Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka

Agata Mierzwa

Partner in Labour Law and Social Security Practice. Specialises in labour and social security law, advising on corporate restructuring, internal rules and representing employers in their contacts with trade unions. She has particular experience advising on optimal forms of employing key personnel. Provides counselling on social security issues, including in particular their cross-border aspects. Represents employers in labour disputes over existence of the employment relationship, overtime, discrimination or workplace harassment.

Aleksandra Auleytner

Partner and Head of the IP&TMT Practice, specialising in intangible rights, copyright law, industrial property law, and new technologies and e-commerce law. Advises technology sector companies, especially on implementation, maintenance and other agreements typical of the IT sector, advertising agencies, TV stations, food and clothing manufacturers, and e-shop operators. Participates in broadband network infrastructure construction projects and e-health projects. Advises in proceedings over goods that infringe intellectual property rights being admitted to customs area. Specialises in selected aspects of EU law dealing with state aid issues, including regulations on the functioning of structural funds and the Cohesion Fund. Advises on infrastructure projects related to raising public funds as part of services of general economic interest, particularly companies in the rail, air and municipal transport sectors and the Ministry of Regional Development and the Ministry of Infrastructure.

Andrzej Foltyn

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Anna Ciepla

Specialises in dispute resolution, and civil and commercial law. She advises Polish and foreign clients at pre-trial, court and enforcement stages. She represents clients before ordinary and arbitration courts, including in proceedings before the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw and the Arbitration Court at the Polish Bank Association in Warsaw. She has been attorney-in-fact in numerous disputes involving tort liability and disputes arising from contractual obligations, particularly those involving claims for damages. She advises clients in disputes in the automotive, construction, real estate, pharmaceutical and media sectors. She specialises in proceedings involving unfair competition, industrial property protection and protection of personal rights.

Anna Hlebicka-Józefowicz

Partner and Head of DZP's Regulatory Affairs, Legislation and Compliance Practice, which is composed of experts in legislation, European Union law, constitutional law and economic analysis of law. She advises on matters relating to the legislative process, assessment of the impact of new regulations on business and legislative quality. Anna represents the interests of businesses in the process of creating new legislation, including by actively engaging in the legislative process and speaking in discussions on legal changes of key importance to clients.

Anna Kuczewska

Anna specialises in legal advice in the area of transaction banking, with special focus on infrastructure projects. She is an expert in handling debt issuance transactions, where she represents both financial institutions and issuers. She advises local government units and municipal companies on transport, housing and sports infrastructure and public facility projects.

Anna Okła-Woźniak

Specialises in investment project implementation, including civil and administrative aspects of the investment process, with a special focus on construction law issues. Expert in real estate purchase, sale, tenancy and lease transactions. Advises on administrative and administrative court proceedings concerning real properties. Specialises in development projects and projects involving logistics centers. Member of the Kielce Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law.

Artur Nowak

Partner, Co-Head of the Tax Practice. An expert in handling cases before the tax, administrative and judicial authorities, the fiscal control and customs authorities and the European Commission. Specialist on the liability of management board members for tax arrears. Attorney ad litem for taxpayers before voivodship administrative courts, the Supreme Administrative Court and the Constitutional Tribunal. Adviser to the financial, banking, pharmaceutical, tobacco and food sectors.

Bartosz Marcinkowski

Partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, company law and personal data protection law. Bartosz has run numerous complex M&A negotiations, and advised on foreign investments in Poland, including greenfield investments, as well as Polish investments abroad. He is the Head of the DZP Go Global Programme. Actively develops and maintains foreign contacts. Focuses mostly on the UK and Scandinavia. Frequently visits London, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo which resulted in unique, deep and trusted relations with investors (including PE and VC), bankers, lawyers and advisers operating there. He has also advised on the implementation of personal data protection systems and the electronic signature concept in Poland, along with numerous leading Polish and foreign companies on the legal aspects of their operations. He heads the DZP's Data Protection Team.

