Tomasz Leśko > Kochanski & Partners > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile

Kochanski & Partners
METROPOLITAN BUILDING
PL PILSUDSKIEGO 1
00-078 WARSAW
Poland
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Work Department

Litigation Practice, Disputes of Financial Institutions

Position

Attorney-at-law / Partner / Disputes of Financial Institutions / Head of the Cracow Office

Career

Tomasz specialises in litigation, civil and antitrust law. His clients includes the largest financial institutions operating on the Polish market.

He represents clients at every stage of dispute resolution, including before the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court, as well as in arbitration proceedings conducted at the National Chamber of Commerce and the Lewiatan Confederation.

He advises on consumer matters with an emphasis on foreign currency loans and PLN loans or credits (e.g. WIBOR, sanctions for free credit, and unauthorised payment transactions). He is a speaker at conferences and the author of numerous articles on the subject.

Tomasz co-heads the several dozen strong team of the Disputes of Financial Institutions practice, which currently is handling more than 13,000 cases.

Awards: The Legal 500 EMEA in the field of Dispute Resolution

Languages

English, Polish

Memberships

Cracow Bar Association

Education

Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Dispute resolution

At Kochanski & Partners, key names in the dispute resolution space include Witold Głuchowski, who leads the litigation practice; Mateusz Ostrowski, chair of the media litigation department; and Weronika Magdziak-Śliwa, who jointly heads up the banking litigation practice alongside Tomasz Leśko. The practice is active in disputes involving commercial and civil law, as well as media-related concerns. Previous head Marek Jeżewski joined Eversheds Sutherland Poland June 2024, as did Magdalena Papiernik-Konig and Dominika Durchowska in July 2024. Andrzej Pałys also departed in the summer of 2024, and Michał König left for an in-house position in May 2024. Markiyan Malskyy departed in January 2025.