Promotions at GESSEL!

08.02.2024 News

Promotions at GESSEL !

We are delighted to announce this year’s promotions:

  • Edyta Podgórska has been promoted to the position of managing associate, Maja Frontczak will now hold the position of counsel.
  • Karolina Buchta and Łukasz Ostas have become senior associates.
  • Wiktoria Luka, Zuzanna Rodak, and Zuzanna Sójka are now junior associates.

From the back office & business support:

  • Karolina Zalewska has become a legal specialist.

Congratulations!

Authors

Maja Frontczak

Counsel
Attorney-at-law

Litigation | Arbitration

Maja Frontczak

Maja Frontczak

Counsel
Attorney-at-law

Maja specializes in litigation and domestic and international arbitration proceedings (including, among others, before the ICC Arbitration Court, the Swiss Arbitration Centre, and the Arbitration Court at the National Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw). She gained experience in leading law firms, where she represented clients before Polish and foreign courts and institutions (such as the Financial Supervision Commission, the European Court of Huma...

Karolina Buchta

Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law

Financial litigation

Karolina Buchta

Karolina Buchta

Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law

Before joining GESSEL in 2021, gained professional experience at in Warsaw and Szczecin law firms dealing with legal advice to both individuals and businesses, litigation in civil, criminal, commercial and administrative proceedings. She specializes in civil law litigation involving financial market institutions.

Edyta Podgórska

Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | Corporate law

Edyta Podgórska

Edyta Podgórska

Managing Associate
Attorney-at-law

Specializes in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions and corporate law. Has extensive experience in providing comprehensive corporate services to commercial law companies, including foreign entities, especially as regards transformation processes and M&A. Participated in numerous M&A transactions at all their stages, including in particular due diligence and drafting and negotiating transaction documentation. On many occasio...

Łukasz Ostas

Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law

Litigation | Arbitration

Łukasz Ostas

Łukasz Ostas

Senior Associate
Attorney-at-law

Łukasz joined our firm in 2019, initially as a participant in the 4th iteration of the GESSEL Mentorship Program. He specializes in litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on disputes under competition law and involving financial market players. Member of the GESSEL for Climate team. He also has experience in criminal cases as well as in proceedings against executive officers of capital companies, fraudulent conveyance complaint...

Zuzanna Rodak

Junior Associate

Financial litigation

Zuzanna Rodak

Zuzanna Rodak

Junior Associate

Zuzanna joined GESSEL in 2023. Her focus is on litigation, especially cases involving financial institutions; in this context, she is very much up to date with banking law and with the civil law aspects of foreign exchange. Prior to GESSEL, Zuzanna worked with a law firm in Częstochowa advising business clients and public administration entities as well as with the Provincial Administrative Court in Krakow.

Zuzanna Sójka

Junior Associate

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

Zuzanna Sójka

Zuzanna Sójka

Junior Associate

Zuzanna joined GESSEL in 2023, bringing her energy to complex M&A projects in the domestic as well as international markets. She assists with transaction documentation, due diligence studies, and various aspects of company law. Zuzanna’s professional experience to date has been with a large e-commerce platform, at which she worked with international clients from the fashion industry, advising them on contract law matters.  

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