22nd Ranking of Law Firms 2024 by Rzeczpospolita Newspaper brought us 6 awards and 4 distinctions!
20.06.2024 News Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) Capital Markets Arbitration
The 22nd Ranking of Law Firms 2024 by Rzeczpospolita Newspaper brought us 6 awards and immense pride in the achievements of many people who make up the GESSEL law firm. In the overall classification based on the number of lawyers, out of 327 ranked law firms in Poland, we are in 19th place.
Thanks to being designated as a leader in four categories:
▪ Judicial Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
▪ Private Equity
▪ Capital Markets and Regulatory Advice
▪ Competition and Antitrust Law
The leaders in each category were selected by committees consisting of editors from Rzeczpospolita’s Law Department with the participation of an external auditor. The considerations included nominations from other law firms, opinion surveys about lawyers conducted among individuals managing legal departments of companies and experts from capital markets, as well as the firm’s results in leading international rankings.
Marcin Macieszczak received the award for Leader in the Private Equity category and was recommended in the Commercial, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions Law category.
Leszek Koziorowski received the award for Leader in the Capital Markets and Regulatory Advice category.
The following were recommended:
Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz in the Judicial Dispute Resolution and Arbitration category
Marcin Macieszczak in the Commercial, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions Law category
Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik in the Competition and Antitrust Law category
We were also recommended in the Commercial, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions Law category.
Authors
Marcin Macieszczak
Managing partner
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity
Managing partner
Attorney-at-law
Marcin joined GESSEL law firm in 1999. In 2007, he became a partner, and in 2017 – managing partner. He leads the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Private Equity practices. Marcin specializes in capital transactions in the public and private markets. He has over 20 years’ experience advising on M&A transactions, both on the seller's and buyer's side. An important part of Marcin's practice is working with private equity and ven...
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Leszek joined GESSEL in 1999 and became a partner in 2002. Since the beginning of his professional career, he has been involved in the Polish capital market. Initially he worked at the Polish Securities and Exchange Commission (now the Polish Financial Supervision Authority); at this time he also held the position of vice chairman of the Examination Commission for Investment Advisors. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Corporate Govern...
Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, D.Sc.
Senior Partner
Attorney-at-law
Arbitration | Litigation | Financial litigation
Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, D.Sc.
Senior Partner
Attorney-at-law
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. Member of advisory bodies and working groups of the world's largest arb...
Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Competition and consumer law
Partner
Attorney-at-law
After a brief period as a junior judge, Bernadeta developed an interest in competition law, then a new discipline in early 1990s Poland. After her first stint at UOKiK, she spent one year leading the legal department of UPC and then joined GESSEL in 2001. In 2014, after moving to the head office of UOKiK, she oversaw the authority’s activities in the realms of corporate concentrations, market collusions, and abuse of dominant market positions....
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