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Central and Eastern Europe 2017

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Marcin Czapiewski

Head of legal and compliance department | TU Europa. and TU na Życie Europ

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Marcin Czapiewski

Head of legal and compliance department | TU Europa. and TU na Życie Europ

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An excellent lawyer with a range of experience across various in-house legal roles, Marcin Czapiewski leads a 14-person team of lawyers that provide support to two large insurance companies, TU Europa and TU na Życie Europa. Responsible for handling all corporate issues, investments, business negotiations and M&A transactions, Czapiewski also supervises the companies’ lawsuits and cooperates actively with shareholders, management and the supervisory board. Czapiewski took up his current role at a time when he had virtually no experience in the insurance sector. ‘I faced the situation when my employees knew more about insurance then I did’, he shares. ‘It was a real challenge. Being a manager of people who know more than you do is extremely demanding. Sooner or later, every in-house lawyer has to face such a challenge, as nobody can know everything’. Czapiewski quickly adapted to his role subsequently gaining formidable knowledge of the sector and successfully transforming the legal department by introducing clear engagement rules for all internal lawyers and rolling out innovative electronic solutions. Czapiewski has also created a training program providing employees from other departments with dedicated trainings prepared by the team’s lawyers. ‘From a long term perspective, it reduces the number of requests directed to the legal department and, in consequence, increases lawyers “effectiveness”,’ he elaborates. At the moment, Czapiewski is working on a knowledge base project, which is expected to enable a better flow of the ‘know-how’ in the company. Czapiewski also impresses with his transactional achievements, having closed the sale transaction of the second largest (in terms of collected premiums) Polish insurance company at the end of 2016. Another important milestone was Czapiewski’s work on the agreement between the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection and the life insurance industry. He says: ‘I was involved in the negotiations at the Polish Chamber of Insurance level. It was an issue important for the entire industry, since the situation on the market of investment insurance was similar to the UK crisis in 2015’.

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