Aldona Pietrzak

Partner
Attorney-at-law

Corporate law


Specializes in corporate law and in providing legal support for day-to-day business operations. Has many years of experience in business law.

Aldona Pietrzak

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BIO

Since the beginning of her career, specialized in corporate law, day-to-day legal services, legal support of foreign transactions, advice to financial institutions and brokerage houses, investment funds, banks, and in due diligence of companies.

With GESSEL since 1996, became a partner in 2007.

Aldona heads our corporate law department, focusing on legal services for enterprises, formation, transformation, merger, and division of companies, and legal services for day-to-day business operations.

She has many years of experience working for financial institutions, including in handling incentive programs and  many years of experience with capital transactions, including acquisitions and exit transactions, coordination of due diligence processes.

She works with non-profit organizations, associations and foundations, preparing and conducting training events, seminars and webinars on commercial law and general civil law.

Aldona has drawn on her core expertise to advise investment funds and banks on specific investment and financing projects, as well as on their internal governance. She has also worked for the HoReCa sector and advised entities from the aviation and defence industries. At various points in her long and varied legal career, she has toured underground coal seams, flown in the cockpit of a large aircraft, and become one of our better-travelled colleagues.

Her experience includes advising Polish and foreign entities on the formation, transformation, merger, division of companies, as well as on the day-to-day operations of entrepreneurs.Company law (formation, merger, division, transformation of companies and all issues related to their functioning in trade, including legal services to company bodies and the law of entrepreneurs)

Aldona Pietrzak

Experience

Company law

Company law (formation, merger, division, transformation of companies and all issues related to their functioning in trade, including legal services to company bodies and the law of entrepreneurs)

Business law

Business law, including day-to-day services for entrepreneurs, legal support in business activities

Foreign trade

Foreign trade, including advice on the conclusion and implementation of international transactions, including trade in special equipment

Consulting for financial institutions

Consulting for financial institutions (including brokerage houses, investment fund companies, banks), including incentive programs and remuneration of managers

Advising on capital transactions

Advising on capital transactions, including due diligence on entities, supervising the work of the audit team

HoReCa

Consulting for HoReCa entrepreneurs

Seminars and workshops

Conducting trainings, seminars, webinars, workshops in the field of broadly understood business law, corporate law, as well as legal support for non-profit organizations

Selected projects

  • Advised the co-founders of Surfer on a complex M&A transaction involving a number of separate issues related to their relationship with France’s Positive Group

News
& Insights

16.01.2026

GESSEL’s dedicated Healthcare M&A team advised on ten sectoral deals in 2025

In 2025, GESSEL successfully advised on ten mergers and acquisitions transactions in the healthcare sector. The mandates covered advisory services on both the sell side ...

News
GESSEL’s dedicated Healthcare M&A team advised on ten sectoral deals in 2025

27.10.2025

GESSEL’s Special Cases / Risk&Support team advised the co-founders of Surfer on a complex M&A transaction involving a number of separate issues related to their relationship with France’s Positive Group

A team led by GESSEL partner Piotr Schramm advised the co-founders of Surfer, a leading Polish technology company in the field of AI-SEO, on a multi-faceted transaction ...

Case studies
GESSEL’s Special Cases / Risk&Support team advised the co-founders of Surfer on a complex M&A transaction involving a number of separate issues related to their relationship with France’s Positive Group

12.06.2025

GESSEL advised on the sale of a 75% stake in Centrum Medyczne Med-Gastr to Tar Heel Capital

GESSEL provided legal advice on a ground-breaking transaction which opens the way to consolidation of the private gastroenterology services market in Poland in which the...

Case studies
GESSEL advised on the sale of a 75% stake in Centrum Medyczne Med-Gastr to Tar Heel Capital
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Education and achievements

Aldona Pietrzak
  • Legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (1988); admitted to practice as an attorney (1992)
  • Mediator certificate from the Lewiatan Arbitration and Mediation Centre (2020)

 

Awards

Academic publications