Partners & Patrons 2026

Partners 2026

Berlin Hyp specializes in large-volume real estate financing for professional investors, investment companies, and real estate funds, select project developers,... as well as housing associations and cooperatives. Backed by the security of LBBW as a strong universal bank, we focus on transparent, efficient, and customer-centric financing solutions. We play a key role in shaping the transformation of the real estate market through the financing of sustainable properties. We utilize digital solutions to make processes customer-centric, simple, and fast, combining high transaction security with flexibility.
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Broadway Malyan is a global design practice dedicated to improving the future of the built environment worldwide. With a comprehensive suite of interrelated design disciplines from masterplanning to architecture and ... interiors, Broadway Malyan are active in the world’s key development markets and growth areas. Headquartered in London, the Warsaw Studio was among the very first offices opened overseas. The studio is set in one of the most central boroughs of Warsaw, home to important national and municipal institutions, cultural venues and theatres, and only minutes from the stunning riverside. Since 2002, the Warsaw studio has successfully won a range of projects overseas with a strong focus on retail and mixed-use developments and its multidisciplinary team of professionals is currently leading on some of the most iconic projects in the country. The firm’s work integrates complementary project elements to enhance the daily life of cities and communities. We work across a spectrum from regional spatial strategies to masterplanning of urban districts, building around transit-oriented development, designing the 15-minute neighbourhood, individual buildings and making spaces in between that are attractive for people and nature. We build to accommodate uses from commercial offices, living, education and life sciences, to leisure, transport and culture.
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SINGU Group is a European leader in cloud-based software for property, facility, maintenance, ESG, and building operations — uniting SINGU, Micad by SINGU, Synbiotix by SINGU and net-haus... by SINGU into one future-focused platform. With deep expertise in logistics, retail and healthcare where compliance, uptime, and cost efficiency are mission-critical, its CAFM and CMMS solutions drive scalable, data-driven operations across the full asset lifecycle. Spanning 40+ countries and 250M+ sq m, it helps owners, operators, and tenants improve efficiency, ensure compliance, reduce costs, and grow asset value.
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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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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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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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For over 40 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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Founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank, Erste Group went public in 1997 with a strategy to expand its retail business into Central and Eastern Europe. Since then Erste Group has grown to become the largest financial services providers in the Eastern... part of Europe in terms of clients and total assets.Today we shift our focus from being a financial services provider to building Financial Health throughout our regions.
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AFI is a leading real estate investment and development group specializing in business parks, office complexes, shopping malls, retail centers, residential projects, and mixed-use developments across Israel and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). ... AFI has been operating in Poland since 2007. Under AFI Home brand, the company is developing its PRS platform, offering nearly 2,200 fully serviced rental apartments across three cities Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław. AFI Poland also holds a 70% stake in Towarowa22, one of the largest mixed-use projects in the region. The company is committed to sustainable development and high ESG standards. AFI owns two highest-rated BREEAM-certified office buildings in Poland, while several AFI Home projects are the first residential buildings in the country to receive a final BREEAM certificate with an “Excellent” rating.
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Drees & Sommer is a partner-managed, global consulting company that provides a single source of consultation and implementation services. We focus on sustainable, innovative, and economical ... solutions for the real estate, infrastructure, and industry markets. Founded in 1970, today the company employs 6,500 people at over 80 offices. Our interdisciplinary teams are involved in around 7,000 projects worldwide, working to create a livable future and unite apparent opposites: tradition and future, economy and ecology, analog and digital, efficiency and well-being. As ‘intrapreneurs’, the Drees & Sommer Partners are personally responsible for managing the company.
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Capital Park Group is an experienced real estate development and investment company in Poland. The Group has developed a high-quality real estate portfolio consisting of modern office,... retail, mixed-use and residential space, including assets such as Royal Wilanów and the revitalised Norblin Factory. The Group manages a portfolio of properties with a total area of 172,000 sqm and a market value of PLN 2.8 billion, 91% of which are properties located in Warsaw, the most promising commercial real estate market in Central and Eastern Europe. This year Capital Park is celebrating 20 years of activity on the real estate market.
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Patrons 2026

The German-Polish Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Poland), headquartered in Warsaw, is the largest bilateral chamber in Poland in terms of membership. It represents the interests of nearly 1,200 member companies and has been promoting German-Polish economic relations for 30 years. AHK Poland maintains a nationwide network of regional offices in Katowice, Wrocław, Poznań, and Gdańsk.

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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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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The Polish Data Centre Association (PLDCA) represents Poland’s data centre sector and brings together more than 80 entities from across the industry’s broad value chain – from data centre owners ... and operators, engineering companies, and technology firms to integrators and general contractors. PLDCA strengthens the potential of the data centre industry in Poland, educates the market, and supports the creation of new jobs through cooperation with public authorities, legislative initiatives, and by drawing on the experience of similar organisations across Europe. PLDCA defines the infrastructure conditions that support the achievement of strategic business objectives, promotes sector development and investor acquisition, and supports the sustainable and responsible growth of the industry.
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Since 1992 the Belgian Business Chamber (BBC) has been constantly bringing together Belgians who exercise an economic activity in Poland and Poles who have a strong interest or link with Belgium. ... The mission of the BBC is to create value and facilitate business relations between Belgium and Poland, while it’s vision is to be recognized as the most valuable Chamber by its Members. From the very beginning of the Chamber’s activity it’s aim was to promote Belgian-Polish economic and cultural cooperation, be a forum for exchanging valuable knowledge and experience on how to successfully do business in Poland and to be a first point of entry for business people and investors in Poland. Those aims remain unchanged.
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PZFD is the largest organization committed to creating the best market standards of the real estate development industry, which for 20 years has represented the interests of development companies in Poland ... and the European Union. We take action to create good laws, improve investment conditions in the real estate market, professional development of employees of member companies and improve the image of the industry. PZFD unites 300 companies: developers building apartments, offices, hotels, service and commercial spaces, warehouses or PRSs, as well as cubic parking lots.
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Explore Markets is a Swedish-Polish business development consultancy founded in 2014, supporting companies with market entry, partner search, and commercial development ... across Scandinavia, Central, and Eastern Europe. With strong roots in both Sweden and Poland, we help companies identify the right business partners, build meaningful relationships, and develop sustainable opportunities in new markets.
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