Gide Loyrette Nouel

Competition and Distribution Law, Public Aid

Szymon Chwalinski is an associate in Gide's Competition team in Warsaw. He specialises in competition and consumer law.

He is involved in dealing with transactions and proceedings before the Polish competition authority and the European Commission, including high profile and complex cases. He assisted major Polish and International clients from various sectors of economy including mining, energy, IT, media, environment, luxury goods, and FMCG, as well as providing advice to the Polish public administration. Szymon also has an extensive experience with cross-border deals assessment and multijurisdictional mergers.

Szymon provided assistance to Auchan Polska, one of the major retail chains in Poland, in numerous instances of distribution and competition law issues, including advice on a joint purchasing cooperation project, the first of its kind on the Polish FMCG market. He has been also assisting LDC Group in obtaining an antitrust clearance for the acquisition of Indykpol by Drosed Holding S.A., LDC subsidiary – the largest poultry producer in Europe and advises them with respect to further acquisition plans.

Szymon was a civil servant at the Polish Competition Authority. He holds a law degree from Warsaw University and a degree from the Centre for English and European Law at Cambridge University. He was admitted to the Warsaw Bar in 2013.

Polish, English, French and German