Past and present positions

*Chairman of the Committee on Company Law, member of Poland’s Codification
*Commission of Civil Law; co-founder and former partner in Soltysinski, Kawecki & Szlezak Legal Advisors (now off counsel)
*Citi Bank I-landlowy w Warszawie SA(Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
*member of EBRD Administrative Tribunal (appointed for the second term 2010-2013)
*member of European Model Company Act and Forum Europaeum on Corporate Boards; UNIDROIT, member of the Governing Council; recently elected for the second 5-year term
*2006-: Professor of Law, Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Poznan University,
*1988-2006: Professor of law, Faculty of Law, University of Poznan
*1979-1988: Associate Professor (Auberordentlicher Professor), Faculty of Law, University of Poznan
*1971-1979: Assistant Professor (Dozent), Faculty of Law, University ofPoznan
*1972-1973: Masters of Law study, Columbia University Law School, New York, NY (LLM.)
*l966-l967: Fellowship of the British Council, London School of Economics, Oxford University and Cambridge University
*1991-1995: Professor of Law, College of Europe, Brugge and Natolin
*1990-2010: Co-founder of "Soltysinski Kawecki & Szlezak", Legal Advisors
*Advisor to the Minister of Finance; counsel to the Minister of Ownership Transformations (Mass Privatization Project)
*Assisted International Finance Corporation, EBRD, the World Bank, and numerous Polish and foreign firms in more than two dozen of privatization projects
*Chairman of the Committee of Experts in Prime Minister Balcerowicz’s Task Force on Deregulation of the National Economy
*Member ofthe Polish Committee on Best Corporate Practices Code
*Chairman of Committee of Codification Commission which prepared a draft of Code of Commercial Companies passed by the Parliament in 2000.
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Field of Scholarship:
Company law, intellectual property law, international trade law, conflict—of`—laws and
arbitration.