Karol Maciej Szymański
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- specialises in commercial law, capital market law and corporate disputes.
- was awarded the “Recommended Lawyer” distinction in Legal500 EMEA 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 in Private Client and 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Dispute Resolution and in 2024 in Commercial, Corporate And M&A.
- holds the title of Certified Advisor in the Alternative Trading System awarded by the Warsaw Stock Exchange No. 9/2014.
- advises on public market transactions, hostile and friendly takeovers, as well as on the development and implementation of rules of internal organisation and cooperation of capital company bodies
- assists supervisory boards in undertaking various control activities and also performs the function of “advisor to the supervisory board”.
- participant in a number of restructuring projects related to changing the operating patterns of extensive capital groups in which public companies held significant positions
- appointed by the Minister of Development and Technology (Mr. Waldemar Buda and Mr. Krzysztof Hetman) to exercise temporary forced administration over the company Novatek Green Energy sp. z o.o. with its registered office in Kraków, i.e. an entity registered in Poland, belonging to the capital group PAO Novatek with its registered office in the Russian Federation, under the rules resulting from the Act on special solutions to prevent support for aggression against Ukraine and to protect national security (the so-called “Sanctions Act”)
- since 2012 has continuously served as a member of supervisory boards (including delegated to permanent individual performance of supervisory activities) and audit committees of a number of public and non-public companies belonging to the private sector, representing various sectors of the economy (including financial, IT, FMCG, construction and construction-related areas)
- served as a member of the management board in domestic commercial law companies, including the role of interim manager in the parent company of an international capital group in the human resources management industry with annual revenues of approx. PLN 0.5 billion.
- co-author of Beck’s Large Commentary “Commercial Companies Code. Commentary on amendments (so-called holding law)”.
- author and co-author of publications, including scientific ones, on selected aspects of company law and jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and common courts
- lecturer at many conferences and seminars on business law
- actively involved in numerous legislative works resulting in, inter alia, amendments to the Code of Commercial Companies, including a reform popularising remote meetings of supervisory and management boards of capital companies and owner’s meetings held using electronic means of communication, and resulting in modifications to the organisation of management boards and supervisory boards of capital companies
- is socially active, including serving as a member of the Board of the Foundation “Jesteśmy razem. Pomagamy!”, which, during the first stage of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, organised the coordination of the activities of more than seventy private companies in providing aid, the material value of which exceeded PLN 50 million.
- honoured in the “Most valuable lawyers according to Gentleman magazine” 2023 list
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