Piotr Wasilewski, PhD

For over 20 years, our Law Firm has assembled teams of experts with capabilities to undertake the most ambitious business projects on the domestic and international markets, and to act in precedent-setting cases before national and EU courts. Currently, our Law Firm consists of more than 60 lawyers who are supported by experts in management, finance and IT. 

The Law Firm’s Clients include small and medium-sized enterprises, holding companies, large corporations based in Poland and elsewhere, as well as major public institutions. We also advise individual Clients on selected matters, assist SMEs, and cooperate on an ongoing basis with many chambers of commerce, trade and employer associations, and collective management organizations. Our expert lawyers are involved in work on legislative proposals and participate in the legislative process by drawing up opinions for government administration bodies and the Sejm and the Senate of the Republic of Poland. 

Our long history of practice and extensive expertise, with particular experience in intellectual property law, new technologies law, competition law, personal data protection law, and civil and procedural law, have earned multiple distinctions and awards. Each year, we are featured in the most prominent Polish and international law firm ranking guides (Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, Chambers Fintech Legal, IP STARS, WTR 1000, The Legal 500, Rzeczpospolita, IAM Patent 1000). 

Our Law Firm has established a well-deserved reputation for combining practical skills with theoretical knowledge of the law. Many partners and lawyers are lecturers and academics at renowned Polish universities and research institutes (including the Jagiellonian University and the Polish Academy of Sciences), as well as authors of publications, monographs, and commentaries (on topics such as copyright and related rights, industrial property law, and personal data protection law, ) and the regime of private law. 

With offices in Warsaw and Kraków, the Firm is well situated to represent Clients before all courts and administrative bodies in Poland. Thanks to international collaboration, our Firm can offer legal assistance to Clients in most countries of the world, and for many years it has been coordinating legal services for foreign Clients based on a permanent partnership with leading law firms in the Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE Legal Hub). Our lawyers have the skills to provide services in English, French, German and Spanish. 

We truly focus on the personal development of our Firm’s lawyers and we aid them in continuously improving their professional, business and management competence. Our Law Firm also supports pro bono work. 

We are aware that innovation and emerging technologies are shaping the ways in which legal services are provided. Therefore, we are committed to creating and implementing innovative solutions that improve our performance and address the needs of our Clients. 

Piotr specializes in media and advertising law, particularly with regard to electronic media, and new technologies law and intellectual property law, advising on a range of issues, as well as in litigation, with particular emphasis on the protection of personality rights on the Internet. At  our Law Firm, he is responsible for the Media Communication & Entertainment Practice.

Piotr is a founding member of the New Technologies Law Association (SPNT) and a member of the E-sport Team at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT). He is a permanent adviser to the IAB Poland Internet Industry Employers’ Association. In 2005 and 2006, he acted as legal counsel to the Creative Common movement in Poland.

He speaks at conferences in Poland and elsewhere, and conducts specialist training courses on intellectual property law and a broad range of Internet law issues. He is also a postgraduate course lecturer  (Jagiellonian University, Polish Academy of Sciences). He is the author of numerous academic publications, including two monographies: Open Content. Zagadnienia prawne [Open Content. Legal aspects] and Wolność prasowej wypowiedzi satyrycznej. Studium cywilistyczne na tle porównawczym [Freedom of press satirical expression. Civil law study with comparisons].

Piotr Wasilewski, Ph.D. is a lecturer at the Institute of Competition Law and Media at the Intellectual Property Department of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University, and completed postgraduate studies on intellectual property law.

He advises Clients in Polish and English.