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Partners about the law firm
MARCIN LEWOSZEWSKI
“We closely monitor the market and learn new trends, so that we can understand our Clients’ business needs. Our job is not only to offer legal solutions, but also to search for answers which will help them grow their business, especially using new technologies.”
ANNA KOBYLAŃSKA
“We offer counsel in areas of law which we are truly keen on and which we are passionate about. Our Clients can see this dedication and appreciate it. We frequently establish warm and lasting relations with our Clients’ representatives; we rely on them as the source of our satisfaction and a ground for a successful collaboration.”
ARWID MEDNIS
“I joined Anna and Marcin because we have similar professional experience and thoughts on business. After years of working in corporations and large law firms, we all wanted greater independence. But greater freedom is a greater responsibility, which forces the best understanding of customer needs. We are also aware that the client needs not only high-quality consulting, but also a broader understanding of his affairs. We have a team that can provide that..I joined Anna and Marcin because we have similar professional experience and thoughts on business. After years of working in corporations and large law firms, we all wanted greater independence. But greater freedom is a greater responsibility, which forces the best understanding of customer needs. We are also aware that the client needs not only high-quality consulting, but also a broader understanding of his affairs. We have a team that can provide that.”
About us
We have set up a specialized law firm to help our clients protect their intangible assets and develop new business based on new technologies and data.
Our goal is to provide complex, specialized support to our customers’ key issues - we are constantly close to them, providing the most precise, clear, and business-oriented legal advice – always tailored to their business needs.
We rely on our many years of experience, gained in well recognized international law firms operating in Poland.
We provide legal consultancy in the field of data privacy, copyright and related rights, trademarks, industrial designs, know-how, protection against acts of unfair competition, protection of business secrets, provision of electronic services, press law and advertising law.
We offer support in adapting business practices to the requirements of personal data protection regulations, in particular in the context of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We work out secure legal solutions for new forms of data collection and use, including personal data, such as drones, social media, Big Data analyses, or IoT.
Our Expertise
The offer includes the preparation of companies to implement legal requirements for the protection of personal data, support for compliance with legal requirements in the use of new technologies and representation of clients in proceedings before the supervisory authority.
We help clients protect their rights both at the stage of intellectual property (including employer-employee relationship, contractor-contractor), and during transformations and corporate changes (for example, when selling a part or the whole enterprise).
We help our customers determine their eligibility to use new technology, gain access to uninterrupted use, and protect against claims that may arise from the use of new technologies.
Our lawyers offer unique experience in the field of telecommunications law, having been involved in several hundred proceedings, including representation in regulatory disputes on behalf of the largest telecommunications companies and service providers.
TEAM
Anna Kobylańska is an advocate, member of the Warsaw Bar Association. Prior to establishing her own law firm, she practiced Intellectual Property, New Technologies and Personal Data Protection Law in international law firms for more than a decade.
Anna specialises in legal counselling in the field of personal data protection, copyright, industrial property rights, media and advertising law, and the law of new technologies. She has many years of experience in leading projects relating to Internet domain names protection, use of new technologies to collect and process personal data (IoT, Big Data, behavioural targeting) and IT systems implementation. She was also on board in projects concerning the assessment of the potential of technological start-ups in the context of the intellectual property generated by them. As regards the implementation of the EU GDPR requirements, she has worked for clients in the financial, media, automotive, retail, pharma and business consulting sectors.
She is the author of one of the first books in Poland on “Protection of Trademarks on the Internet” and the co-author of “Data Protection in Business Practices” and “Protection of Trademarks: Online Use and Anticybersqautting. A European Perspective”. For several terms she has been involved in the works of the committees of the International Trademark Association (INTA, an international association of trademark protection specialist),including in 2016-2017 in the Personal Data Protection Committee. She lectures at the Hugo Grotius Intellectual Property Centre. She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and a member of the EC Multistakeholder Expert Group to Support the Application of GDPR.
In 2017, Anna’s data protection law practice was distinguished in the regulatory law firms ranking published by Polityka Insight. Since 2012, Anna has also been ranked each year in the Chambers and Partners Europe in the “TMT: Data Protection” area.
Contact details:
e: Anna.Kobylanska @ klmlaw.pl
t: +48 515 975 705
Marcin Lewoszewski is a legal advisor, member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw. Before joining the firm, he worked for over seven years as part of the TMT team with one of the leading international law firms based in Warsaw. Earlier, for two years, he worked in the Office of the Polish Data Protection Authority.
For years, Marcin has been advising clients whose personal data is the most valuable asset. Recently, he has been helping the Polish computer game producer operating globally in adapting business processes to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation. To a similar extent, he supported one of the largest CRO entities in Poland. He also advised a large capital group operating on the financial market in connection with breaches of personal data protection. He assisted one of the largest corporations in the world in the process of accepting binding corporate rules (BCR) in proceedings before the Polish data protection authority.
Currently, he represents before the court a party to the proceedings ended with the imposition of the first financial penalty in Poland by the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection on an administrator whose activity is based on the processing of data from publicly available registers.
