Mr Wojciech Czyżewski > Gide Loyrette Nouel > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile

Mr Wojciech Czyżewski

wojciech.czyzewski@gide.com

Work Department

M&A, Corporate Law, Private Equity/Venture Capital

Position

Advocate, Associate, Member of the M&A, Corporate Law, Private Equity/Venture Capital practices

Career

Wojciech Czyżewski specialises in mergers and acquisitions and corporate law. He has also taken part in various privatisation processes, in particular in the railway sector. He has extensive experience in creating joint-venture structures, including with State Treasury companies.

He has advised on setting up corporate governance principles in public and private companies. He has participated in important transactions on the mergers and acquisitions market, acting for funds and industry investors, both on the sellers’ and the purchasers’ side. He has taken part in a number of capital market transactions, with particular focus on strategic calls and review by the management boards of public companies. He has also cooperated with seed and venture capital funds with performing investments in entities at an early development stage.

Wojciech, in 2021, has been recommended in the M&A category by the prestigious legal ranking, The Legal 500. In 2022, he was recognised as a Rising Star, a prestigious title awarded by Legal Media Group to the brightest practitioners under the age of 40 in the area of business law and related practices.

Languages

Polish, English, German, French

Education

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and received a  scholarship to the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law, where he participated in courses in company law, mergers and acquisitions and methods of securing transactions related to financing. He is also a graduate of the Center for American Law, organised by the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law.