business breakfast: logistics outlook for 2025

Katarzyna Sulimierska has been a partner in Schoenherr's Warsaw office since 2021. Katarzyna has over 14 years of experience and focuses on real estate and environmental law. She has advised major Polish and foreign investors from the real estate sector in transactions related to the sale and acquisition of warehouse, office and other commercial real properties. Katarzyna also has experience advising clients from a wide range of industry sectors on various environmental matters. Her experience includes, among others, issues related to historical soil contamination, noise, REACH regulation, obtaining environmental, integrated, waste, water and emission permits, as well as conducting full legal environmental due diligences. Katarzyna is a member of the Warsaw Bar, graduated from the Warsaw University (2007), and attended the American Law Center University of Warsaw/Levin College of Law in Florida (2005-2006). Katarzyna also participated in a one-year programme at Université de Paris VIII and obtained a doctorate in environmental law from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (2013). From 2007 and until joining Schoenherr, Katarzyna worked in leading international law firms. She speaks Polish, English and French.

Szymon Ostrowski joined Newport Logistics Fund in 2021 as Managing Director in order to set up and run the fund’s operations in Poland and Europe. Previously, Szymon worked at the Haitong investment bank, where as the Executive Director he was responsible for structuring and implementing various transactions in the field of investment banking (M&A, DCM, ECM and structured finance), as well as in the private equity fund SINO-CEEF, where he was responsible for the CEE region, including fundraising, searching for investment transactions and relations with the governments of CEE countries. Previously, Szymon had also worked at ICBC bank, where he had been responsible for business development in the CEE region, and at Citi bank, where he had worked in various areas of corporate banking in Poland, London, and the CEE region. Szymon studied at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University and Warsaw School of Economics in Poland as well as Henley Business School in Great Britain.

Małgorzata Lińska-Bator is an Associate Director in the Capital Advisory and Valuation department. Before joining Savills in 2015, she spent nine years at EY. She holds a master’s degree from the Warsaw School of Economics and completed postgraduate studies at the Warsaw University of Technology. Małgorzata is a licensed real estate appraiser and holds an MRICS certification.