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Dr Piotr Sitnik LL.M.

Counsel

Advocate (adwokat)

About

Piotr Sitnik advises multinational corporations, private equity sponsors and corporate groups on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. He focuses on corporate reorganisations, restructurings and strategic business transformations, with a particular emphasis on international and multi-jurisdictional projects involving sophisticated corporate structures.

Piotr has extensive experience in all types of intra-group reorganisations, including capitalisations, financings, mergers, demergers, spin-offs, conversions and other restructuring initiatives. He regularly advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and a broad range of commercial transactions, as well as providing support in financing transactions, the granting of credit facilities, and cross-border corporate and regulatory matters.

Offering practical, business-oriented advice on high-value and technically demanding transactions, Piotr is recognised for helping clients to navigate complex business challenges and implement efficient legal structures aligned with their strategic objectives.

Professional QualificationsAdvocate (Adwokat) registered with the Warsaw Bar Association of Advocates (Okręgowa Izba Adwokacka w Warszawie), 2022

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising General Electric Company and its subsidiaries on a wide range of reorganisations and restructurings, entailing mergers (including cross-border mergers), conversions, capitalisations and debt restructurings, spin-offs, and share and asset deals.
  • Advising Danaher on multiple capitalisations, share emissions, shareholders' agreements, investment agreements, intra-group credit instruments and cross-border conversions.
  • Advising a multinational publishing and education company on a global reorganisation involving multiple jurisdictions and encompassing share, business and asset transfers, branch formations, cross-border mergers and other corporate simplifications of the group's structure (including contract-based).
  • Advising Ecolab, an American corporation specialising in water treatment, purification, cleaning and hygiene, on multijurisdictional restructurings and reorganisations of subsidiaries and holding companies, involving the coordination of international teams across more than a dozen jurisdictions and multiple specialisations.
  • Advising BASF, the world's largest chemical conglomerate, on a major demerger and spin-off of the company's business engaged in the production of catalysts which reduce the emission of harmful substances in cars, trucks and motorcycles.
  • Advising a major pan-European, multi-technology, RES developer on setting up a joint venture with a Polish partner, including a share sale, a joint venture agreement and a shareholders' agreement.
  • Advising Medtronic on its acquisition of Medicrea, an AI-enabled spinal surgery company, and on post-closing reorganisations involving asset and share deals and mergers.
  • Advising TIP Trailer Services, a truck trailer leasing company, on its acquisition of PEMA's Polish business and post-closing reorganisations involving mergers and spin-offs.
  • Advising Mavenir, an American telecommunications software manufacturer, on domestic and cross-border mergers of subsidiaries.
  • Advising Marsh on multiple intra-group capitalisations, share and asset deals of multiple subsidiaries as pre-closing steps to exits, and the coordination of Europe-wide project management teams.
  • Advising Discovery Communications, a world-renowned media conglomerate, on reorganisation processes involving companies from the TVN capital group in Poland.
  • Advising Avalara, an international provider of tax compliance software and automated solutions, on the legal aspects of the launch of its operations in Poland, including the cross-border provision of services, the establishment of a corporate presence, and commercial contract and consumer law issues.
  • Advising Terminal, a US recruiting platform, on the planning and launch of its operations in Poland, including the setting up of a locally incorporated entity and commercial contract advice.
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Education
  • Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Doctor of Laws (PhD), 2022
  • Lazarski University, Master of Laws (MA), 2020
  • University of London, Master of Laws (LLM), 2019
  • University College London, Bachelor of Laws (LLB), 2017

Prior Experience

  • July 2026 – present, Counsel, DLA Piper, Warszawa
  • May 2022 – June 2026, Senior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • November 2019 – April 2022, Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • May 2018 – October 2019, Junior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • August 2017 – April 2018, Paralegal, DLA Piper, Warsaw

Additional Qualifications

Sworn translator of the English language (tłumacz przysięgły języka angielskiego) registered with the Polish Ministry of Justice, 2017

Memberships And Affiliations

Advocate (adwokat), registered with the Warsaw Bar Association of Advocates (Okręgowa Izba Adwokacka w Warszawie), 2022