Paweł A. Tatarczak
Advocate, Managing Partner
pawel.tatarczak@tatarczak.plFormer partner in the Warsaw office of one of the largest American law firms specializing in mergers and acquisitions of enterprises, private equity investments and real estate. He also worked in the litigation and intellectual property departments of elite French and Polish law firms, as well as in a tax advisory company, the so-called The Big Four. He is an arbitrator of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration.
He has advised on the largest transactions in the country and represented clients before international arbitration, as well as before Polish courts of all instances and central administration bodies. Two of his many cases have been recognized by the American Lawyer as one of the largest arbitration proceedings in the world. He also dealt with regulatory consultancy for many industries.
My portfolio
His dossier includes cases such as a $ 1.5 billion lawsuit in connection with the sale of the Mazeikiu Refinery against the Yukos concern founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky; closure of a Czech retail bank due to exposure to Russian assets after the annexation of Crimea; taking control of the second largest nickel deposit in the Russian Federation; acquisition transaction for the Amstar fund of the highest apartment building in the European Union – Złota 44, designed by Daniel Libeskind; defense of Telekomunikacja Polska against multi-billion claims of the Danish telecom related to the settlement of all Polish Internet traffic in the 2000s; defending the country’s largest distributor of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) against an attempted hostile takeover; defense of mBank against the first Swiss franc class action lawsuit in Poland; advising the defense concern Lockheed Martin in connection with the supply of F-16 fighters for the Polish Air Force; or the claims of American investors related to the so-called Plasma Fractionation Laboratory scandal in the 1990s.
For many years he has been recommended by the prestigious Legal 500 EMEA ranking as one of the best lawyers in Poland, incl. in the field of corporate disputes, mergers and acquisitions, in the commercial real estate market and in the field of commercial arbitration.
He is fluent in English.
Administrative law, compliance and risk management, Resolving domestic and international disputes
Admission of e-cigarettes to the European Union market
We represented a Chinese manufacturer of e-cigarettes in administrative proceedings related to the registration of its products for the purposes of entering the European Union market.
Administrative law, compliance and risk management, Resolving domestic and international disputes
Defense against allegations of food adulteration
We represented a large European food producer in a dispute with the Polish commercial quality inspection regarding product compliance ...
Defense against allegations of food adulterationAdministrative law, compliance and risk management, Resolving domestic and international disputes
Defense against alleged insider trading
We represented an American citizen in administrative and criminal proceedings in connection with ...
Defense against alleged insider tradingAdministrative law, compliance and risk management, Investments, transactions and asset protection
Offset related to the supply of F-16 fighters for the Polish Air Force
We advised the defense concern Lockheed Martin in connection with the performance of an offset agreement worth over USD 6 billion ...
Offset related to the supply of F-16 fighters for the Polish Air Force