Natalia Czajkowska

Czajkowska Legal is a specialised commercial law firm with multidisciplinary expertise and experience. Our practice focuses on corporate, commercial, merger and acquisitions (in particular cross-border transactions), joint ventures, renewable energy projects and investment funds. We have deep experience in private equity, hedge funds, venture capital funds and alternative fund matters. We also offer English law transaction support and legal projects support.

The law firm was established in response to growing demand for specialised legal services and management of complicated legal processes. Our aim is to provide premium legal support and pragmatic commercial advice. Our clients include international and local corporates, financial institutions as well as individuals seeking high-quality service and advice.

We closely cooperate with many experts from various legal systems, legal technology providers, accountancy and consultancy firms.

Natalia has a dual qualification as a Solicitor of England & Wales and a lawyer in Poland. Prior to setting up her law firm, Natalia worked for over five years as a solicitor at the London office of global magic law firm Linklaters LLP. At Linklaters, Natalia gained excellent general corporate experience acting for a wide range of clients across sectors including financial services, TMT, real estate and life sciences. She has extensive corporate experience, including private and public M&A. Her practice focuses on complex cross-border transactions.
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Natalia also worked as in-house counsel at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. She provided legal advice to the EMEA insurance team, worked on segregated accounts and various internal projects, including document management. Natalia brings a collaborative and commercial approach to resolving interest amongst different stakeholders.

Natalia’s recent experience includes advising:

• eStoreMedia on its first round of fundraise of £21.1 million through investment by Kennet Partners and Digital+ Partners;
• Aviva Investors on its disposal of a real estate fund for €120m with assets across Central and Eastern Europe;
• Deutsche Boerse on competition aspects of its £24bn merger with the London Stock Exchange;
• a housebuilding company on a £3bn UK merger in a UK Takeover Code offer;
• a media company in preparation for a private £1bn M&A;
• Novartis AG on the disposal of its influenza vaccines division to CSL Limited for USD 275m;
• a private equity house in relation to a potential acquisition of Solera Inc.;
• Alent plc on the recommended £1.35bn cash offer by Platform Specialty Products Corporation to acquire all of the shares in Alent plc.:
• a biotechnology company on a potential takeover offer;
• PwC in relation to the post-completion phase of its acquisition of Booz & Companies.