Bartosz Karolczyk

Advises in disputes and contract law. He specialises in business disputes.He represents both Polish and foreign clients in common courts throughout Poland, in arbitration proceedings as well as before the Supreme Court.Bartosz has graduaded from Warsaw University School of Law and the George Washington University School of Law.He is the author of Polish and foreign publications on civil procedure, company law and civil law.

Beata Cieszyńska

Specialises in legal advice to companies in the infrastructure sector, particularly on construction investments and construction investment implementation contracts. Represents both public and private entities in disputes between investment participants (claim management). Advises on projects implemented in the road, rail, water and sewage and energy sectors. Specialises in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, especially in the energy, construction and telematics sectors. Also has experience in carrying out legal due diligences of businesses and advising on mergers and acquisitions, planning capital structures and restructuring projects. Represents clients in corporate disputes. Advises entities in the defence industry.

Boguslaw Kaplon

Based in Poznan, Bogusław is a Partner and Co-Head of the Labour Law and Social Security Practice, specialising in commercial and corporate law. He also has vast experience advising on employment issues and employment restructuring. Boguslaw has advised numerous leading Polish and foreign companies on legal aspects of their operations, including privatisation processes with trade unions. He has also advised on collective bargaining agreements, remuneration systems and other employee benefit schemes (e.g. share option plans). He also represents business organisations before the Constitutional Tribunal and has acted as an attorney ad litem in cases before employment courts.

Damian Szczygielski

Partner in Corporate and M&A Practice

Grzegorz Sprawka

Partner in Tax Practice. Provides full-range tax advice to clients on mergers and acquisitions, selection of tax effective structures for business operations, investments and transactions on restructuring, privatisation and consolidation of capital and tax optimization. Has carried out numerous tax due diligences in various business sectors. He has participated in development and implementation of a series of restructuring and tax optimisation related to both the acquisition as well as the operational activities of companies. Provides comprehensive tax advice for private businesses and international corporations in the infrastructure, energy, financial, real estate, pharmaceutical and FMCG sectors.

Hanna Gajewska-Kraczkowska

Counsel in Dispute Resolution Practice. Deals with litigation under criminal business law (white-collar crime), criminal liability of business entities and penal fiscal cases. Advises on protection of personal rights and press law. Expert on criminal law in the Analysis Department at the Chancellery of the Polish Sejm. Provides expert advising the Criminal Law Codification Committee and in 1992-1993 expert advising the Civil Law Codification Committee. Co-operates with the Helsinki Foundation in the Observatory of Freedom of the Media and the Innocence Clinic projects. Associate professor at the Institute of Criminal Law at Warsaw University. Lecturer on Post-graduate Studies in Tax Law, Post-graduate Studies in Organised Crime, Post-graduate Studies for Judges and Prosecutors.

Jacek Stokłosa

Specialises in business disputes, company law, including corporate cases, and white collar crime. He handles matters involving business law, family and succession law, and unfair competition. He provides legal assistance with the performance of commercial contracts. He advises clients in the manufacturing, consumer goods, agricultural, infrastructure, transport, healthcare and real estate sectors. Jacek represents clients in pre-litigation negotiations before common courts and the Supreme Court and in arbitration proceedings.

Jakub Wieszczeczyński

Specialises in advising clients on commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring projects. He is an expert in succession law, supports family businesses in building corporate governance. He is the co-author of the book “Narodziny Firmy Rodzinnej” [“The Birth of a Family Business”] and several of press publications on the matter. He has extensive experience of advising many domestic and foreign investors on the sale or purchase of companies or businesses either as a main client advisor responsible for direct comprehensive project management or as an expert or negotiator. He has participated many times in this type of transaction, either as the client's chief advisor responsible for direct and comprehensive project management or being involved as an expert or negotiator. He has also managed a number of due diligence or vendor due diligence projects involving companies from various business sectors.

