Aldona Kwapisz is an associate at Allen & Overy, A. Pêdzich Sp. k. She has been involved in a number of corporate transactions including share acquisitions, mergers, as well as numerous legal due diligence investigations in both domestic and cross-border transactions. Aldona also advises on competition protection, intellectual property rights and labour law. From 2002 to 2003, she worked in the Hi-Tech department at the Warsaw office of the international law firm Salans. From 2003-2005, she was an expert at the Working Group on Intellectual Property (Copyright) in the European Union Council, being at the same time a specialist in international law at the Legal Department of the Ministry of Culture. From 2004 to 2005, Aldona represented Poland at the Contact Committee established under Art. 12 of Directive 2001/29 EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 22, 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. From 2004 to 2005, Aldona assisted the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (including working on the draft of the Second Revised Consolidated Text for the Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organisations). From 2005 to 2007, she was an associate at the DeBenedetti Majewski Szcze?niak law firm. Aldona joined Allen & Overy in 2007. She graduated from the Law Faculty at Warsaw University in 2003, and in 2004 was admitted to the Chamber of Legal Advisers in £ód? on the Legal Advisers’ Course.
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On 20 December 2007 the President of the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (OCCP) issued a decision imposing a fine of PLN 75 million (approximately EUR 20 million) on Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TPSA), the incumbent telecom operator in Poland, for abusing its dominant (...)
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On July 25, 2006, the Polish Court of Appeals issued a decision on the appeal lodged by the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (“OCCP”) against the decision of the Polish Court for Competition and Consumer Protection (“First Instance Court”) of September 5, 2005 (...)
