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Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners
TWARDA 4
00-105 WARSAW
Poland

Work Department

Head of TMT Practice supervising legal works for more than 80 multinational and Polish clients.

Position

Attorney-at-law, Senior Partner, Co-Managing Partner, Head of TMT Practice

Career

Specialises in IT, Internet, data protection and telecommunications laws, and has authored and co-authored several academic publications in this area. Deputy President of the Polish Chamber of Telecommunications and IT (PIIT), legal expert of the Internet Advertising Bureau Poland and the Polish Chamber of Insurance. He has been regularly ranked in numerous Polish and foreign rankings as a top TMT legal expert. In January 2022, he received an award of the President of the Office for the Protection of Personal Data for his work on data protection education and new technologies.

Languages

Polish, English

Memberships

He is also a member of such organisations as the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the International Network of Privacy Law Professionals (INPLP), the International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw), and SABI-IOD (SABI Data Protection Officer Association).

Education

Xawery Konarski graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University. He has foreign internship experience, including at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (The Hague) and Boekel de Neree (Amsterdam).

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Data privacy and data protection

(Leading partners)

Xawery KonarskiTraple Konarski Podrecki & Partners

Described as ‘highly competent, responsive and practical’, the team at Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners is noted for assisting organisations with the application and implementation of GDPR, and for the branching out of its advisory service cover AI systems, cloud computing and biometric data. Outside of providing advice, the firm also regularly represents clients before the Polish Data Protection Authority in both judicial and administrative proceedings. The practice is jointly led by Xawery Konarski, an expert in the field of new technologies who assists clients in providing online services for projects involving the implementation of the Digital Services Act; and Grzegorz Sibiga, who specialises in personal data protection and other matters of administrative law, including access to public information, re-use of public sector information and data opening, in addition to providing strategic advice in innovative areas such as data governance, AI governance and incident response.

Poland > TMT

(Leading partners)

Xawery KonarskiTraple Konarski Podrecki & Partners

Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners’ TMT offering continues to include its selected key areas – IT law, media, data protection and fintech, providing a broad range of expertise for its diverse client roster. Recently the firm has expanded its practice to also include digital services and AI, focusing on new regulations in these respective areas. Leading the firm is Xawery Konarski, who is particularly adept in the field of new technologies, and provides advice on projects involving the implementation of the Digital Services Act.