LAWYERS

We offer the services of more than 15 counsels within the Firm. Below, we list the heads of practices and leading lawyers in the Firm. This group is backed up by a team of talented associates, who are making significant contributions to the development of the Firm's practice and often have considerable experience, especially in corporate, capital markets and litigation matters. They are top graduates of major Polish law schools.

The Firm's lawyers understand the needs of business people and act to serve these needs in the best possible way.

Marek Wierzbowski who for many years was a senior partner in the Warsaw offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges and subsequently Linklaters, is the lawyer who founded the Firm. Prof. Wierzbowski has led teams of lawyers acting on a wide range of major transactions including the privatization of Pekao S.A. and PKN Orlen S.A., the sale of Agros S.A. to Pernod Ricard and a number of public securities offerings, including the IPO of Prokom Investment S.A.; he also handled the offering of convertible bonds by BPH Bank S.A. and Stalexport S.A. He was responsible for most of the GDR and ADR issues of Polish company shares on foreign stock markets, including the London Stock Exchange. From the very early days of the operation of a capital market in Poland, Prof. Marek Wierzbowski has provided legal advice on investment funds and the opening of brokerage houses (the first license for a foreign-owned brokerage house in Poland and the first license for a brokerage house for asset management). He represents private parties before regulatory agencies and other governmental authorities (mostly in the area of energy, telecommunication, competition, banking and capital markets etc) as well as before the administrative courts and arbitration tribunals. In the arbitration case: Eureko v. Republic of Poland he is one of the lawyers acting on behalf of the Republic of Poland. He has represented the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commission of Banking Supervision before the Supreme Administrative Court. Apart from his legal practice, Prof. Wierzbowski has been the chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (he is currently a vice-chairman), an adviser to the Minister of Privatization, adviser to the Minister of the Treasury and to the President of the Energy Regulatory Office. He was also vice-president of the Arbitration Court of the Polish Chamber of Commerce. Currently he is the President of the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Brokerage Houses. He is also a member of Public Procurement Council. Neither Prof Wierzbowski, nor lawyers directly subordinated to him handle public procurement matters.

( m.wierzbowski@wierzbowski.com )

Marcin Marczuk, partner, legal counsellor, is a former officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and heads the M&A and public offerings group within the Firm. He and his team have handled a number of mergers and acquisitions and have drafted the complete documentation for securities offerings that are found on our website. He has also acted on behalf of issuers, major shareholders and brokerage houses in proceedings before the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. Several companies have implemented option plans for management and employees which have been prepared by Marcin Marczuk. He also has considerable experience in the insurance sector.

( m.marczuk@wierzbowski.com )

Sławomir Jakszuk, partner and well known capital markets lawyer. Before he joined the Firm, he spent more than ten years heading, as a Vice-Director, the Legal Department of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. He took part in a number of Polish Parliament committees as well as bodies established by the administrative authorities drafting new pieces of legislation for capital markets and the implementation of EU directives in Poland. Sławomir Jakszuk holds a diploma granted upon completion of a special training program by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission International Institute for Securities Market Development in Washington D.C. He has been teaching at the Warsaw University School of Management and on a number of training programs concerning the securities market. He has great expertise in all legal matters relating to capital markets. Within the Firm he has headed teams of lawyers involved in such transactions as tender offers, the establishment of brokerage houses, investment funds, companies managing investment funds, acquisitions of portfolios of shares in listed companies, proceedings before the SEC and the listing and de-listing of companies.

( s.jakszuk@wierzbowski.com) )

Anna Krysiak partner, a barrister who heads the litigation group within the Firm. She is experienced both in court cases, as well as arbitration matters. She specializes in commercial and civil law matters, including unfair competition. Her experience also encompasses matters before the Court for the Protection of Competition and Consumers. Besides Ms. Krysiak's experience as a litigator she has considerable experience in bankruptcy cases and in real estate.

( a.krysiak@wierzbowski.com )

Sebastian Rudnicki is a graduate of the Warsaw University School of Law (where he graduated at the top of the class) and the British Centre for English and European Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is an excellent civil law lawyer. He has been involved in most of the public securities offerings handled by the Firm, as well as in the majority of merger and acquisition transactions. Due to his experience he often leads teams of lawyers assigned to a particular transaction.

( s.rudnicki@wierzbowski.com )

Miłka Kuźnicka is a lawyer experienced in corporate matters and capital markets. She has taken part in the majority of public securities offerings handled by the Firm. She has also acted in transformations of companies from partnership or limited liability companies into joint stock companies. Insurance matters are also within her area of interest and experience.

( m.kuznicka@wierzbowski.com )

Dr Rafał Stankiewicz, senior associate, legal adviser, well-known lawyer in the competition law. He is also specialized in energy law, telecommunication law, pharmaceutical law and administrative procedure. Before he joined the Firm Dr. Rafał Stankiewicz for six years actively practiced the profession of the legal adviser. He advised many entrepreneurs in anti-monopoly and regulatory proceedings. He has the extensive experience in representing customers before administrative courts as well as the Court of the Protection of Competition and Consumers and also participated in proceedings before the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. He was one of the experts working on the new law on protection of the competition and consumers of 16th February 2007. On request Office of Competition and Consumer Protection he drawed up a project of regulation of the Council of Ministers concerning to the block exemptions for agreements in the insurance sector. Dr. Rafał Stankiewicz is an assistant professor on the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. He is also a member of the Center of Competition and Regulatory Studies. He is conducting numerous trainings for clerks of the civil service, he is also training judges at the National School of the Judiciary and the Prosecutor's Office in issues of legal aspects of the protection of competition. In years 2004 - 2008 he served as the consultant and the legal attorney of the National Notarial Council. He participated at works on with reorganization of the structure of some central offices. He is an author of an over sixty academic publications. He is a co-author of the commentary on the protection of competition and consumers (C.H. Beck) and also a scientific editor of the publication "Contemporary problems of the energy law" (LexisNexis).

( r.stankiewicz@wierzbowski.com )

COUNSELORS

Tomasz Siedlecki is a legal counselor specializing in public procurement law. He is co-author of the Commentary to the Public Procurement Law. He has acted for the Ministry of Finance public tender proceedings concerning the computerization of the Customs Service, and a number of regional contracting authorities in the organization and implementation of tendering procedures.

He has also rendered services to the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency in tendering procedures concerning the acquisition of computer systems for the management of air traffic. He has acted for private entities in a number of tenders concerning computerization services (interalia ABG SA, ABG Spin Sa, Unizeto SA, MCSI Ltd. Sp.z o.o., Makronet Sp. z o.o.) and has rendered services regarding FIDIC contracts (Safege SA, TebodinSapProjekt SA, Systera SA, Skanska SA, Skobud Sp.z o.o.).

He has long experience in the representation of public bodies and private sector entities before the National Appeal Chamber, the President of the Public Procurement Office and common courts in matters of appeals and complaints concerning public tenders. He has participated in the preparation of drafts of the new law on concessions for construction works & services and the amendment of public procurement law. For several years he has been an acknowledged expert at the Business Centre Club (a major business organization in Poland).

Firm's Consultant

Mirosław A. Kamiński holds the diploma of postgraduate studies in the European School of Law and Public Administration. He specializes in the restructuring and management of companies in crisis. he is an expert in bankruptcy law. Since 1999 he has been appointed to the position of syndicus and liquidator of several companies He took part in the drafting of a new Polish bankruptcy law. He has also published a number of articles concerning bankruptcy.

This group of senior lawyers is supported by a team of younger lawyers, often with considerable experience; in particular in M&A, corporate and capital markets matters.