Bird & Bird — Poland

About

The firm: Bird & Bird is an international law firm, with a long-established reputation for having a rare and invaluable grasp of strategic commercial issues. The firm combines exceptional legal expertise with deep industry knowledge and refreshingly creative thinking, to help clients operating at the forefront of their industries to achieve their commercial goals. Bird & Bird has over 1,700 lawyers and legal practitioners with broad advisory transactional and contentious capability, with a particular focus on key industry sectors. The firm has an extensive international reach with 31 offices across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and US offering a seamless, cross-border service between locations and sector and practice groups. Bird & Bird has a unique reputation as an expert in information technology and intellectual property (patents, trade marks, copyrights and licences), as well as in regulatory sectors: telecommunications, energy, financial and pharmaceutical. Bird & Bird in Poland combines unparalleled legal competence and a profound knowledge of sectors of the economy with creative thinking. The firm provides invaluable assistance in realising the business goals of its clients. It provides its clients with clear, practical and effective advice as well as support in their strategies and business goals. Areas of practice: Underpinned by deep client and industry knowledge, the firm’s key sectors include: Automotive: advising on all stages of a life cycle of a motor vehicle, from initial design, to sales and distribution, through to disposals. Aviation and aerospace: advising world’s leading airlines, aerospace companies, financiers, aircraft lessors, travel companies and other key players in this exciting sector. Electronics: advising clients operating in or serving the electronics industry, from R&D and component manufacturing, to technology licensing agreements. Energy and utilities: advising large multinationals, investors, project companies and large energy consumers on electricity generation, energy trading, renewable energy, cleantech and climate change, and upstream oil and gas. Financial services: advising global clients in the financial services sector, such as global retail and investment banks, investors and hedge funds, on transactions, regulatory issues, commercial contracts and dispute resolution. Food and beverage: advising on a full range of areas, including branding, labelling, health claims, fair trade and patents on novel foods. Life sciences and healthcare: advising clients in biotechnology, bioinformatics and pharmaceutical companies on licensing and drug development agreements, R&D collaboration, IP acquisitions and joint ventures. Media and entertainment: advising clients from across the media spectrum on a wide range of issues, including exploitation across all forms of digital media and emerging areas, such as user-generated content exploitation. Retail and consumer: advising some of the world’s best-known brands across luxury, fashion & retail, food & beverage and hotels & leisure. Sports: advising clients such as national and international sports governing bodies, event organisers and sponsors on issues including exploitation of commercial rights, brand management, regulatory and disciplinary issues. Technology and communications: advising on matters ranging from smaller innovative projects to some of the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes of recent years. Its team includes lawyers with a particular focus on communications, devices and components, digital tech and eCommerce, and software and services as well as a number of more specialist industries including data centres, postal and satellites. ### Languages - English - French - German - Italian - Polish ### Staffing Figures - 0 Number of lawyers - 80 at this office

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Bartłomiej Niewczas

Bartłomiej is a Senior Counsel and head of the Dispute Resolution team at Warsaw Bird & Bird office. · Dispute Resolution

Bartłomiej Sikora

Bartłomiej is a Counsel and head of the Tax practice in Bird & Bird's Warsaw office. · Tax

Dominik Hincz

Dominik is a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution team in Warsaw. · Commercial Disputes

Dorota Derlicka

Dorota Derlicka is a Partner and head of the Energy & Utilities team at Bird & Bird’s Warsaw office. · Energy & Utilities

Emilia Stępień

Emilia is an Of Counsel in the Privacy & Data Protection team in Warsaw. · Privacy & Data Protection

Izabela Kowalczuk-Pakuła

Izabela Kowalczuk-Pakuła is a Partner and head of the Privacy & Data Protection practice and member of the Intellectual Property practice at Bird & Bird’s Warsaw office. · Privacy & Data Protection

Karolina Stawicka

Karolina is a Partner and head of the Employment team in Bird & Bird's Warsaw office. · Employment

Katarzyna Piechocka

Katarzyna Piechocka is a Senior Counsel in the Commercial team at Bird & Bird's Warsaw office. · Commercial Law

Krzysztof Zięba

Krzysztof Zięba is a partner in our Commercial Practice at Warsaw Bird & Bird office. · Commercial Contracts

Kuba Ruiz

Kuba Ruiz is a Senior Counsel in our Commercial Practice at Warsaw Bird & Bird office. · IT

Ludomir Biedecki

Ludomir is a Partner in our Corporate and M&A team based in Warsaw. · Corporate and M&A

Marcin Alberski

Marcin is a Counsel in our EU & Competition Law and Tech & Comms teams based in Warsaw. · Competition Law

Marta Koremba

Marta Koremba is Co-Managing Partner of Bird & Bird's Warsaw office, where she co-heads our Intellectual Property and Life Sciences groups. She also co-chairs the firm's International Trademarks Group. · Intellectual Property

Marta Kwiatkowska-Cylke

Marta is a Counsel in the Privacy & Data Protection team in Warsaw. · Data Privacy and Data Protection

Marta Stanisławska

Marta is a Counsel in the Finance & Financial Regulation team in Warsaw. · Banking and Finance

Michał Kulesza

Michał is the head of the Tech & Comms team in Bird & Bird's Warsaw office. · Tech Law

Michał Olszewski

Michał is a Counsel in our Employment team based in Warsaw. · Employment

Paweł Lipski

Paweł is a Partner in our Intellectual Property Practice, based in Warsaw. · Intellectual Property

Paweł Sawicki

Paweł is a Partner in the White Collar Crime team of Bird & Bird’s Warsaw office. · White Collar Crime

Piotr Dynowski

Piotr is a Partner and a co-head of the IP and head of TMT practice in Bird & Bird's Warsaw office. · Intellectual Property

Piotr Lesiński

Piotr is the head of the Finance & Financial Regulation team in Bird & Bird's Warsaw office. · Financial Regulation

Rafal Dziedzic

Rafał is Co-Managing Partner at Bird & Bird Poland’s office. He also co-heads our Corporate and M&A team in Warsaw. · Mergers and Acquisitions