Bird & Bird Maciej Gawroński Sp. k. is a dynamically growing office since its opening in 2008.
Under the leadership of the Polish partner Maciej Gawroński, the team has grown to cover 19 sectors and practice groups including aviation, banking & finance, data protection, debt & receivables collection, dispute resolution, employment, energy, environment, EU & competition, infrastructure, insolvency, intellectual property, IT, life sciences, M & A and corporate, public procurement, real estate, sport, tax.
Maciej is supported by local partners Aleksandra Widziewicz and Slawomir Szepietowski, co-Heads of Banking & Finance practice, and Zdzislaw Wieckowski as head of Corporate and M&A, supported by Patryk Galicki.
Currently our team consists of more than 30 lawyers including 15 certified attorneys. This gives us strong position on the Polish legal market.
Our clients recommend us with a sheer pleasure to their business partners, which is the valuable remuneration for us. Our lawyers are invited as experts to comment on the latest business matters in Poland, law amendments and its results for Polish entrepreneurs. We are also valuable speakers during sector forums, conferences and seminars organized by different institutions in Poland.
Polish office forms a fully integrated part of the Bird & Bird network, co-operating effectively with other Bird & Bird offices, in addition to the close cooperation with the other CE offices in Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest.
Quotes
“This team is considered as increasingly visible in the TMT arena."
Chambers Europe, TMT, 2011
"The spread and consistent quality of this team ensure it can run deals out of Eastern European centres such as Prague and Warsaw, in addition to the busy hubs farther west."
Chambers Global, 2011
Rankings and recognition
- In 2010 the Polish Chamber of Commerce appointed us as the “Legal Expert to the Polish Chamber of Commerce”
- Among leading law firms – TMT, EMEA Legal 500, 2011
- Maciej Gawroński recommended for the TMT work, Legal500, 2011
- Among leading law firms – DR, IP, Corporate/ M&A, Legal500, 2011
- Bird & Bird, Warsaw ranked 16th among top 200 Polish law firms by income… by Rzeczpospolita daily newspaper – leading business Polish newspaper
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Warsaw Banking & Finance seminar gathers major players in the sector
On 20 October, over 60 external participants, along with Bird & Bird partners and lawyers, discussed the latest trends in banking and finance services during a seminar held by Bird & Bird in Warsaw. The seminar – titled: ‘Technology & E-Money & Regulation & Business' – provided an overview of the latest European trends in the financial services sector in 2011 and featured Bird & Bird partners: Isabel Evans, Christian Bartsch, Brett Israel and Trystan Tether (all from London), Fabian Niemann (Frankfurt) and Stefano Febbi (Milan), as well as Aleksandra Widziewicz and Slawomir Szepietowski, co-heads of Banking & Finance practice in the Warsaw office.
The presentations generated lively debate among the audience, particularly on the subjects of technology, electronic money and the MiFID directive. Maciej Gawronski, partner and head of Warsaw, who hosted the technology Q&A session, engaged in animated discussions - mostly relating to cloud computing - with several banks' CIOs and IT supplier representatives.
Maciej Gawroński, partner and head of Warsaw office added: ‘based on the feedback received we are confident that our effort has already brought results in terms of the perception of Bird & Bird in Poland. It has also led to an immediate invitation to pitch to draft a model IT documentation for one bank and we believe that it will bring further tangible results soon.’
Among the attendees were representatives of major financial institutions, both Polish and international.
Bird & Bird’s partners to the conference were the Polish Chamber of Commerce and The Polish Bank Association. The official media partners were ‘Bank Financial Monthly Magazine’ and ‘Rzeczpospolita’ - the largest Polish business daily. The latter featured an article on the conference the following day. |