Dr Marek Swiatkowski > Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile

Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka
RONDO ONZ 1
00-124 WARSZAWA
Poland

Work Department

Corporate and M&A Practice

Position

Partner specialising in business law, particularly mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts and restructuring. Marek has advised both sellers and buyers in over 100 M&A and due diligence transactions. He has also advised on company sale and restructuring, private equity funds on acquisitions in Poland, and on restructuring processes preceeding and during bankruptcy to both creditors and bankrupt entities. Marek is an attorney ad litem in arbitration proceedings based on investment treaties, adviser to investors and the State Treasury (Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Finance, Public Prosecutor’s Office) and arbitrator at the Arbitration Court of the Polish Chamber of Commerce.

Career

Marek joined DZP in 1999.

Memberships

Member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw.

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Private client

High-net-worth private entrepreneurs, from the retail, production, and pharmaceutical industries, and their families seek out Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka for its tax and succession planning advice, as well as its expertise in the establishment and maintenance of Polish family foundations and related restructuring projects. Its client roster also includes family trust funds. Poznań-based Piotr Andrzejczak, and Joanna Wierzejska and Marek Świątkowski in Warsaw are the team co-heads.

Poland > Commercial, corporate and M&A

(Leading partners)

Marek Świątkowski – Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka

Managing partner Krzysztof Zakrzewski sits at the helm of the M&A department at ‘the pre-eminent independent Polish firm‘, Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka, which is well-equipped to advise on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, take-overs and joint ventures, as well as reorganisations and restructurings, and mergers and demergers. Its client roster consists of holding companies, buyers, sellers and private equity firms, as well as Polish entrepreneurs. Marek Świątkowski is notably active in company sale transactions, as well as restructurings. Company law and M&A specialist Bartosz Marcinkowski and private M&A expert Piotr Andrzejczak are also key names to note.