Dominika Ramírez-Wołkiewicz
Partner
Attorney
Licensed tax advisor
Dominika specialises in tax law and heads the tax law department at GESSEL. She advises businesses on income tax, international taxation, VAT and civil law transaction tax. She advises on tax planning, business restructuring and tax due diligence projects, and represents clients in tax and court proceedings.
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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 family foundation construct, which is new in Polish law.
She assists her clients with all and sundry tax benefits and deductions, advises on tax planning and business restructuring, and conducts tax due diligence and tax reviews.
Represents clients in proceedings conducted by the tax authorities and before the general courts. Leads training events in her areas of expertise, regularly writes for the specialist and general circulation press.
Experience
Areas
- Involved in implementing R&D and IP Box relief for clients in the new technology, IT, and cosmetics industries and financial institutions
- Involved in implementation of the new investment tax credit, including advice on the settlement of the tax credit for entities in the manufacturing industry
- Advised financial institutions on, among other matters, domestic and foreign sub-participation and securitization transactions
- Provides tax support for business reorganizations for clients in the financial and real estate industries (demergers, division of functions and assets, divestiture of business and organized parts of business)
- Provides tax advice on business divestitures (share and asset transactions)
- Advises on incentive plans for employees and associates
- Leads copyright implementation projects for employees
- Deals with the recovery of taxes overpaid by clients
- Supports clients in choosing the right form of taxation
- Represents clients in litigation and tax disputes
- Represents clients in interpretation proceedings and in connection with withholding tax refunds
- Advises on international structuring of business (including issues of permanent establishment, fixed place of business, withholding tax, differences in taxation across jurisdictions, actual conduct of business, tax on foreign controlled companies)
- Conducts numerous tax reviews and tax due diligence (including biotechnology companies, financial institutions, trading, manufacturing, service companies);
- Advises on tax recognition of provisions and allowances for bad debts
- Assists with MDR analysis
- Prepares tax strategies and other necessary internal procedures
Selected projects
- Advised Creotech Instruments on the spin-off of its quantum business and the WSE listing of Creotech Quantum, with an equity value of approximately PLN 535.6 million
- Advised Weco-Travel, a business travel company, on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Supertour, a Poland-based travel operator
- Advised CenterMed on the acquisition of the Avimed Group, a healthcare provider operating in the Silesia region
- Tax advisory to 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
- Tax advisory to Kopenhagen Fur Group (KPHG) on establishing its operations in Poland, including the development of an operational and tax framework
- Tax advisory to the owners of KARTON-PAK on the sale of the company to Pella Capital, a private investment firm
- Advised Szopex sp. z o.o., an operator of sports retail stores and e-commerce platforms, on the sale of a 75% stake to Modivo, part of CCC Group, for PLN 27.8 million
- Advised Maabarot Products Ltd. on the EUR 28 million sale of Laboratoria Natury sp. z o.o., a dietary supplements manufacturer, to Farmaceutici Procemsa S.p.A., a portfolio company of the private equity fund Investindustrial
News
& Insights
20.04.2026
GESSEL advised Creotech Instruments on the spin-off of its quantum business and the WSE listing of Creotech Quantum
GESSEL advised Creotech Instruments S.A. on the spin-off of its quantum business and the listing of Creotech Quantum S.A. on the Main Market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange...
16.04.2026
GESSEL Recognised in the 20th Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Tax Advisory Ranking
GESSEL has been recognised in the 20th edition of the Tax Advisory Firms and Tax Advisors Ranking published by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. The firm improved its year-on-year...
25.03.2026
GESSEL recognised in The Legal 500 EMEA 2026 rankings
GESSEL is recognised in the Legal 500 EMEA 2026 rankings, with 6 practice areas ranked and 5 lawyers recognised in the individual rankings. In addition, 10 lawyers are r...
17.02.2026
GESSEL Tax Practice Summary 2025
We are proud to present our summary of the activities of GESSEL’s Tax practice in 2025. The past months have been a period of intense challenges and numerous initiati...
Education and achievements
- Legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (2002)
- Comparative International Law at the University of Strasbourg (2002)
- Examination for tax advisor (2004)
- Admitted to practice as an attorney (2013)
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