Pawel Bartosiewicz

Senior Associate

Warsaw

Paweł Bartosiewicz, Ph.D. is an attorney-at-law with over ten years of professional experience. He specialises in financial indebtedness restructuring and insolvency risk management. He has represented debtors (undertakings), investors interested in acquiring debtors or their assets, and creditors (Banks and other key counterparties) in restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings. In these matters, Paweł has acted as, among others, the President of the Creditors Council at more than 100 meetings. He has also advised clients on transactions perceived as alternatives to court restructurings, eg standstill agreements, multi-lateral restructuring agreements and other types of settlements and accords.

Paweł graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. He also holds a Diploma in Introduction to English and European Union Law from the University of Cambridge. In 2016, he defended his doctoral dissertation regarding court disputes between financial institutions and their corporate clients, which won the prize for Best Financial Markets Doctoral Dissertation (awarded by the Chairman of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority) and was published by Wolters Kluwer. He is a laureate (top 5) of “Rising Stars Lawyers – Leaders of Tomorrow”, a contest organised by “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”, and is the author of publications regarding Polish insolvency proceedings, out-of-court restructurings and banking law. Paweł is a member of INSOL International, a worldwide federation of national associations for accountants and lawyers who specialise in turnaround and insolvency.

Expertise

Practices

Restructuring

Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations

Banking and Finance

Sectors

Industrial and Manufacturing

Real Estate

Consumer and Retail

Office

Warsaw

Grzybowska 56
Warsaw
00-844

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted as an attorney-at-law

Publications: 19 December 2022

Poland's temporary covid response measures lead to permanent amendment of Polish insolvency law

In response to the Covid pandemic, new - simplified and temporary - restructuring proceedings were introduced in Poland to handle the anticipated increase in the volume of insolvent businesses. Two…

Publications: 10 April 2020

Covid-19 coronavirus: major update to the Polish anti-crisis shield for directors of stressed companies

Publications: 27 March 2020

Covid-19 coronavirus: how it will impact insolvency law matters and what further action lawmakers can take