aboutus
The Law Office was founded in 2005, out of inspiration stirring from our readiness to provide legal advice while maintaining direct contacts with our Clients and flexibly responding to their needs. Our partners combine theoretical legal knowledge with professional experience and understanding of business practices gained while working for foreign and Polish law offices and consulting companies. We offer our Clients a full scope of legal services, however, we focus, above all, on the provision of legal advice in the areas of our specialisation.
Since the very beginning of our activity, the Law Office has been seated in Warsaw, at 28, Emilii Plater Street, in the building of the Warsaw Corporate Center.
During all the years of its operation, the Law Office has managed to develop a competent and cooperative team, During all the years of its operation, the Law Office has managed to develop a competent and cooperative.
We are a member of the Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of Commerce.
Partners
Monika Smolarek
+48 602 125 474
Attorney at law
Specialization: civil and commercial law, restructuring and real estate law.
Advises companies with foreign capital investing in Poland, supervises and prepares due diligence reports, provides legal assistance in transactions of purchase/sale of business entities and real estate, mergers and restructuring of business entities.
Author of publications in International Financial Law Review, M&A Yearbook, Rzeczpospolita and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
Partner in the Firm since 2005.
She has also gained professional experience at Wierzbowski Eversheds as a legal adviser, among others as Head of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate Team (1998-2005), at KPMG as a legal adviser, among others as National Director of Legal Services (1993-1998), and at the Head Office of Foreign Trade of Inter-Vis Ltd as an in-house lawyer (1989-1993).
Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at Warsaw University and postgraduate studies “Legal Basis of the Investment Process in Poland” at the Warsaw School of Economics. Holder of the Council of Europe Scholarship at the Faculty of Law, University of Birmingham, in the field of studies on the European Convention on Human Rights.
Marcin Rogala
+48 606 397 189
Attorney at law
Specialization: civil and commercial law, in particular mergers and acquisitions and real estate trading.
Advises on the establishment of companies, acquisitions of shares, real estate, enterprises and mergers of business entities.
Author of publications in International Financial Law Review, Palestra, Corporate Law and Rzeczpospolita.
Partner in the Firm since 2005.
He has also gained professional experience, among others, at Wierzbowski Eversheds as an attorney at law, member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate Team (2000-2005), in Deloitte & Touche in the Legal Department as a lawyer (1999) and in Pawlak & Kiełczewski law firm as a lawyer (1998-1999).
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and completed postgraduate studies “Legal Basis of the Investment Process in Poland” at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Łukasz Caban
+48 604 054 312
Attorney at law
Specialization: real estate law, litigation, civil and commercial law
Represents clients in numerous court and administrative proceedings, including those concerning real estate. Has participated in numerous complex disputes before the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw. He has conducted numerous court disputes with entities from the medical industry and the National Health Fund.
He has represented clients in precedent-setting cases resulting in positive rulings issued by the Supreme Court.
Co-author of a commentary to the Act on Medical and Dental Profession and a guide on pursuing claims in Poland. Has been cooperating with entities from the medical industry for many years.
An expert conducting trainings on theoretical and practical aspects of lease agreements in shopping centres and warehouses.
Partner in the Firm since 2005.
He has also developed his professional experience in, among others, Wierzbowski Eversheds as an attorney at law and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate team (2002-2005), and in Peugeot Polska as an in-house lawyer (2000-2002).
Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration and a postgraduate course in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Warsaw.
coworkers
Wojciech Majdiuk
Attorney at law
Specialization: real estate law, administrative law related to construction process and M&A transactions, corporate services for business entities
In the SRC team since 2006.
He developed his professional experience in local administration bodies, dealing with such issues as real estate management and public procurements (2003-2006).
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia.
Krzysztof Mikołajczyk
Attorney at law
Specialization: business law, real estate law, personal data and intellectual property protection, compliance.
Advises on issues related to personal data protection and privacy, information and communication technologies, intellectual property, and consumer protection law.
In the SRC team since 2014.
He gained professional experience in the Warsaw office of the international law firm Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland (2012-2014) and as an in-house lawyer for companies of a leading Polish media and telecommunications group (2011-2012).
Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University.
Alicja Popłonkowska-Dębińska
Attorney at law
Specialisation: litigation, corporate services for business entities, labour law and administrative proceedings.
Experienced attorney at law with numerous successes in labor law disputes, involved in many complicated court proceedings. Also experienced in administrative and tax proceedings, including those before the Supreme Administrative Court which ended with the adoption of a resolution by a panel of seven judges.
In the SRC team since 2009.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
Maciej Turczyński
Attorney at law
Specialization: real estate law, business law.
Specializes in issues related to commercial real estate, including trading and management of such properties, lease of retail, office and warehouse space; construction process, including construction contracts, design and supervision and issues related to hotel business.
He advises international real estate investment funds, tenants and lessees of commercial space, as well as foreign hotel and restaurant chains.
He previously gained professional experience at SRC law firm from 2009 to 2014.