Jan Czerwiński

Partner in Tax Practice. Specializes in VAT as well as excise duty advice, especially including tax litigation. Advises to entities in e.g. banking and insurance, automotive, pharmaceutical and energy sectors. Has carried out numerous tax reviews, participated in transaction planning and provided day-to-day tax and legal advice. His experience covers i.e. tax planning of the chain of supply in both domestic and international trade, implementing a new company’s policy of entering into contracts in order to minimize risk related to challenging of good faith of the purchaser and a right to deduct input VAT or projects aimed at confirming the right to apply tax exemption or a preferential tax rate. He has also participated in numerous litigation projects involving i.e. recovery of overpaid taxes, goods qualification for tax and customs purposes and exposing incompliance of national tax regulations with EU directives and treaties.

Jaroslaw Lukawski

Partner and Head of the Competition Law Practice. He has extensive experience in advising on Polish and EU competition law, including matters involving concentration control, collusive arrangements and prohibited restrictions in distribution agreements. In his practice to date, he has supported businesses in various sectors, including FMCG wholesale and retail distribution, energy, transport, fuels, automotive parts, construction and real estate. He has advised in numerous complex concentration proceedings in Poland in which precedential definitions of relevant markets were developed. He has also been involved in many antitrust proceedings and appeals against decisions issued by the Competition and Consumer Protection Office, including in the case of a cartel on the cement market. He advised in one of the first antitrust proceedings in which the charge of concluding a prohibited agreement was also brought against management personnel. Jarosław also has extensive experience in advising on regulations on combating unfair use of a contractual advantage and preventing payment backlogs.

Jarosław Konecko

Specialises in issues concerning various aspects of intellectual property law and unfair competition. He has many years’ experience in advising both Polish and foreign companies in disputes over intellectual property rights, particularly cases involving infringement of copyright, patents and trademarks, cases involving acts of unfair competition, and disputes over internet domains and protection of personal rights.

Jarosław Przybylski

Specialises in civil and commercial law. Advises clients on corporate aspects of their business, which includes both proposing and implementing solutions to optimise their legal structure. Provides day-to-day legal services, especially in the area of commercial contract law. He has extensive hands-on experience in acquisition projects, from due diligence to designing an optimum structure of the transaction, to negotiating enterprise or share purchase agreements. Works for clients from various business sectors, including automotive, agricultural, FMCG and energy ones.

Joanna Wierzejska

Partner and Co-Head of DZP's Tax Practice, Joanna specialises in providing full-range tax services to clients in merger and acquisition transactions. She advises on effective tax structures for businesses, investments and transactions, on restructuring projects, privatisations, capital and tax group consolidations, and develops optimum tax structures for acquisitions and investment exit point. Joanna advises private equity funds on, for example, the structuring of acquisitions of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. She also advises entities in the energy sector, including renewable energy, handling the unbundling and consolidation of Polish energy groups.

José Luis Villacampa Varea

Partner in Infrastructure and Energy Practice and in Spanish Desk. He advises clients in the construction and energy sectors on operations in Poland. According to DZP Spanish Desk's mission, he actively participates in advising Spanish-speaking clients seeking to invest in Poland and Polish businesses looking to expand onto Iberian and South American markets. He also heads the team advising Italian clients. For many years he has played an active part in various events promoting foreign investment in Poland. In Spain, he advised on corporate law and civil procedural law.

Jozef Palinka

Partner since joining the firm in 1999, specialising in litigation and arbitration proceedings, banking and insurance law, and commercial law. He also advises on numerous privatisation, merger and acquisition transactions.

Julita Zimoch-Tuchołka

Of Counsel specialising in arbitration, contract law, corporate law, insurance law, mergers, acquisitions and restructuring. Julita advises on company formation and the acquisition of shares in Polish companies by foreign entities, on capital group restructuring and consolidation projects, and on company mergers and transformations. She also advises on privatisation processes and transactions involving the acquisition of companies, mainly in the chemical, power and publishing sectors. Julita is an attorney ad litem in cases before common and arbitration courts.

