Partner · Attorney
Michał Ćwiakowski
Michał leads the financial sector team and co-leads (with Maciej Gawroński) the technology practice at GP Partners. Michał is an expert in advising financial institutions. Michał started his career working for the largest banks in Poland, both in the legal and risk areas. Then he moved to legal advisory services working for leading Polish law firms.
Michał advises financial institutions in all aspects of their activities, including AML, payment services, banking regulations, corporate governance, relations with the regulator and licensing proceedings. Michał also advises clients on data protection and implementation and application of new technologies. Responsible for legal advisory in first of a kind implementations of cloud outsourcing, including in the financial sector, IT services contracting, advisory for the e-commerce sector.
He effectively transfers his financial sector experience into other areas. Michał advises entrepreneurs from various industries and sectors, including smaller ones, in building effective compliance systems based on best practices tailored to the needs of the client, drawn primarily from the banking sector - one of the most regulated sectors in the economy. Michał's education includes law, economics, information security and internal security, allowing him to deeply understand needs of our clients.
Michał graduated from Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, as well as from the Finance and Accounting Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics. He also completed Internal Security at the University of Warsaw.
- "Digital Operational Resilience Act – na ostatniej prostej" (co-author), ITwiz, Nov 2024
- "Assessment and monitoring of economic relations in the catalogue of financial security measures - practical comments", Monitor Prawniczy no. 9/2023
- "Cloud services in the financial sector in the context of personal data transfers - current regulatory landscape", Monitor Prawniczy no. 15/2022
- "New tech law: Cloud computing - whether and how the use of cloud services can help in fulfilling regulatory obligations in the area of cybersecurity", Monitor Prawniczy no. 20/2020
- Columnist articles for Fintek.pl (obtaining a fall-back exemption; electronic money; General Inspector of Financial Information and Polish Financial Supervisory Authority on remote distribution channels)
- Meritum. Personal data protection (co-author), D. Lubasz, Wolters Kluwer Polska, 1st edition 2020, 2nd edition 2022
- Reducing payment backlogs. A practical guide (co-author), Wolters Kluwer 2020
- Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism. A practical guide (co-author), Wolters Kluwer 2018
Polish, English
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