GESSEL Attorneys at Law

Arbitration/Dispute resolution

Beata is an attorney-at-law and a senior partner, recognised international arbitrator, she has decided more than 150 cases in domestic and international arbitration (conducted, inter alia, under ICC, SCC, VIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, FCC, IAA, SCAI, Lewiatan, KIG, NDS, SIDiR rules) in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, construction law (inter alia, under FIDIC regulations), energy law and international commercial contracts.

She combines her career as an arbitrator with her academic activities. In 2023, she was appointed to the Scientific Council of the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. For many years was an associate professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, where she taught , M&A transactions and commercial law.

She has given guest lectures at, among others, Stockholm University, Humbolt University, University of Leicester, Queen Mary University London, and the Virtual Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration of the Royal Institute of Arbitration in London (CIArb).

English, Russian

Member of advisory institutions and working groups of the world's largest arbitration institutions: the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague (Permanent Court of Arbitration), the ICC Committee on Arbitration and ADR (ICC Committee on Arbitration and ADR). She is a member of the ICC Committee on Arbitration and ADR, the SCC Arbitrators' Council of the Stockholm Arbitration Institute, the ICDR/AAA Arbitration Rules Revision Task Force, and the International Bar Association Council Working Group on the revision of the IBA Arbitration Rules. revision of the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration (IBA Task Force for the revision of the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration). Chair of the Audit Committee of the Polish Association of Capital Investors (PSIK), member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Arbitration Association.

Law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (1989). Obtaining a doctoral degree in the field of social sciences – in the discipline of legal sciences at the Stefan Kardynał Wyszyński University in Warsaw (“Legal nature of declarations and assurances in a contract for the sale of shares in a limited liability company. (in light of the principle of freedom of contract)”, Wolters Kluwer 2010) (2009) Obtaining a doctoral degree in social sciences – in the discipline of legal sciences at Stefan Kardynał Wyszyński University in Warsaw (“The Legal, Real and Convereged Insterest in Declaratory Relief”, Kluwer Law International 2021) (2021)