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Rymarz Zdort Maruta placed among the market leaders by The Legal 500 EMEA 2024

27 March 2024

The Legal 500 Europe 2024 ranking has confirmed Rymarz Zdort Maruta’s position as one of the leading law firms in Poland. We were ranked in 15 areas, and a record number of our lawyers received individual recognition.

We were ranked in Tier 1 in the following five areas: corporate law and M&A, private equity, TMT, data privacy and data protection, and energy and natural resources.

Our firm was ranked in Tier 2 in the following categories: banking and finance, competition/antitrust, restructuring and insolvency, tax; white-collar crime; dispute resolution, real estate and public procurement.

In addition to the above accolades, our capital markets practice was ranked in Tier 3, our intellectual property practice in Tier 4, and our life sciences practice and lawyers were listed in the category ‘Firms to watch’.

The following individuals were also recognised:

The managing partners Paweł Rymarz and Paweł Zdort were listed in The Legal 500 ‘Hall of Fame’ for corporate law and M&A, and solidified their positions on the list of ‘Leading Individuals’ for private equity. In addition, managing partner Marcin Maruta was included in the list of ‘Leading Individuals’ in the TMT category.

The Rymarz Zdort Maruta partners recognised as ‘Leading Individuals’ were Bartłomiej Wachta (public procurement), Marek Durski (energy and natural resources), Ewa Bober (capital markets), Magdalena Pyzik-Waląg (restructuring & insolvency), Zofia Frydrychowicz (banking and finance), Michał Czarnuch and Tomasz Kaczyński (healthcare and life sciences), Marcin Serafin (data privacy and data protection).

Partners Michał Pękała (TMT), Paweł Tobiczyk (data privacy and data protection), Jacek Zawadzki and Jakub Zagrajek (corporate law), Marcin Pieklak (healthcare and life sciences) and Jakub Rachwol (banking and finance) were each named a ‘Next Generation Partner’.

Agnieszka Skorupińska (energy and natural resources) and Jakub Kowal (TMT) were recognised as ‘Rising stars’.

The following individuals were rated as recommended (‘Recommended Lawyers’): Karina Aust-Niewiadomska, Łukasz Gasiński, Damian Gudel, Piotr Fedorowicz, Iwona Her, Piotr Kalina, Filip Leśniak, Zbigniew Okoń, Krzysztof Sajchta, Leszek Tokarski, Łukasz Żak, Łukasz Lech, Irmina Wątły, Adrian Augustyniak, Karolina Bąkowska, Małgorzata Deruś, Tomasz Kordala and Maria Szczepańska.

The following were also among those recognised: Marek Kanczew, Wojciech Piszewski, Michał Milewski, Andrzej Granat, Michał Nawrocki, Adrian Więsław and Sebastian Stępiński.

We would like to thank our clients for their trust and recommendations and congratulate all of the featured lawyers and teams for their outstanding achievements.

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