Dentons

Aleksandra Rutkowska is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. She heads the Tax Litigation practice. She specialises in tax controversy and litigation matters and has more than 15 years' experience in assisting clients in tax, customs and fiscal inspections and in tax proceedings before the National Revenue Administration and administrative courts. As part of her litigation practice, she represents clients in disputes relating to corporate income tax, including transfer pricing and withholding tax, VAT, real estate tax and excise duty. She has represented the Republic of Poland on many occasions (as an employee of the Office of the Committee for European Integration between 2006 and 2010) and has represented clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Constitutional Tribunal. She has experience in tax risk assessment, including personal liability risk, and tax risk management. She assists clients in the development and implementation of tax procedures. Aleksandra acts as defence counsel for clients in penal fiscal proceedings against them. She represents clients in disputes concerning joint and several liability of board members for tax liabilities (arrears) of the companies. She also has extensive experience in providing day-to-day advice on excise duty.

Marcin Czajkowski

Marcin Czajkowski is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and member of the Tax team. He specializes in corporate tax advisory (VAT, CIT and transfer tax) in particular for the real estate, hospitality, banking and oil & gas sectors. He has broad experience in tax planning and the implementation of Polish and international tax structures. For over 10 years he has regularly advised clients on tax insurance matters, financing, acquisition, construction and use of real estate as well as exit scenarios for corporate investors. Marcin also supports clients in tax structuring of M&A transactions and provides comprehensive transaction support and assistance with foreign investments in Poland. Moreover, he handles tax disputes with the authorities at the stage of inspections and proceedings in the jurisdictional phase, and in the administrative courts.

Adam Mycyk

Adam Mycyk is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Adam has more than 30 years of experience advising both Ukrainian and international companies, banks, investment banks and a range of other financial institutions and investors on structuring and implementing debt and equity inward investments involving privatizations, mergers and acquisitions or joint ventures and on complex cross-border commercial and financing transactions and transaction on international capital markets. His experience and client base spans financial institutions and services, consumer products, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, and agriculture sectors. Adam is a US qualified lawyer, admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia (1993) and in Maryland (1991). Since relocating to Kyiv in 1994, he has led numerous acquisition and joint venture transactions and managed a variety of due diligence projects from different sectors.

Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska

Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska heads Dentons’ Competition Practice in Poland. Since 1998, she has represented clients in numerous EU and Polish competition authority proceedings and before Polish courts, in cartel and other antitrust investigations. She has also assisted clients during dawn raids and in over 100 merger control proceedings, before both the European Commission and the Polish competition authority. She works with clients to design and implement their distribution networks and provides practical support to in-house teams in implementing antitrust compliance initiatives with, including risk-mapping and comprehensive antitrust audits. She has extensive experience in day-to-day advice to clients on abuse of dominance and horizontal cooperation issues, as well as antitrust issues related to M&A contracts. She supports clients in many different sectors, including life sciences, automotive, FMCG, food, real estate, TMT, heavy industry, chemicals, energy, utilities, retail trade, transport, banking and insurance.

Agnieszka Gilowska

Agnieszka Gilowska is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. She specializes in public procurement law. Agnieszka has experience in legal advisory to bidders and awarding entities in public procurement proceedings. She also has experience in appeal proceedings before the National Chamber of Appeals at the Public Procurement Office. Agnieszka focuses on advising on the preparation of tender documentation in all forms of public procedure.

Agnieszka Wardak

Agnieszka Wardak is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office, where she heads Criminal Litigation and Internal Investigation practice along with the Compliance and Sanctions team. With extensive experience in corporate crime matters, she represents both companies and individuals in all types of white collar cases, including mismanagement, bribery and corruption, fraud, mis-selling, insider trading, asset stripping liability for environmental damage, criminal bid rigging and many others. As a seasoned litigator, she conducts internal investigations into whistleblowing complaints or other matters, which may include cooperating with a forensic team and developing an investigation strategy or scenarios for voluntary disclosures and potential penalties. Agnieszka joined Dentons in 2007 and has coordinated large-scale criminal litigation and compliance projects across CEE. She combines litigation and regulatory expertise in advising on corporate compliance policies and procedures, whistleblower programs and EU or local sanctions.

Agnieszka Wojciechowska

Agnieszka Wojciechowska, counsel and a member of the Dispute Resolution practice group in Dentons' Warsaw office, where she heads the Construction Disputes team. She represents clients in domestic and international proceedings, before both state courts and arbitral tribunals. She handles matters related to a wide range of civil law including commercial and corporate disputes. Agnieszka has unique experience in construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC contract conditions. She advises private investors, public employers, contract engineers, contractors and subcontractors across the construction industry. In particular, she has experience in complex, high-value disputes across all key sectors: energy, oil and gas, roads, railway and real estate. She specialises in strategic and sensitive infrastructure projects. She has also developed a significant construction dispute avoidance practice.

Aldona Kowalczyk

Aldona Kowalczyk is an attorney-at-law, partner, heading Dentons’ Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice in Poland and co-heading the Europe Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice. Aldona has counselled both contracting authorities and bidders/private partners in public procurement and PPP matters in Poland, acting for them in the National Chamber of Appeals and courts since 1998. For years Polish and foreign rankings of law firms have mentioned her as one of the most renowned specialists in the public procurement law in Poland. She is a co-founder and Chair of the Executive Board of the Public Procurement Law Association.

Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka

Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka, advocate and patent attorney, is a counsel at the Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. For over 15 years Aleksandra has been advising clients on matters related to intellectual and industrial property law. She specializes in disputes related to copyright law, trademarks, industrial designs, patents, unfair competition (including advertising) and protection of personal interests. She represents clients in civil and administrative courts of all instances as well as in disputes and matters pending before the Polish Patent Office, EUIPO and WIPO. Her particular areas of expertise encompass legal assistance for entities operating in the food industry, in particular with respect to similarity of packaging, advertising law and trademark portfolios. She also cooperates with clothing and cosmetic industries and advises film producers and broadcasters. For several years Aleksandra advised a major Polish press publisher and a leading daily newspaper publisher.

Aleksandra Danielewicz

Aleksandra Danielewicz, advocate, LL.M., senior associate at Dentons' Warsaw Office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. She specializes in personal data protection, privacy and data security. Aleksandra has broad experience in providing legal advice on privacy to global clients. She has specialized in personal data protection breaches. She has conducted a range of initiatives and programs concerning implementation of the GDPR and CCPA, managed global privacy teams and advised local data protection officers on issues concerning data protection, such as data transfers, broad compliance programs in various jurisdictions, implementation of company rules, retention policies and data security audits. She has participated in the creation and implementation of innovative technological solutions, in particular involving solutions for managing incidents related to data security and personal data protection.

Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek

Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek is a Partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She is the Head of the Employment and Labor practice team. Aleksandra specializes in labor and employment law and also focuses on corporate issues. She has broad experience in individual and collective labor law issues, employment restructuring, collective dismissals, remuneration in the banking sector and employment-related aspects of corporate transactions. She advises clients in the banking, food, automotive and advanced technology sectors. Her experience includes representing clients in negotiations with employee representatives, drafting transactional documentation and advising on cross-border employment relations.

Anna Szymańska

Dr. Anna Szymańska is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a Head of Defense and Security practice, within the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. She specializes in public procurement law and PPP commercial and civil law, including contracts law since 2005. She is highly experienced in representing bidders as well as awarding entities in the course of public procurement proceedings and in dealings before the National Chamber of Appeals and courts. Among others, Anna has focused on infrastructure, energy, construction, railways, waste treatment, transportation, financial services, defense & security, medical & pharmaceutical, revitalization and telecommunications projects. Anna is a member of the Poland Public Procurement Council and a lecturer in Postgraduate Studies in Public Procurement at Warsaw University.

Anna Gulińska

Anna Gulińska specializes in Polish and EU competition law, including antitrust, merger control, unfair commercial practices as well as consumer protection issues and competition litigation. She has experience in antitrust advice in the real estate, media and telecommunications, FMCG and consumer products, banking and industry sectors. Her experience includes merger control notifications to the European Commission and the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection, as well as coordination of multijurisdictional filings. She advises on commercial strategy applied by dominant undertakings and antitrust aspects of horizontal and vertical cooperation between undertakings. She conducts antitrust audits, provides behavioral advice, assists during dawn raids, represents clients in proceedings and drafts appeals against decisions of the Polish competition authority. She participated in the legislative process related to the implementation of the Damages Directive in Poland.

Anna Pukszto

Anna Pukszto is Poland Co-Managing Partner at Dentons. She also heads both the Litigation and Arbitration practice group and the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group in the Warsaw office. Anna is a renowned expert in restructuring and insolvency, with extensive experience in managing cross-border bankruptcies and distressed asset acquisitions. She is also a seasoned litigator who specializes in the financial services sector. She was a World Bank consultant in a project involving assessments of the Polish Bankruptcy and Rehabilitation Law and instruments serving to protect creditors’ rights under Polish law. Anna handles class action proceedings and litigations regarding the liability of investment fund companies, custodians, lenders and the validity of banking and investment products. She has represented clients before both the Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has been involved in high-profile disputes regarding foreign investments in Poland and commercial transactions under LCIA, ICC and VIAC arbitration rules and in related post-arbitration proceedings.

Bartłomiej Kordeczka

Bartłomiej is Poland Co-Managing Partner and the Deputy Head of Real Estate practice group at Dentons. He is also a member of the Hotels and Leisure sector team. Bartłomiej is a transactional lawyer with over 15 years of experience in advising clients on their investments in the property sector. He represents real estate investors, private equity or private funds, developers and asset managers on comprehensive real estate law matters including civil, administrative and commercial aspects. Bartłomiej has led or supervised numerous investment transactions (asset, enterprise and share deals) involving all kinds of property types like office buildings, warehouses, shopping malls, hotels as well as residential / student housing / PRS, also under sale and leaseback, forward purchase, forward funding or in joint venture structures. He is also experienced in negotiating agreements with hotel managers as well as hotel lease agreements.

Bartosz Dobkowski

Bartosz Dobkowski, attorney-at-law, senior associate at Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. Bartosz has extensive expertise in advising foreign and domestic clients on a wide range of TMT and IP matters. In his day-to-day practice, he focuses on telecommunications (electronic communications), media and IP law. Over the years, he has been supporting clients in various innovative projects, including projects concerning online and A2P (application-to-person) SMS messaging, permanent roaming, telematic and connected car technologies, satellite communications or asset tracking. He also regularly advises on issues related to the implementation of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) and assists clients in ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations. Bartosz also has hands-on experience in advising on various issues in the area of media and advertising law, as well as gambling regulations. He has advised clients, among others, on broadcasting licensing, regulatory aspects of the provision of audiovisual media services, personalized commercials using Dynamic Ad Insertion technology, financial obligations towards the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and royalties payable to collecting societies. He also advises on intellectual property matters, in particular trademarks and copyrights. His experience includes advising on the registrability of trademarks, developing brand protection strategies, representing and advising clients in proceedings before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the Polish Patent Office and the common courts, and handling anti-counterfeiting cases. In addition, Bartosz has vast transactional experience, regularly conducts complex IP due diligence analyses and assists clients in drafting and negotiating IP transfer, licensing and co-existence agreements.

