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CMS
Varso Tower
Chmielna 69 St.
00-801 Warsaw
Poland

Work Department

Real Estate & Construction

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Mateusz Jaworski is an attorney-at-law and a senior associate in the Real Estate and Construction Department at CMS.

He specialises in advising companies from the construction and infrastructure sector (road, rail, water, and energy infrastructure), as well as the real estate sector. He provides ongoing contractual advice to Polish and foreign general contractors, investors, designers and lessors,  and represent them before Polish and foreign courts. His advice covers projects carried out in various formulas, both on the private market and in public procurement (including the build and design and build formula).

Mateusz’s experience and practice areas also include litigation advice and representing Polish and foreign clients (among others: investors, designers, general contractors) in infrastructure-related disputes regarding liquidated damages, additional and substitute works, contract rescission, claims based on the rebus sic stantibus clause, contractual indexing clauses, and joint and several liability of the investor for paying remuneration to the sub-contractor. Mateusz also represents clients in disputes arising from lease agreements, as well as related to the production sector (delivery of rail vehicles).

He also specialises in negotiating contracts, annexes and settlements regarding infrastructure-related projects.

He is the author of several publications dealing with legal aspects of contracts for construction works, in particular liquidated damages, the rebus sic stantibus clause and recission of such contracts. He is also a winner of the second prize in the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection contest for the best thesis related to competition protection.

Languages

Polish, English, Italian, German

Memberships

The Warsaw Bar Association

Education

  • Warsaw Bar Association (trainee attorney-at-law)
  • Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (faculty of law)

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Construction

CMS boasts a sizable construction team renowned for regularly handling both contentious and non-contentious matters related to some of Poland’s most complex investment projects on behalf of contractors, designers and investors. Clients highly commend the practice for its ‘keen focus on aligning legal strategies with specific business types and interests‘. Agata Jurek-Zbrojska heads up the team. Lidia Dziurzyńska-Leipert advises on construction projects in both the private and public procurement sectors. Michał Bork, stands out as an expert in investment law, while Piotr Stenko specialises in litigation and arbitration involving investments in the infrastructure space. Associates Aleksander Grabecki and Mateusz Jaworski are also notable.