GESSEL is pleased to announce that the firm has once again been recognised in the Chambers and Partners Global Guide 2026. This year’s results reaffirm the strength of our core practices and bring further advancements and individual debuts.

This year, GESSEL has been ranked in the following practice areas:

🟧 Arbitration – Band 3
🟧 Capital Markets: Equity – Band 4
🟧 Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability – Band 4
🟧 Litigation: Elite – Band 5

We are particularly proud of the advancement of our Litigation practice and of GESSEL’s debut in the Arbitration category. These results reflect the consistent development of our disputes and arbitration teams and their growing recognition both in Poland and internationally. We warmly congratulate our colleagues on this achievement.

The following lawyers received individual recognitions:

Arbitrators
🟧 dr hab. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz – Band 1

Banking & Finance
🟧 Małgorzata Badowska – Band 6

Capital Markets: Equity
🟧 Krzysztof Marczuk – Band 4

Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
🟧 Marcin Macieszczak – Band 3
🟧 Maciej Kożuchowski – Band 4
🟧 Michał Bochowicz – Band 4
🟧 Christian Schmidt – Foreign Expert for Germany

Litigation: Elite
🟧 Anna Ziewalicz – Associates to Watch
🟧 Paweł Kwiatkowski – Associates to Watch

We extend our special congratulations to Małgorzata Badowska and Paweł Kwiatkowski on their debut in the Chambers Global ranking. We also congratulate Michał Bochowicz on his advancement in Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability. The continued Band 1 ranking of Dr. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz among leading arbitrators reaffirms her established reputation in international arbitration.

Chambers Global rankings are based exclusively on independent market research and feedback provided by clients. The advancements and debuts reflected in this year’s results confirm that our strategic focus, sectoral specialisation, and close cooperation across practices translate into tangible value recognised by both the market and by our clients.

We would like to thank all our clients for their continued trust and our entire team for their commitment, professionalism, and consistent development.

The full results of the ranking are available here.

Authors

GESSEL ranked in Chambers Global 2026

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

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...

GESSEL ranked in Chambers Global 2026

Małgorzata Badowska

Partner
Attorney-at-law

Banking and Finance | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

Małgorzata Badowska

Małgorzata Badowska

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...

GESSEL ranked in Chambers Global 2026

Krzysztof Marczuk

Partner
Attorney-at-law

Capital Markets

Krzysztof Marczuk

Krzysztof Marczuk

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...

GESSEL ranked in Chambers Global 2026

Marcin Macieszczak

Managing partner
Attorney-at-law

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity

Marcin Macieszczak

Marcin Macieszczak

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...

GESSEL ranked in Chambers Global 2026

Maciej Kożuchowski

Partner
Attorney-at-law

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity | Energy, public procurement, infrastructure projects

Maciej Kożuchowski

Maciej Kożuchowski

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...

GESSEL ranked in Chambers Global 2026

Michał Bochowicz

Partner
Attorney-at-law

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Private Equity | Corporate law

Michał Bochowicz

Michał Bochowicz

Partner
Attorney-at-law

His experience includes advising market leaders from key sectors of the economy, including technology (TMT), e-commerce, manufacturing, renewable energy, and healthcare. He is valued for his commercial approach and his efficiency in closing the most complex transactions. Clients highlight his advanced negotiation skills and his expertise in managing projects involving multi-national participants. Leveraging an extensive network of business ...

GESSEL ranked in Chambers Global 2026

Christian Schmidt

Partner
Rechtsanwalt

German Desk

Christian Schmidt

Christian Schmidt

Partner
Rechtsanwalt

Christian has experience in many legal areas, including mergers and acquisitions and direct investments in industries such as metallurgy, construction and real estate, automotive, food processing, pharmaceuticals, transportation, mass media, banking and insurance. Advises, among other entities, German banks and financial institutions granting loans to Polish entities as well as companies involved in various projects in Poland. An important part o...

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