Bartosz Nojek

Bartosz Nojek concentrates on banking, financial, commercial and civil law. His main areas of interest focus on corporate financings provided by syndicate banks, acting on both the lenders’ and the borrowers’ side. He has led or participated in numerous finance transactions, including project finance, acquisition finance, asset finance and real estate finance, as well as restructurings. His experience covers drafting and negotiating credit documentation, in particular LMA standard loan documentation, term sheets, intercreditor agreements, as well as security documents. He represents leading Polish and foreign banks and borrowers, including listed companies, private equity funds and private investors. In 2016 Bartosz completed a six months long secondment with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, where he was responsible for cross-border projects, diverse types of financings, including bilateral and syndicated loan agreements, restructurings, re-financings and project finance transactions, mainly concerning renewables, in Cyprus, Romania, Albania, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Ukraine and FYR Macedonia.

Cezary Przygodzki

Cezary Przygodzki is the head of Dentons' Tax team in Poland, where he focuses on international tax planning and M&A structuring. He advises clients on the tax aspects of restructuring and reorganizing their businesses, as well as foreign investors in Poland, particularly with regard to the tax incentives and reliefs offered to investors. In addition, Cezary is available to assist clients with tax-related disputes, litigations, and administrative proceedings. His clients mainly come from the energy, media, technology, and real estate sectors, although he also has experience assisting financial institutions and private equity funds. Cezary has been recognized as the Leader in transactional advisory services in Poland by Rzeczpospolita's XVII Ranking of Tax Advisory Firms 2023. Clients In 2023 Cezary advised such companies as Accor (leading company in the hotel industry), EPAM Systems (a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company), Flextronics International (a global manufacturing partner that provides design, build, and support services for a diverse range of industries), OBI (a multinational home improvement supplies retailing company ), Veolia (a transnational company specializing in water treatment solutions). Work Highlights ‣ Epam Systems: Advising the client on its acquisition of ENGINIETY, a full-service commerce technology delivery firm. Our services included conducting a tax due diligence review, assisting the client with the development of the acquisition structure, and providing tax transaction support regarding the sale agreement. ‣ Globe Trade Centre: Assisting the client in the successful debut of an unsecured green bond issuance for €500 million. ‣ OBI: Tax advice to a multinational home improvement supplies retailing company regarding the status of the company in the context of Polish withholding tax. ‣ Uroda Polska: Assisting Europe's leading manufacturer and distributor of bath and beauty products in development of its manufacturing and sales business.

Christian Schnell

Christian Schnell is a partner, Head of the Energy & Natural Resources practice team in Dentons’ Warsaw office and Co-Head of the Europe Energy group. He also practices in the Firm’s Munich office. Christian has more than 20 years of experience in advising on developments, acquisitions, disposals, EPCs, PPAs and heat supply agreements in the renewable energy sector in Poland, Central-Eastern and Southeast Europe. Christian has a varied client base, advising direct investors, renewable energy and infrastructure funds, private equity and private debt, international developers and financial institutions in respect of development, construction and operational projects. Christian has been leading transactions on numerous energy projects and has broad experience of premium support schemes, but also non-subsidy renewable energy projects, mainly onshore wind and ground-mounted solar PV projects. He has a profound knowledge about energy markets, strategic market forecasts and sector integration technologies. Christian has also longstanding experience with offshore project development and advises since many years on heat investments and heat supply contracts.

Dagmara Cisowska

Dagmara Cisowska is a tax advisor and counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. She leads the Transfer Pricing practice. Dagmara is highly experienced in transfer pricing and has taken part in a number of projects involving intercompany financial arrangements in corporate groups, transfer pricing documentation, benchmarking studies, and requests for advance pricing agreements. Her project experience includes transfer pricing policy creation, verification and implementation in corporate groups, as well as business restructuring. She specializes in representing clients during tax audits, transfer pricing proceedings and disputes, including the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP). Dagmara is an active member of the Transfer Pricing Forum, an advisory body to the Polish Ministry of Finance, which aims to prepare recommendations, opinions, analyses, conclusions and proposals to simplify and tighten the functioning of the tax system in the field of transfer pricing.

Dariusz Stolarek

Dariusz Stolarek is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. He has led numerous M&A projects involving comprehensive international and domestic transaction tax structuring, tax due diligence and W&I / tax specific risk insurance. His areas of expertise extend to corporate and project finance and business restructuring. He has represented his clients in tax litigations and has assisted in establishing internal tax risk management procedures. Dariusz has broad experience in tax advisory for real estate, financial, renewables, insurance, and IT sectors. Dariusz is a leading tax advisor in the new and rapidly growing Polish tax insurance sector, both in relation to specific tax risk insurance projects and warranty and indemnity insurance accompanying M&A transactions. Dariusz has strong relationships with the major tax insurance players in Poland and Europe.

David Dixon

David F. Dixon is a partner in the Real Estate practice team in Dentons’ Warsaw office. Having been in professional practice for more than 25 years, he is a widely recognized and highly respected real estate, M&A, private equity and investment advisor active throughout Europe, with a particular emphasis on Poland, CEE and adjacent emerging markets.

Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz

Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz is a Partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She also co-heads Dentons’ Environmental Protection Practice in Europe. With more than 24 years of professional experience, Ewa covers all aspects of business operations from the angle of environmental protection law and climate change regulations. She advises Polish and foreign companies (top players, mainly from the manufacturing, energy, real estate, and industrials sectors) and public bodies on issues regarding Polish and EU environmental protection law. Her professional experience includes advising on environmental protection in construction projects, environmental litigation, Environmental Impact Assessment and IPPC procedures (including litigating against NGO participation aimed at blocking investments), climate change issues, compliance / non-compliance, emissions trading, land remediation, regulations governing geological and mining activities, oil and gas (upstream and downstream). Ewa is one of co-founders and co-organizers of Dentons’ European Environmental Law Academy (DEELA), established in 2015 as a platform for developing and strengthening the core of legal knowledge in environmental law matters across all our offices in Europe and the UK, to enable our specialist environmental teams in Europe and UK to deliver seamless advice of unparalleled quality.

Jakub Sobotkowski

Jakub is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the Real Estate practice team. Jakub has over 15 years’ experience in advising domestic and international investors and developers on a wide range of projects, including real estate transactions, development of real properties and lease projects as well as financing real estate investments and sale-and-leaseback deals. He assists clients in their day-to-day operations in the retail, office, logistics and residential sectors. Jakub focuses in particular on logistics sector, actively advising clients in the full life-cycle of the investment process, from land acquisitions and lease negotiations, through zoning, development and construction matters, to complex sale and purchase transactions (asset, enterprise, share deals and joint ventures).

Jakub Zienkiewicz

Jakub Zienkiewicz has more than 10 years’ experience in real estate finance, project finance, general corporate lending and acquisition finance as well as soft financial restructurings. He has been involved in several of the biggest real estate financing transactions in the Polish market, which related to a wide variety of assets, including student housing, residential rentals, warehouses, office and retail. He provided advice on numerous complex cross-border transactions. He assists both investors, including private equity funds, public and private companies, as well as Polish and foreign financial institutions. He advises clients on all stages of transactions and works on deal structuring, term sheets, loan agreements, including contracts based on the LMA standard, intercreditor agreements and security documents.

Jakub Celiński

Jakub Celinski, PhD, heads Dentons' Europe Equity Capital Markets Practice. He focuses his practice on equity and debt instrument offerings, securitization transactions and public M&A deals. He has vast experience in cross-border transactions, especially in IPOs of foreign companies with listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and dual listing deals. He frequently represents Polish and multinational companies actively engaged in capital markets. His areas of expertise also include financial services regulatory matters, employee equity incentive plans and private banking.

Jarosław Witek

Jarosław Witek, partner, responsible for leading the multidisciplinary Defense and Security group in Poland. Jarosław is a legal adviser with nearly 15 years of experience in defense, public security and aerospace projects, particularly offset, industrial cooperation, and defense and security procurement. He represents suppliers of military and aerospace equipment in negotiating supply contracts with the Polish Armaments Inspectorate/Armament Agency and supply-related offset projects. He also assists clients in negotiating offset agreements with the Polish Ministry of Defense as well as technology transfer agreements and license agreements with designated Polish partners. He has security clearance with the European Union, NATO and European Space Agency.

Kamil Januszek

Kamil Januszek is an advocate and associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. He specializes in intellectual property law, media and IT law and advises TMT sector players. He represents international telecoms in litigation and regulatory matters before the Office of Electronic Communications. He also participates in a range of projects for TV broadcasters and film producers. Kamil also specializes in advising clients with respect to intellectual property protection in share deal and asset deal transactions, in particular in the real estate market. Experience Global telecom: Representing the client before public authorities, in particular before the Office of Electronic Communications; regulatory advice. Global VOD platform: Advice with respect to the sale of rights to original Polish films and serials to another global VOD platform. TV producer: Advice with respect to production contracts and registration of a TV format. Intellectual property in transactions: Agreements for the transfer of intellectual property and license agreements; execution of due diligence reports and transactional advice concerning intellectual property, in particular in the real estate market.

Karol Laskowski

Karol Laskowski is a partner at Dentons’ Warsaw office, the Head of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team and the Co-Head of Europe TMT Sector Group. He is a high-profile media and telecommunications professional, with years of experience in advising major television broadcasters, satellite and cable operators, music publishers, telecom operators and film producers. As Head of the IP/TMT practice team he runs one of the largest and most experienced intellectual property, technology, media and telecommunications practices in Poland. The award-winning members of his practice are top-class practitioners with experience in delivering projects for international clients. The team is responsible primarily for advisory to Telecommunication, Media and Technology clients, but also provides comprehensive support in IP, Trademarks, IT, Data Protection & Regulatory matters to clients from other sectors. Together, they address complex legal requests with advice tailored to specific business needs and provide practical and insightful guidance on protecting IP rights, data security issues, technology licensing and sourcing strategies. His key focus is advisory to international Media, Technology and Telecom groups on key areas of their business activities in Poland and elsewhere − Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.

Maciej Marek

Maciej Marek has practiced competition law for over ten years. He advises on M&A transactions, represents clients before antitrust authorities and assists in implementing compliance programs. Maciej has advised Polish and multinational leaders operating in the sectors of IT, media, telecommunications, FMCG, as well as trade and distribution, including many Fortune Global 500 companies. He has represented clients and participated in numerous proceedings before the Polish competition authority, the European Commission as well as Polish and EU courts. His experience includes negotiating what was probably the most complex conditional merger clearance the Polish competition authority has ever issued (a tiered, mixed, structural-behavioral remedy) as well as advising on unfair competition aspects of the biggest domestic dispute over a brand. He regularly handles multijurisdictional projects, including those requiring coordination of work of multiple local lawyers, economists and IT providers.