Justyna Tyc-Brzosko

Advises companies on labour and social security law. She specialises in employment structuring matters, including civil forms of employment. She also advises on social security (classification of civil contracts, unemployment benefit, employee benefit contribution). Justyna has extensive experience in representing companies in court cases. She also represents companies before the State Labour Inspectorate in inspections and the Social Security Institute in matters concerning obtaining interpretations of legal provisions, inspections, and appeals against decisions – including in particular at the stage of court proceedings. She runs training courses for companies on labour and social security law, especially on changing provisions. She has been a speaker at many conferences on labour law issues.

Kamil Pociecha

Kamil specialises in legal advice on preparing, implementing and accounting for infrastructure investments. Advises entities in the construction, energy and real estate sectors on projects to construct and upgrade power plants and industrial installations, power lines and stations, motorways, railway lines, tramways, wind farms, shopping centres and stadiums, and on property development projects. He is an expert in investment contracts, particularly construction works contracts, EPC and EPCM contracts and PPP agreements, and FIDIC Conditions of Contract. Also has experience in carrying out legal due diligences of businesses, planning capital structures and restructuring projects.

Karolina Kulikowska-Gruszecka

Senior Associate in IP & TMT Practice. She specialises in personal data protection, particularly in personal data processing in recruitment and employment, as well as cybersecurity, information protection and intellectual property and new technologies law. She has extensive experience in conducting projects for compliance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). She also participates in projects to adapt key service operators to the requirements of the Act on National Cybersecurity System. Karolina advises entities (including capital groups) operating on the sales support processes outsourcing market, including telemarketing, and in the media and e-commerce sectors, particularly in the area of personal data protection, intellectual property as well as in competition and consumer law. She is an author of many scientific publications on personal data protection and intellectual property law and a speaker at national and international scientific conferences on personal data protection, new technologies and intellectual property law. In 2017 she was awarded a scholarship by the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding academic achievements.

Katarzyna Kuźma

Heads the public procurement and environmental protection teams and specialises in Polish and EU law. Heads the team serving Spanish and German-speaking clients. Advises on complex investment projects carried out through partnership structures (PPP, concessions) and other forms of public-private cooperation, particularly with the participation of foreign entities. Advises private and public entities at all stages of public procurement procedures, when applying legal protection measures, and during performance of public contracts. Has extensive experience in advising clients in the construction, energy and waste management sectors. Has provided strategic advice to foreign entities expanding onto the Polish market and Polish businesses wishing to expand abroad.

Katarzyna Biarda

Katarzyna specialises in transactions involving the financing and establishing of security and the sale of debt portfolios at both national and international level, and in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). She has extensive practical experience in regulatory advice to Polish and foreign financial institutions and fintechs, including payment and lending institutions. Katarzyna represents clients in proceedings to obtain the appropriate authorisations to operate in Poland. Katarzyna supports clients in devising transaction structures, preparing and negotiating transaction documentation in financing and refinancing transactions and in M&A processes, particularly involving public companies and with the participation of venture capital and private equity funds.

Katarzyna Wójcik

Katarzyna specialises in capital markets and company law. Her experience covers advising on regulatory issues, particularly in relation to public companies and regulated entities, including investment funds. She is involved in the listing of companies on the regulated market by, inter alia, participating in the drawing up of prospectuses. Katarzyna participates in M&A transactions in which she mainly prepares transaction documentation and carries out due diligences. She also has experience in transactions involving the financing and establishment of legal security for debts.

Krzysztof Zakrzewski

Managing Partner since 1999 and co-founder of the firm, advising on M&A projects for both private and public markets to Polish and foreign firms, specialising in privatisation, capital markets and the trade in securities, as well as commercial and civil law. He has been recommended as a leading expert in these areas by Polish and foreign publications (Rzeczpospolita, Chambers & Partners, Legal500, etc.) for many years now. Attorney ad litem in national and international arbitration cases connected with merger and acquisition transactions and investment protection (BIT). An arbitrator in the Arbitration Court at the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce and Arbitration Court at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan.

Krzysztof Stecyk

Krzysztof specialises in running court disputes before common and arbitration courts. He is experienced in the law of obligations and company law. His interests also include model construction contracts published by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers FIDIC. Krzysztof provides legal assistance particularly to clients in the construction, banking and finance, insurance, and commerce and service sectors.

