EXPERTISE

Zbigniew is a Polish qualified lawyer (radca prawny) with over 25 years of experience in providing legal advice on litigation and arbitration. His expertise involves disputes relating to contentious competition, commercial, company, property, regulatory as well as unfair competition issues decided in Polish common courts and the Supreme Court. Zbigniew has also gained considerable expertise in domestic as well as international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration representing clients before all of the major Polish and foreign arbitration bodies, and ad hoc arbitral tribunals. Throughout his career, Zbigniew has successfully acted for global corporations and financial institutions in the most challenging disputes, including the ones drawing Polish media attention. 

Work highlights include:

• BNP Paribas Bank Polska: representing the client in a high-profile class action litigation over damage claims brought by former clients of Amber Gold, a company considered as being Poland's largest pyramid scheme to date.*
• A producer of mining chemicals: representing client  connection with the proceedings before Court of Competition and Consumer Protection in successful appeal against the regulator’s decision claiming the client’s participation in the alleged cartel agreement accompanied by client’s defence in the three private enforcement stand alone disputes.*
• A client from the packaging production sector: advising in arbitration proceedings before the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce concerning improper performance of a contract (with elements of Italian and Polish law as the applicable law).*
• mBank: representing in proceedings over damages claims brought by a number of individuals (Interbrok Investments ex-clients) alleging negligence by the bank in its provision of banking services to a company which offered sophisticated financial services (foreign exchange (forex) trading).*
• Finnish tools manufacturer: advising on unfair trade practices and infringements of client’s intellectual property rights (designs and copyrights) by its competition. These infringements consist in manufacturing and marketing gardening tools imitating client’s existing products.*

* Experience gained prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard