Mr Rafał Olesiński > Olesinski & Wspolnicy > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile
Olesinski & Wspolnicy Offices
CENTRUM MARSZALKOWSKA
MARSZALKOWSKA STREET 126/134
00-008
Poland
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Mr Rafał Olesiński
Work Department
TMT/IT, Tax audits, M&A// Restructuring, Capital markets, Acquiring funding
Position
Managing Partner, Attorney-at-law
Career
Advisor and entrepreneur – since 2005, Rafał Olesiński has been building and managing a modern legal and tax advisory company, currently comprising more than a hundred associated with offices in four Polish cities. He is a lawyer by education, and his passion is for advising – on the law, taxes, and business.
He designs, develops, and manages strategic change processes (e.g. new technologies, digitisation, internationalisation, restructuring) and investments (new plants, mergers and acquisitions, JV). Rafał solves business problems and advises in crisis situations. As a strategic advisor, he participates in negotiations, including at the international level, and represents entrepreneurs in talks with the Polish government.
He shares his experience as a mentor in acceleration programs dedicated to start-ups and as a speaker at conferences and training courses. He is an active participant in the Open Eyes Economy movement.
Rafał Olesiński is one of the leaders forming a European network of consulting companies. He abandoned his career at a Big4 firm to build a modern consulting group (OW Group) providing comprehensive legal and tax advisory services (Olesiński & Wspólnicy), accounting (GOBS), and financial and analytical (OW Analytics) services.
Languages
Polish, English, German
Memberships
Rafał serves as an expert for supervisory boards and management boards of companies, including listed companies, funds, and institutional investors. He is a member of supervisory boards and Audit Committees at Ten Square Games SA (where he is the Chairperson of the Supervisory Board), Izoblok SA, Izoblok GmbH.
Actively involved in the affiliation of the OW Group to the Chamber of e-Commerce (e-Izba), the major organization for entities operating in the digital field.
Lawyer Rankings
Poland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Olesinski & Wspolnicy‘s corporate expertise spans share and asset deal transactions and mergers and demergers, as well as transformations, business structurings, joint ventures, and incentives programmes. Founder and managing partner Rafał Olesiński has a strong tax background and splits his time between the firm’s Warsaw and Wrocław offices; Olesiński jointly leads the team alongside capital markets chair Michał Bogacz and head of the corporate group Magdalena Tyrakowska-Szymczak, both of whom are based in Wrocław.
Poland > Intellectual property
At Olesinski & Wspolnicy, the IP practice is praised for its ‘deep knowledge and expertise‘, with clients predominantly stemming from companies in the e-commerce, technology, video game, manufacturing and automotive sectors. The practice is jointly led by founding partner Rafał Olesiński , who has expertise in the e-commerce sector; Andrzej Boboli, who is a key name for clients in the TMT sector; and Małgorzata Paja, who is well versed in brand protection.
Poland > TMT
At Olesinski & Wspolnicy, the implementation of AI-based technologies and IT systems, as well as the negotiation of TMT agreements, form core areas of work. Its client roster consists of companies from the TV and telecoms, gaming, e-commerce, software development, and new technologies industries. Key senior members of the team from the Warsaw office include founder and managing partner Rafał Olesiński and Joanna Lentka-Wróbel. In Wroclaw, technology disputes expert Wojciech Jarosiński; Andrzej Boboli, who has expertise in new technologies; and Lucyna Brayshaw are the names to note.