Maciej Ziółkowski

Counsel at CMS in Poland

Marceli Kasperkiewicz

Marceli Kasperkiewicz is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice teams. Marceli has 15 years of transactional experience, particularly in M&A and corporate restructurings. He provides legal advice to both foreign and domestic companies, focusing on M&A, corporate, commercial and financial institutions practice. He advises clients on all types of share and asset acquisitions (in both public and private sectors), IPOs, mergers, spin-offs, LBOs and other types of corporate and financial restructurings. His practice focuses in particular on energy, manufacturing, real estate and retail sectors. He also specializes in structuring and setting up complex domestic and cross-border joint ventures.

Marcin Przybysz

Marcin Przybysz, advocate, senior associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Practice Group. He regularly advises global and local clients on the intellectual property rights protection, which includes developing IP strategies, combating and litigating infringements on all court levels, negotiating transfers and licensing of digital products and new technologies, as well as conducting due diligence audits for the purposes of transactions. He has also advised clients on data protection compliance, including on the GDPR, with a particular focus on e-commerce and online gaming sectors. Marcin has extensive experience in working for global video gaming sector companies, including as an in-house lawyer seconded to a sister company of Poland’s largest video game developer, where he advised on various aspects of operation of a digital distribution platform, in particular in connection with the licensing of IP rights, privacy, consumer protection, marketing campaigns and collaboration with influencers. Experience Leading social media app provider: Regular advice on brand protection and combating infringements, including trademark litigation and domain arbitration as a result of which the client won back its .pl domain. Developer and operator of a popular online game: Advice on a lawsuit against a defendant accused of infringing copyrights to certain game elements and enabling unauthorized online gaming. Video games distributor: Negotiating a licensing of a video games portfolio and strategic partnership with a global video gaming partner. Developer of popular MMOG video games: Reviewing user agreements and privacy-related policies, as well as advising on the implementation of a monetization scheme, including in terms of compliance with consumer and gambling laws. Global streaming service provider: Advising on data privacy, consumer protection and marketing campaign compliance, as well as conducting litigation concerning similar trademark filings made by competitors. Mobility as a Service app provider: Advising on an investment agreement and a transaction involving sale of rights to the application. Global FMCG manufacturer: Conducting a number of proceedings before the Polish Patent Office, administrative courts (incl. the Supreme Administrative Court), concerning similar trademark filings made by a supermarket chain. Global FMCG manufacturer: Litigating and pursuing claims in connection with placing products using the client's 3D trademark on the market by the competitor. Leading lighting manufacturers: Conducting a number of court proceedings and pursuing claims in connection with placing products using the clients’ Community designs on the market by their competitors. Airlines: Managing a trademark portfolio.

Mark Segall

Mark Segall is a recognized lawyer with over 20 years of experience across a broad spectrum of banking and finance transactions and covering numerous jurisdictions in the CEE region and beyond. He focuses mainly on acquisition and leveraged finance, structured commodity trade finance and project finance. He also advises international clients on cross-border syndicated lending and other structured financing projects. He has particularly deep experience in the sectors of natural resources, agriculture and logistics. Mark also has significant experience advising on workouts and out-of-court restructuring, having been involved in numerous stressed and distressed situations in CEE.

Marta Cichomska

Marta Cichomska, PhD, counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Litigation and Arbitration team. She specializes in international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration. She has extensive experience in representing domestic and foreign clients in complex civil and commercial disputes before common courts and arbitration tribunals, as well as in mediation proceedings and settlement negotiations. Marta has represented private and public entities in disputes concerning, among others, infrastructure projects, telecommunications, real estate, the mining industry, M&A transactions, state aid, gambling and duty free. Her legal experience also includes public international law, private international law and European Union law (including appearing before the EU Court and the CJEU).

Marta Stefanowicz

Marta Stefanowicz, Brand Protection & Trademark Lead in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Practice Group. Before joining Dentons, Marta worked with top-tier law offices in Madrid, Warsaw, and Dubai, managing and developing IP strategies for the world’s most valuable brands. She is delivering comprehensive and innovative solutions for clients looking to effectively protect intellectual property assets in a multinational and digital landscape. Marta has advised on brand portfolio management and structured IP strategies for 2 out of the world’s top 3 technology companies, directly leading international teams of lawyers and external counsels across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She advised on groundbreaking brand acquisitions, coordinated rebranding strategies, and developed effective trademark portfolio optimization schemes. Marta has advised on a variety of trademark mattes before EUIPO, WIPO and national IP offices on oppositions, cancellation and invalidation proceedings. She effectively led challenging domain name disputes before WIPO, resulting in the successful recovery of numerous Domain Names. Ensuring her clients' needs are met in a highly multinational environment, she provides advice in English, Spanish and Polish. Experience Delivery Hero: Seconded as an Interim Head of Global IP, multinational online food-delivery service based in Berlin. Managing a variety of IP issues across 70+ countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Middle East; advised on international trademark strategies, IP portfolio optimization, trademark disputes and enforcement, copyright infringement, software licensing. The world’s largest multinational e-commerce company: Managed an IP transfer project in a ground-breaking acquisition of the biggest e-commerce platform in the Middle East, provided trademark due diligence, trademark rebranding and new filing strategies for 19 jurisdictions. American multinational technology company: Advised on complex trademark disputes, counselled on trademark oppositions, cancellations, and invalidation proceedings across the Middle East and Africa. American multinational technology company: Advised on Domain Name Disputes before WIPO, with an extensive track record of successfully recovered domains. American multinational technology company: Managed a change of name IP project across the Middle East and Africa, managed a trademark change of name recording concerning the client’s entire regional IP portfolio. Leading multi-channel retail group: Devised an IP portfolio optimization and rebranding strategy across over 30 jurisdictions in the Middle East and Asia, diagnosed protection gaps and prepared new filing programs to maximize global IP coverage.

