Natalia Mikolajczyk

Natalia is an internationally trained and New York qualified lawyer with extensive experience in advising clients on energy and infrastructure matters covering their non-contentious and contentious aspects. In the Warsaw Energy & Infrastructure Team, Natalia specializes in public-private partnerships and project finance in the roads, mining, energy from waste and RES sectors. Her experience also includes handling international arbitration disputes, including representing States and foreign investors in proceedings related to large-scale construction projects, oil and gas exploration and long-term gas supply.

Work highlights

Natalia has advised on a wide range of major energy and infrastructure transactions, including:

• A leading Turkish construction holding: advising on the financing of the largest PV project in Turkey (international, including UKEF, financing).
• Meridiam and Urbaser: advising in a successful public procurement bid for a PPP project (high- efficiency waste-to-energy CHP plant to provide district heating in the municipality), with the project financing on the non-recourse terms.
• A toll motorway operator and its key sponsors: advising on the PPP investment in Poland with respect to a number of contentious and non-contentious concession-related issues, as well as financing (on the non-recourse terms).
• A consortium of lenders (including EBRD): advising on the financing (construction and development) of a wind farm in Ukraine.
• A mining exploration and production company: advising on the regulatory, contentious and corporate issues in connection with the largest greenfield project in Poland.
• Jingye Group, a leading Chinese steelmaker: advising on its acquisition of certain assets of British Steel, a UK long steel product manufacturer (due diligence of procurement contracts).

Natalia holds an LL.M degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree from the University of Warsaw. She also studied law at the Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg. 

She is a member of New York State Bar Association.

She speaks Polish, English, French and Italian.