Education

• PhD in Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw – dissertation titled Tort Liability of a Principal for Acts Performed by Another Person, awarded with distinction
• Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw
• Graduate of postgraduate studies in Competition Law, Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Graduate of courses on contracts and intellectual property in the IT sector

Key Practice Areas

• Compensation claims arising from breach of contract, tort, and insurance disputes
• Corporate disputes, including liability of company officers, defective resolutions, and post-M&A disputes
• Corporate advisory
• Commercial contracts
• Protection of personal rights
• Unfair competition
• Reprivatisation matters

Selected Experience

• Representation of a consortium of insurers in a property insurance case valued at several hundred million PLN
• Representation of an investor in a post-M&A dispute valued at several hundred million PLN
• Representation of a group of heirs – former owners of nationalised real estate – in compensation proceedings worth several dozen million PLN
• Representation of an international law firm in a case concerning protection of personal rights
• Representation of a shareholder in a household appliances company in a case concerning invalidation of a shareholders’ resolution
• Advisory services in a transaction involving the sale of shares in an IT company

Professional and Bar Activities

• Assistant Professor, Department of Intellectual Property and Intangible Goods Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw (since 2024); previously lecturer at the same Faculty (since 2016)
• Lecturer for trainee advocates at the Warsaw Bar Association, teaching civil law and civil procedure (since 2024)
• Research associate, Family Business Law Center, University of Warsaw (since 2024)
• Member of the Organizing Committee and Arbitrator, Lewiatan Arbitration Moot (since 2020)
• Member of a research team at the Institute of Justice focusing on compensation and redress for traffic accident victims (2017)

Publications

• Tort Liability Based on Risk for Damage Caused by Independent Contractors, in: Tort Liability, K. Szczepanowska-Kozłowska (ed.), Warsaw 2024
• Act on Combating Excessive Delays in Commercial Transactions. Commentary, K. Osajda, W. Borysiak (eds.), Legalis 2021 – co-author (with Dr. K. Riedel) of commentaries to Articles 1–13 and 14–17
• Starting Date for Calculating Interest on Compensation and Damages for Delay in Payment, Studia Prawnoustrojowe 2019, No. 46
• Permissibility of Supplementing a Contract After the Removal of an Abusive Clause – Commentary on the Supreme Court Judgment of 14 July 2017, II CSK 803/16, Glosa. Commercial Law in Judgments and Commentaries 2019, No. 3
• Defamation through the Refusal to Grant Discharge to a Company Officer, Przegląd Prawa Handlowego 2018, No. 8
• Normality of Causation as a Condition of a Physician’s Liability for Damages, in: Hippocrates Before the Court. Civil, Criminal and Disciplinary Liability of Medical Professionals, Vol. I, K. Klimas (ed.), Wrocław 2018
• Future Loss under the Differential Method – Commentary on Judgment II CSK 172/15, Monitor Prawniczy 2018, No. 1
• Application of the “Blue Pencil Rule” in Consumer Contracts, in: Institutions of Civil Law from a European Perspective, A. Bauknecht, D. Lubowiecki, P. Polaczuk (eds.), Olsztyn 2017
• Theoretical Aspects of Adequate Causation, Studia Prawa Prywatnego 2016, Nos. 3–4
• Liability for Damage Caused by an Insurance Agent and the Victim’s Unreasonable Conduct – Commentary on the Supreme Court Judgment of 17 April 2015 (I CSK 216/14), Glosa. Commercial Law in Judgments and Commentaries 2016, No. 3
• Does an Airport Constitute an Enterprise Driven by the Forces of Nature? – Commentary on the Court of Appeal in Warsaw Judgment of 29 July 2014 (VI ACa 1849/13), Glosa. Commercial Law in Judgments and Commentaries 2015, No. 4
• Damage Caused in the Performance of a Delegated Act in Comparative Perspective, Przegląd Prawa Handlowego 2015, No. 8
• Popular science articles: Can Compensation Be Claimed for Contracting Coronavirus? (Gazeta Wyborcza, 2020); Should Poland Terminate Its Bilateral Investment Treaties? (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, 2016)

Languages

• English
• German