Joining forces is the beginning, staying together is a progress, working together is a success.
~Henry Ford

Katarzyna Knapek

Lawyer-partner

In her daily practice she focuses on providing complex legal services for business clients. She is experienced in legal services of transport, industry, construction, manufacturing, medical and pharmaceutical entities. She has participated in conducting due diligence projects for foreign customers in English.

She is qualified in a law company and corporate advice, including M&A. Her constant professional development guarantees high quality of her work. She is fluent in English and Italian.

She is also interested in non-fiction literature, modern European cinematography and running.

Tomasz Rybczyński

Lawyer-partner

Undisputed specialist in criminal law, penal fiscal and tax law. His legal practice is related to penal, economic and medical law. He represents his clients in front of the public prosecutors, criminal courts, the police, heads of tax offices, as well as the directors of customs chambers.

He has complex knowledge and experience in the field of European and international criminal law, including the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights.

He speaks fluent English. Privately interested in history, socializing board games and sports.

karolina szmit

Karolina Szmit

Lawyer-partner

Her professional interest is civil law. She deals with providing services of legal assistance to entrepreneurs conducting its operations both within the country and abroad.

Within her duties she is also engaged in contract law, public procurement law, labor law and social security law, competition and consumer protection law. She has extensive experience in legal entity service of construction and production industry also in English.

She speaks fluent English and German. In her privet life she is interested in modern art and architecture, as well as skiing.

Karolina Uzdowska

Lawyer

In 2018, she successfully passed a bar examination. In 2014, she graduated with honors from law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia.

Professionally deals with issues related primarily to civil law and current law support for business entities, including in particular the field of industrial property law. She also has extensive experience in conducting criminal and family cases. The Clients’ clients praise her professionalism and commitment to introducing matters.

Urszula Klisiewicz – Makuła

Advocate

In 2020, she passed the state bar exam and was admitted to the practice of law by the Regional Bar Council in Katowice. In 2015, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice with a Master’s degree. Co-author of the publication “Legal First Aid Kit – Lex without tears”, published in cooperation with the Association of Polish Judges “Iustitia”. During her studies she was actively involved in the university life. She was an initiator and founder of the “Iustitia” Trial Criminal Law Scientific Association, in which she was also the Chairwoman. Speaker and co-organizer of scientific conferences on criminal law.

She deals with civil law, criminal law and legal services for business entities. Her interests also include issues related to bankruptcy law, copyright and personal data protection.
She has gained her experience working in public administration units, law firms and practices in courts and the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

A cat lover, interested in cooking, classical music and the culture of the interwar period.

Mateusz Jaracz

Trainee advocate

In 2021, he passed the state bar exam and was subsequently admitted to the list of attorneys at the Regional Bar Council in Katowice. In 2017 graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University in Katowice.

His professional career is primarily focused on criminal law. He also has extensive experience in providing services to business entities as well as in civil law cases. In his free time, interested in economics and keen on running.

Anna Cierpioł

Advocate

Passed the State Bar Examination in 2018. In 2014 she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia with honours.

Graduate of postgraduate studies in medical law and bioethics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Professionally, she deals with issues related primarily to civil law and the day-to-day services for business entities.

Her professional interests mainly include medical and contract law.

She is fluent in English.

Anna Bednarz – Bańkowska

Advocate

Passed the State Bar Examination in 2018.

Professionally, she deals with issues related to civil law and the day-to-day services for business entities. Her professional interests include criminal law, including commercial criminal law and fiscal criminal law.

Gained her professional experience in law firms, prosecutor’s offices, common courts and the Ministry of Justice.

She is fluent in English. Passionate about distant travels and crime stories.

dr Aleksandra Rożnowska

Advocate

Her scientific interests include issues of evidence in civil proceedings. In the Law Office she mainly deals with providing legal assistance to individual clients in the field of broadly understood civil and commercial law, as well as criminal law. She also conducts cases for clients living outside Poland in cooperation with foreign law firms. She is fluent in English and Spanish.

