GESSEL honoured in Chambers Europe 2023
17.03.2023 News Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) Capital Markets Arbitration Private Equity
Chambers and Partners have announced the results of their Europe 2022 ranking. We are proud to point out that our firm has strengthened its position in Band 1 of the Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market category.
We also received mentions in the categories Capital Markets: Equity, Private Equity, and – for the first time – Dispute Resolution.
Dr. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz and Marcin Macieszczak maintained their Band 1 placements in, respectively, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market.
Individual mentions also went to:
– Leszek Koziorowski and Krzysztof Marczuk in Capital Markets: Equity;
– Maciej Kożuchowski and Michał Bochowicz in Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market;
– Marcin Macieszczak in Private equity.
Some client testimonials about GESSEL:
“They always provide a team able to handle complex cases professionally, smoothly and quickly. They add value in their review and drafting of transaction documentation through their collective knowledge and experience.”
“They were good at putting that into the wider view: risks and solutions, it was very helpful. They weren’t pushing us to make a decision but tried to show us various scenarios and various situations to make sure we are choosing the right options.”
“They are very good listeners, but also they propose solutions extremely quickly. We can always rely on their support, they absolutely understand what we’re doing.”
Congratulations to our colleagues, and thank you to our Clients and Peers for inviting us to participate in such interesting projects!
Authors

Dr hab. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, Prof. INP PAN
Founding and Senior Partner
Attorney-at-law
Arbitration | Litigation | Financial litigation
Dr hab. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, Prof. INP PAN
Founding and Senior Partner
Attorney-at-law
A recognised international arbitrator, she has participated in more than 170 cases in domestic and international arbitration (conducted, inter alia, under ICC, SCC, VIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, FCC, IAA, SCAI, Lewiatan, KIG, KDPW, SIDiR rules) in the fields of M&A, 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 arbitrati...
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...
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Krzysztof is a lawyer with many years of transaction and regulatory experience. He joined GESSEL in 2007 and has been a partner since 2016. He specializes in raising financing through equity issues in primary and secondary public offerings as well as private placements. He also advises on public and private bond offerings. He provides day-to-day corporate law services to publicly listed companies in all aspects of commercial law, including com...

Maciej Kożuchowski
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity | Energy, public procurement, infrastructure projects
Partner
Attorney-at-law
Joined GESSEL as a trainee in December 2005. A member of the team continuously since March 2006, and a partner in GESSEL’s M&A practice since 2016. Specializes in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, services for commercial companies (including negotiation of strategic contracts related to operations) and legal aspects of financing processes for entrepreneurs. Much of his practice to date has been devoted to M&A transactio...
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