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Adrian Bielecki, Ph.D.
Adrian Bielecki, Ph.D.

Adrian Bielecki, Ph.D.

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Adrian specialises in Polish and EU competition law, including merger control, antitrust, unfair commercial practices, payment delays and consumer protection issues.

His experience includes the preparation of merger control notifications to the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (“UOKiK”), preparing complaints to the UOKiK as well as to the European Commission and assisting in proceedings before the UOKiK. He advises on the commercial strategy applied by dominant undertakings as well as on antitrust aspects of cooperation between undertakings and conducts antitrust legal audits.

Adrian is a regular speaker at international conferences organized in Europe and the United States. In 2023, Adrian has been appointed to the board of the Competition Law Association.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Competition, EU & trade
Cartel & abuse of dominance proceedings
Competition compliance
Competition law in the digital economy
Cooperations & joint ventures
Distribution & competition law
European & international merger control
M&A-related competition law
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CV

Since 2024 Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2022 - 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2012 - 2022 Visiting Researcher, Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University
2016 – 2021 Senior Associate, Dentons
2014 - 2016 Lawyer, CMS
2018 Postgraduate studies in Competition law, Institute of Law Studies Polish Academy of Sciences
2016 - 2022 Doctoral legal studies, University of Warsaw
2015 - 2018 Legal training, Warsaw Bar Association
2013 Foreign exchange program, University of Florida Levin College of Law, USA
2011 - 2012 Center for American Law Studies, University of Warsaw, in cooperation with University of Florida, USA
2009 - 2014 Legal studies, University of Warsaw

Career

Since 2024 Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2022 - 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2012 - 2022 Visiting Researcher, Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University
2016 – 2021 Senior Associate, Dentons
2014 - 2016 Lawyer, CMS

Education

2018 Postgraduate studies in Competition law, Institute of Law Studies Polish Academy of Sciences
2016 - 2022 Doctoral legal studies, University of Warsaw
2015 - 2018 Legal training, Warsaw Bar Association
2013 Foreign exchange program, University of Florida Levin College of Law, USA
2011 - 2012 Center for American Law Studies, University of Warsaw, in cooperation with University of Florida, USA
2009 - 2014 Legal studies, University of Warsaw

Publications

“The Polish Competition Authority annuls a decision sanctioning an alleged cartel of major mobile telecom operators for cooperating in connection with tender proceedings (Mobile TV / ITF)”, Art. No. 94834 (https://www.concurrences.com/en/authors/50285), e-Competitions September 2015, 23 September 2015

“Into the grey zone, What do we (don’t) know about types of concentration?”, Yearbook of Antimonopoly and Regulatory Studies (forthcoming)

Chapter on merger control in: “Polskie prawo antymonopolowe. Zarys wykładu” (“Polish antitrust law. Outline of the lecture”), textbook edited by Professor Cezary Banasiński, Warsaw, 2018

Memberships & Associations

Board member of the Competition Law Association

Warsaw Bar Association

Polish Competition Law Association

Additional languages

English

Awards

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa 2022

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