Paweł Pietkiewicz

Paweł Pietkiewicz is a Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution in the Warsaw office.

Paweł has extensive experience across a wide range of litigation and arbitration cases. He has represented defendants in a number of proceedings relating to product liability and personal injury claims. Paweł advised on the matters related to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cars and tobacco products. He has also represented defendants in court proceedings pertaining to various D&O and PI matters. In 2007-08 he was a member of a working group of the Law Reform Commission at the Ministry of Justice (Komisja Koodyfikacyjna Prawa Cywilnego przy Ministerstwie Sprawiedliwości) working on draft group action/collective redress legislation. He is also a reporter for Poland for EJF and takes an active part in activities of that organisation.

Paweł is the Chairman of the Appointing Committee of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers 'Lewiatan' (Komitet Nominacyjny Sądu Arbitrażowego przy Krajowej Konfederacji Pracodawców Prywatnych „Lewiatan”) and is entered on the list of arbitrators of that court. Paweł Pietkiewicz was an arbitrator in proceedings carried out on the basis of the rules of the Court of Arbitration at the National Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw, the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers 'Lewiatan' and the Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

The Legal 500 and Chambers Europe describe Paweł as Poland’s leading litigator. Chambers Global presents him as “one of the best litigators in town.

Relevant experience includes advising: 

• A major global insurance company on various insurance claims related to PI, D&O and financial policies with some multi-million claims
• A large insurance broker over a dispute with its client over the loss adjustment proceedings 
• A museum on a number of court proceedings related to regaining various artworks (ongoing) 
• A subsidiary of Poland’s largest copper producer over a dispute over a pipeline with Polish oil & gas company. Value of the dispute was PLN200 million 
• A television promotion company on various intellectual property infringements
• A leading music radio broadcaster on various intellectual property infringements 
• A major alcoholic beverage manufacturer on various court proceedings 
• Ship owners on bankruptcy proceedings of Stocznia Szczecin Porta Holding, with claims in excess of millions of PLN
• One of the largest international tobacco companies on a product liability dispute
• A number of pharmaceutical and medical devices companies over various product liability issues
• A French construction company on an EUR27 million construction claim dispute
• An American tobacco producer on the first Polish tobacco litigation in which it has been sued for damages resulting from the personal injury of a tobacco smoker

Paweł Pietkiewicz was the author or co-author of the following publications on arbitration issues:

• Arbitration clause, Law Monitor (Klauzula arbitrażowa, Monitor Prawniczy), 2000, No. 2, co-authored with Karol Rutkowski
• Poland: Capacity to enter into an arbitration agreement; International Arbitration Law Review 2002, 5(5), N53-54; co-authoted with Barotsz Dębski
• Exclusion of an arbitrator. Selected procedural problems in the light of the provisions of the Code of Civil Proceedings, Part Five (Wyłączenie arbitra. Wybrane problemy proceduralne na tle przepisów Części piątej Kodeksu postępowania cywilnego), in: International and Domestic Commercial Arbitration on the Threshold of the 21st Century. Liber Amicorum Tadeusz Szurski (Międzynarodowy i krajowy arbitraż handlowy u progu XXI wieku. Księga pamiątkowa dedykowana doktorowi habilitowanemu Tadeuszowi Szurskiemu), edited by P. Nowaczyk, S. Pieckowski, J. Poczobut, A. Szumański, A. Tynel, Warsaw 2008
• Advance to Cover the Costs of Arbitration Paid by Both Parties. Claim for the Payment of the Advance Paid for the Opposing Party. (Zaliczka obydwu stron na koszty postępowania przed sądem polubownym. Roszczenie o zasądzenie nadpłaconej zaliczki), Kwartalnik ADR Arbitraż i Mediacja, 2009, Nr 2 (6)

Education:

Law studies at the Law and Administration Department of Warsaw University, 1994, Master Degree. Studies at the Sociology Department of Warsaw University, 1990. Economics studies at Vlaamse Economische Hogeschool in Brussels, 1991. Studies on European law at Utrecht University in Utrecht, 1993. Studies on French civil and commercial law at Université Panthéon, Assas (Paris II), 1994. DEA Droit International Privé on private international law and international arbitration at Université Panthéon, Assas (Paris II), 1996, no diploma. Post-graduate Studies on Copyright Law, Publishing Law and Press Law at The Institute of Inventions and Intellectual Property Protection at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, 1998. Advocate’s training with Warsaw Bar Association, 2000, advocacy diploma.