Agnieszka Wachowska > Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners > Krakow, Poland > Lawyer Profile
Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners Offices
KRÓLOWEJ JADWIGI 170
30-212 KRAKÓW
Poland
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Agnieszka Wachowska
Work Department
IT-Tech
Position
Attorney-at-law, Co-Managing Partner, Head of the IT, Telecommunications, and Public Procurement Team
Career
| Agnieszka is an attorney-at-law with more than ten years’ experience in working on IT projects. At TKP, Agnieszka is part of the TMT practice, and is head of the IT, Telecommunications, and Public Procurement law team. Her practice focus is IT law and new technologies law issues. Since beginning her legal career, she has advised IT sector companies, including state institutions, on IT law and public tenders for IT deliverables and services, and also on cybersecurity and copyright. Agnieszka is also responsible for advising telecommunications operators on their operations and on telecommunications law.
Agnieszka has worked on more than one hundred projects involving drafting and negotiating IT contracts, such as implementation (using Waterfall and Agile models), maintenance and development, hosting, licensing, and SaaS, PaaS and IaaS contracts, or for instance cloud computing contracts. She is experienced in advising on and managing IT contract performance disputes and representing clients in IT court litigation cases. Agnieszka has worked on numerous large and all-embracing IT contract due diligence projects, including verifying the scope of software licensing and options for transfer of software to the cloud. She advises on innovation and IT infrastructure and telecommunications development projects realized using EU funds and state aid, including strategic projects concerning construction and operation of broadband networks. Agnieszka has been singled out as a TMT lawyer in the prestigious lawyer rankings Chambers and Partners (Band 4) and the Legal 500 (Next Generation Partner). |
Languages
Polish, English
Memberships
Agnieszka is an ICT law PIIT expert, and is part of a working group attached to the President of the Public Procurement Office. She played a role, as a representative of the PIIT, in drawing up new recommendations regarding public contracts for IT systems, and is a member and founder of the New Technologies Law Association, made up of lawyers specializing in TMT. She is a member of the New Technologies Law Association IT working group presidium, and the Warsaw Bar Association LegalTech Committee. Agnieszka is a member of ITechLaw and IR Global international lawyer networks, where she is the exclusive TMT representative from Poland.
Education
Agnieszka studied at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University, and won a scholarship for the Law and Technology program at Universiteit van Tilburg in the Netherlands. Agnieszka is registered as an attorney-at-law with the Warsaw Bar Association.
Agnieszka is highly active in training and education and has spoken at prestigious IT and public procurement conferences, including the Advanced Threat Summit and the H@ck Summit, and events organized by Puls Biznesu. Agnieszka lectures on IT law and new technologies law on the Warsaw Bar Association bar examination course, the postgraduate new technologies law course, and on public procurement at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She coordinates the student and graduate scheme TKP Academy – Student Program. Agnieszka has authored numerous trade and academic publications.
Lawyer Rankings
Poland > TMT
(Leading individuals)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 Wachowska; Piotr 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’.