Paulina Cieślak

Paulina Przybylska

Counsel
+48 22 520 4224
paulina.przybylska@rzmlaw.com

Paulina Przybylska is an advocate and counsel in the corporate department and a member of the Restructuring & Insolvency team of Rymarz Zdort Maruta.

Experience and education:

A specialist in civil procedure and proceedings, she focuses on proceedings related to bankruptcy and restructuring law. She manages a team that specialises in the development and implementation of complex and multi-threaded procedural strategies while representing creditors and bankruptcy trustees.

She represents clients in numerous precedent-setting dispute cases, including, as part of her team, on the side of creditors. Her scope of knowledge and experience includes filing actio pauliana lawsuits in connection with claims valued in the millions, applications seeking to prohibit management board members from conducting business activities, and numerous other lawsuits and pleadings in the course of proceedings involving entities undergoing restructuring or bankruptcy.

Additionally, she has repeatedly and successfully represented clients in negotiations and mediations, as well as contributed to the amicable settlement of a number of disputes.

Her experience also includes acting as lead counsel in a project involving comprehensive litigation support for tens of thousands of disputes conducted as part of so-called mass proceedings.

Paulina has represented clients before common courts of all instances, the Supreme Court, administrative courts, including the Supreme Administrative Court, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Before joining the firm, she worked at Polish and international law firms in Warsaw. She was also a lawyer at one of the best-known and most highly regarded investment fund management companies, as well as counsel at the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland (Prokuratoria Generalna RP), where she represented State Treasury companies and public sector entities in numerous complex disputes.

In 2009, she completed the “Master of German and Polish Law” programme organised jointly by the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She was admitted to the bar as an advocate in 2013.

In 2024, she completed postgraduate studies in Business and Legal Aspects of Restructuring and Insolvency at Kozminski University.

In the 2025/2026 academic year, she began postgraduate studies in Fiscal Penal and Economic Criminal Law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.