Andrzej Balicki Ph.D.

Partner

Head of Regulatory, Poland

Andrzej Balicki is a world-class regulatory lawyer. He has a top-notch grasp of public policy and legislative processes. Andrzej has also great strategic thinking skills.

— Legal 500 EMEA 2024, Healthcare And Life Sciences

Emailandrzej.balicki@dlapiper.com

Call+48 22 540 74 01

Warsaw

About

Andrzej Balicki works extensively with clients from highly regulated industries, in particular life sciences and food. His practice covers regulatory counselling with respect to medicinal products, medical devices, diet supplements and foodstuffs.

Andrzej also has extensive regulatory experience under the Polish and EU law and represents clients in high-profile antitrust and public procurement cases in life sciences and energy projects.

Areas of FocusHealthcare Industrials Life Sciences Regulatory and Government Affairs Technology

Professional QualificationsAttorney-at-law (Radca prawny) registered with the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law (Okręgowa Izba Radców Prawnych w Warszawie)

EXPERIENCE

Languages

Education

University of Warsaw, Ph.D. - Regulation of pharmaceuticals

Awards

Recognised as Leading Partner in Healthcare and Life Sciences – Legal 500 EMEA 2025
Ranked Band 4 in Life Sciences – Chambers Europe 2024-2025
Ranked as Legal Leader in the category of Pharmaceutical and Medical Law – Rzeczpospolita 2024
Ranked as Up and Coming in Life Sciences – Chambers Europe 2024
Recognised as Leading Individual in Healthcare and Life Sciences – Legal 500 EMEA 2020-2025
Recommended in Competition/Antitrust, Healthcare and Life Sciences and Public Procurement – Legal 500 EMEA 2018-2024
Recommended in Competition/Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, Healthcare & Life Sciences and Public Procurement – Legal 500 EMEA 2020
Recommended for Public Law, Energy and Natural Resources, Healthcare and Life sciences, and Competition/Antitrust – Legal 500 EMEA 2019
"Andrzej Balicki is a lawyer with great business experience and legal knowledge. He has a broad perspective on the sector and an exceptional ability to think strategically. Andrzej Balicki is a lawyer with whom you simply want to cooperate. I can always count on his help and advice." – Chambers Europe 2025
“Andrzej Balicki is very business-oriented, with great strategic thinking and a deep understanding of the whole life sciences sector.” – Chambers Europe, Life Sciences 2024
“Andrzej Balicki is an impressive lawyer and the leading expert in Poland for any matters related to the life sciences sector. He always sees the big picture covering legal, business and human aspects of projects. Highly recommended.” – Legal 500 EMEA, Healthcare and Life Sciences 2023
“Andrzej Balicki is a leading pharmaceutical lawyer in Poland. He has unmatched expertise and experience advising on public regulatory law and distribution law.” – Legal 500 EMEA, Healthcare and Life Sciences 2023
“Andrzej Balicki has extensive experience in advising the life sciences sector and is highly respected in the industry. He is a creative and client-focused problem solver. He is certainly a leading regulatory lawyer in Poland.” – Legal 500 EMEA, Healthcare and Life Sciences 2022
“Andrzej Balicki – extensive experience in advising the pharmaceutical sector and is respected in the industry. He is a creative and client-focused problem solver.” – Legal 500 EMEA, Healthcare and Life Sciences 2022
“Andrzej Balicki, partner leading the team, is a role model of a trusted adviser, one of the best I have ever met. He has a unique ability to explain practical business implications of complex regulatory requirements. He always comes up with implementable solutions.” – Legal 500 EMEA, Public Procurement 2022
“Andrzej Balicki - a renowned market expert in life sciences.” – Legal 500 EMEA, Competition/Antitrust 2022
“Andrzej is a terrific regulatory lawyer. He easily finds what is truly material. Has great experience in dealing with public authorities” – Legal 500 EMEA, Public Procurement 2021
Andrzej is “the market-leading lawyer for pharmaceutical regulatory and distribution matters” – Legal 500 EMEA, Healthcare & Life Sciences 2021
"Andrzej Balicki is a top public policy lawyer. He has great understanding of the legal and business aspects of public affairs projects. He is known for his strategic thinking and ability to implement it in practice" – Legal 500 EMEA, Public procurement 2020
"Andrzej is a clear leader of the team and is my first contact point in all matters. He is very energetic, pragmatic and solution-oriented" – Legal 500 EMEA, Healthcare and Life Sciences
"Andrzej heads the department, with experience in regulatory advice and commercial transactions" – Legal 500 EMEA, Healthcare and Life Sciences 2020
Andrzej is a “creative” regulatory expert” – Legal 500 EMEA, Competition/Antitrust 2020
“Andrzej is a delight to work with. Extremely knowledgeable about the industry, providing market-leading advice on life sciences sector-related antitrust matters” – Legal 500 EMEA, Competition/Antitrust 2020
“[Andrzej has] market-leading regulatory knowledge” – Legal 500 EMEA 2018
Described as “a practical and creative problem-solver’ with ‘top-notch technical skills’ who has 'market-leading regulatory knowledge” – Legal 500 EMEA 2018

Insight Overview

Andrzej holds seminars to brief clients on regulatory issues in the life sciences sector and on food-related issues, including labelling and advertising, product safety and the structuring of distribution networks. He is also an author of regular sector-specific articles and provides commentaries on regulatory changes and ambiguities in new legal provisions.

Andrzej is the co-author of the first commentary on the Polish Food Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2013) and the first Polish commentary on Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims (Wolters Kluwer, 2015).

Memberships And Affiliations