Martyna Racz-Suchocka

Martyna is a transactional lawyer with 12 years’ experience on the commercial real estate market. Martyna has led and negotiated multiple single asset and portfolio transactions (asset and share deals, JV, enterprise) in the office, retail and PRS sectors. During her career, she has been involved in a number of landmark projects for developers, investment managers, private equity funds. In 2022 she completed historical deals for Skanska and EPP/Redefine Properties in terms of deals value.

Mateusz Machalski

Mateusz Machalski, an attorney-at-law, tax advisor and counsel in Dentons' Warsaw office, is a member of the Tax team. Mateusz's main focus is advising on indirect taxes, particularly VAT. He has more than a decade of experience in supporting both Polish and international clients, including in the financial, FMCG and IT sectors. His projects have included day-to-day and transactional advice, preparation of tax procedures and tax reviews, as well as supporting clients in implementing technology solutions for tax purposes. Mateusz has extensive experience in representing clients before tax authorities and administrative courts. In addition, Mateusz also specializes in advising on Mandatory Disclosure Rules and developing tax strategies.

Mateusz Toczyski

Mateusz Toczyski specializes in banking law, project finance and financial restructuring, including in particular financing transactions in the sectors of infrastructure, energy and renewables, real estate, manufacturing, FMCG, and oil and gas. He acts for both financial institutions as well as borrowers, and has led numerous complex financing projects in Poland and across the CEE region. He participated, as an expert, in the legislative processes related to regulatory changes in Poland, including the implementation of the bankruptcy law and the Act on registered pledges.

Michał Wasiak

Counsel at Dentons since 2018 (with the law firm since 2010).

Michał Bernat

Michał Bernat, is a managing counsel in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. Michał specializes in state aid law and tax advisory. His professional track record includes internships with the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, as well as employment with a consulting firm and in reputable Polish laws firms. Michał gained practical experience in state aid law dealing with issues such as EU funding, individual investment packages for major investors, advice to undertakings operating in special economic zones, advice relating to public services, support for major infrastructure projects (including some of fundamental significance for the country’s economy and national security), long-term programs, restructuring aid and state aid in privatisation projects, corporate restructuring (M&A) and relocation. He successfully represented clients in proceedings concerning unlawfully granted state aid, as well as in notification proceedings. Michał also prepared and conducted proceedings before the Commission launched in response to complaints concerning state aid granted unlawfully to other market players. His clients include undertakings from the shipbuilding, steel, pharmaceutical, processing, household appliances, motor, construction, food, chemical, arms, financial services, and mega store distribution sectors, as well as public institutions in charge of motorway and railway networks construction and management, or involved in regional transport, airports, waterways, sea ports and subway projects, and also railway transport companies, operators of power infrastructures, including nuclear power infrastructure, aircraft equipment manufacturers, advisory firms and municipal entities. Michał is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars and has authored numerous publications dealing with state aid and tax issues. He speaks Polish, English and French.

Michał Jochemczak

Michał Jochemczak is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office, head of the Arbitration team and a member of the Litigation and Arbitration practice group. He specializes in complex commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings. He represents clients in arbitrations under ICC, VIAC, LCIA rules and in ad hoc domestic and international arbitration. He often appears before Polish courts as well. Michał has been involved in numerous high-profile and international disputes, both commercial and investment treaty, related to a variety of industry sectors, particularly oil and gas, energy, construction, infrastructure, and real estate. He advises clients on international civil law and in the fields of jurisdiction, enforcement of judgments and conflict of laws. He also provides legal advice to creditors, management and shareholders in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. He has in-depth experience in corporate matters as well as in procedural issues of competition law. Michał sits as an arbitrator. He received his first appointment in international arbitration under the ICC Rules at the age of 30. He was also one of the core members of the ad hoc committee drafting the new Rules of Arbitration of the Lewiatan Arbitration Court.

Michał Turczyk

Michał Turczyk, PhD, is a partner in the Dentons’ Warsaw Tax team, where he heads the Development, Innovation Grants and Incentives Practice. Michał has more than a decade of consulting experience in advising on foreign direct investments in Poland and Central Europe, investment incentives and tax reliefs, as well as innovations and state aid. He specializes in investment and R&D activities funding, including R&D from non-commercial sources (such as EU funds, government grants, tax reliefs and other). He has set up and managed cross-border and cross-functional project teams across Central Europe and globally. He has assisted clients on major investment and R&D projects in Poland as regards using subsidies, tax benefits and investment tax allowances, including in Special Economic Zones and Polish Investment Zone, for businesses from the manufacturing, food processing, energy, new technologies, outsourcing and other sectors. Michał has supported major multinationals in developing investment strategies, site selection, implementing and managing the investment process as well as further development based on innovative activities in Poland. As part of his advisory, he conducts negotiations with central and local government administration and investment support agencies. Michał has experience in the scope of state aid and competition law proceedings, including state aid notifications to the European Commission and representing clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He advises clients on identification and optimization of non-commercial sources of financing investments, R&D works and innovations. Michał undertakes projects aimed at identifying and defining R&D activities of enterprises in a range of industries by creating and coordinating dedicated teams staffed with researchers, theoreticians and business practitioners. He has advised clients with regard to amended state aid and tax benefits regulations in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia and Canada. He co-authored a report for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education on the new model tax incentives system to foster R&D activities in Poland. He has acted as an expert adviser to the Ministry of Economy on creating a new tax relief for R&D in Poland and assisted in developing the system in Slovakia.

