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Piotr Nowaczyk, a Chartered Arbitrator, is a partner in Salans' Warsaw office and works in construction disputes, FIDIC contracts, foreign investment, oil and gas, transfer of technology, IP, energy, international sales, banking, joint ventures, commercial contracts, M&A, distributorships, licenses, and sport arbitration. He is an ICC Court Member, a member of the Vienna International Arbitration Centre Advisory Board, and a Polish delegate for UNCITRAL Working Group II on Arbitration & Conciliation.
Piotr is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Law Society of England & Wales, and the IBA Arbitration Committee (subcommittee on conflicts of interest), member of AFA, ASA, CEA, CEPANI, DIS, ICA, ITA, ÖVS, SAA, UIA and other professional organisations. He is an FIDIC adjudicator and an expert of WIPO.
Piotr Nowaczyk is highly recommended for dispute resolution and international arbitration by Chambers Global 2012, Chambers Europe 2011 and listed among Most in Demand Arbitrators in the Europe-wide region. He is also endorsed in Practical Law Company's Which Lawyer? 2011 rankings in dispute resolution and intellectual property. Piotr is recognised as an expert in dispute resolution, as well as IP, IT and telecommunications law in Poland in Legal Experts EMEA and recommended by Expert Guides as a leading expert in commercial arbitration and litigation in Poland. He is ranked among the top seven arbitration specialists in Poland by Rzeczpospolita (Polish quality daily) and recommended among the top individual lawyers in the 2010 and 2011 listings by Forbes in the category "Arbitration and Litigation”. He was the exclusive winner of the Arbitration category for Poland in the ILO International Client Choice Award 2010, 2011 and 2012. In 2011 he was honoured with the Gold Cross of Merit from the President of the Republic of Poland for services rendered to arbitration and to the promotion of Poland.
He is the founder editor-in-chief of Biuletyn Arbitrażowy, author of ca. 100 articles and press communiqués, speaker or participant of ca. 100 international conferences on arbitration, mediation and ADR.
Recent Experience:
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Mr Nowaczyk has acted as chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator or counsel in over 130 arbitrations handled in English, French, German, Polish, Czech and Russian
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Arbitration seats: Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine and US
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Rules applied: AAA-ICDR, CAC, CACI, CCCF, CCIR, CCP, HCCI, ICAC Kyiv, ICAC Moscow, ICANN, ICC, IHK, Lewiatan, LME, MAC Minsk, NAF, PCC, PIIT, Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL, WIPO and other ad hoc
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Parties from: Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kyrgyz Republic, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, US
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Laws applied: Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Florida, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Lithuania, Minnesota, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, and Ukraine
Career:
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Partner - Salans, Warsaw (1993 to date)
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ICC Court member, Paris (2003 to date)
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President, Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, Warsaw (2006-2009)
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Judge in Polish courts (1978-1981)
Education:
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Admitted as an advocate to the Warsaw bar, Poland (1994)
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Admitted to the Paris bar as avocat (1993)
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Admitted as an advocate to the bar in Poznan, Poland (1984)
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University of Poznan - Master of Laws (1976)
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Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany (1974)
Languages:
- Polish
- English
- French
- German
- Russian
- Italian
Publications: