Tomasz Wardyński CBE, is an adwokat and founding partner of Wardyński & Partners.

Tomasz Wardyński specialises in arbitration proceedings with the participation of foreign and domestic entities. He is also an expert in civil, commercial and competition law and has widely recognised experience in negotiations on large public projects. He was one of the first lawyers in Poland to develop specialisations in EU and competition law.

Tomasz Wardyński is a graduate of the Law Faculty at the University of Warsaw (1970), the College of Europe, Bruges (1973) and the Institute of European Studies at the University of Strasbourg (1974-75). He was a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation (1985).

He has run a private law practice since 1979.  In 1991-96 he was a member of the Advisory Council on Privatisation to the Prime Minister of Poland. Tomasz Wardyński is honorary legal adviser to Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador in Poland. In 2001 he was appointed Honorary Commander of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

From 2006 to 2009 he served as a member of the Arbitral Council of the Polish Chamber of Commerce’s Court of Arbitration.

Appointed as a member of the Arbitral Committee of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan, he is also listed as arbitrator of that Court and at the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC) in Vienna. He is also member of the London Court of International Arbitration and the ICC Task Force on Decision as to Costs.

He is a member of the American Counsel Association and the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law in Trier. He serves on the Editorial Board of the European Lawyer.

Tomasz Wardyński is a member of the Warsaw Bar, the European Circuit of the Bar of England and Wales. He is a member of the board of the Polish Arbitration Association. He is active in the International Bar Association, in particular in its Legal Practice Division.

 

He is the co-author of a book entitled "Competition Law" published by LexisNexis in cooperation with Wardyński & Partners (LexisNexis, Warsaw 2012).
 

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