Lech Zyzylewski

Partner and the Head of the Real Estate Practice, who specialises in contract law, corporate law, EPC contracts, mergers, acquisitions and restructurin, real estate and reprivatisation. Adviser to domestic and foreign firms on investment projects and real estate transactions, also on construction law and real estate management. He is an attorney ad litem in court proceedings involving civil and administrative law especially in real estate and reprivatisation cases.

Lukasz Wojdalski

Partner in Dispute Resolution Practice. Represents clients in court and arbitration proceedings in highly complex civil and commercial cases. Specialises in cases involving construction investments, and tortious and contractual damages. Attorney-in-fact in numerous corporate disputes. Advises on procedural aspects of contract law, alternative dispute resolution and criminal cases. Carries out litigation compliance reviews of business activity and pending litigation.

Maciej Orkusz

Specializes in litigation and arbitration and is an expert in private and commercial law. He has acted for clients before common courts and arbitral tribunals in several cases, including a number of construction disputes, unfair competition and intellectual property disputes as well as matters concerning settlement of currency option debts. He participated in national and international arbitration proceedings conduced under the UNCITRAL arbiration rules, as well as under arbitration rules of ICC International Court of Arbitration, Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, Lewiatan Court of Arbitration and Court of Arbitration at the Polish Bank Association.

Maciej Zajda

Maciej specialises in financial institutions, capital markets and corporate law. He advises on capital market issues such as trading in financial instruments, acquiring significant shareholdings, running public tender offers, delisting and issuers’ reporting obligations. He provides regulatory advice to Polish and foreign financial institutions and fintechs, particularly investment companies and payment institutions. Maciej provides day-to-day advice to companies on internal corporate services. He also participates in M&A projects, particularly involving public and private equity companies. He supervises the preparation of due diligence reports and co-creates main transaction agreements. He uses his experience in transactions and corporate services in his role as leader of the DZP | Future project in which advice is provided to entities on the start-up and venture capital markets.

Magdalena Skowronska

Partner specialising in banking law and regulatory aspects of the functioning of financial sector institutions, capital market law, and mergers and acquisitions. Advises banks and financial institutions operating on the Polish market on regulatory issues and on mergers and acquisitions. Advises companies and financial institutions on licensing issues, fulfilment of reporting requirements, and matters related to the issue of financial instruments. Expert on raising financing and financing processes. Also advises on drawing up bond issues programmes. Attorney ad litem in proceedings before financial supervisory authorities.

Marcin Krakowiak

Partner and Head of DZP's Infrastructure and Energy Practice. Specialises in infrastructure and transport projects, including greenfield investments, and acquisitions of existing undertakings. Advises clients in the industrial manufacturing, energy, rail, road and air, construction, waste management, water, public services and private equity infrastructure funds sectors. Advises both private and public sector on project risk structuring and management, and on drawing up and negotiating contracts. He is involved in the implementation of complex undertakings, both domestic and international, including sector M&A transactions and those implemented by public-private partnerships (PPP), including concessions for works and services. Advises on undertakings co-financed by EU funds or other state aid, including restructuring aid, and represents clients in state aid proceedings before the European Commission. Responsible for co-ordinating services for Chinese and Japanese clients.

Marcin Matczak

Doctor of law specialising in competition and consumer protection, constitutional law, European business law and pharmaceutical law. Marcin is an expert on food law, especially issues involving borderline products, dietary supplements and cosmetics, and medical devices and biotechnology products. He also advises on the promotion of medicinal products after entry into force of the Reimbursement Act, and the FMCG sector on advertising in respect of alcohol products and tobacco. Marcin advises companies on matters relating to anti-competitive arrangements, abuse of dominant position, and practices that harm the collective interests of consumers. He also advises business associations in consultations over legislative bills, and the insurance sector by assessing legislative solutions.

