Our team
Dominik Szczygieł
Attorney-at-law, Tax Adviser, Senior Partner
Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University and Postgraduate Studies in Tax Law at WSB Universities in Poznań. He deals with tax law, succession advisory and commercial law, including in particular transformations of companies, acquisition and sale of businesses and shares in companies – especially in terms of tax obligations. He is fluent in English.
Marek Szczotka
Attorney-at-law, Senior Partner
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, Postgraduate Studies in Negotiation, Mediation and other Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw University. He specializes in the civil and commercial law, including the issues associated with the development and trading in real estates, the acquisition and sale of businesses and companies, preparing and negotiating trade contracts with domestic and foreign contractors. He is fluent in English.
Dr. Agnieszka Kastelik-Smaza
Advocate, of counsel
Doctor of Juridical Science specialising in the European law. Graduate of the Law and European studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, holder of a scholarship at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany). She completed the internships in German courts, Public Prosecutor’s Office and in a law firm, as well as a one-year internship at the tax department of Ernst & Young in Poznan. She was an employee of the tax department of KPMG where she was providing trainings on VAT tax and other issues. In the years 2004-2009 she was a doctoral student at the Chair of the European Law and European Doctoral College at the Jagiellonian University. She has been honoured in the XLV competition of “Państwo i Prawo” for the best doctoral and habilitation thesis. Her doctoral thesis on the procedure of preliminary ruling questions to the Court of Justice of EU was published both in German and Polish language. Moreover, she completed postgraduate studies “Intellectual Property Rights” at the Jagiellonian University. Author of publications concerning European law in the professional press and a member of the Polish Society for European Law. Takes part in academic conferences on a regular basis. She is fluent in English, German and French. She specializes in the European law and intellectual property law.
Dr. Katarzyna Nalepa-Wójtowicz
Attorney-at-law, Junior Partner
Legal Adviser, Doctor of Juridical Science. She is a graduate of the University of Silesia in Katowice (2004-2009) and the postgraduate studies “Accounting and Taxes in an Enterprise” at the Silesian University of Technology. In the years 2010-2012 she was a trainee attorney-at-law in the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Katowice. At 2018 she defended her doctoral thesis in the field of administrative and administrative court proceedings at the Silesian University. The main area of her interests covers administrative law, commercial law and copyright as well as civil court disputes. In our Law Firm she is responsible mainly for the projects where knowledge of contract law, medical law and labour law is required. She was gaining her professional experience in the firms of law advisers in Katowice and Sosnowiec. She is fluent in English.
Katarzyna Hampel
Advocate, Junior Partner
Graduate in law of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She studied political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Silesian University in Katowice. She is registered on the list of attorneys of the Bar Association in Bielsko-Biała. She deals with the law of new technologies, e-commerce, information protection and personal data protection law, the law of commercial contracts for the provision of IT services and telecommunications law. She graduated with honors from the postgraduate course “Law of New Technologies” at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). She is certified as an Internal Auditor of the Information Security Management System in accordance with PN-EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017.
She is fluent in French and English, both oral and written.
Dr. Gabriela Bania
Advocate, Junior Partner
Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Silesian University. She completed the advocate apprenticeship at the District Bar Council of Katowice and was granted the professional title (Advocate) in 2012. Doctoral student at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University, at the Chair of Labour Law and Social Policy. She participated in numerous professional trainings. She was gaining practical experience in the firms of law advisers and advocates in Katowice where she was providing legal services to individuals, business entities and public institutions, including hospitals and local government units. She also deals with labour, administrative, civil and medical law, as well as with public procurements. She is fluent in English.
Michal Bąk
Advocate, Junior Partner
Graduate of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw (summa cum laude). He provides comprehensive legal services to businesses and individuals. His area of practice also includes mergers and acquisitions (MA) transactions and litigation (civil and criminal). Prior to joining MSDS, he worked for several years in the Warsaw office of an international law firm providing services to entrepreneurs, in particular from German-speaking countries and Benelux. He is a graduate of the first edition of the Litigation Academy – a specialized training on litigation organized by one of the best law firms in Poland. Before that he has cooperated with several law firms of attorneys and solicitors
He speaks English (fluently) and German (at an intermediate level).
Wojciech Zontek
Advocate
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. During his studies he had professional traineeship at law firms and legal adviser offices in Cracow and Bielsko-Biała. He took advocate apprenticeship at the District Bar Council in Bielsko-Biała. In 2018 he passed his final bar exam with distinction. He specializes in the commercial law, registration procedure and criminal law. He is fluent in English.
Justyna Skowron
Attorney-at-law
Graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University in Katowice. She defended master’s thesis entitled “Settlement of Expenditures and Benefits between the Co-owners”. She gained her professional experience in the law firms in Bielsko-Biała and Katowice and in the District Court in Katowice. She is interested in the civil law, including in particular property law, and in family law.
Karolina Borowska
Attorney-at-law
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. During her studies, she spent one semester of studies at the Università degli Studi di Padova in Italy as part of a scholarship. She defended the master’s thesis entitled “Protection of the Use of Image for Commercial Purposes under Polish Law”. She gained experience in a law firm in Cracow as well as at a private entrepreneur in Bielsko-Biała. She is interested in the intellectual property rights. She is fluent in English, both written and verbal, and speaks Italian – at intermediate level.
Angelika Kliś
Advocate
Graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University in Katowice and of Administration at the School of Administration in Bielsko-Biała. During her law studies she defended the master’s thesis entitled “Abusive Clauses in the Insurance Contracts”, and during the administration studies – a bachelor’s thesis entitled “Transmission Easement in Practice”. She is interested in civil, business and criminal law. She gained her professional experience in the law firms in the Silesian province, at a District Court in Bielsko-Biała as well as at a District Court in Żywiec.
