Marek Tolcz

Marek Tolcz

Dispute Resolution Senior Associate, Warsaw

"I am a lawyer who successively combines experience and skills gained in the course of my transactional and dispute resolution practice. Over nine years of practice have allowed me to deliver unique and comprehensive advice to our clients."

Overview

Education and qualifications

Overview

Marek Tołcz is Polish qualified lawyer (radca prawny), senior associate specialising in civil law litigation, white collar as well as administrative and administrative court proceedings. He provides legal advice to Polish and foreign entrepreneurs, including financial institutions, private equity funds and directors, and managers of such entities. His professional experience includes proceedings concerning civil, criminal and administrative liability of directors and managers of capital companies, including public companies, also in the course of proceedings conducted by the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority. (KNF)

His professional experience includes conducting forensic investigations of public companies as well as advisory on implementation internal corporate policies and regulations supporting companies and its officers in day-to-day operations and preventing them from acts of omissions and negligence. He actively supports clients in corporate advisory and works on mergers and acquisitions transactions (including works with private equity funds). 

His current corporate and transactional experience constitutes crucial significance and added value for complexity of legal advisory provided to the clients. 

Work highlights

Marek’s recent experience includes advising:

  • Debt management company: representing the company as the aggrieved party in a criminal investigation conducted by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, and as the subject of a regulatory investigation in front of the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority (KNF) concerning multiple fraudulent activities of the former management board, and senior officers of the company, as well as their business counterparties – which led to its insolvency.
  • Supervisory board members and the audit committee member of a public company: representing in proceedings conducted by the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority (KNF) aimed at imposing financial penalties as a result of the company’s breaches of disclosure obligations relating to financial statements of a public company under the Polish law and non-compliance with MAR regulations.
  • Debt management company: representing in court and injunction proceedings against an investment fund company for payment of approx. PLN 135m based on claims related to an acquisition of overpriced shares as a result of fraudulent activities consisting of artificially inflating share price and possible offences at the valuation stage.
  • Polski Fundusz Rozwoju: advising in a number of court and administrative proceedings.
  • ING Bank Śląski (a Polish subsidiary of ING Group): advising on its acquisition of 45% of shares in NN Investment Partners TFI (Polish asset management company) from NN Investment Partners International Holdings.
  • Glamox AS (a Triton portfolio company): advising on its public tender offer to acquire ES-SYSTEM, a WSE-listed Polish provider of lighting solutions.

Education and qualifications

2008 – 2014 Law – Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw 
2009 – 2012 International Relations – University of Warsaw
2015 – 2018 Bar Training Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Warsaw