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. 

On January 9, 2018, Dubinski Fabrycki Jelenski appointed Tomasz Masiarz as one of its three Managing Partners, changing its name in the process to Dubinski Masiarz Jelenski.

WKB Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr has promoted lawyers Anna Flaga-Martynek, Anna Wojciechowska, and Anna Wyrzykowska to partner, in the Infrastructure & PPP, Company Law & Corporate Governance, and Real Estate & Property Development practices, respectively.

Ewa Mazurkiewicz, formerly Of Counsel in the Warsaw office of SPCG, has joined the firm's partnership.

Polish lawyer Tomasz Pyrkowski has become the new Head of Legal and Compliance Eastern Europe for Philips Lighting.

White & Case has advised Waterland Private Equity Investments B.V. on its acquisition of 61.16% of the shares in Kredyt Inkaso S.A. from its current shareholders.

Poland Doing Better than Most

According to Ron Given, Partner at Wolf Theiss, “the Polish market is doing better than most of the world where M&A is down.”

White & Case (working with Bondoc si Asociatii in Bucharest) and CMS have advised US-listed The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. and Romania-based Astra Rail Management GmbH, respectively, on a joint venture entered into by the two.

Women’s Day is behind us, but the subjects of gender equality and equal opportunity are of year-round concern. This, the first part of a special two-part CEE Legal Matters article on women in private practice in CEE, provides the numbers and percentages from leading law firms across CEE, as well as a more thorough snapshot of one representative market. Part II of the report, in the June issue, will pull back the curtain even more, providing feedback and perspectives from lawyers across the region.