About

Having overseen and implemented several changes in his current role, Andrzej Klimek, head of the legal and compliance department for financials company Idea Leasing has also participated in a number of important transactions in recent years. He has an array of significant professional achievements such as the sale of VB Leasing Polska shares to Getin Holding for $1bn, the merger of VB Leasing Polska with Idea Leasing that required a total rebranding of the VB Leasing brand and the creation of the six largest leasing companies in Poland and the obtaining €100m in financing from EIB for Idea Leasing’s current operations. Klimek has implemented a lot of changes via restructurings and transformation efforts in the last three years, including the implementation of ‘a transparent matrix of competences and areas of involvement for individual lawyers’, which has had the effect of achieving a ‘high degree of clarity of competences’ matrix for both lawyers and internal clients’, according to Klimek. Consequently he ensured that work is done faster, more efficiently and more professionally. This was of particular importance in the period of rapid and profound changes that the organisation was undergoing. Klimek started his career in 1999 as an in-house lawyer in a fast-growing insurance company in Wrocław. He joined Idea Leasing in 2013, having occupied head of legal positions at various other companies since 2001.