Jakub J. Pitera

Warsaw Poland

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Legal500 2021

Recommended lawyer – Commercial, Corporate & M&A: "Jakub Pitera is a highly regarded adviser with significant market experience. He combines out-of-the-box thinking and capability to find non-standard solutions with attention to detail. He is highly responsive and proactive. His devotion to the client’s case is clearly visible. He is very thorough and on several occasions has found a number of bad errors missed by other lawyers."

Jakub is a partner in the corporate/M&A & capital markets team and focuses on working with financial institutions.

He has advised on many transactions concerning corporate restructuring of the largest Polish and international holdings. Jakub has expertise in M&A transactions, IPOs, trade in financial instruments and investment funds. A key area of his work is representing clients in the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and Polish Competition Authority, which often involve regulatory matters and mergers and acquisitions proceedings. Jakub holds a PhD in law. For several years, Jakub was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw University, as well as supporting teaching methods in the Department of Law at the Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw.

CV

Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2011 – 2019 Counsel and Senior Associate, K&L Gates Jamka sp.k.

2002 – 2011 Associate and Senior Associate, Various notable polish law firms

Career

Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2011 – 2019 Counsel and Senior Associate, K&L Gates Jamka sp.k.

2002 – 2011 Associate and Senior Associate, Various notable polish law firms

Education

2018 Doctoral degree, Polish Academy of Sciences

2008 Admission to the Attorneys’ at Law District Board, Warsaw

2007 The Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow, New York, USA, Research fellowship (visiting scholar), Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA

Memberships & Associations

Warsaw Bar Association

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Awards

Legal500 2021

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Experience

Hauck & Aufhäuser

A Taylor Wessing team led by Frankfurt-based partners Lars-Gerrit Lüßmann and Ulrich Reers advised Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Banking and Polish universal bank mBank in their role as exchange trustee and settlement agent on the voluntary public takeover/exchange offer by Frankfurt-listed Vita 34 AG, Leipzig, to the shareholders of Warsaw-listed stem cell bank Polski Bank Komórek Macierzystych S.A, Warsaw (PBKM). The transaction is the first cross-border exchange offer for a Polish listed company to date.

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