Mr Piotr Kochanski > Kochanski & Partners > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile

Distinguished by its ‘deep understanding of the operations of global organisations’, Kochanski & Partners is a popular choice among clients in the pharmaceutical, media and FMCG sectors. The group is well-regarded for its work in the defence of trade marks and patents, notably trade mark infringement cases and advertising litigation. Piotr Kochański and Karolina Marciniszyn are both responsible for co-leading the practice. Kochański specialises in IP transfers, financing and protection. Marciniszyn excels in IP litigation before the common and administrative and the PPO. Tomasz Szambelan is also a key name in the team.

Providing ‘innovative solutions’, the team at Kochanski & Partners has substantial experience handling data privacy, protection and security matters, owing to its client base of leading multinational companies across key industries such as finance, fintech and medtech. The team also specialises in cross-border data transfers, data processing and transfer agreements, as well as cybersecurity audits and policies. The team is led by Piotr Kochański, who is well-versed in technology transfers, and Monika Maćkowska-Morytz,who has relevant experience in handling audits.

Kochanski & Partners‘s broad offering handles a varied workload of data privacy issues within the medtech industry, M&A, and public procurement mandates within the clinical trial space. Practice co-lead Katarzyna Sabiłło joined the team in 2024, drawing on her prior experience as a pharmacist to assist with marketing authorisations and registration processes, in addition to advising on reimbursement issues. Fellow co-head Piotr Kochański is well-equipped to handle commercial disputes and technology transfers within the life sciences sector.

Recently joining the TMT practice at Kochanski & Partners, Natalia Kotłowska-Wochna brings strength to IT and data protection projects. Alongside joining the practice, Kotlowska-Wochna joins the other department heads in leading the practice, namely, Piotr Kochański, who represents clients in complex litigation and assists them with technology transfers, Monika Maćkowska-Morytz , who specialises in personal data protection, while Mateusz Ostrowski takes on a variety of litigation proceedings involving fintech and cryptocurrency. More broadly the team advises on cloud computing and has been developing its fintech practice. Former co-head Jan Ziomek departed in October 2024.