Between 2014 and 2018, he advised entities in the real estate, advertising and marketing industry and headed the Legal & Compliance department of Burger King Poland S.A.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.
Monika Urbańska
Attorney at law
Specialization: M&A transactions, litigation, contracts in business and construction process, corporate services for business entities, intellectual property law.
Co-author of the commentary to the Medical and Dental Profession Act and the guide to pursuing claims in Poland.
In the SRC team since 2006.
She gained her professional experience in Tomczak and Partners law firm (2005-2006). During her studies she did an internship in the notary office of Jolanta Teresa Demczyszyn in Sochaczew, she was also a volunteer of the Akademia Iuris Foundation providing pro bono legal advice.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and completed postgraduate studies in %22Managing Company Finances%22 at the Cracow University of Economics. She completed a two-year study program in British and Community Law at the English and European Law Center, organized by the University of Cambridge in cooperation with the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, as well as a study of International Law and Western Culture at the University of Notre Dame du Lac (Indiana, USA).
Tomasz Zapert
Attorney at law
Specialization: business law, real estate law.
He advises on projects concerning corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and real estate law.
He also provides day-to-day corporate services to business entities.
In the SRC team since 2014.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. During his studies he gained experience, among others, during internships at a notary’s office and in government administration offices.
Anna Czerkawska
Attorney at law
Specializations: white-collar crime, capital market law, civil and commercial law, litigation.
Specialist in issues related to white-collar crime, capital market and business law.
She represents clients in court and administrative proceedings and advises them on their day-to-day activities.
She has been working with the SRC team as an of counsel since 2024.
She previously gained professional experience working at SRC from 2011 to 2020 and then at the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego) from 2020 to 2023 in the positions of legal counsel in the Criminal Cases Department and head of the legal and proceedings team in the Infrastructure and Stock Exchange Trading Department.
She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw (graduated with honors). She completed postgraduate studies in investigative auditing and accounting at the Warsaw School of Economics (diploma with distinction) and at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in competition law.
She teaches postgraduate courses at the Warsaw School of Economics (in capital market law and FinTech) and is the author of press publications and co-author of collective publications (“Capital Market Law” C.H. Beck).
Ewa Rakowska
Specialisations: litigation, medical law, civil law, real estate law.
She also provides day-to-day corporate services to business entities.
In the SRC team since 2019.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and the postgraduate course “Medical Law, Bioethics and Sociology of Medicine” at the University of Warsaw. She also completed the course “Clinical research and development of a medicinal product”, organised by the Open University at University of Warsaw.
During her studies, she gained experience, among others, during her internship at the law firm “Dubois i Wspólnicy Kancelaria Adwokacko-Radcowska sp. j.”.
Since 2022, she has been included in the list of trainee attorneys at the Warsaw Bar Association.
Mateusz Wachecki
Specialisations: business and corporate law, real estate law.
He participates in projects in the field of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and real estate law. His duties also include day-to-day support of lawyers in providing corporate services to business entities, as well as preparing drafts of court letters, contracts and motions.
In the SRC team since 2022.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. During his studies, he gained experience at Drzewiecki, Tomaszek and Partners sp. j. law firm. (2019 – 2022) assisting in day-to-day corporate services for business entities.
Since 2023, he has been included in the list of trainee attorneys at the Warsaw Bar Association.
Zofia Okrasso
Attorney-at-law trainee
Specialisations: litigation, intellectual and industrial property law, civil law, real estate law
She advises on projects in the field of intellectual property law, civil law and real estate law. She also provides day-to-day corporate services to business entities.
In the SRC team since 2022.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (honours degree). She also graduated from the School of American Law “The American System of Criminal Justice”, organised by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw in cooperation with Lincoln Memorial University (Tennessee, USA). During her studies, she gained experience at the international law firm Olczak-Klimek, van der Kroft, Węgiełek.
Since 2023, she has been included in the list of trainee attorneys at the Warsaw Bar Association.
Mariola Postek
+48 664 903 928
From 2001 to 2006, she worked as an assistant at Wierzbowski Eversheds.
In the SRC team since 2006.
She graduated from Łazarski School of Commerce and Law with a degree in Foreign Trade.
Iwona Kamińska
+48 698 678 871
Assistant
She has been part of the SRC team since 2008.
Graduate of the Faculty of Management and Marketing at the University of Finance and Management with a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management and a graduate of the faculty of Finance and Accounting, specialisation: financial markets at the Vistula University of Finance and Business with a master’s degree.
Dorota Wełnicka
Assistant
In the SRC team since 2021.
She gained professional experience in Servier Polska Sp. z o.o., in the Foundation for Social Diversity and by running her own business.
Graduate of the University of Warsaw, Institute of Applied Social Sciences (2001) – MA in Sociology with a specialisation in Citizenship Education. In 2001, she completed postgraduate studies in marketing research at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology.
SRC’s team also consists of selected specialists – experts in other fields of law, architects, financiers, IT specialists, translators; people who have been cooperating with our law firm for many years and whose presence we would like to highlight here.
