Gessel has announced that Managing Partner Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz has been reappointed to another three-year term as President of the Arbitration Court affiliated with the Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan.
She has held the post since 2011. Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz’s arbitration practice grows out of her specializations in merger and acquisitions law, private equity/ venture capital, and business law. According to a statement released by the Gessel firm, "Beata Gessel has a long track record in alternative dispute resolution before permanent arbitration tribunals as well as in ad hoc proceedings (under the ICC, Lewiatan, SAKIG, and UNCITRAL rules, among others), having participated in over 60 domestic and international cases in fields such as M&A, construction law, and commercial contracts."
Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz is an arbitrator at the Lewiatan Arbitration Court in Warsaw, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, VIAC in Vienna, the International Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bucharest, and the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Industrial Energy and Energy Purchasers in Warsaw. She is also a member of the Commission on Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, of the European Branch of the Royal Institute of Arbitrators in London, of the Polish ADR Association, and of the Board of Directors of ArbitralWomen.
