The Polish branch of DLP Dr Lewandowski & Partners was established in order to provide effective legal consultancy to clients, especially foreign companies entering the Polish market, along assisting Polish clients in cross – border activities throughout Europe. Our key fields of expertise cover legal relationships:
- International law and corporate law
- Fusiones y adquisiciones
- Trademarks and patent law
- Competition law
- Labour law
- Real Estate law
- Building law and architectural law
- Energy law
- Restructuring and insolvency law
- Criminal law and law of tort
- Litigation and arbitration
Biography: Dr. Robert Lewandowski, co-founder and managing partner of DLP Dr Lewandowski & Partners in Poland
The Warsaw and the Wrocław offices are headed by Dr. Robert Lewandowski, who has previously worked for major legal firms in Warsaw and London and who has written many legal books and taught university courses in English, German and Polish.
School attendance: 1974 – 1984 in Warsaw/ Poland. Education 1984 – 1986: Study of mathematics and German philology at the University of Warsaw, a degree in German philology. In the period of 1992 – 1996 study of law at the University of Mainz / Germany. 1996 passing First legal examination. 1997 PhD thesis. 1998 passing Second state legal examination in Mainz/Germany.
Work experience: 1992 academic work for Professor P. Allen at the University of Concordia, Canada. From 1993 until 1996 research assistant for the chair of criminal law for Professor J. Krümpelmann at the University of Mainz, Germany. 1997 – 1999 traineeship in Rheinland – Pfalz /Germany. Project leader at the German Foundation for International Legal Co-operation in Bonn / Germany. Enrolled in the list of German attorneys in Frankfurt am Main (2000). 2001 – 2005 lawyer at Gleiss Lutz in Warsaw/Poland including a secondment to Herbert Smith in London. 2006 independent lawyer in Warsaw in co-operation with Derra, Meyer & Partners. Enrolled in the list of Polish attorneys in Warsaw (2009). Dr Robert Lewandowski co-founded the Polish branch of DMP Derra, Meyer & Partners and during the last ten years, he has overseen the establishment and development of the two Polish offices while practising and advising clients in his position as the senior figure.