Andrzej Wierciński is an advocate since 1984, a member of the Polish Bar Association and the International Bar Association. A member of the Association of Competition Law. In 1969, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 1973, he received an LL.D. degree and in 1982, an advanced doctorate in legal studies. Upon graduation, Andrzej Wierciński remained at the University of Poznań where he taught criminal procedure. He was a guest lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1983. He worked in London in 1990 as a foreign associate of the law office of Stephenson Harwood.
Andrzej Wierciński is a co-founder and senior partner of WKB Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr. A co-founder of Wardyński & Partners in Warsaw, he worked there in 1992-2003. Andrzej Wierciński was a member of the supervisory boards of various companies, including public ones. Currently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of ING Nationale Nederlanden Polska PTE S.A.
Andrzej Wierciński has extensive experience in corporate mergers and acquisitions. He headed and advised on the most complex projects in this area in Poland. He took part in the privatization of the first five state enterprises as well as the first two state-owned banks and has advised on the creation of the first Polish joint ventures. He was involved in the acquisition of shares in the Polish telecommunication giant, and the largest Central European steel producer. In the course of his practice, Andrzej has gained substantial experience in the legal aspects of corporate financial restructuring, including insolvency law (ie. sale of insolvent shipyard; composition proceedings as part of the financial restructuring of a major Polish private telecommunication holding company, regarded as the world’s largest restructuring transaction in 2002) and in energy law (privatization and consolidation of the energy distribution sector). An expert in conducting negotiations relating to financing and tax structures, he also has wide experience in the provision of ongoing legal assistance to corporate clients, and he continues to be one of the most eminent experts in this field.
For the last few years, he has been a regular correspondent for Global Competition Review. Andrzej is recommended as a leading counsel in Poland (in the field of corporate law and mergers & acquisitions) by inter alia: (i) The Global Counsel Handbooks, Mergers and Acquisitions, (ii) The Chambers Global The World’s Leading Lawyers, (iii) The Chambers & Partners Global The World’s Leading Lawyers, (iv) The European Legal 500.