In 2016 she passed the bar exam. In 2020 she was entered on the list of attorneys at the Regional Council of Attorneys in Katowice. She completed her general training at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution in Krakow. Since 2014 she has been a doctoral student at the Chair of Civil Procedure of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice. In 2020 she defended her doctoral thesis with distinction and obtained the title of Doctor of Laws.

Sylwia Petelicka

Advocate

Trainee Advocate at the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Katowice. Passed the bar exam in 2019. In 2015, she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice with a Master’s degree.

As part of her professional career, she deals with civil law, criminal law and commercial law. Her interests also include issues related to commercial law.

In her free time, she loves mountain hiking and cinema, and is interested in cooking art.

Katarzyna Kościelny

Advocate

In 2016 entered on the list of attorneys at the Regional Council of Attorneys in Katowice, her practice focuses mainly on issues of broadly defined civil and business law.

She is interested in banking, bankruptcy and restructuring law. She has gained experience providing comprehensive services to entrepreneurs and individual entities. Privately a fan of Italian cuisine and travels.

Katarzyna Papiorek

Legal advisor

In 2016 entered on the list of attorneys at the Regional Council of Attorneys in Katowice, her practice focuses mainly on issues of broadly defined civil and business law.

She is interested in banking, bankruptcy and restructuring law. She has gained experience providing comprehensive services to entrepreneurs and individual entities. Privately a fan of Italian cuisine and travels.

Karolina Łaska

Attorney trainee

Attorney trainee on her third year at the Regional Council of Attorneys in Katowice. Since the second year of studies she has gained professional experience working in law offices of advocates and legal advisers in Krakow and Katowice.

In the Law Office she mainly deals with providing legal assistance to individual clients in the field of broadly understood civil and commercial law. Her main area of professional interest is family law.

Privately, she is interested in architecture and design, and a fan of Spanish cinema.

Malwina Kuzian

Attorney trainee

Attorney trainee of the second year at the District Bar Council in Katowice. In 2019 she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia. During her studies she belonged to the scientific circle of forensic science Veritas. She did her internship in law firms, courts and prosecutor’s offices. Professionally interested in criminal, family and medical law. She engages in pro bono actions.

Privately a fan of travel and extreme sports.

Anna Słowikowska

Dr canon law

A specialist in canon law. She deals with carrying out the processes of annulment of marriage. In the area of her practice, dr Anna Słowikowska supports people who are going to complain or have already complained to the Episcopal Court.

Her interests include the relations between the entities secular law and canon law.
She speaks fluent English, Italian and Latin. In her free time she is interested in landscape architecture.

Jakub Leraczyk

Legal advisor

Legal advisor dealing mainly with matters of tax , administrative and financial law as well as civil and economic-related service businesses. He has extensive experience in representing in front of tax authorities and the common courts, especially the administrative courts in administrative and tax processes.

He fluently speaks English. He is fond of cinema, photography and biking.

Jolanta Damec

Lawyer

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. A long-time employee of the customs and tax administration, including the Ministry of Finance (individual interpretations in the field of excise duty).

Specialist in the field of customs law and excise duty, she worked as a customs agent. He has extensive knowledge in the field of case-law in matters of excise duty. She specializes in the management of tax warehouses and bonded warehouses.

Joanna Gorzała

Secretariat manager

She studied journalism and social communication at the Higher School of Social Skills in Poznań. She did her internship in the District Court in Zabrze in the criminal department as a court secretary and recorder.

In the Law Office she deals with secretariat services and assists in administration of cases conducted by her team. At the same time she cooperates with theaters in Poland as an actress – she is a laureate of awards (among others at 43rd National Festival of One-Actor Theatres in Wrocław for her role in a monodrama in Silesian “Rajcula warzy”), a graduate of Acting College at the Silesian Theatre, she passed an extramural exam in front of a ZASP commission. She can be seen in productions on the stages of the Municipal Theatre in Gliwice and the Korez Theatre in Katowice.

Privately a lover of mountain hiking, good literature and a mother of Kalina.

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