Monika Sitowicz

Monika is a Real Estate partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She serves as the Deputy Head of Real Estate in Poland. She is a transactional lawyer with 18 years of experience in advising Polish and international clients on their investments in the commercial property sector. Monika handles matters related to the acquisitions and disposals (asset and share deals), especially in the office, warehouse and retail sectors. She has been involved in the financing and refinancing of real estate investments as well as portfolio transactions in Poland and across CEE. She has also supervised and coordinated major multi-location due diligence projects.

Patrick Radzimierski

Patrick Radzimierski is a partner in the Litigation and Arbitration practice group and head of Pro Bono at Dentons in Poland. He has extensive experience as a former judge and an expert in the field of civil law procedure. His main areas of expertise are civil and commercial litigation, product liability and healthcare disputes, IP litigation, unfair competition, personal rights protection, insurance disputes, bank guarantee disputes, capital markets and public listed company investment disputes, public procurement litigation, commercial arbitration, employment law litigation and real estate litigation. Patrick has represented clients before arbitration courts, common courts, including the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, as well as administrative authorities and administrative courts. As head of Pro bono at Dentons, he handles precedential pro bono litigations, with a focus on anti-discrimination projects. He regularly acts as defense attorney for Polish judges in disciplinary proceedings and has been involved in many projects related to the judicial system in Poland. Patrick is an expert in class actions and co-authored a leading commentary on Polish class action law. He also regularly lectures on civil procedure and the court system in Poland.

Paweł Gruszecki

Paweł Gruszecki, attorney-at-law, counsel at Dentons' Warsaw office, member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies team. He mainly deals with issues in the area of IT contracts, cyber security, cloud services, telecommunications, as well as personal data protection. As part of his career, he has advised the largest telecommunications operators (fixed and mobile), search engine operators, international and domestic Internet services, the largest energy companies in Poland, as well as the largest manufacturers in the automotive and defense sectors. In addition, he has worked for a number of start-ups that implement solutions in areas such as Internet of Things, network security, development of advanced digital products (digital agencies), artificial intelligence, software (software houses), e-sports, cloud computing or database brokerage. He also has experience as a lecturer on the law of new technologies at national universities and as a plenipotentiary of the largest association of Internet advertising entrepreneurs during legislative work in the Polish Parliament. He is a member of the program board of one of the largest cyber security sector conferences in Central Europe.

Paweł Grabowski

Paweł Grabowski is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice groups. Paweł's focus is on M&A, private equity as well as real estate projects. He advises clients on all types of share and asset acquisitions (in both the public and private sectors), mergers, leveraged and management buyouts and other forms of corporate restructurings. Paweł also specialises in structuring complex joint ventures and has a wealth of knowledge with regard to setting up both domestic and cross border joint ventures. Before coming to Warsaw, Paweł worked in New York office of legacy firm Salans where his practice involved advising on matters related to corporate governance, securities offerings, and mergers and acquisitions.

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Piotr Dulewicz

Piotr Dulewicz is the Head of the Warsaw M&A and Private Equity groups. He also co-heads Dentons Europe Private Equity group. Piotr specializes in private equity funds, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and corporate restructuring. He has 25 years of transactional experience. He has advised leading private equity funds and a number of international corporations on acquisitions and disposals of assets/companies. He has conducted many corporate restructurings in various sectors of the economy. Piotr has also advised on the formation of complex joint venture projects.

Piotr Szafarz

Piotr is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office heading the Real Estate practice in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe. Piotr has specialized in real estate since 1995, his main focus being on investment, development and finance work. He has led and negotiated multiple single asset and portfolio transactions (notably in sale-and-leaseback, forward purchase and funding structures), primarily in the retail, logistics and office sectors. During his career, he has been involved in a number of institutional and landmark projects, like acquisitions of the largest retail assets in the CEE region, and advanced revitalization schemes regarding historic buildings and town planning. Piotr regularly advises on forming joint venture structures.

Piotr Staniszewski

Piotr is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office, a member of the Real Estate team and Co-Head of the Construction Practice Group. He focuses on real estate, corporate and commercial law. Piotr is experienced in advising domestic and international investors on development and re-development of real properties in the retail, office, logistics and residential sectors. Piotr advises clients with respect to construction planning and permitting as well as on negotiation and enforcement of construction contracts. Piotr is also involved in real estate transactions and lease projects, including office and industrial investments and shopping mall developments. Piotr has acted for international financial institutions in the context of financing real estate investments. As a Board Member of the Polish Council of Shopping Centers (“PCSC”), he supports its member companies (landlords and tenants) in the rapidly changing legal environment.

Piotr Machnikowski

Prof. Piotr Machnikowski is of counsel in the Litigation and Arbitration practice group at Dentons in Poland. With civil and business law as his areas of focus, he advises clients on complex litigation matters. He has extensive experience as an arbitrator in both permanent courts and ad hoc arbitrations. He has chaired arbitral tribunals and participated in the resolution of numerous international and domestic disputes. Piotr is also the head of the Department of Civil Law and Private International Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław. He authored more than a hundred publications on Polish, European and comparative private law. His expertise is highly regarded, and he is known for his prominent commentary to the Polish civil code, monographs on the law of obligations, as well as many other books and articles. Additionally, Piotr has served as a member of the Civil Law Codification Committee of the Republic of Poland, contributing to legislative work in his field.

