Education

• Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, including participation in an international exchange program at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Graduate of postgraduate studies in Fiscal and Economic Criminal Law, Jagiellonian University

Key Practice Areas

• Criminal law, with particular focus on white-collar crime
• Fiscal criminal law
• Compliance (development and review of internal procedures within organizations, training programs)

Selected Experience

• Protection of the interests of a development company in a case concerning abuse of authority by a company’s attorney-in-fact and financial damage amounting to several million PLN
• Advisory services for corporate clients from the pharmaceutical, food, and banking sectors in the field of organizational risk management
• Protection of the interests of international real estate companies in cases involving so-called “corporate hijacking”
• Representation of executives of an international company in a case involving judicial fraud arising from a civil dispute worth several dozen million PLN
• Representation of a management board member of an IT solutions and services company in a case concerning misappropriation of several hundred thousand PLN in public funds

Professional and Bar Activities

• Member, Legislative Institute at the Polish Bar Council (since 2021)
• Member, Legislative Committee of the Warsaw Bar Association (since 2021)
• Member, Advisory Board of the European Criminal Bar Association (since 2024; member since 2022)
• Member, European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers (since 2022)
• Lecturer in training programs organized by the European Law Academy (ERA) on international criminal law, particularly European cooperation instruments such as the European Arrest Warrant and European Investigation Order (since 2020), including: Better Applying Criminal Law (Jan 2021), Working with the European Investigation Order (May 2021), Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice – Should AI Systems Be Used in Life-Changing Situations Such as Criminal Sentencing? (May 2022), Mutual Recognition in Criminal Sentences (Mar 2022), Insights into the Application of Procedural Rights Framed in EU Legislation within the Context of the European Arrest Warrant (Sep 2023), A Lawyer’s Role in European Arrest Warrant Proceedings (Apr 2024), The EAW, the Transfer of Prisoners and Supervision Measures as an Alternative to Provisional Detention When Representing Foreign Citizens (Nov 2024)
• Expert in Polish law in extradition proceedings before the Westminster Magistrates’ Court (since 2019)
• Member, Criminal Law and Procedure Section of the Warsaw Bar Association (since 2016; Chair 2018–2020)
• Deputy Disciplinary Officer of the Warsaw Bar Association (2016–2019)
• Author of numerous publications in the field of white-collar crime, corporate liability, and economic criminal law, including articles for Rzeczpospolita, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, and prawo.pl, such as: Pozew czy akt oskarżenia – powyborcze rozliczenia w spółkach (13.03.2024), Prawnicy czekali na przystąpienie Polski do Prokuratury Europejskiej. Dlaczego (15.12.2023), Proceduralny Babel czy odpowiedzialność podmiotów zbiorowych (06.09.2022), Ile wolno prokuratorowi? (19.10.2021), Jedno sfałszowane, drugie zabrane – komentarz do przepisów o przepadku znaków towarowych (22.09.2022)
• Speaker at conferences and training sessions, including: The Art of Argument at the Courtroom (2023), Introducing AML Regulations – How to Prepare an Internal Procedure for Law Firms? (2021), Polish English Day – London (2019), Intersections of the Application of the European Arrest Warrant and the Protection of Fundamental Rights (2017), 4th Polish Congress of Restructuring Law (2017)
• Participant in numerous professional conferences, including: European Economic Congress, Legal Market Days, Legal LUBLINnovation, European Criminal Bar Association conferences in Berlin, Brussels, and Riga, and European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers conferences in Paris, Frankfurt, and Milan
• Participant in various educational and social projects, including: leading preschool workshops on the role of advocates in society as part of the Fairy-Tale Lawyers project (2024); teaching high school classes on the Constitution during the Constitutional Week initiative (2016, 2017); conducting mock court hearings for clients of the Women’s Rights Center (2017); participating in the educational program A Lawyer in Everyday Life for secondary schools (2016); providing legal support for the social campaign You Can Change It (2015); organizing the TEDxMarszałkowska – Crack the Code! conference (2014); and coaching the University of Warsaw team in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court (2013, 2014)

Awards and Distinctions

• Finalist, Rising Stars – Leaders of Tomorrow competition organized by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (2017)

Languages

• English