Three former members of Baker McKenzie Warsaw's real estate team – Przemyslaw Kucharski, Bartosz Laski, and Aleksandra Kaczmarek – have left that firm to establish their own: Kucharski & Partners.

Adam Kosciolek has left Krakow's Kurek, Kosciolek, Wojcik law firm, which he co-founded, to join Kochanski Zieba & Partners as Partner.

Warsaw law firm Galt Legal has announced that it changed its name to Argon Legal Adam Milosz i Slawomir Lisiecki sp.k.

Eligiusz Krzesniak, the Managing Partner of the Warsaw office of Squire Patton Boggs, has been elected as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Michal Turczyk has joined Denton’s Tax team and will be responsible for developing the firm's services related to grants, R&D incentives, innovation, and foreign investment advisory.

Greenberg Traurig Warsaw has promoted Robert Gago and Aleksander Janiszewski to Shareholders and Anna Halas-Krawczyk with Dominik Rafalko to Local Partners.

Cross-border reincorporations have long been of interest not only to legal scholars, but also to legal practitioners and entrepreneurs from various business fields.

Former Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland Of Counsel Patryk Galicki has joined CDZ as a Partner to lead the firm's Real Estate practice.

In January 2018, Partner Cezary Przygodzki joined Partner Karina Furga-Dabrowska as co-leaders of the firm's Tax Advisory Team in Poland.

Andrzej Posniak started his career in law at CMS in 2003 as a corporate trainee and, step by step, become a qualified tax advisor, then a Partner and Head of the Tax Team in CMS Warsaw's Corporate Department. In addition, Andrzej also fulfills General Counsel and Risk Manager roles for the firm in Poland. CEE Legal Matters sat down with Andrzej to learn more about his unique role.

Judit Kresz, the former Head of Tax at Peterka Partners in Budapest, has joined the Tax team of CMS Budapest as a Senior Associate.

Dentons Poland is announcing that Partner Anna Maria Pukszto has become co-head of its Litigation and Arbitration Team with previously solo head Partner Wojciech Kozlowski.

Former Weil Partner Rafal Zwierz has left that firm to join CMS, where he will be responsible for the development of the Capital Markets practice.

KKLW has announced that Senior Partner Michal Kurzynski has become the firm's Managing Partner, and that firm lawyer Wiktor Wesolowski has been promoted to Partner.

Polish lawyer Dariusz Oleszczuk has joined Drzewiecki Tomaszek & Partners as a new partner. Oleszczuk was the founder and Managing Partner of the Warsaw office of legacy Salans, and the first CEO of Dentons Europe.  

The current government campaigned before the elections with the slogan “Plugging leaks in the tax system,” and it is now trying to achieve that goal by focusing its efforts on fighting harder against VAT fraud, counteracting aggressive tax optimization in income taxes, and increasing the effectiveness of tax audits.  

Poland’s BSJP law firm has merged with Nilsson & Partners, and the addition of new partners Dag Nilsson and Jaroslaw Sroka transforms the firms name to BSJP Brockhuis Jurczak Prusak Sroka Nilsson Sp. k. 

Maciej Jozwiak has become the new Head of the Dispute Resolution at Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland.