Soltysinski Kawecki & Szlezak

Banking and finance, Corporate Law and commercial transactions, Securities & Capital Markets Law

Managing Partner at Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak. Dr. Olechowski specializes in civil and commercial law, banking and financial services law and regulation; M&A and international arbitration.

Dr. Olechowski joined SK&S in 1996 and, since becoming a partner in 2007, coordinates the firm’s banking and financial regulation practice. He regularly advises clients on complex bank and financial regulatory matters (including acquisitions of qualifying holdings, cross-border provision of financial services, passporting and outsourcing) and represents them in proceedings in front of the Polish financial markets regulator. His transactional experience includes mergers and acquisitions, as well as financing transactions. He has also represented clients in a number of high stakes international commercial and investment arbitrations under Vienna, LCIA, UNICITRAL and ICC rules, as well as in proceedings in front of EU jurisdictions.

Polish, English, French

- Warsaw Bar (Izba Adwokacka w Warszawie) - Assistant professor (adiunkt), Institute of Civil Law, Law Faculty, Warsaw University - Arbitrator on the roster of the Polish-German Chamber of Commerce - Member of the Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française (General Secretary of the Polish Group in 2002-2004), Association Européenne de Droit Bancaire et Financier (AEBDF); International Bar Association; Polish Arbitration Association

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University (Master’s degree, 1996; Doctorate in Law, 2001), the Warsaw School of Economics (B.A. in International Trade, 1994) and the British Centre for English and European Legal Studies at Warsaw University and Cambridge University (1995, Certificate with distinction). He has been a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg and at Paris II University, Panthéon-Assas (Boursier du Gouvernement Français).