On regulatory matters Marcin Lewoszewski advises leading brands operating on the global media and telecommunications market, including in the field of OTT services (media streaming, VoIP). He is the author of several dozen articles on the subject of personal data protection - he published, among others, in the Polish edition of Harvard Business Review, in Rzeczpospolita, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, and abroad - in BNA Bloomberg, IAPP PrivacyTracker or DataGuidance. He is the co-author of the chapter in the book on Polish regulations on the protection of personal data "The Law Reviews: the Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity". He was quoted many times by the professional press in Poland and abroad, including the opinion-forming Politico. Regardless of his work in the office, he is the editor-in-chief of the quarterly Information in Public Administration, published by C.H. Beck.
In 2016, he was selected by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, a globally operating organization gathering professionals dealing with personal data protection, as the IAPP KnowledgeNET Poland co-chair. Dziennik Gazeta Prawna named him as one of the 30 most promising lawyers in Poland before 30 years of age. He is recognised by Chambers and Partners Europe as one of the leading data privacy lawyers in Poland.
Contact details:
e: Marcin.Lewoszewski @ klmlaw.pl
t: +48 604 817 352
Dr hab. Arwid Mednis is a legal counsel specialising in new technologies law, in particular in personal data protection law and telecommunications law. He also deals with issues of cyber security, information protection and access to public information.
Arwid’s specialty is also administrative law, in particular the law of local government and public-private partnership.
In the years 1991–2000 Arwid represented Poland in the Committee for the Protection of Personal Data in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, in the years 1998–2000 he was its chairperson. He was a member of the GIODO Scientific Council, as well as the author and co-author of draft laws on personal data protection and the exchange of business information. While working on regulations implementing the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data (GDPR), he was an expert on behalf of public and private institutions.
He represents clients in regulatory cases, as well as in court and administrative proceedings.
Arwid Mednis also works at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, where he lectures, among others, on access to public information, personal data protection, electronic communications law and cyber security. He has authored numerous publications in the above fields.
For many years, he has led the telecommunications law and personal data protection rankings of specialist publishers and legal guides, including Chambers Europe Legal Directory, Legal 500 EMEA and Legal Experts EMEA. He has also regularly won awards in the law firms rankings of the Rzeczpospolita daily (including for the personal data protection leader in 2018 and 2019).
Contact details:
e: Arwid.Mednis @ klmlaw.pl
t: +48 510 087 786
Piotr Chochowski is an advocate with almost twenty years of experience in the field of new technologies law, in particular telecommunications law. He also deals with data protection and cybersecurity issues.
He advised the largest telecommunications operators on the market in the scope of their telecommunications activities, including cooperation between operators. He has successfully represented telecommunications undertakings in court and administrative proceedings.
Piotr has advised on multi-million-dollar damages due for failure to perform the contract in the case of the largest infrastructural projects. He advised financial entities on the protection of personal data. He has extensive experience in the implementation of projects concerning cooperation between the largest telecommunications operators on the market. He participated in precedent projects involving the construction of a common radio network by the main mobile operators in the country and cooperation between the mobile operator and the bank in the provision of banking services to the operator's customers.
Contact details:
e: Piotr.Chochowski @ klmlaw.pl
t: +48 22 25 34567
Robert Brodzik is an advocate trainee, member of the Warsaw Bar Association. He specializes in data privacy and new technologies law. Robert is a graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and the School of American Law at Lehrstuhl für US-amerikanisches Recht at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cologne.
Before joining the firm, he was a member of the personal data protection and corporate law team in one of the largest law firms in Poland. Robert has implemented the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation in over 30 companies from various sectors and industries, including banking, pharmaceutical, automotive, FMCG, and marketing. To a similar extent, he has also conducted audits on personal data protection law and information security. Robert has advised clients on data security incidents and data breaches, as well as investigations before President of the Personal Data Protection Office. He also negotiated contracts for entrusting personal data processing. Robert has experience as a data protection officer and conducted training courses in personal data protection law and information security. He also has experience in providing corporate advisory to commercial companies and M&A transactions.
Robert is the author and co-author of several publications and articles on the personal data protection law, including a commentary to the Polish Personal Data Protection Act. He is also a winner of the academic contest organized at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw to develop a comprehensive legal model for the implementation of the mobile app using beacon technology.
Anna Stępień is an advocate trainee, member of the Warsaw Bar Association. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and from postgraduate studies in H. Grotius Center for Intellectual Property Rights. Before joining Kobylańska Lewoszewski Mednis law firm she gained experience in the most prestigious international and Polish law firms. Her litigation experience was also shaped while participating in international moot court competitions. She also provided legal advice at the Law Clinic at University of Warsaw.
Anna provides comprehensive legal services in the field of administrative, tax, court administrative, civil, criminal and arbitration proceedings, and performed legal analyses for the largest companies operating on the Polish market from various sectors of the economy, including state-owned companies and public entities. In terms of civil proceedings, she has dealt mainly with tort liability, liability for non-performance or improper performance of a contract, and participated in corporate disputes. She also advised clients on matters related to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Fifth year law student at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. She gained her previous experience in personal data protection law. In addition, she completed judicial practice at the District Court in Warsaw. Izabela is a member of the white intelligence scientific circle. Her interests include new technologies law, criminal law and personal data protection law.
