
PROF. KATARZYNA BILEWSKA
Managing Partner | katarzyna.bilewska@blsklegal.com |
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Advocate. Professor at the University of Warsaw. Expert with over 20 years of experience in commercial law and corporate disputes. She specialises in complex commercial and regulatory proceedings, representing clients, inter alia, from the real estate, energy, and food industry sectors. She has extensive practice in matters concerning shareholders, corporate bodies, and investors, also in a cross-border context. Author of over 200 publications in civil and commercial law, commentator on provisions of the Commercial Companies Code concerning challenges to shareholders’ resolutions and managers’ liability, and co-author of the new corporate arbitration rules (Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, 2022).
EXPERIENCE
- Advising and representing a public company in connection with so-called corporate blackmail by a minority shareholder.
- Representing a public company from the energy sector in a dispute concerning the granting of discharge to members of the management board and supervisory board.
- Representing a public company from the TMT sector and its subsidiaries in court and securing proceedings concerning the shaping of the personal composition of corporate bodies.
- Representing an investment fund in a shareholders’ dispute within the largest Polish food industry holding.
- Representing a manufacturing company and its leading shareholder in a dispute concerning the acquisition of an organised part of an enterprise and the liquidation of a company.
- Providing pre-litigation advice to a food sector company in connection with changes in the company’s management.
- Advising and representing a client in an arbitration dispute concerning the settlement of an M&A transaction.
- Providing litigation and contractual advice related to the exit of a key shareholder from a company in the new technologies sector.
DISTINCTIONS
- Chambers Global, Litigation: Highly Regarded – Band 2 (2026)
- Chambers Global, Arbitrators – Band 4 (2026)
- Benchmark Litigation, Litigation Star (2025)
- Benchmark Litigation, Poland Litigator of the Year (2025)
- Chambers Global, Dispute Resolution/ Litigation (2023, 2024,2025)
- Legal 500 EMEA, Dispute Resolution, Next Generation Partner (2023, 2024, 2025)
- Forbes, Top 25 Women Lawyers in Business (2022)
- Rising Star Lawyer – leaders of tomorrow, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and LexisNexis, 2012
ACTIVITIES
- Member of the Expert Team on Commercial Law at the Civil Law Codification Commission operating at the Ministry of Justice (since 2025)
- Member of the Advisory Team to the Minister of Justice for European Union Law (2024–2025)
- Professor at the Department of Commercial Law, University of Warsaw (since 2011)
- Member of the Association named after Prof. Zbigniew Hołda (since 2012)
- Head of the Department of Commercial Law, University of Warsaw (2017–2020)
- Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Bar Council (2021)
- Member of the Supreme Bar Council (2021–2022)
- Member of the District Bar Council in Warsaw (2010–2021)
EDUCATION
- Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw – Habilitated Doctor of Legal Sciences, 2009
- Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw – Doctor of Legal Sciences, 2004
- Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw – Master of Laws, 2001
LANGUAGES
- English
NEWEST PUBLICATIONS
Kodeks spółek handlowych. Tom I. Komentarz do art. 1-300(134)
Podręczniki Prawne: Prawo handlowe z testami online

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