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

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

Work Department

Managing Partner

Position

Advocate / Senior Managing Partner

Career

Piotr is an expert in technology, IP and media law, dispute resolution and arbitration, leading multijurisdictional cases and transactions for global clients in Poland and Central Europe.

He specializes in industrial property transfer, IP financing and protection, civil and commercial litigation, investment arbitration, corporate and asset finance.

Piotr has over 37 years’ experience in advising and representing clients from the TMT, FMCG, infrastructure, energy, heavy industries, defence, banking and finance, real estate, and life science sectors.

During the crucial period of Poland’s transformation in the 1990s, he led precedent-setting cases and business projects, including privatizations, greenfield investments and technology transfers.

In addition to his day-to-day work as Managing Partner, he is also responsible for championing innovation in client service, new products, and project management. He is a pioneer in applying AI in business. Involved in ESG initiatives, he consistently promotes the idea of sustainable business.

Awards: The Legal 500 EMEA in the field of Data Privacy and Data Protection, Dispute Resolution, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Intellectual Property and TMT, Chambers Europe, Global Law Experts, IP Stars and PLC Which Lawyer. Piotr has been shortlisted twice in the “Managing Partner of the Year” category by The European Lawyer Awards.

Piotr was awarded the prestigious title of‘ Lawyer of Thirty Years’ by the Polish Association of Legal Employers and the „Rzeczpospolita” daily newspaper – given his „significant contribution to building the new legal business market and his personal commitment, including his social and academic work, which has contributed to Poland and its legal and economic development”.

Languages

Polish, English, French, Russian

Memberships

The Warsaw Bar Association, The Washington D.C. Bar Association

Education

Faculty of Law and Administration at The Jagiellonian University. George Washington University (Teaching Visiting Scholar), The University of Warsaw (Postgraduate studies on ADR – Negotiations, Mediations, Arbitration)

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Intellectual property

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.

Poland > Data privacy and data protection

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.

Poland > Healthcare and life sciences

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.

Poland > TMT

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.