Marek Swiatkowski

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Marta Balcerowska

Marta specialises in competition law, consumer protection law, pharmaceutical law and regulations on dietary supplements. With several years’ experience in working at the Competition and Consumer Protection Office, she advises clients on structuring distribution policies, trade relations, and pricing and discount policies with special focus on counteracting anti-competitive arrangements, abuse of a dominant position and acts of unfair competition. Marta also advises on company concentrations (mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, property acquisition). As regards consumer protection law, she drafts model agreements and promotional rules, and co-authors communications to customers. In the area of pharmaceutical law, Marta advises clients particularly on advertising law, pharmacy operations and distribution of medicinal products.

Mateusz Mądry

Partner and the Head of Life Sciences Practice. He is an expert in both national and international law regarding pharmaceuticals, medical devices and innovative technologies. Mainly advises life sciences entities on regulatory requirements, market access, and competition and compliance issues. He also represents clients in proceedings before administrative authorities, particularly the Minister of Health and units subordinate to the Minister, and also at the stage of court control of decisions. 

Mateusz Jankowski

Mateusz has over five years' experience in providing legal advice to businesses on commercial law, civil law and personal data protection. He specialises in providing comprehensive assistance with company transformations, divisions and mergers. He also prepares due diligence analyses for the purpose of capital transactions. Mateusz deals with personal data protection issues and has practical experience as a Data Protection Officer, e.g. in companies in the protection of persons and property and transportation of cash sectors. In addition, he has been a data protection officer for the Polish committee of a global NGO operating within the UN, a state cultural institution specialising in cinematography and companies in the logistics and e-commerce sectors.

Michal Przychoda

Specialises in legal advice on infrastructure investments throughout the preparation and implementation stages. He has taken part in negotiations and drafted contracts for entities from the road, rail, energy, telecommunications, water and sewage, and waste management sectors. As a member of various teams, he has implemented some of the most important public-private partnership projects in Poland, e.g. a waste incineration plant in Poznań, a road system in Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship and the Eastern Poland Broadband Network. He has been involved in settling numerous disputes over infrastructure contracts, e.g. for delivery and maintenance of the first Polish high-speed trains and the design and construction of the Silesian Stadium. Advises companies in the infrastructure sector on corporate matters, representing clients at shareholders’ meetings and drawing up articles of association, share purchase agreements, and management and supervisory board by-laws.

Michał Gajdek

Senior Associate in Infrastructure and Energy Practice. Specialises in public procurement law issues. He advises both contracting authorities and contractors (including foreign enterprises) at all stages of public procurement procedures. In his daily work, he prepares and reviews tender documentation, handles legal measures before the National Appeal Chamber and common courts and provides ongoing corporate advice. He also has extensive training experience, including lecturing to post-graduate students on public procurement law at one of universities in Warsaw. He is also a member of the DZP’s Spanish desk.

Michał Klimowicz

Michał specialises in civil and commercial law and advises both buyers and sellers on merger and acquisition transactions. He has experience in legal due diligences of companies from different industries (e.g. construction, pharmaceutical). He supports clients in group restructuring processes, including mergers, divisions and transformations, and in company formation and liquidations. He provides day-to-day advice to companies, e.g. preparing corporate documents, advising on corporate governance matters, and drafting agreements concluded in the course of company business. He also advises on restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings. In addition to his legal education, Michael is a finance and accounting graduate.

Michał Cecerko

Partner, Head of Restructuring/Insolvency team. He handles debt restructuring and bankruptcy projects. He advises debtors on choosing the proper proceedings in the event of financial difficulties and represents them in restructuring and bankruptcy processes and in out-of-court settlements with creditors. When advising clients, he also deals with management liability related to debt crises. He has extensive experience in claiming receivables and in processes to exclude assets from bankruptcy estate, gained, inter alia, in some of the biggest bankruptcy proceedings in Poland in the construction sector. His second specialisation is corporate advice in mergers and acquisitions. He has taken part in numerous transactions concerning stocks and shares and also tangible assets. Michał's experience also enables him to effectively advise clients in acquisitions and sale of assets from bankrupt entities or those faced with bankruptcy, including pre-pack transactions.

