About

Edu­ca­tion:

Andrzej Potasz gra­du­ated with hono­urs from the Faculty of Law and Admi­ni­stra­tion at War­saw Uni­ver­sity and the School of Ame­ri­can Law con­duc­ted in coope­ra­tion of the Uni­ver­sity of War­saw and the Uni­ver­sity of Flo­rida. He also stu­died law at Utrecht Uni­ver­sity in the Nether­lands. Cur­ren­tly he is wor­king on his docto­ral the­sis at the Insti­tute of Legal Scien­ces, Polish Aca­demy of Science, focu­sing on the prin­ci­ples of acco­un­ta­bi­lity of service pro­vi­ders on the Internet.

Expe­rience:

• liti­ga­tion (per­so­nal rights, com­mer­cial, employ­ment), admi­ni­stra­tive pro­ce­edings (GIODO, infra­struc­tu­ral), cri­mi­nal (i.a. article 212 Penal Code)

• cor­po­rate legal servi­ces (inc­lu­ding fore­ign capi­tal companies)

• pre­pa­ra­tion of legal opi­nions and ana­ly­sis, com­mer­cial con­tracts (e.g. sale and bar­ter con­tracts, spon­sor­ship and adver­ti­sing agre­ements, copy­ri­ght trans­fer and sale of web por­tals agre­ements, license and trans­fer agre­ements, software deve­lop­ment and loy­alty pro­grams terms,

• advi­sing Inter­net entre­pre­neurs on IP&IT legal issues on a day-to-day basis,

• real estate transaction,

• pre­pa­ring due dili­gence reports con­cer­ning com­pa­nies and real estate (M&A transactions).

 

Andrzej Potasz has wor­ked with leading law firms in War­saw and with the Hel­sinki Foun­da­tion for Human Rights. He is flu­ent in English and has a basic know­ledge of Ger­man language.