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Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners
KRÓLOWEJ JADWIGI 170
30-212 KRAKÓW
Poland

Work Department

Head of TMT Practice supervising legal works for more than 80 multinational and Polish clients.

Position

Attorney-at-law, Senior Partner, Co-Managing Partner, Head of TMT Practice

Career

Specialises in IT, Internet, data protection and telecommunications laws, and has authored and co-authored several academic publications in this area. Deputy President of the Polish Chamber of Telecommunications and IT (PIIT), legal expert of the Internet Advertising Bureau Poland and the Polish Chamber of Insurance. He has been regularly ranked in numerous Polish and foreign rankings as a top TMT legal expert. In January 2022, he received an award of the President of the Office for the Protection of Personal Data for his work on data protection education and new technologies.

Languages

Polish, English

Memberships

He is also a member of such organisations as the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the International Network of Privacy Law Professionals (INPLP), the International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw), and SABI-IOD (SABI Data Protection Officer Association).

Education

Xawery Konarski graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University. He has foreign internship experience, including at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (The Hague) and Boekel de Neree (Amsterdam).

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Data privacy and data protection

(Leading individuals)

Xawery KonarskiTraple Konarski Podrecki & Partners

Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners is active in assisting with all issues relating to the application and implementation of GDPR. The firm also regularly represents clients before the Polish Data Protection Authority in judicial and administrative proceedings, and this is a particular area of strength for counsel Katarzyna Syska. The team offers support to clients who have suffered data breaches, and provides advice on cross-border data transfers, data anonymisation, and data biometrics. Co-founder Xawery Konarski and Grzegorz Sibiga head up the department, with the latter receiving praise from a client as ‘one of the best lawyers in the field of personal data protection regulations’.

Poland > TMT

(Leading individuals)

Xawery KonarskiTraple Konarski Podrecki & Partners

The TMT group at Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners has five core focuses: media, communications and entertainment, IT law, data protection, fintech, and related corporate law matters. Co-founder and co-managing partner Xawery Konarski sits at the helm of the department with expertise in new technologies. Other key names include co-managing partner and ‘excellent expert’ in IT projects Agnieszka WachowskaPiotr Wasilewski, who has a focus on media and advertising law; and senior associate Karolina Grochecka-Goljan, who is praised as a ‘very dedicated and thorough lawyer’.