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
• Law graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw (with distinction)
• Law graduate of the University of Oxford (with distinction)
• Graduate of the postgraduate programme in competition law at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Completed courses in contracts and intellectual property in the IT sector

Key Practice Areas

• Damages claims arising from breaches of contract, torts and insurance disputes
• Corporate disputes, including directors’ and officers’ liability, challenges to corporate resolutions and post-M&A disputes
• Disputes concerning personal rights and intellectual property
• Unfair competition disputes
• Corporate legal advice
• Commercial contracts
• Property restitution (reprivatization) matters

Selected Experience

• Representing a consortium of insurers in a property insurance dispute involving several hundred million PLN
• Representing an investor in a post-M&A dispute involving several hundred million PLN
• Representing a training company in a claim for defective performance of services involving several million PLN
• Representing a group of heirs of former owners of nationalised properties in a damages claim involving tens of millions of PLN
• Representing an international law firm in a dispute concerning the protection of its reputation
• Representing a shareholder in a household appliance company in proceedings to declare a shareholders’ resolution invalid
• Advising on the sale of shares in an IT company
• Advising a foreign corporate group on the sale of shares in a freight forwarding company

Professional and Bar Activities

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

Publications

• Tort liability of the person entrusting the performance of an act to another person, Warsaw 2026
• Mandate Contracts, in: Notarial Practice: Notarial Acts, vol. 2, edited by A. Szereda, Warsaw 2026
• Contracts for Specific Work, in: Notarial Practice: Notarial Acts, vol. 2, edited by A. Szereda, Warsaw 2026
• Act on Counteracting Excessive Delays in Commercial Transactions. Commentary, edited by K. Osajda and W. Borysiak, Warsaw 2026, commentary on Articles 1–13 and 14–17, co-authored with Dr K. Riedl
• Strict tort liability for damage caused by independent contractors, in: Tort Liability, edited by K. Szczepanowska-Kozłowska, Warsaw 2024
• 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, edited by K. Klimas, 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, edited by A. Bauknecht, D. Lubowiecki and P. Polaczuk, 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