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Prof Dr iur Marek Wierzbowski

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Prof. Marek Wierzbowski and Partners Advocates and Legal Counsellors

Position

Legal counsellor/Partner.

Career

Prof. Marek Wierzbowski who for many years was a partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges and subsequently Linklaters, is the Firm’s founding lawyer. Prof. Wierzbowski has led teams of lawyers acting on a wide range of major transactions including the privatizations of Pekao S.A. and PKN Orlen S.A. and, more recently, the sale of Tauron SA and the sale of Agros S.A. to Pernod Ricard as well as a number of public securities offerings. He was responsible for most of the GDR and ADR issues of Polish company shares on foreign stock markets, including the London Stock Exchange. From the very early days of the operation of a capital market in Poland, Prof. Marek Wierzbowski has provided legal advice on investment funds and the opening of brokerage houses (the first license for a foreign-owned brokerage house in Poland and the first license for a brokerage house for asset management). He represents private parties before regulatory agencies and other governmental authorities (mostly in the area of energy, telecommunication, competition, banking and capital markets etc) as well as before the administrative courts and arbitration tribunals. In the arbitration case: Eureko v. Republic of Poland he was one of the lawyers acting on behalf of the Republic of Poland. Prof. Wierzbowski is a vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (from 2000 to 2004 he was the Chairman of this board), a member of the Public Procurement Board and the President of the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Brokerage Houses. Previously he was an adviser to the Minister of Privatization, adviser to the Minister of the Treasury and to the President of the Energy Regulatory Office. He was also vice-president of the Arbitration Court of the Polish Chamber of Commerce. Neither Prof Wierzbowski, nor lawyers directly subordinated to him handle public procurement matters.

Languages

English, Russian.

Member

Prof. Wierzbowski is a vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (from 2000 to 2004 he was the Chairman of this board). Member of the Public Procurement Board The President of the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Brokerage Houses.

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