Andrzej Szlezak
- President
Partner in the Soltysinski, Kawecki & Szlezak (SK&S) law firm.
He joined SK&S shortly after it was formed in 1991. In 1993, he became a partner, and in 1996 a Senior Partner of the firm. In SK&S he has been engaged in legal services for a number of privatizations and the restructuring processes of numerous sectors of Polish industry and the banking sector. He supervised numerous projects involving mergers and takeovers, took part in greenfield projects, prepared a large number of transaction documents, and was the author of numerous legal opinions on civil and commercial law. He was involved in the work of the commission for reducing bureaucracy in the economy set up by the prime minister Leszek Balcerowicz. He is an arbitrator of the Arbitration Tribunal at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw. Dr. Andrzej Szlezak is the author of numerous publications on civil and commercial law, including foreign-language publications.
At present Dr. Szlęzak is a professor at the Lazarski's University of Commerce and Law in Warsaw. Dr. Szlezak was a scholarship student at a number of foreign faculties, including the universities of Oxford and Michigan.
He received his Master's degree in English from the English Philology Department and his Master's degree in law from the School of Law Administration of the A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan. From 1979 to 1981 he was a trainee judge at the Voivodship Court in Poznan. As of 1979 he was a research worker at the Civil Law Institute of the A. Mickiewicz University, where he received his Doctor's degree and he wrote his post-doctorial thesis in civil law. He was a professor at the A. Mickiewicz University from 1994 till 1996.
