable-value buildings. A win-win-win for owners, operators and tenants.

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Echo Investment is the largest Polish developer with extensive experience in the three main sectors of the real estate market: residential, retail and service as well as offices. As a company which is jointly responsible for the development of cities, they build large, city-forming projects ... that are in line with the city fibre and complement it. Their flagship project is Browary Warszawskie, situated in the heart of the fastest growing district of Warsaw. They run and prepare further city-forming projects in Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź and Wrocław. Since 1996 Echo Investment has been quoted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Since 2019, Lisala Sp. z o.o., owned by Hungarian Wing and Griffin Capital Partners is their main shareholder.
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Archicom’s roots originally came from a Wrocław-based design studio more than 37 years ago, where the idea of caring for the human dimension of architecture, its coexistence with nature and the context of the place, was vivid from the very beginning. ... We understand our role as urban planner, engineer and visionary. We think in broad terms, taking full responsibility for creating city areas for future generations. In Wrocław, we have completed more than 220 buildings so far, including multi-phase estates such as Olimpia Port, as well as the revitalized Browary Wrocławskie project. Since 1 August 2023, as a result of an in-kind contribution of the residential segment from Echo Investment to Archicom, we have become a nationwide Polish developer also present in Warsaw, Łódź, Poznań and Kraków. We create friendly places to live healthily, reside, relax and enjoy leisure activities. We view cities as living fabrics that should adapt to modern users. We keep our goal unchanged – to provide residents with a new residential standard and strive to become the developer of first choice.
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AFI Europe owns, manages and develops significant real estate assets in Central and Eastern Europe, spanning commercial and residential projects and real estate. The portfolio of properties owned and managed by AFI Europe includes business parks and office ... complexes, shopping centres and retail properties, multi-family residential projects and mixed-use projects.  AFI Europe is wholly owned by AFI Properties Ltd – a leading commercial real estate company. AFI Properties was founded in 1971 and in 2004 it became a public company listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
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CMS is one of the largest international law firms operating in Poland. Our team of over 200 lawyers supports clients operating in all sectors of the economy with legal and tax advisory services. We work for both international companies and Polish family businesses,... financial institutions and the public sector. Our teams in Warsaw and Poznań operate as part of an international network of over 70 CMS offices located in over 40 countries around the world, thanks to which our clients receive the support of international teams and the highest quality legal expertise regarding other markets in which they operate or intend to operate. In turn, sector specialization allows us to offer clients the support of lawyers who understand the challenges and specificity of conducting business activities in a given industry, with particular emphasis on regulated sectors.
The scale and prestige of the projects we implement translates into the law firm’s high position in the international Chambers and Partners rankings, The Legal 500 EMEA and IFLR1000 – all main CMS practices included in the rankings are classified as leading on the Polish market.

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REINO GROUP Holding is a company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, specializing in integrated real estate services with 15 years long robust track record. The firm offers Investment Management, Asset Management, Development Management and Facility Management. ... Furthermore, REINO GROUP Holding actively co-invests in the assets under its management. REINO Holding stands as a preferred local partner for reputable global investors, including Partners Group and Grosvenor. The company is a forerunner in developing REIT-like investment products specifically for Polish HNWI (High-Net-Worth Individuals). Since its inception, GK Holding has maintained an active ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) policy across its strategy and operations.
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CBRE, a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. The company has more than 140,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves ... a diverse range of clients with an integrated suite of services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services.
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For over 38 years, S+B Group AG – an internationally active, privately owned project developer in Vienna, Warsaw, Prague and Bucharest – has been realising complex projects as an investor and total contractor. The family-run team led by Vorarlberg-based ... building contractor Reinhard Schertler and Viennese general planner Alfred Michael Beck, with long-standing board members Wolfdieter Jarisch for Austria and Franz Paul Bauer for the CEE region, and board members Edmund Völker and Wolfgang Eder for finance and accounting, specialises in the planning, construction management, commercial management and marketing of high-quality construction projects. Numerous large-scale projects are currently under construction in Central and Eastern Europe. With an investment volume of more than EUR 6.2 billion, properties with 1,360,000 m² of usable space have already been completed.
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Patrons 2025

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is the oldest and largest global network of professionals in every sector of real estate development and land use, from private enterprise to public service. ... It connects over 45,000+ members across 80 countries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
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We are the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a leading professional body working in the public interest to advance knowledge, uphold standards, and inspire current and future professionals. Our members ... help to create and protect built and natural environments that are sustainable, resilient and inclusive for all.
Our trusted data and insight guides decision makers and governments helping to shape public policy, deliver positive societal change and provide a foundation for confident markets. Our members influence the quality of lives, underpin societies and drive economies. Everything we do supports our current and future membership to uphold, advance and inspire professionalism for the benefit of society.
RICS has been present in the CEE region for more than 20 years. With several RICS accredited courses across the region, RICS boards in the four main markets and a membership of over 900 members, the region – and Poland in particular – continues to be a focus area of our activities.

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The Polish Council of Shopping Centers (PRCH) is a not-for-profit association with over 200 members operating in the trade and service industry. It is a leading non-governmental organization that has been working for ... the development of the industry for over 20 years, supporting and representing members in the business, political and social environment to create modern places of trade, services, culture, and unique consumer experiences.
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The mission and primary objective of the REIT Poland Association is to initiate and support, using the best of our knowledge and experience, all activities leading to the creation of the legal framework for entities operating in the ... REIT formula, as well as to popularize this type of solutions among Polish citizens and institutions. The REIT Association of Poland declares its commitment to undertake joint activities for the purpose of presenting and introducing into Polish legislation and economic practice solutions relating to the activities of joint investment entities in the real estate market of the REIT type, bearing in mind: the economic development of Poland the further dynamic increase in the importance and value of the public securities market the significant increase in the share of Polish capital in the ownership of commercial real estate, which is an important part of the Polish economy.
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PLGBC is a non-governmental organization that carries out activities aimed at transforming buildings, cities and their surroundings in a sustainable direction. Our mission is to transform buildings, cities and their surroundings ... so that the way they are planned, designed, constructed, used, modernized and demolished is as sustainable as possible. PLGBC is part of a global community of nearly 80 green building councils organized within the World Green Building Council. PLGBC represents the Polish green building sector in the international arena. This provides an opportunity to actively participate in global discussions, exchange views and influence the formation of global trends.
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The association’s mission is to represent developers, investors and commercial real estate service providers in the economic, political and social environment. The association wants to influence ... the legislative actions that affect its members. By working with other organizations, we want to promote goodstandards of operation of the commercial real estate market by creating a platform for exchange, knowledge, contacts and business opportunities for our members.
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