Anna Drążek
Attorney-at-law
Graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University in Katowice. She defended the master’s thesis entitled “Proper and Improper Recognition of Claims under Polish Private Law.” She was awarded a Scholarship of the Rector of the University of Silesia for the best students for outstanding academic achievements. She gained her professional experience in law firms in Cieszyn and during her activity within the Students’ Counselling Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia. She is a fluent speaker of English.
Paulina Jurasz
Attorney-at-law
Graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice and postgraduate studies in labor law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She gained professional experience in law firms in Bielsko-Biała, in the District Court in Katowice, in the legal department of a labour organization and in public administration. In MSDS Legal she deals with, among others, employment law. She participates in and conducts trainings in the field of legal labour protection.
Małgorzata Jodłowska – Loranc
Attorney-at-law
Graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wroclaw. She defended her master’s thesis in the field of civil law under the supervision of Joanna Kuźmicka-Sulikowska, Ph.D.. She gained professional experience in a law firm in Bielsko-Biała, providing legal services mainly to business entities. She is interested in civil law in the broadest sense.
Tomasz Bugaj
Tax Adviser
Graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University in Katowice and Civil Engineering (engineer’s degree) at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. At his law studies he defended the master’s thesis entitled “Rights and Obligations of Participants of the Investment and Construction Process”. In our Company he deals with the tax law and building law. He is currently gaining qualifications of tax adviser. He was gaining his professional experience in a law firm in Katowice. He is a fluent speaker of English.
Dawid Motyka
Tax Adviser, Trainee attorney-at-law
Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He defended his master’s thesis on “Report on the state of the municipality on the example of the Żywiec district municipalities”. He gained professional experience while working in a law firm in Bielsko, an international consulting company and tax administration. In our Law Firm, he deals with tax law. He speaks English.
Sabina Wojtek
Trainee attorney-at-law
She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economy of the University of Wroclaw. She defended a master’s thesis entitled ”Legal Institutions Protecting the Creators and Performers of Theatre Performances. Evolution and the Present State.” She graduated from the IP School at the H. Grocjusz Centre of Intellectual Property Rights. She was gaining her professional experience in the law firms and patent and law firms in Wroclaw.
Rafal Herma
Trainee attorney-at-law
He is a graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He defended his master’s thesis on “Compliance in labor law and minimizing the risk of discrimination in the employment of employees of public universities”, for which he received the award of the Minister of Family and Social Policy. He gained professional experience in law firms in Cracow. He is interested in employment law in the broad sense.
Wiktor Wegienko
Trainee attorney-at-law
He is a graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Lazarski University in Warsaw (graduated with honors) and medicine at the Second Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Warsaw. Doctor, specializing in family medicine. In our Law Firm, he deals with, among other things, medical law, labor, and social security law as well as public procurement. He speaks English.
Monika Gumula
Trainee attorney-at-law
Graduate of the University of Finance and Law in Bielsko-Biała. She defended her master’s thesis in the field of civil law under the supervision of Professor Leszek Ogiegło, Ph.D. During her studies, she worked as the head of the legal department in a company dealing with compensation claims. After graduating, she gained professional experience in a law firm in Bielsko-Biała, rendering legal services mainly to business entities. She is currently serving her legal training at the District Bar Council in Bielsko-Biała. The subject of her interest is civil law in its broadest sense.
Gabriela Bubnicka
Lawyer
Graduate of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University in Katowice. She defended her master’s thesis at the Department of Economic and Commercial Law entitled “Comparison of the freedom of a limited liability company contract and the articles of association of a joint-stock company”. Before starting law studies, she obtained an economic education. She specializes in legal problems in the field of economic and civil law, in particular in the field of liability for damages of insurers, transport law, the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), and other compensation disputes, including consumer disputes. She gained her professional experience in a law firm in Katowice, mainly dealing with entrepreneurs, and earlier with an insurance and reinsurance broker, verifying the conditions of liability for damages.
Agnieszka Chuda-Pindel
TPD Specialist, Trainee Auditor
Graduate of Finance and Accountancy, major: Accountancy and Financial Revision at the Faculty of Finance at the Cracow University of Economics, as well as of Mathematics, major: Mathematics in Finance at the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Technology in Cracow. Currently she is a second-year student of Financial Audit at the Faculty of Finance of the Cracow University of Economics, she is also gaining qualifications of certified auditor. In our Law Firm she prepares transfer pricing documentation and deals with the accounting and tax issues. She gained her professional experience as accountant in an accounting office and as assistant to a certified auditor in Bielsko-Biała.
Katarzyna Pytel
Office Manager
She holds master’s degree in Administration Studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesian University in Katowice. In our Law Firm she is responsible for administrative tasks of the office and for contacting our Customers on an ongoing basis. She is a fluent speaker of English.
Maria Hankus
Accounting Specialist
She is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University. In our Law Firm she is responsible for administrative tasks of the office and for contacting our Customers on an ongoing basis. She is a fluent speaker of English.
Aneta Ciećko
Administration Specialist
She is a graduate of the University of Bielsko-Biała, major: Management, specializing in: Management in Administration and Finance of Organization. In our Law Firm she is responsible for organising the administrative tasks of the office and for contacting our Customers on an ongoing basis. She is a fluent speaker of English.
Joanna Krawczyk-Miodońska
Office Assistant
Graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the Warsaw University. In our Law Firm she is responsible for organising the administrative tasks of the office and for contacting our Customers on an ongoing basis. She is a fluent speaker of English
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