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Ms Anna Pukszto
Work Department
Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Dispute Resolution
Position
Anna Pukszto is a partner with Dentons. She heads both the Dispute Resolution practice group and the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group in Poland.
Anna is a renowned expert in restructuring and insolvency, with extensive experience in managing cross-border bankruptcies and distressed asset acquisitions. She is also a seasoned litigator specializing in the financial services sector. Her client portfolio includes leading financial institutions and key players in the retail, manufacturing, real estate, infrastructure, energy, automotive, and TMT sectors.
She was a World Bank consultant in a project involving the assessments of the Polish Bankruptcy and Rehabilitation Law and the instruments serving to protect creditors’ rights under Polish law.
In her litigation practice, Anna focuses on cases involving financial institutions. She represents financial institutions in class action proceedings and disputes regarding the liability of investment fund companies, custodians, lenders, the validity of banking and investment products, including unit-linked life insurance policies, derivatives and sophisticated debt recovery proceedings. She has represented clients before the Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
In her arbitration practice, she has been involved in numerous high-profile disputes concerning foreign investments in Poland, including disputes under LCIA, ICC and VIAC rules and in related post-arbitration proceedings.
Career
- Head of the Dispute Resolution team at Dentons, 2020 to date
- Dentons partner and head of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy team at Dentons, 2008 to date
- Poland Co-Managing Partner at Dentons, 2023–2024
- With Dentons since 2000
- Vice-president of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Confederation Lewiatan, 2011–2020
Languages
Polish, English
Memberships
- INSOL Europe
- Admitted to the Polish bar (2002)
Education
- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 1998, Master of Laws
Lawyer Rankings
Poland > Restructuring and insolvency
(Hall of Fame)Dentons
is lauded as ‘meticulous and highly skilled in the bankruptcy and restructuring industry’. This offering includes assistance with insolvency-related disputes, and its client base encompasses financial institutions as well as companies from the infrastructure, automotive and transportation, manufacturing and energy, retail, FMCG, agriculture and TMT industries. With an international client base, the team is very well placed to advise clients on their cross-border mandates. Department leader and co-managing partner Anna Pukszto
also heads up the litigation and arbitration team, and she is experienced in distressed asset acquisitions. Tomasz Trocki is another key name as lead of the firm’s consensual restructuring practice. In team news, Stanisław Sołtysik was promoted to the partnership in April 2024.
Poland > Dispute resolution
Dentons is lauded for its ‘experienced practitioners with extensive litigation and arbitration experience’, and sectors of activity include the manufacturing and automotive, energy, finance, construction and infrastructure, and transport industries, and it supports both local and international companies. Co-managing partner Anna Pukszto heads up the firm’s dispute resolution practice, as well as the restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy group with notable expertise in finance litigation. Michał Jochemczak chairs the arbitration team, while the construction practice is led by Agnieszka Wojciechowska and Agnieszka Wardak spearheads the white-collar crime department. Stanisław Sołtysik was elevated to the partnership in April 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Poland > Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency Poland
- Dispute resolution Poland
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