Marcin K. Piechocki is an advocate (barrister) and member of the Warsaw and Hamburg Bars as well as the International Bar Association specializing in civil law, real estate law, commercial and company law, European law and European business law, transnational law and international trade as well as in litigation and arbitration. He has acquired keen knowledge of the German and English legal systems.
He has 15 years of international experience in serving State–owned companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, of the Polish and Dutch Government, domestic and foreign government institutions, business entities from the real estate, transport, construction, pharmaceutical and food industries, as well as companies dealing in international trade in the oil, chemical and food industries.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at Wrocław University, Poland (2001), at Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany (LL.M., 2002) and from the Faculty of Law of the Oxford University, England (M.Jur. – Magister Juris, 2006). He also completed “the Introduction to the system of U.S. law” course at Christian Albrechts University of Kiel (2001) and advocacy skills in the international arbitration course organized by School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London (Diploma, 2009).
Advocate Marcin Piechocki worked in the headquarters of BMW A.G. in Munich, Germany (2000), then he completed a “stage” at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in chambers of British judge David A.O. Edward (2001) and he interned in the German Rechtsanwealt legal office Johansson in Kiel, Germany in the years 2001-2002. From 2003 – 2004 and during his pupilage (advocate training) (2006-2009) and after its completion and entering the list of attorneys in 2009, he worked for reputed law firms such as: Wardyński & Partners, Hogan & Hartson, Richardson & Wspólnicy sp.k., Squire Patton Boggs Krześniak sp.k. and Swedish law firm Magnusson and he cooperated with his supervisior advocate dr Zbigniew Banaszczyk and advocate Bartosz Grohman. In the years 2014 – 2015 he was the Advisor to the Polish Minister of Justice. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Bar Association in Hamburg as a European lawyer.
Apart from his native Polish, Marcin Piechocki is fluent in English and German. He is the author of publications in the field of law, among others in a leading Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita. He participated many times in the Economic Forum in Krynica and in Katowice and in the Wrocław Global Forum organized by the Atlantic Council. He was also a participant in the Executive Club events in Warsaw.
As part of his legal service, advocate Marcin Piechocki has worked or co-operated with leading Polish, English, German, US, Canadian, African and Chiliean law firms.
Specializing in Polish and English civil law, real estate law, commercial law, as well as company law.