Maciej Gawroński

Maciej's expertise covers IT, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, privacy and personal data protection, outsourcing, commercial contracts, executive advisory, dispute resolution, and intellectual property.

He has advised on thousands of IT, cloud computing, personal data, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence projects. He has been the lead lawyer on the largest IT project in the financial sector in Central Europe from 2000 to 2013 and again from 2024.

Maciej has represented clients in investment, construction, technology, patent, and copyright disputes worth billions of dollars before Polish common courts and the Polish Supreme Court, arbitration courts and international arbitration tribunals, including investment arbitrations. He serves as an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce.

Clients often seek his assistance in strategic projects across different legal areas, valuing his corporate advisory experience, project management skills, and multi-level process thinking.

As an expert of the European Commission on Cloud Computing Contracts and a Working Party Article 29 expert on data transfers (2014), Maciej contributed to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), specifically in Articles 20, 28.9, and 82.1 (data portability, liability of processors, electronic form of data processing agreements).

He is a supporting expert at the European Data Protection Board, a Scientific Council Member of the Institute of Data Protection Law at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw.

Maciej is a Polish attorney-at-law since 2000. In 2018 he passed the Certified International Privacy Professional-Europe exam (97/100) of the International Association of Privacy Professionals In 2012 he participated in the Bird & Bird Partner Development Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK In 1999 he completed a three month course of international commerce in France, Université de Tours, Centre de Droit du Commerce International, DESS Commerce Extérieur. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagielloninan University in Kraków in 1997 defending his thesis on the EU company law.

• IT & Digital →
• Privacy & Data Protection →
• Artificial Intelligence →
• Dispute Resolution →
• Intellectual Property →
• Unfair Competition →
• Franchising →
• Cloud Computing →
• Cybersecurity →
• Corporate →
• Cross Border →

• Authored #1 Wolters Kluwer Bestseller 2022, Top 5 2022-2026, "Little Book On Drafting Pleadings. How to Communicate and Argue in Writing” („Jak pisać pisma procesowe i prowadzić komunikację w sporze czyli książeczka o pisaniu pism”)
• In 2021 received The Polish Personal Data Protection Authority's Michał Serzycki Award 2021, for promoting the values of personal data protection and the right to privacy
• Authored #1 Wolters Kluwer Bestseller 2018 and 2019, "Guide to the GDPR” („RODO. Przewodnik ze wzorami”)
• In 2014 nominated to the Remigiusz Kaszubski Award of the Polish Banking Association.
• Since 2006, regularly recognized for Data Protection, Dispute Resolution, Franchising, Intellectual Property, IT, Media, Patent Disputes in Life Sciences, Technology, Telecommunications, and Trademark and Copyright Disputes by rankings such as Chambers Europe, Legal500, Best Lawyers, Who's Who Legal / Lexology Index, Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers Legal Benchmarking Group, Managing Intellectual Property, and Expert Guides.

• "The Little Book on Drafting Pleadings: How to Communicate and Argue in Writing" (2022 PL / 2023 EN), by M. Gawroński and P. Biernatowski (Polish title: "Jak pisać pisma procesowe i prowadzić komunikację w sporze") - #1 Bestseller Wolters Kluwer Polska 2022, TOP 5 2022-2026
• "Guide to the GDPR", ed. M. Gawroński, English Edition, Kluwer Law International B.V., 2019
• “ Guide to the GDPR with Templates” (2018) ed. M. Gawroński, (Polish title: „RODO. Przewodnik ze wzorami”), " Personal Data Protection. Guide to the Act and the GDPR with Templates" (2018), ed. M. Gawroński, Wolters Kluwer Polska, (Polish title: „Ochrona danych osobowych. Przewodnik po ustawie i RODO z wzorami") - #1 Bestseller Wolters Kluwer Polska 2018 and 2019
• "Cloud Computing in the Polish Financial Sector. Regulations and Standards", ed. M. Gawroński, English Edition, Banking Technology Forum at the Polish Banking Association, 2011 (Polish original: „Cloud Computing w sektorze finansowym. Regulacje i standardy", 2011)
• "Assessment of the compliance of the use of videoconferencing services: Microsoft Teams (part of Microsoft 365), Zoom 5.0, Cisco Webex for communication between attorneys-at-law and clients and in the activities of attorney self-government bodies", ed. M. Gawroński, in: "The Book of Secure Electronic Communication for Attorneys-at-Law, Part I", Polish Bar of Attorneys-at-Law, 2020
• "Conformity Assessment of Exchange Online, Gmail, and iCloud Mail for Attorneys-at-Law", ed. M. Gawroński, in: "The Book of Secure Electronic Communication for Attorneys-at-Law, Part II", Polish Bar of Attorneys-at-Law, 2020
• 60+ academic and industry books and articles on AI, banking technologies, big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT, liability of board members, payment services, privacy and data protection, project management,.

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maciej.gawronski@gppartners.pl

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