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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Joanna joined GESSEL in 2015. She is a partner responsible for conducting domestic and international arbitration proceedings, including before the ICC Court of Arbitration, Swiss Arbitration Centre, International Arbitration Association, the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, and the Court of Arbitration at the Lewiatan Confederation. She also appears before the general courts, in particular in post-arbitration proceedings, i...

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...

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...

Since 2001, maintained a consistent professional focus on legal and tax advice. Prior to joining GESSEL in 2022 as head of tax, worked with multinational consultancies (Mazars, Deloitte) and was a partner in a Polish tax consulting firm, Arena Tax. Dominika specialises in comprehensive tax advice for businesses, particularly income tax, tax aspects of international projects, VAT, and civil transactions tax. She is also a leading adaptor of the...

Joined GESSEL in 2007, became a partner in 2009. Heads both GESSEL's special projects department and the firm's litigation and bankruptcy and restructuring departments. Represents entities and their management boards in disputes, transactions, negotiations and day-to-day business operations. Specializes in providing legal services for current business with a high degree of complexity, ongoing strategic advice, M&A transactions, restructuring ...

Works with Polish and international funds and international banks and advises at all stages of complex transactions (on the buyer and seller sides) on share deal and asset deal transactions and corporate restructuring. Advises Polish and international companies, founders and listed companies. Has structured many transactions, demonstrating his excellent analytical skills and extensive knowledge of various legal fields. Has repeatedly demonstra...

Jakub joined the GESSEL's capital market law team in 2020. His experience in the ECM sphere focuses on advising on public offerings of shares combined with IPOs as well as subsequent public offerings, including those conducted through Accelerated Book Building. He also advises on mergers and acquisitions involving public companies, including those conducted in the form of a tender offer for the sale of shares. At the same time, he specializ...

Joined GESSEL in 2021. His main area of expertise is capital market law. Michał advises on mergers and acquisitions and corporate disputes. He handles transactions related to raising equity and debt financing through issue of financial instruments. Advises on flotations on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the NewConnect market. Handles transactions of primary and secondary public offerings (IPOs, SPOs), accelerated book-building processes (ABB), pub...

Joined GESSEL in 2014. Has been a Managing Associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions team since 2020. Specializes in M&A transactions in the private market. Has more than 10 years of experience advising financial investors (including PE/VC funds), strategic investors and company founders. Advises on share deal and asset deal transactions on both the buyer and the seller sides. Has participated in acquisitions conducted in the form of buy-o...

Magda joined the GESSEL team in 2012 and became managing associate in 2019. She mainly advises on public issues of shares and bonds, in particular working on drafting prospectuses and reviewing and negotiating agreements accompanying public offerings. She also focuses on advice related to compliance with disclosure obligations, in particular advising during administrative and criminal proceedings regarding MAR. In addition, Magda advises compa...

Before joining the Law Firm, she worked for five years at the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), gaining experience at the Gdańsk Delegation, the Department of Merger Control, the Department of Competition Protection, and the Department of Bid Rigging Prevention. She handled proceedings related to merger control, anti-competitive practices, and infringements of collective consumer interests. She participated in inspections an...