Managing Partner · Attorney
Maciej Gawroński
Maciej Gawroński is a Polish attorney-at-law specializing in new technologies, dispute resolution, and regulations. His expertise encompasses Artificial Intelligence, IT, Data & Privacy, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Outsourcing, Intellectual Property, Commercial law, and Dispute Resolution.
Maciej's expertise covers IT, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, privacy and personal data protection, outsourcing, commercial contracts, executive advisory, dispute resolution, and intellectual property.
He has advised on thousands of IT, cloud computing, personal data, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence projects. Over 25 years, he has been the lead lawyer on the largest IT project in Poland and Central Europe.
Maciej has represented clients in investment, construction, technology, patent, and copyright disputes worth billions of dollars before Polish common courts and the Polish Supreme Court, arbitration courts and international arbitration tribunals, including investment arbitrations. He serves as an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce.
Clients often seek his assistance in strategic projects across different legal areas, valuing his corporate advisory experience, project management skills, and multi-level process thinking.
As an expert of the European Commission on Cloud Computing Contracts and a Working Party Article 29 expert on data transfers (2014), Maciej contributed to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), specifically in Articles 20, 28.9, and 82.1 (data portability, liability of processors, electronic form of data processing agreements).
He is a supporting expert at the European Data Protection Board, a Scientific Council Member of the Institute of Data Protection Law at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw.
- In 2021, for his contribution and special engagement in developing educational activities to spread data protection knowledge, Maciej was honored with the Michał Serzycki Award by the President of the Polish Data Protection Office.
- In 2014 Maciej was nominated to the Remigiusz Kaszubski Award of the Polish Banking Association.
- He authored two Number 1 legal bestsellers in Poland (on data protection and legal communication).
- Since 2006, he has been regularly recognized for Data Protection, Dispute Resolution, Franchise, Intellectual Property, IT, Media, Patent Disputes in Life Sciences, Technology, Telecommunications, and Trademark and Copyright Disputes by rankings such as Chambers Europe, Legal500, Best Lawyers, Who's Who Legal / Lexology Index, Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers Legal Benchmarking Group, Managing Intellectual Property, and Expert Guides.
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