GESSEL among the leaders of the 23rd edition of the Rzeczpospolita Ranking of Law Firms
25.06.2025 News Banking and Finance Real Estate Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) Capital Markets Competition and consumer law
GESSEL was recognised in six categories in the 23rd edition of the Rzeczpospolita Ranking of Law Firms, including – for the first time – in the Real Estate and Banking and Finance categories. GESSEL lawyers received a total of six individual recognitions. This year’s edition of the ranking, compiled by the editorial team of the Rzeczpospolita daily in cooperation with a panel of legal market experts, reaffirmed GESSEL’s position as one of Poland’s leading legal advisors on business transactions.
The ranking’s authors analysed over three hundred law firms from across the country, evaluating the legal teams as a whole and the individual achievements of lawyers. GESSEL was named as a leader in Capital Markets and Regulatory Advice and recommended in the following areas: Real Estate, Banking and Finance, Corporate, Commercial and M&A, Competition and Antitrust, and Private Equity.
The list of individually recognised lawyers runs as follows:
- Małgorzata Badowska – recommended lawyer in Banking and Finance (debut)
- Maciej Boryczko – leader in Real Estate (debut)
- Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik – leader in Competition and Antitrust (promotion)
- Leszek Koziorowski – leader in Capital Markets and Regulatory Advice
- Marcin Macieszczak – leader in Private Equity and recommended lawyer in Corporate, Commercial and M&A
“We are pleased that our Real Estate and Banking and Finance practices were included in the ranking for the first time this year – and with individual distinctions, no less. This is the result of the long-term commitment of the teams developing these areas, my sincere congratulations to them”, said Marcin Macieszczak, Managing Partner at GESSEL.
This year’s results reaffirm that GESSEL’s consistent investment in specialised expertise and building trusting relationships with clients delivers lasting results. The firm remains focused on providing legal solutions that effectively support clients’ business goals while maintaining the highest substantive and organisational standards.
Authors
Małgorzata Badowska
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Banking and Finance | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Małgorzata joined GESSEL in 2010, initially as managing associate and then, from 2016, as partner. She heads the Banking & Finance practice. She specializes in aqcuisition of financing transactions and advises at every stage of them. She works with both the providers of financing (banks, financial institutions, private debt funds) and the beneficiaries of such financing. The team she leads prepares and negotiates loan documentation, docume...
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Maciej joined GESSEL in 2011; promoted to Managing Associate in 2016, became a partner in 2022. Specializes in comprehensive and dynamic legal services for all real estate issues and processes of market stakeholders – developers, landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers, sellers and buyers of real estate. His several years of experience in interdisciplinary projects, at the intersection of M&A, corporate and tax practice, affords Maciej a...
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...
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, which was 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 posit...
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