POLAND Law and Practice Contributed by: Karol Tatara, Paweł Kuglarz, Anna Czarnota and Mateusz Kaliński, Tatara & Partners Restructuring & Insolvency Law Firm
Tatara & Partners Restructuring & Insolvency Law Firm specialises in restructuring and insolvency law, with a particular focus on arrangement approval pro - ceedings, pre-packs and quick restructuring. It has offices in Krakow and Warsaw, and advises busi - nesses facing financial difficulties as well as those optimising or developing their businesses. Clients include business owners, members of management boards and members of supervisory boards. The team handles some of the most complicated and
complex projects in Poland, and the lawyers’ experi - ence and deep understanding of business in general enable them to offer top-level legal services tailored to clients’ needs. The firm has successfully advised in many innovative, precedential and high-value pro - jects, including for well-known public companies that are listed on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. It conducted the very first pre-pack sale in Poland and has experience in every new proceeding introduced by the Restructuring Law.
Authors
Karol Tatara is an attorney-at-law and a qualified restructuring adviser at Tatara & Partners who specialises in insolvency and restructuring proceedings, and advised on the first pre-pack (prepared liquidation) in
Anna Czarnota is an attorney-at-law and a qualified restructuring adviser who leads the Tatara & Partners Warsaw office. Anna represents clients in complex litigation and distressed M&A, as well as in high-
Poland. He advises on all new proceedings introduced by the Restructuring Law, as well as arrangement approval proceedings. Karol lectures on bankruptcy law at the Bar training programme of the Krakow District Chamber of Attorneys-at-Law, and is a vice-president of the INSO Section of the Allerhand Institute, a member of INSOL Europe and vice-dean for legislative matters of the National Chamber of Restructuring Advisors. He also offers expert advice on the World Bank Doing Business report and Global Indicators analysis. Burkhardt, Wolf Theiss, and Taylor Wessing. He is currently head of the international desk at Tatara & Partners. He is a director of the Austrian Law School at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, an EC expert in preparing a new directive for the harmonisation of insolvency and restructuring law, vice-president for International Matters of the INSO Section of the Allerhand Institute, and Poland’s representative at INSOL Europe Council. He is also a member of the Task Force of the Polish Codification Commission for insolvency and restructuring matters. Paweł Kuglarz is an attorney-at-law with over 30 years of professional experience working as a partner for international law firms, such as Beiten
profile insolvency and restructuring proceedings. She graduated from the University of Wrocław, and also studied at the Université Paris-Dauphine.
Mateusz Kaliński is a lawyer and the communications manager at Tatara & Partners, who focuses on various aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring law. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University and gained
his master’s degree in law from the Catholic University of America. Mateusz handles complex insolvency and restructuring proceedings, both domestic and international. He specialises in dispute resolution (including directors’ and officers’ liability issues) and corporate and commercial law. He is a secretary of the INSO Section of the Allerhand Institute and a member of INSOL Europe, as well as serving as an expert for the World Bank Doing Business report and Global Indicators analysis.
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