WĄSIKLEGAL

03 — Experience

In numbers

Selected work illustrating scale, breadth and approach.

01
BUSINESS LAW

Long-standing business-law practice

More than 16 years advising on decisions, contracts, transactions and disputes where legal structure must fit the operational, financial and strategic reality of the business.

STRATEGY · TRANSACTIONS · CONTRACTS · DISPUTES
16+ years
02
LEGAL LEADERSHIP

International Legal & Compliance function

Years of leadership of an international legal function, coordination of local counsel and creation of workflows, templates, policies, reporting and legal operations for fast-moving technology businesses.

EEA · UK · US
10+ jurisdictions
03
REGULATED GROWTH

FinTech and cross-border structures

Supported licensing work, Luxembourg fund structuring, investor onboarding, expansion and corporate governance in regulated environments.

EU · UK · Switzerland
EMI · VASP · FUND
04
CONTRACTS & DISPUTES

Commercial litigation, arbitration and procurement

More than 100 court, arbitration and procurement-appeal proceedings, including complex contractual disputes and multi-party settlement negotiations focused on a commercially useful outcome.

COURTS · ARBITRATION · PROCUREMENT · NEGOTIATION
100+ disputes
05
TRANSACTIONS & SCALE

M&A, investment and new ventures

Led M&A, reorganisations and seed/VC investments across Poland, the EU and the US, including three closed investments worth approximately USD 8M in aggregate and acquisitions in technology, media and smart-city sectors.

DUE DILIGENCE · SIGNING · CLOSING · POST-CLOSING
USD 8M
06
PRODUCT & INNOVATION

Digital products and market entry

Provided legal support to more than 100 startups — from business model and market entry to scaling SaaS, AI, Web3 and B2C products, contracts, IP, privacy and customer-facing documentation.

AI · SAAS · WEB3 · B2C
100+ startups
07
DATA, IP & DIGITAL

Data protection, intellectual property and digital regulation

Delivered more than 30 GDPR, privacy and data-compliance implementations, alongside projects covering the AI Act, information security, IP portfolios, software and trademarks.

GDPR · AI ACT · ISO 27001 · IP · EUIPO
30+ implementations

04 — Experience

Selected matters

Ownership of complete legal areas, complex projects and their practical implementation — across businesses at different stages of growth.

01BOARD · 10+ JURISDICTIONS · LEGAL OPERATIONS

Building and leading legal functions

Creating legal teams that operate as business partners, not merely document-approval desks.

  • years of Head of Legal experience and leadership of an international Legal & Compliance function
  • designed intake, prioritisation, templates, playbooks, approval standards, reporting and legal archives
  • recruited and mentored lawyers, managed quality and trained managers and product teams
02US · EU · USD 8M · M&A

Corporate, M&A and investment

End-to-end ownership of ownership changes and transactions, from structure and due diligence to closing and integration.

  • US seed and venture-capital investments with an aggregate value of approximately USD 8M
  • a merger valued at approximately PLN 10M, an asset-business acquisition and acquisitions of equity and technology assets
  • group reorganisations, financing, investment documents, corporate housekeeping and a Luxembourg fund structure
03100+ STARTUPS · AI · SAAS · WEB3

Technology, product and new ventures

Legal support from the first business-model decision through product launch and scale.

  • provided legal support to more than 100 technology startups, including international market-entry projects
  • SaaS, software, AI, Web3, DLT, digital products, terms, marketing, consumer law and customer documentation
  • co-created a closed AI ecosystem combining hardware and software for confidential legal work
04EMI · VASP/CASP · AML · MICA

FinTech, payments and regulation

Connecting product design with regulation and governance for supervised businesses.

  • contributed to European EMI and VASP licensing processes and worked directly with regulators and local counsel
  • payments, digital assets, AML, MiCA, investor onboarding and cross-border structures
  • governance and regulatory oversight as a supervisory-board member of a national payment institution
05HUNDREDS OF CONTRACTS · PLN 50M+

Contracts, infrastructure and industry

Long-term work on projects where the contract must reflect technology, schedule and delivery reality.

  • hundreds of commercial, supply, services, framework, technology and infrastructure agreements
  • machinery, installations, works, outsourcing and multi-party cooperation structures
  • energy projects and industrial contract portfolios exceeding PLN 50M
06100+ PROCEEDINGS · PLN 19M

Disputes, negotiation and procurement

Dispute strategy grounded in evidence, business objectives and a realistic view of settlement options.

  • 100+ court, arbitration and National Appeals Chamber proceedings
  • a contractual-penalty dispute of almost PLN 19M resolved through court and out-of-court settlements
  • dozens of procurement processes for construction, energy, industrial and Oil & Gas sectors
07GDPR · AI ACT · NIS2 · DORA · DATA

Compliance, data and digital regulation

Compliance systems designed to work in operations, not only on paper.

  • GDPR, AI Act, NIS2, DORA, Data Act, DSA and Cyber Resilience Act: impact assessments, obligations mapping and implementation plans
  • governance, risk assessments, policies, contracts, information security, training and escalation paths
  • IP, software, know-how, trade secrets, trademarks and representation in EU matters
08BOARD · MEDIA · INFRASTRUCTURE

Management, media and regulated sectors

A perspective extending beyond the conventional external-counsel role.

  • managed a creative-sector company and supported a feature film and recurring television programme
  • ongoing advice to aviation, mining, healthcare, tourism, municipal and public-sector organisations
  • supervisory-board roles in companies and chairmanship of a foundation oversight body

Polish attorney-at-law · LL.M. in International Commercial Law · law and intellectual property · English C1, including legal English