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CMS
Varso Tower
Chmielna 69 St.
00-801 Warsaw
Poland

Work Department

Tax

Position

Managing Partner at CMS Poland, Head of Tax

Career

Andrzej Pośniak is Managing Partner at CMS Poland and Head of the Tax Practice in Poland. He also supervises the Tax Practice in CEE and is a Board Member of the global CMS Tax Practice Group. He leads one of the top tax teams in Poland consisting of 10 experts with extensive experience of providing legal and tax advisory services to clients from a range of industries. Andrzej is a certified tax advisor and a lawyer with 19 years of experience.

Andrzej Pośniak specialises in tax and corporate law, focusing on the tax aspects of JV/consortium structures, international tax and corporate planning and restructuring of multinational companies, as well as M&A transactions. He also advises on transfer pricing, value added tax and corporate income tax matters.

Andrzej is the author of a large number of publications focusing on legal-tax issues, and regularly appears as a tax expert on nationwide TV. He also conducts tax seminars, workshops and professional training sessions.

Andrzej’s clients include: Saipem, Techint, International Paper, Pramerica, AIG, Euclid Transactional, mBank S.A. and Aion Bank

He successfully combines legal knowledge gained in Poland and the US (Harvard Law School) with a business education.

Languages

English, Polish

Memberships

Polish-qualified tax advisor

Education

Harvard Law School
Faculty of Law at Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (MA)

Faculty of Economics, Management and Finance  at the Graduate School of Business Economics in Warsaw (MA)

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Tax

(Leading individuals)

Andrzej PośniakCMS

Clients choose the tax practice at CMS as they ‘can count on its support in strategic tax advisory, transactional tax and tax restructuring‘. The team has vast experience advising clients in the energy, chemical, finance, fintech, consumer, real estate and defence sectors. It fully utilises its global network to assist clients with multi-jurisdictional tax projects. Andrzej Pośniak leads the practice and specialises in tax structuring, tax optimisation, restructuring and disputes. Piotr Nowicki is another key member of the team, and handles a breadth of relevant mandates in relation to M&A transactions. Małgorzata Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz is highlighted for being a ‘world-class expert in transactional tax, cross-border tax and tax structuring, but also a very experienced business advisor’.