Krzysztof Kaczor
Senior Associate
Advocate
Passionate about criminal law and a specialist in this field – a lawyer for special tasks. In his professional practice, he mainly focuses on the nexus between commerce, taxation, and criminal law. For the past 7 years, he has regularly represented clients before state prosecutors and the general courts. His daily work is always based on a comprehensive analysis of all possible scenarios in order to prepare the best strategy of action, taking into account the individual nature of the case.
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Krzysztof has many years of experience in representing business entities and executives in criminal-economic and criminal-treasury proceedings.
He advises and represents business entities in complex cases at the intersection of criminal and civil law, as defence counsel and attorney, and also acts as defence counsel for executives in criminal and tax cases at all stages of the proceedings.
He also supports GESSEL’s clients in civil and commercial proceedings and disputes against the background of implementation of commercial contracts, with especial emphasis on cases from the IT sector and post-transaction disputes, starting with legal analysis and counteracting the risk of litigation, the pre-trial stage, ending with representation before the courts.
He gained his previous professional experience in reputable Polish law firms where he was mainly involved in handling criminal cases of various subjects and conducted civil and commercial disputes involving business enterprises as well as individuals.
Krzysztof’s past work also included the legal department of an international consulting company involved in the implementation of IT systems for the financial industry, where he handled the day-to-day operations of the company’s business and internal departments as well as compliance in the broadest sense. Drawing on these experiences, he sometimes jokingly refers to himself as a general practitioner.
Experience
Criminal, criminal economic and criminal fiscal law
- Represented as a defence attorney participants in peaceful demonstrations outside the Polish Parliament in 2017 and participants in the 2018 counter demonstrations to the monthly commemorations of the Smolensk air accident
- He represented defendants accused of participating in an organized crime group extorting loans
- Represented business entities as an attorney for the auxiliary prosecutor in cases of abuse of trust and misappropriation of property by a company’s president
- Represented the defendant before the Supreme Court in an extraordinary complaint case brought by the Polish attorney general
- Represented a large company as an interested party in a case arising out of a complex civil dispute
- Represented a company as a party in a multi-faceted international criminal case arising out of a complex civil dispute
- Represented members of the governing bodies of companies in criminal and fiscal cases before the general courts
- Represented a financial entity as an aggrieved party in criminal proceedings relating to the bringing about of unfavourable disposal of property to a value of over PLN 200 million and numerous financial frauds
Civil and commercial cases
- Represented a client as plaintiff in a dispute arising under a contract for implementation of an IT project in a dispute with a value exceeding PLN 4 mln
- Represented a client on the side of the defendant in a post-transaction dispute to determine invalidity of a debt sale agreement, with the value of the object of the dispute exceeding PLN 4 mln; the case ended in a settlement, in accordance with the Client’s interests
- Prepared a cassation appeal on the side of the plaintiffs in a dispute over severance payments as part of the employer’s restructuring proceedings – appeal accepted for review by the Supreme Court
- Advised the defendants in a multi-faceted and media-driven labour dispute
Disputes over performance of public procurement contracts
- Represented the contractor in a case to reduce the grossly exorbitant liquidated damages in excess of PLN 1 mln
- Represented a contractor in a case concerning non-payment for delivery of goods under a public contract
Education and achievements
- Postgraduate studies in criminal fiscal and economic law (2022)
- Admitted to practice as an advocate (2019)
- Legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (2015)
