Dr Wojciech Hartung > Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile

Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka
RONDO ONZ 1
00-124 WARSZAWA
Poland

Work Department

Infrastructure and Energy Practice

Position

Advises on infrastructure projects carried out under the Public Procurement Law or using partnership structures, i.e. PPP, concessions and other forms of co-operation between public and private partners. Specialises in public-public cooperation (in-house procurement) issues. They have been addressed in his PhD dissertation on the “Independence of a basic local government unit upon the organisation and provision of municipal services in light of European law and Polish legal order”. Heads projects concerning exclusion of the obligation to apply the Public Procurement Law covering entity and subject-matter exclusions. Has extensive experience in the energy, defence, waste and transport sectors. Participant in legislative work on implementing EU regulations on public procurement to the national legal system.

Career

Until March 2009 as the Director of the European Union and International Co-operation Department at the Public Procurement Office he was Polish representative on the European Council’s Working Group on Public Procurement and on the Advisory Committee for Public Works Contracts set up by the European Commission.

Memberships

Member of a working group set up by the Ministry of Development to review the law on public-private partnerships and to draw up a government policy in this respect.

Member of the Public Procurement Law Association.

Lecturer in post-graduate public procurement studies and public-private co-operation at the Warsaw School of Economics and Mikołaj Kopernik University.

Member of the Chamber of Advocates in Warsaw.

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Public procurement

Leveraging its ‘true understanding’, the team at Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka handles matters across the full spectrum of Polish and EU public procurement, concessions and PPP issues. Contractors bidding for public contracts in a range of sectors, from energy and construction, to healthcare and defence, turn to the team, which has recently advised on some of the most complex PPP projects on the Polish market. Spearheading the practice are the ‘fully hands-on’ Katarzyna Kuźma, a key point of call for clients in the construction, energy, and waste management sectors seeking advice on infrastructure investments, and Marcin Krakowiak, who also serves as the infrastructure and energy department head. Tomasz Michalczyk is lauded by a client for his ‘creative solution-oriented attitude’ towards guiding contractors and contracting authorities through all stages of procurement procedures, particularly in the road and rail sectors. Wojciech Hartung specialises in issues involving public-public cooperation and competition law matters, while Tomasz Krzyżanowski, a recent addition to the team from Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners, is experienced in the IT and TMT sectors. Marcin Gajdek regularly provides advice to clients with a focus on the Spanish market.