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Ms Anna Pukszto
Work Department
Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Dispute Resolution
Position
Anna Pukszto is Poland Co-Managing Partner at Dentons. She also heads both the Litigation and Arbitration practice group and the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group in the Warsaw office.
Anna is a renowned expert in restructuring and insolvency, with extensive experience in managing cross-border bankruptcies and distressed asset acquisitions. She is also a seasoned litigator who specializes in the financial services sector.
She was a World Bank consultant in a project involving assessments of the Polish Bankruptcy and Rehabilitation Law and instruments serving to protect creditors’ rights under Polish law.
Anna handles class action proceedings and litigations regarding the liability of investment fund companies, custodians, lenders and the validity of banking and investment products. She has represented clients before both the Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
She has been involved in high-profile disputes regarding foreign investments in Poland and commercial transactions under LCIA, ICC and VIAC arbitration rules and in related post-arbitration proceedings.
Career
- Poland Co-Managing Partner since 2023
- Head of the Litigation and Arbitration team since 2020
- Dentons partner and head of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy team since 2008
- With Dentons since 2000
- Vice-president of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration, 2011-2020
- Admitted to the Polish bar (2002)
Languages
Polish, English
Memberships
- INSOL Europe
Education
- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 1998, Master of Laws
Lawyer Rankings
Poland > Restructuring and insolvency
(Hall of Fame)The multi-disciplinary practice at Dentons boasts a broad-ranging offering which encompasses dealing with restructurings, bankruptcies, and related disputes. It has a strong client base in the financial sector, and is also regularly instructed by companies in the infrastructure, automotive, transportation, manufacturing, energy, retail, FMCG, agriculture and TMT sectors. Anna Pukszto
sits at the helm of the department and was promoted to co-managing partner in April 2023; she has expertise in cross-border bankruptcies and distressed asset acquisitions. Tomasz Trocki is praised as ‘a unique lawyer with a wide scope of knowledge and experience in restructuring’, and he heads up the consensual restructuring group. Counsel Stanisław Sołtysik is another notable name in the contentious insolvency space.
Poland > Dispute resolution
In April 2023, Dentons saw the appointment of Anna Pukszto to co-managing partner; she also oversees the general commercial disputes practice with a specialism in restructuring and financial litigation. The dispute resolution group is further divided into sub-teams: arbitration is overseen by Michał Jochemczak; construction disputes are headed up by Agnieszka Wojciechowska; and white-collar crime cases are led by Agnieszka Wardak. Its client base consists of major players from highly regulated industries, including the finance, energy, life sciences and healthcare, media, telecoms, and real estate sectors. Wojciech Kozłowski and Katarzyna Bilewska left the firm to establish BLSK in June 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Poland > Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency Poland
- Dispute resolution Poland
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Competition/antitrust
- Construction
- Data privacy and data protection
- Employment
- Investment funds
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- TMT