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Andrzej Wierciński PhD
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Andrzej Wierciński PhD
co-founder and senior partner at WKB,
heads the M&A team and the Restructuring and Insolvency practice,
advises clients in state aid matters,
has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and in legal aspects of business restructurings,
was involved in the first privatization of enterprises and banks in Poland and provided advice on joint venture formation,
an expert in financial and tax negotiations and in providing regular legal assistance to corporate clients,
a holder of a second-level doctorate (doktor habilitowany) in law and a former visiting lecturer at Trinity College Oxford, as well as the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Selected experiences
Has advised, among others:
- an English shareholder in a corporate litigation finalized with an ownership restructuring of the company operating the Allegro platform
- Elektrim as respondent in an arbitration commenced by Deutsche Telekom
- Orkla concerning a number of acquisitions in media and food processing industry
- Hutchison Port Holdings in relation to container terminals operation matters
- Talisman Inc. in relation to shale gas exploitation in Poland
- EDF in relation to corporate restructuring of its Polish subsidiaries
- the Minister of Finance on the first privatisation of a Polish commercial bank
- a buyer on the privatisation of Telekomunikacja Polska
- Mittal Steel as a buyer on the privatisation of the Polish Steel Works Company (Polskie Huty Stali) and the Częstochowa Steel Works Company (Huta Częstochowa)
- in relation to the consolidation of power distribution sector;
- a buyer on the acquisition of Polmos Lublin
- the bondholders on the financial and ownership restructuring of Netia
- the bondholders on the restructuring of Belvedere
- in the insolvency proceedings regarding Stocznia Gdańsk as the receiver-in-bankruptcy
Recommendations
Andrzej Wierciński and Piotr Grabarczyk – both with excellent theorethical and practical backgrounds regarding the insolvency regulations. We really appreciate their attention to details while handling the case.
The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 | Restructuring and Insolvency
Andrzej Wiercinski is valued for his knowledge and experience.
The Legal 500 EMEA 2022 | Restructuring and Insolvency
Eminent practitioner Andrzej Wierciński is widely respected for his long-standing expertise in corporate law and M&A transactions. He is praised by market sources for "his good commercial understanding of clients needs.
Chambers Europe 2019 | Corporate/M&A
He understands the psychology of the business and is able to predict long-term effects of the proposed legal solutions.
Chambers Europe 2018 | Corporate/M&A