Competition/antitrust
Hall of Fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska
Hall of fameDentonsAgnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska heads Dentons’ Competition Practice in Poland. Since 1998, she has represented clients in numerous EU and Polish competition authority proceedings and before Polish courts, in cartel and other antitrust investigations. She has also assisted clients during dawn raids and in over 100 merger control proceedings, before both the European Commission and the Polish competition authority. She works with clients to design and implement their distribution networks and provides practical support to in-house teams in implementing antitrust compliance initiatives with, including risk-mapping and comprehensive antitrust audits. She has extensive experience in day-to-day advice to clients on abuse of dominance and horizontal cooperation issues, as well as antitrust issues related to M&A contracts. She supports clients in many different sectors, including life sciences, automotive, FMCG, food, real estate, TMT, heavy industry, chemicals, energy, utilities, retail trade, transport, banking and insurance.
Hall of fameWKB Lawyers
Managing Partner at WKB, head of the Competition Law practice
Rising stars
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Dentons
Anna Gulińska specializes in Polish and EU competition law, including antitrust, merger control, unfair commercial practices as well as consumer protection issues and competition litigation. She has experience in antitrust advice in the real estate, media and telecommunications, FMCG and consumer products, banking and industry sectors. Her experience includes merger control notifications to the European Commission and the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection, as well as coordination of multijurisdictional filings. She advises on commercial strategy applied by dominant undertakings and antitrust aspects of horizontal and vertical cooperation between undertakings. She conducts antitrust audits, provides behavioral advice, assists during dawn raids, represents clients in proceedings and drafts appeals against decisions of the Polish competition authority. She participated in the legislative process related to the implementation of the Damages Directive in Poland.
Dentons
Maciej Marek has practiced competition law for over ten years. He advises on M&A transactions, represents clients before antitrust authorities and assists in implementing compliance programs. Maciej has advised Polish and multinational leaders operating in the sectors of IT, media, telecommunications, FMCG, as well as trade and distribution, including many Fortune Global 500 companies. He has represented clients and participated in numerous proceedings before the Polish competition authority, the European Commission as well as Polish and EU courts. His experience includes negotiating what was probably the most complex conditional merger clearance the Polish competition authority has ever issued (a tiered, mixed, structural-behavioral remedy) as well as advising on unfair competition aspects of the biggest domestic dispute over a brand. He regularly handles multijurisdictional projects, including those requiring coordination of work of multiple local lawyers, economists and IT providers.
Baker McKenzie LLP
A&O Shearman
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Leading individuals
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I.
Attorney-at-law, Associate, Member of the Competition Law and Commercial Contracts Practice
CMS
Partner, Head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade Department in Poland Partner, Head of CEE Consumer Products