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BEATA KOMARNICKA-NOWAK

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BEATA KOMARNICKA-NOWAK
Partner

Beata Komarnicka-Nowak is a legal counsel (radca prawny) with over 20-years’ practice.
She represents bondholders who are victims of the GetBack fraud. Working with her
partner dr Mariusz Korpalski, she filed two class-action lawsuits against two largest bank in
Poland challenging the freedom the banks enjoyed in setting indexation rates for loan
installments.
She is also an expert in energy and construction laws. Beata has been advising and
representing windfarm businesses in administrative courts. She supervised the
construction process of the Askana Shopping Mall in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland. Beata
organized many training events on EU funds, e.g. in the Chamber of Commerce of Milan,
Italy. She also co-organized training for investors from the Kostrzyń-Słubice Special
Economic Zone (Kostrzyńsko-Słubicka Specjalna Strefa Ekonomiczna S.A.), and for
members of the Chamber of Commerce of the Western Poland and the Polish Chamber of
Construction.
In the 1990s, Beata worked also for Telewizja Polska SA and Radio Merkury Poznań. She
has written articles for the Rzeczpospolita, Dziennik – Gazeta Prawna, and Gazeta Bankowa for
a long time, discussing legal issues, such as options and foreign currency loans. In 2020,
Beata Komarnicka and Mariusz Korpalski published the book “Options, Francs, and Banks-
See you in Court” in which they describe their legal struggles with contracts in which future
exchange rates are applied.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznań and became a legal counsel in 1999. Beata completed a doctoral program at the
Faculty of Law at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw.
She was admitted to the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Poznań. Beata speaks
French, English, and Russian.

MARIUSZ KORPALSKI

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dr MARIUSZ KORPALSKI
Partner

Dr Mariusz Korpalski has been dealing with contracts with banks, court and alternative
dispute resolutions, and securing debts since 1996.
Since 2008, he has represented clients in court disputes concerning forward finance
operations.
He has also represented consumers in court disputes relating to loans denominated in or
indexed to foreign currencies, mostly CHF, since 2012.
Mariusz held seminars for members of chambers of commerce and gave lectures at the
Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa in Poznań. He also made proposals with regard to commercial law.
Mariusz Korpalski works for Polish and international organisations protecting consumers
using financial services and products. He was a member of the Consumer Forum in the
office of the Commissioner for Human Rights.
Dr Mariusz Korpalski wrote numerous articles on contracts law and dispute resolution (e.g.
in the Rzeczpospolita, Przegląd Sądowy, and Głos). In 2010, he published the handbook “Bank
Contracts for Business”. He co-authored a Guide for Swiss-franc Borrowers (Poradnik
frankowicza) (Wolters Kluwer) in 2020 (the 2nd edition was published in 2022). In 2020,
with Beata Komarnicka-Nowak as a co-author, he published a collection of newspaper
articles written in 2009-2019 describing their legal struggles with applying law to
contracts using future exchange rates.
Mariusz graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus
University in Toruń. In 2019, he defended his doctoral thesis at his alma mater entitled
“How Exchange Rate Fluctuations Affect Amounts of Performances under Bank
Contracts”. The thesis analyses unpredictability of remuneration due under contracts that
apply future exchange rates such as forward, option, swap contracts or loans denominated
in or indexed to a foreign currency. In 2020, he published an extended version of his PhD
thesis entitled “Fx Forward Contracts in Banking” (Wolters Kluwer).
He was admitted to the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Poznań. Mariusz Korpalski
speaks German and English.

DOROTA STRZESAK

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DOROTA STRZESAK
Legal Counsel

Dorota Strzesak is an expert in commercial, economic, bankruptcy and restructuring laws,
including corporate consultancy and M&A.
She specializes in commercial law, including specifically corporate consultancy and M&A,
real estate, and construction projects. She also advises on environmental law cases. Dorota
represents businesses and foreign clients before courts in Poland and clients in court
disputes with banks over foreign-currency based loan contracts.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznań. As a student, Dorota received a scholarship to study abroad at the Augsburg
University. She graduated from the German Law School at the Faculty of Law and
Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She trained as a legal counsel at
the District Chamber of Legal Counsel in Poznań for three years (2010-2013).
Dorota took part in GDPR, AML, M&A, bankruptcy and restructuring law training sessions.
In 2016, she was licensed as an insolvency practitioner (doradca restrukturyzacyjny).
Dorota was admitted to the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Poznań in 2013.

SONIA KWIATKOWSKA

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SONIA KWIATKOWSKA
Legal Counsel

Sonia Kwiatkowska’s area of expertise are civil and bank laws. She has experience in acting
for clients suing banks over foreign-currency denominated loans.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznań. Sonia completed a post-graduate program in tax law at the University of
Economics in Poznań.
She was admitted to the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Poznań in 2017.

PATRYCJA PIOTROWSKA-STRANZ

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PATRYCJA PIOTROWSKA-STRANZ
Legal Counsel

Patrycja Piotrowska-Stranz acts for clients suing banks and in precedent cases involving
GetBack bonds.
She has long experience in providing comprehensive legal assistance to business and
conducting complex court and alternative disputes, including international arbitration
proceedings.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznań.
Patrycja was admitted to the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Poznań in 2016.

EWA DZIAŁOSZYŃSKA

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EWA DZIAŁOSZYŃSKA
Advocate

Ewa Działoszyńska is an experienced lawyer acting for clients suing banks over foreign-
currency denominated loans (especially, CHF loans). As a lawyer, she represents clients in
court disputes with banks. Ewa has extensive expertise and experience in civil, criminal,
and intellectual property cases.
She has over ten-years of professional experience working for law firms in Poznań and
Warsaw.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznań. She also completed an LLM course at University of Westminster, London, a top
London university.
Ewa was admitted to the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Poznań in 2013.

NICOLE FELIKSIAK

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NICOLE FELIKSIAK
Legal counsel trainee

Nicole Feliksiak focuses on procedural law in a context of bank disputes.
She has experience in civil, family, criminal, and commercial proceedings. Besides civil
proceedings, she is also interested in bank, companies, and commercial laws.
Nicole graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, at the Nicolaus Copernicus
University in Toruń.
Currently, she is completing her third year as a trainee legal counsel at the Regional
Chamber of Legal Counsels in Poznań.

MICHAŁ MACIACZYK

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MICHAŁ MACIACZYK
Lawyer

Michał Maciaczyk gained his legal experience working in law firms run by legal counsels
and for corporate clients.
His interests steer towards civil law, specifically banking law, capital markets, and
corporate law.
Michał graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,
Poland, having successfully defended his MA thesis on unfair terms in loan contracts.
Currently Michał attends a PhD seminar for lawyers at the Leon Koźmiński Academy in
Warsaw.