Michał Konieczny
Areas of law and specializations
- For startups
- M&A and venture capital
- New technologies (IT/TMT)
- Corporate law
- AIC (Alternative Investment Company)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Intellectual property
- Arbitration and litigation
- Cybersecurity
- FinTech
- Family foundations
- IT contracts
- M&A
- Corporate governance
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
Bio
For ten years now, he has been managing a 30-person team comprising lawyers and attorneys-at-law. He has coordinated transactions that have been recognized in a number of Polish and global legal rankings, including the ranking produced by the Rzeczpospolita daily, Legal500, and Chambers. He specializes in corporate law, business law, IT law, and international law.
Experience
Michał has negotiated agreements for the implementation of an IT product in 16 banks of a global banking group for which the Law Firm received the Outstanding Legal Skill in Handling a Transaction award from the Rzeczpospolita daily.
Rzeczpospolita also recognized the Law Firm for another transaction Michał has supervised, which involved foreign investors and jurisdictions (Luxembourg, Switzerland, the USA, Israel, United Arab Emirates, and EU Member States).
Thanks to extensive experience in terms of handling transactions on the capital market, including but not limited to cross-border M&As of IT companies from all over the world, he successfully provides services to venture capital funds that every year close several investment transactions. Michał also specializes in designing capital structures, handling corporate governance, and acquiring private financing.
The team he manages implements innovative technologies on the market—e.g., they were responsible for one of first integrations of a Polish product with Google Assistant and commercialized an IT product in the USA and in Western Europe. He utilizes his knowledge to provide support to clients whose business partners often include unicorns.
Even before GDPR came into effect, he coordinated several dozen projects consisting in ensuring compliance with the Regulation for enterprises operating in the IT, insurance, finance, gambling, and property development sectors.
He is the author of a number of articles, including the one on trends and directions of the development of the TMT sector in Poland, which was published in Chambers Practice Guide.
Professional qualifications and licenses
- Michał is an attorney-at-law and a member of the Kraków Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law (license number: KR-2194)
- He speaks fluent English.