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News of the year for the Polish legal market was the defection of Pawel Debowski and his prized real estate team to Salans from Clifford Chance. Salans’ own property group endured some losses, when Marek Grodek and three lawyers left for Dewey & LeBoeuf Grzesiak SP.K..

Time will tell how the global merger of Hogan & Hartson Jamka sp.k and Lovells (Warszawa) LLP (Spólka partnerska) will fare in Warsaw but significant changes were provoked early on. On the Hogan side, virtually the whole team was absorbed by recently arrived US firm K&L Gates LLP. The Lovells half also suffered losses; in IP, team head Krystyna Szczepanowska-Kozlowska joined DLA Piper Wiater sp.k. and Baker & McKenzie Gruszczynski & Partners Attorneys at Law LP recruited Ewa Rutkowska.

New, smaller firms are also springing up. Life sciences and IP boutique Czyzewscy Law Firm was launched by Krzysztof Czyzewski, who was a partner and head of IP and new technologies in Lesnodorski, Slusarek & Partners and Katarzyna Czyzewska joined from Salans’ life sciences and litigation team. Marcin Radwan-Röhrenschef, former head of litigation at Wardynski & Partners, founded his own firm, Kancelaria Adwokacka Marcina Radwan-Rohrenschefa.

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