Stanisław Sołtysik

Stanisław Sołtysik, PhD, is a managing counsel and a member of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy and the Litigation and Arbitration practice groups at Dentons in Poland. He advises both domestic and international clients in complex litigations and contentious insolvency matters. Stanisław focuses on assisting advising financial institutions on litigation matters, which often involve potential liability towards their clients, including in connection with the termination of loan agreements or the management of investment funds or acting as depositary for such funds, as well as in disputes with consumers. He represents clients in the FMCG industry, including in product liability proceedings and advises on disputes touching upon multiple jurisdictions. Stanisław has hands-on experience in in-court and out-of-court restructuring matters and assists creditors in complex bankruptcy cases. He also advises on recoveries in distressed situations, having inter alia successfully acted on a takeover and resale of fuel worth over USD 15 million pledged to a Polish bank. He is also an accomplished academic, having authored a number of publications in the field of civil procedure, arbitration and insolvency law and having taught classes in civil procedure at the University of Warsaw.

Sylwester Kuchnio

Sylwester Kuchnio is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. Sylwester has 15 years of experience in the area of public procurement and civil law matters. Sylwester has provided legal advice in procurement-related matters to contracting authorities and contractors, overseeing tender proceedings and state funding. Sylwester Kuchnio gained extensive experience in this respect in, among others, the NGO sector, various levels of local government and central government agencies (e.g. Public Procurement Office, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Central Statistical Office). He worked for many years as an arbitrator in matters involving public procurement at the National Appeals Chamber. Sylwester provides advisory on, among others, projects and disputes in the areas of infrastructure, energy, construction, treatment of waste, transport, financial services, defense, medicine and pharmacy.

Tomasz Trocki

Tomasz Trocki, PhD, is a partner at Dentons in Poland, where he leads the Consensual Restructuring team. He is an expert in financial, restructuring and bankruptcy law. With a wealth of experience in major debt restructuring transactions on the Polish market, Tomasz is highly regarded for his advice on complex restructuring matters. He is well-versed in financing transactions, including leveraged and project finance, as well as refinancing. Tomasz authored numerous publications in restructuring and bankruptcy law, in addition to other civil law issues related to consensual restructuring. In his PhD thesis, titled “The impact of bankruptcy and the opening of restructuring proceedings on the admissibility of statutory and contractual set-off", he delved into the complexities of bankruptcy and restructuring law. In 2020 he completed the LEAD program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Tomasz Krasowski

Tomasz is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. He has over 20 years of transactional experience in tax advisory with a strong focus on real estate clients. Tomasz focuses on effective tax planning methods. He specializes in transactional tax advisory, M&A tax structuring, business restructuring and reorganization, fund structuring, tax support of foreign investments in Poland. He also advises on various operational aspects, particularly in the real estate industry (such as WHT, minimum CIT levy, obligations of real estate companies or tax aspects of various tenant incentives). Clients In 2023 Tomasz advised such companies as Cavatina (a leading commercial real estate developer), CBRE (a global leader in commercial real estate services and investment), IntReal (Palmira) (a pan-European investor and asset manager for logistics and corporate real estate), Nexity (France’s leading real estate group) and Skanska (one of the world’s largest development and construction companies). Work Highlights ‣ Nexity: advising on sale of shares in its Polish subsidiaries to Develia – one of the largest real estate developers in Poland, listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The transaction concerned sale of 100% of shares in 19 Polish subsidiaries of Nexity. ‣ Palmira Capital Partners: advising on the acquisition of a 15,000 sq. m. build-to-suit (BTS) warehouse facility in Swarzedz, Poland, from Akron Group. The project was purchased for the European Core Logistics Fund (ECLF), and its tenant is Magna International, a Canadian automotive parts supplier. ‣ Palmira Capital Partners: advising on the purchase of the Silesia East logistics park in Sosnowiec. The transaction took the form of the purchase of a company that owns a 32,000 sqm Class A warehouse facility forming part of a major logistics hub around Katowice, Poland. ‣ Skanska: advising on the Polish tax aspects of a sale of building D in the Nowy Rynek complex, located at the former site of Poznan’s central coach station, to Eastnine AB, a Swedish real estate company focused on modern and sustainable office and logistics properties. This €121 million investment deal was the first transaction between the two parties in Central and Eastern Europe and the first real estate investment of Eastnine AB in Poland.

Tomasz Dąbrowski

As Chief Executive Officer of Dentons Europe and a member of the Global Management Committee and Global Board, Tomasz Dąbrowski is responsible for developing and overseeing Dentons’ strategy for continental Europe and Central Asia. Working out of the Prague office, he leads the Firm’s operations across 26 offices in 19 countries as well as the Firm’s Prague based central administration. Under his leadership, Dentons has experienced unprecedented growth in Europe and Central Asia, almost doubling revenue, attracting top talent, and opening seven new offices in key European markets. Before taking the role of the Europe CEO in 2014, he co-chaired the Europe Corporate group and managed the Central and Eastern Europe region. In addition to his leadership role, Tomasz Dabrowski is a leading Polish M&A and transactional lawyer in Central and Eastern Europe. He has more than 25 years’ experience representing international companies, private equity funds, banks and other institutional clients in acquisitions, equity investments, corporate restructurings, privatizations, real estate, greenfield projects, structured finance and large asset finance transactions.

Tomasz Zwoliński

Tomasz Zwoliński specializes in banking and finance transactions with particular focus on project finance, export finance (with or without official support from export credit agencies), financing of PPP projects, financing of infrastructure, energy, international trade and factoring, general corporate lending, leveraged/acquisition finance and financial restructuring. He was engaged in key transactions financing Polish exports, highway construction in Poland and Ukraine, hotels and office buildings, as well as many industrial projects (some worth in excess of PLN 5 billion) service and residential developments. He also handles financing of renewable energy schemes in the auction support system.

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