Pawel Paradowski

Partner and specialist in business disputes, white collar crime and company law. He has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration proceedings, especially in the energy, construction, real estate, insurance and pharmaceutical sectors. Pawel assists companies in administrative proceedings, including those in administrative courts.

Paweł Grzejszczak

Partner in DZP's Infrastructure and Energy department who specialises in energy law, project finance transactions, privatisation projects, mergers and acquisitions and energy company restructuring projects. He advises clients in the energy, heating, fuel and gas sectors on all aspects of energy company operations, mainly on regulatory, transactional, investment performance, infrastructure project financing, commercial contract, state aid and public procurement issues. An expert in cogeneration and renewable energy investments. He advised on a project to build the first nuclear power plant in Poland. He acts for clients in litigation over energy sector regulations. An expert on European energy law.

Paweł Lewandowski

Partner specialising in civil, administrative and arbitration proceedings, as well as company law and mergers and acquisitions. Pawel has acted in numerous litigation and arbitration proceedings, and is the author of many appeals to the Supreme Court. He has represented companies in administrative proceedings, including those in administrative courts. Pawel regularly advises firms in the energy, construction, insurance and utility sectors and has advised on a range of merger and acquisition projects. He also advises German-speaking clients.

Paweł Pioruński

Partner in Corporate and M&A Practice. Specialises in commercial and civil law, particularly in domestic and international M&A transactions, and investment agreement and commercial contract negotiations. Advises both buyers and sellers in M&A projects. Has handled numerous restructuring projects in domestic and international capital groups, including cross-border mergers involving Polish entities as both acquirer and target. Advises clients on corporate matters, e.g. selecting optimum operating form and the formation, functioning, transformation, merger, demerger and liquidation of business entities. Has extensive experience in advising in corporate disputes at both pre-litigation and litigation stages. Supports clients in areas relating to creation of corporate governance, supervision and management liability.

Paweł Rudolf

Specialises in regulatory advice to companies in the financial sector, particularly banks, payment institutions and audit firms. He has many years' experience in the oversight of financial market entities, including transactions in the banking and public sectors. He combines in-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements relating to the public oversight of financial markets with extensive knowledge of the oversight of auditors and audit firms. Paweł participates in legislative processes implementing EU financial market regulations into national law. He is a specialist in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, financial law and administrative and administrative court proceedings.

Piotr Andrzejczak

Based in Poznan, Piotr is a partner in DZP's Corporate and M&A department, specialising in contract law, corporate law, mergers, acquisitions and restructuring, particularly joint ventures for both domestic and foreign entities. He regularly advises investors with American, British, Irish and Scandinavian capital. Leader of many due diligence projects.

Piotr Jackowski

Of Counsel in Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Practice.

Piotr Orczykowski

Partner in Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Practice. He advises investment fund management companies, investment funds, depository banks and public companies on regulatory and corporate matters. Piotr is an expert on legal aspects of creating financial products and services. Experienced in serving family businesses and private investors, including in the implementation of complex reorganisation projects and family foundations.

Rafał Grochowski

Partner in Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Practice. Specialises in legal advice on capital markets, infrastructure and energy projects, natural resources, securities and public companies. Expert in advising Polish and foreign banks on corporate finance and issuance of debt instruments. Has extensive experience in advising lenders on corporate debt restructuring. Has advised on numerous real estate lease and leaseback transactions. Advised on the first and second post-war issue of mortgage bonds in Poland, the first and second securitisation transactions carried out by a Polish bank, the first bond issue carried out by a foreign bank, and the financing of the public sector by credit and debt instruments. Participated in preparing standard documentation for derivatives on the domestic interbank market and legislative work on amendments to the Bonds Act Bank Arbitrator at the Polish Bank Association.

Rafał Karbowniczek

Partner in Dispute Resolution Practice.

Robert Niczyporuk

Partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring, public trading in securities and capital markets, involving both Polish and foreign entities. Robert has advised numerous firms and capital groups on capital transactions, M&A transactions, and on the trade in receivables and debt securities. He is an expert on company law, including the functioning of authorities and liablity of management boards and supervisory boards in commercial companies. Robert advises on the public trading in securities and receivables, and on corporate matters, including corporate disputes. He has also advised numerous start-up business in Poland, including brokerage houses on regulations, standard agreements and day-to-day legal issues.

