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Bartosz Merczynski

Partner

Warsaw

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Bartosz Merczynski

Partner

Warsaw

Bartosz Merczyński, Ph.D. heads the Warsaw Restructuring, Insolvency and Finance Litigation practice. He is an attorney-at-law with over 20 years of professional experience and has been with the firm since 2005.

He has played a prominent role in many of the largest and most complex restructuring and bankruptcy cases in Poland. His work involves both in- and out-of-court restructurings of distressed businesses on behalf of a diverse range of clients. He is repeatedly retained by banks and other major secured creditors and bondholders. He regularly represents financial institutions acquiring control positions in financially distressed companies. Bartosz also acts for investors seeking to provide new money financing or to acquire the assets or businesses of financially troubled companies. Bartosz is a frequent author on various restructuring-related topics and has written for an array of notable industry publications.

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Office

Warsaw

Grzybowska 56
Warsaw
00-844

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Qualifications

Professional

Qualified as a licensed restructuring adviser, 2015

Admitted as an attorney-at-law, the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law, 2010

Qualified as a bankruptcy receiver and trustee, 2004

Academic

PhD in cross-border civil procedure and insolvency law, Institute of Law at the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2010

Post-graduate studies in Bankruptcy Law and Debt Restructuring, European High School of Law and Administration in Warsaw, 2004

Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, 2002

Recognition

Awards & accolades

Band 1 Banking & Finance Lawyer in Poland

Chambers Europe, 2023