Zofia Frydrychowicz is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Poland, a partner at Rymarz Zdort Maruta and a co-head of the Banking and Finance practice.
Experience and education:
She specialises in providing legal advice on domestic and cross-border financings and debt restructurings, as well as in banking and finance transactions. She has advised on numerous projects, representing both banks and borrowers in a wide range of transactions, including acquisition finance, project finance, and corporate and aircraft finance, as well as complex refinancings. She has broad experience in advising financial institutions and issuers in domestic and international bond offerings. Zofia has also advised in connection with a number of transactions involving the acquisition of non-performing loan portfolios.
She graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1998, also completing a course in French law organised by the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Université de Poitiers in 1996, and qualified as an attorney-at-law in 2002. She joined Rymarz Zdort Maruta, formerly known as Weil, Gotshal & Manges – Pawel Rymarz sp.k., in 1996.
Awards and rankings:
For years, Zofia Frydrychowicz has been recommended in prestigious international rankings as an expert in banking and finance and in debt capital markets. In the prestigious ranking Chambers & Partners (European and Global edition), Zofia Frydrychowicz has been recommended in banking and finance since 2021.
She has also repeatedly received accolades by other prestigious rankings recognising her as a high-level expert in her area of expertise, including “Leading Individual” (The Legal 500, 2024 edition), “Highly Regarded” (IFLR1000 regularly since 2018), and “Women Leaders EMEA” (IFLR1000, 2022, 2023 and 2024 editions).