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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 attorney at the Warsaw Bar Association. 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.
Robert specializes in new technology law, in particular personal data protection and regulations of digital services. 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. Robert has advised clients on numerous data breaches, as well as investigations before Polish Data Protection Authority. Robert has experience as a data protection officer and conducted training courses in personal data protection law and information security.
Robert's specialty is digital regulation, particularly based on the European Strategy for Data, including: the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Data Governance Act (DGA), the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), the Markets in Crypto-Assets Act (MiCA) and the Data Act.
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.
Mateusz Kryściak is an attorney-at-law, member of the Warsaw Bar Association. He completed post-graduate studies at Kozminski University (Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego) on New Technologies Law faculty.
Mateusz specializes in bilingual advising to Polish and foreign entities in the field of new technologies law, data protection and e-commerce. He uses his knowledge acting for the benefit of clients from various sectors, including entities from the IT industry, as well as banking, media, e-commerce, pharma and construction. He gained his first professional experience by providing legal services to public companies (transport/energy sectors) and investment funds in the field of corporate support. He took part in M&A transactions as well as restructuring and insolvency procedures.
Currently, Mateusz participates in data privacy law projects, ranging from the creation and verification of solutions and documentation on personal data protection to the mapping of personal data flows, performing risk analyses (including data protection impact assessments) or handling the rights of data subjects. He takes part in the process of creating the first binding corporate rules in Poland.
He advises in the area of organizing marketing activities, including the process of applying innovative marketing tools and methods of profiling users of websites and mobile applications.
Mateusz participates in IT implementation processes (including agile) involving the creation and review of complete documentation including, in particular, contracts. He also participates in due diligence in the fields of i.a. labor law, data protection and copyright law.
He was also responsible, among other things, for the implementation of e-commerce solutions for local and foreign entities moving their operations to Poland. He advised HR agencies and healthcare providers on labor law, copyright law and cyber security issues. He supported clients conducting business in the area of cryptocurrencies.
Marta Wilińska – an attorney-at-law, a member of the Warsaw Bar Association.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration as well as the Faculty of Finance and Accounting. She has also completed postgraduate studies in Personal Data Protection and Classified Information as well as British Law School. She continues her education in postgraduate studies in the Law of New Technologies.
For many years, Marta has been advising clients in the field of personal data protection law, financial institutions law, new technologies law and the law of consumer protection while working in reputable law firms.
She has conducted audits and implemented the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation in many Polish and international companies from various sectors and industries with a special focus on financial institutions. Her professional experience includes also performing the role of Data Protection Officer and conducting training courses in data protection law.
She has advised clients on investigations before President of the Personal Data Protection Office, the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection and the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.
She is the author and co-author of several publications and articles on personal data protection law and insurance law, including a commentary to the Act on Insurance Distribution.
She is fluent in English.
Attorney-at-law to Warsaw Bar Association. Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Lodz. She completed postgraduate studies in intellectual property law and new technology law.
For many years Joanna has specialized in personal data protection law, as well as in the areas of new technology law, telecommunications, intellectual property and press law and protection of personal rights.
Joanna has gained professional experience in law firms, consulting entities, as well as inside the structures of capital groups in the telecommunications and media industry, including the leading Polish media and telecommunications group in the CEE region (television, mobile telephony, internet, new generation media).
Her experience includes serving as a data protection officer in media and telecommunications companies, where she was responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the functioning of the data protection system, including the creation of data protection policies and procedures, assessment of business processes in view of the requirements under GDPR, conducting audits, negotiations with service providers and business customers, and cooperation with the data protection supervisory authority, including reporting data protection breaches and participation in proceedings before the authority. She has conducted numerous data protection training courses for all levels of staff. She is a speaker and author of numerous press publications in this area.
She is fluent in English.
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.
Adam Bielski is a fourth-year law student at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. He gained his first experience in our law firm, dealing with telecommunications and personal data protection law. He is fluent in English and German. Adam is a member of the legal professions scientific circle. His interests include foreign languages and personal data protection law.
Dominika Stangrett is a fifth-year law student at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. She graduated from the Center for American Law conducted in cooperation with Emory School of Law and Georgia State University College of Law. Prior to joining Kobylańska Lewoszewski Mednis, she gained experience in Warsaw law firms in civil trial and commercial law. Dominika has been a member of many scientific circles, as well as is currently on the board of one of them. She was also active in the Youth Council at the Parliamentary Youth Team. Her interests include data protection law and civil procedure.
