CEE Capital Flows - Foreign & Domestic RE Investments

Katarzyna Rzentarzewska serves as Chief CEE Macro Economist at Erste Group Bank AG, one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading financial institutions. Based in Slovakia, she provides strategic macroeconomic analysis and forecasting for the CEE region. Her expertise encompasses monetary policy, economic trends, and market dynamics across emerging European markets. Rzentarzewska plays a crucial role in guiding the bank's regional investment strategies and risk assessment through her comprehensive understanding of CEE economies. Her analytical insights support both institutional clients and internal decision-making processes at Erste Group.

Janusz advises international and domestic corporates, investors and developers on major real estate transactions in Poland and CEE. The transactions on which he has advised include acquisitions (including portfolio transactions and sale and leasebacks), joint venture structures for real estate investments, property development, lease agreements (including for build-to-suit projects). He has extensive knowledge of all asset classes. Janusz has been regularly recommended by the most prominent legal directories such as Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and IFLR1000 for his real estate work. He is a member of the firm’s CEE desk

Michał Stanisławski serves as Co-Head Capital Markets, Poland at Panattoni Europe, one of Europe's leading industrial real estate developers. Based at Panattoni's Polish headquarters, he oversees capital markets strategy and investment activities across Poland's dynamic logistics and industrial property sector. Stanisławski brings extensive expertise in real estate finance, investment structuring, and market analysis to his role. At Panattoni, he plays a key part in the company's continued expansion and development of modern industrial facilities throughout Poland, contributing to the firm's position as a major player in European industrial real estate development and investment management.

Sylwia Toczyska brings over 25 years of experience in international accounting, taxation, and business leadership, with more than 15 years in the real estate sector. She began her career in finance at multinational companies such as Rossmann and GE, transitioning to outsourcing in 2007. Since then, she has worked with global service providers, including Vistra and Deloitte. At Vistra, Sylwia has held senior roles across accounting, tax compliance, client relationship management, and market growth in Poland and Central Europe. She led teams managing complex client engagements. Since rejoining Vistra in June 2025, she has taken a leadership role in Fund Services, focusing on real estate investment structures for international clients across EMEA. She aims to grow the multi-country portfolio through advanced technologies. Sylwia graduated from the Poznań School of Economics and completed doctoral studies in accounting at Łódź University. A licensed tax advisor since 2009.

Szymon 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 va