Rymarz Zdort Maruta placed among the market leaders by The Legal 500 EMEA 2025

The Legal 500 Europe 2025 ranking has confirmed Rymarz Zdort Maruta’s position as a leading law firm in Poland. This year we were recognised in 16 areas, and individual distinctions were awarded to 25 lawyers, including 8 individuals who were awarded distinctions for the first time.

Our firm was recognised as Tier 1 in seven practices areas: corporate law, mergers and acquisitions; private equity; TMT; restructuring and insolvency; data protection; energy; and dispute resolution.

We were classified as Tier 2 in the following practice areas: banking and finance; antitrust; business criminal law; capital markets; life sciences; real estate; and public procurement.

In addition, our tax law practice was recognised as Tier 3 and our intellectual property practice as Tier 4, and we appeared on the ‘Firms to Watch’ list in the construction category.

The following individuals were also recognised:

Managing partners Paweł Rymarz and Paweł Zdort were listed in The Legal 500 ‘Hall of Fame’ in the area of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and were each named a ‘Leading Individual’ in the private equity category. In addition, managing partner Magdalena Pyzik-Waląg was named a ‘Leading Individual’ in respect of restructuring and insolvency.

Partners Marcin Maruta in the area of TMT, Bartłomiej Wachta in the area of public procurement, Marek Durski in the area of energy, Iwona Her in the area of competition protection, Zofia Frydrychowicz in the area of banking and finance, Michał Czarnuch and Tomasz Kaczyński in the area of healthcare and life sciences, Krzysztof Sajchta and Łukasz Żak in the area of dispute resolution, and Marcin Serafin in the area of data protection were all recognised as ‘Leading Individuals’.

The following partners were classified as ‘Next Generation Partners’: Piotr Fedorowicz in respect of real estate, Piotr Kalina and Paweł Tobiczyk in respect of data protection, Filip Leśniak in respect of capital markets, Michał Pękała, LL.M. in respect of TMT, Jacek Zawadzki and Dr Jakub Zagrajek, CFA in respect of corporate law, Marcin Pieklak in respect of healthcare and life sciences, and Dr Jakub Rachwol in respect of banking and finance.

Maria Szczepańska in the area of business criminal law, Małgorzata Deruś in the area of private equity and Jakub Kowal in the area of TMT were recognised as ‘Leading Associates’.

In the ‘Other Key Lawyers’ category, the following lawyers were recognised: Marek Kanczew, Karolina Bąkowska, Paulina Cieślak, Marcin Gruszka, Aleksandra Kabać, Dr Paweł Mazur, Michał Milewski, Diana Sofu, Małgorzata Banaszkiewicz, Aleksander Jakubisiak, Mateusz Palian and Adrian Więsław.

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