Mr Rafał Olesiński > Olesinski & Wspolnicy > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile
Olesinski & Wspolnicy Offices
CENTRUM MARSZALKOWSKA
MARSZALKOWSKA STREET 126/134
00-008
Poland
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Mr Rafał Olesiński
Work Department
TMT/IT, Tax audits, M&A / Restructuring, Acquiring funding,Acquiring funding, Fiscal penal law, Tax disputes,Introducing foreign entities on the Polish market
Position
Managing Partner, Attorney-at-law
Career
Advisor and entrepreneur – since 2005, Rafał Olesiński has been building and managing a modern legal and tax advisory company, currently comprising more than a hundred associated with offices in four Polish cities. He is a lawyer by education, and his passion is for advising – on the law, taxes, and business.
He designs, develops, and manages strategic change processes (e.g. new technologies, digitisation, internationalisation, restructuring) and investments (new plants, mergers and acquisitions, JV). Rafał solves business problems and advises in crisis situations. As a strategic advisor, he participates in negotiations, including at the international level, and represents entrepreneurs in talks with the Polish government.
He shares his experience as a mentor in acceleration programs dedicated to start-ups and as a speaker at conferences and training courses. He is an active participant in the Open Eyes Economy movement.
Rafał Olesiński is one of the leaders forming a European network of consulting companies. He abandoned his career at a Big4 firm to build a modern consulting group (OW Group) providing comprehensive legal and tax advisory services (Olesiński & Wspólnicy), accounting (OW Accounting & Payroll), and financial and analytical (OW Analytics) services.
Languages
Polish, English, German
Memberships
Rafał serves as an expert for supervisory boards and management boards of companies, including listed companies, funds, and institutional investors. He is a member of supervisory boards and Audit Committees at Ten Square Games SA (where he is the Chairperson of the Supervisory Board), Izoblok SA, Izoblok GmbH.
Actively involved in the affiliation of the OW Group to the Chamber of e-Commerce (e-Izba), the major organization for entities operating in the digital field.
Lawyer Rankings
Poland > Private client
The private client group at Olesinski & Wspolnicy boasts a multi-disciplinary team, including corporate, employment, tax, and immigration lawyers. Succession planning, establishing family foundations, and immigration and citizenship matters all fall within the expertise of the practice, and its client roster includes high-net-worth individuals and family entrepreneurs. The Wrocław-based trio consisting of Rafał Olesiński, Magdalena Tyrakowska-Szymczak, and Andrzej Łobodziński lead the practice.
Poland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Olesinski & Wspolnicy combines its expertise in tax, business, commercial and financial matters in order to provide its clients with a well-rounded M&A offering. The group’s expertise also spans across private equity and venture capital transactions, the creation of new entities, corporate governance work and reorganisations. Founder and managing partner Rafał Olesiński has a notable background in tax law, and Wrocław-based Magdalena Tyrakowska-Szymczak heads up the corporate team alongside Michał Bogacz, who is also based in Wrocław and chairs the firm’s capital markets group. Samanta Osowska (Warsaw) heads up the M&A team.
Poland > Intellectual property
Olesinski & Wspolnicy draws on the expertise of its team to advise a robust roster of startups and multinational corporates across such sectors as software, e-commerce, manufacturing, biotech and the automotive industry on a wide range of matters involving patents, trade marks, copyrights and software rights. The group’s full skill set extends to IP protection strategies, licensing agreements, as well as litigation, opposition and registration proceedings. The practice is headed by founding and managing partner Rafał Olesiński, an expert in e-commerce matters and IP transfers in capital groups, and Małgorzata Paja, a specialist in the preparation and negotiation of agreements for tech start-ups and game developers. Key support is provided by Paulina Orzełowska, who draws on experience in IP rights protection, and Jakub Jurowicz.