Sylwia Kuca

Partner in the Corporate and M&A Practice. Advises on corporate law and M&A, and provides day-to-day company law assistance. She has gained experience in numerous restructuring projects, both in the analytical phase (developing assumptions, the target structure and the approach path, preparing step plans) and in the implementation phase (e.g. forming commercial companies, drawing up/amending articles of association, implementing changes in capital, company mergers, demergers and transformations). She also specialises in due diligence projects and M&A transactions.

Tadeusz Piątek

Has been a legal counsel for over 25 years in the field of legal problems in the telecommunications sector, particularly in regulatory matters, concerning implementation of IT systems, intellectual property rights, e-commerce and Internet, including network security. He has many years’ experience in both international and domestic arbitration proceedings, particularly in ad hoc cases, and is an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce and the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers “Lewiatan”. In the years 2002-2005, he was Director of the Legal Department at the Polish National Telecom and Postal Regulatory Office (now, the Office of Electronic Communications). Tadeusz was involved in the legislative work to implement EU electronic communications directives in Poland and worked on the current Telecommunications Law, implementing legislation, and other laws. He has taken part in negotiating contracts for telecommunications systems and IT systems, and has run administrative proceedings, including those related to tenders for radio frequencies. He has also successfully conducted a number of court cases involving the application of hardware solutions that threaten regulatory governance in telecommunications. Tadeusz is also a certified mediator.

Tomasz Darowski

Specialises in infrastructure investments and defence sector projects, related contracts, and litigation involving disputes arising under such contracts. He advises on projects in the energy, road, rail, waste management, and water and sewage sectors, including concession and PPP projects. A renowned specialist in M&A and restructuring transactions.

Tomasz Kalicki

Senior Associate in Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Practice. Advises on transactions involving financing and establishing legal security for receivables as well as on M&A transactions, both in Poland and internationally. He also deals with public offerings and regulatory issues in the financial and payment institutions sector. His experience covers drawing up financial documentation (including collateral documents), share purchase agreements and other acquisition related documents as well as legal opinions on regulatory issues, and advising on civil law and commercial law.

Tomasz Michalczyk

Partner in Infrastructure and Energy Practice. Specialises in matters concerning broadly understood infrastructure, public procurement and public-private partnerships. Advises both contractors and contracting authorities on all aspects of public procurement law at all stages of procurement procedures. He has extensive experience in handling tenders conducted by private entities with EU funds. Represents clients before the National Appeal Chamber and also in proceedings based on appeals filed with common courts. Advises in disputes in investments carried out by way of public procurement and in disputes between consortium members. Provides legal assistance with performance of infrastructure and investment projects, i.e. draftng and reviewing draft contracts required in the investment process and drawing up legal opinions and analyses for Polish and foreign business entities. Has broad experience gained while handling the preparation and performance of public and transport infrastructure projects carried out by public-private partnerships.

Tomasz Leszczewski

Senior Tax Manager in Tax Practice.

Tomasz Krzyżanowski

Tomasz advises clients on all aspects of public procurement law and advises both contractors and contracting authorities at all stages of the procurement process. He supports contracting authorities as an expert witness and specialist in public procurement for tender committees. His professional interests particularly include IT, new technologies, media and telecommunications.

Wojciech Hartung

Advises on infrastructure projects carried out under the Public Procurement Law or using partnership structures, i.e. PPP, concessions and other forms of co-operation between public and private partners. Specialises in public-public cooperation (in-house procurement) issues. They have been addressed in his PhD dissertation on the "Independence of a basic local government unit upon the organisation and provision of municipal services in light of European law and Polish legal order". Heads projects concerning exclusion of the obligation to apply the Public Procurement Law covering entity and subject-matter exclusions. Has extensive experience in the energy, defence, waste and transport sectors. Participant in legislative work on implementing EU regulations on public procurement to the national legal system.