Michał leads the financial sector team and co-leads (with Maciej Gawroński) the technology practice at GP Partners. Michał is an expert in advising financial institutions. Michał started his career working for the largest banks in Poland, both in the legal and risk areas. Then he moved to legal advice services working for leading Polish law firms.

Michał advises financial institutions in all aspects of their activities, including AML, payment services, banking regulations, corporate governance, relations with the regulator and licensing proceedings.

Michał also advises clients on data protection and implementation and application of new technologies. Responsible for legal advice in first of a kind implementations of cloud outsourcing, including in the financial sector, IT services contracting, advice for the e-commerce sector.

He effectively transfers his financial sector experience into other areas. Michał advises entrepreneurs from various industries and sectors, including smaller ones, in building effective compliance systems based on best practices tailored to the needs of the client, drawn primarily from the banking sector – one of the most regulated sectors in the economy.

Michał’s education includes law, economics, information security and internal security, allowing him to deeply understand needs of our clients.

Michał is a certified ISO 27001 (information security) lead auditor.

Selected projects:

Complex implementations, audits, advisory in the area of AML IV and V, PSD 2 and payment services, the Polish FSA (KNF) Recommendations including Recommendations H and D, Banking Law Comprehensive audit of the largest Polish bank’s compliance with the requirements of the Polish Act on the National Cybersecurity System (implementing the NIS Directive) Advice and representation of financial institutions in licensing proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (including banks, payment institutions) Establishing corporate governance and compliance systems in line with recommendations and regulations of the financial sector, also for non-financial entities, based on the best standards established in the financial sector. Complex implementations of cloud outsourcing in accordance to the Polish FSA’s Recommendations on cloud services, Banking Law and GDPR, for the financial sector, operators of essential services and critical infrastructure Drafting and negotiating IT contracts both for vendors and customers. IT disputes

Warsaw Bar of Advocates

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Michał graduated from Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, as well as from the Finance and Accounting Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics. He also completed Internal Security at the University of Warsaw.