Prof. Anna
Zawadzka

Professor Anna Zawadzka is the Managing Partner of ZMW Legal and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. She specialises in commercial company law, corporate disputes and commercial contract law.

She combines academic precision with practical effectiveness – representing clients before courts of all instances, arbitral tribunals (including the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce and the ICC) and the Supreme Court. She has authored more than 30 academic publications, including a widely cited monograph on corporate disputes and the protection of minority shareholders.

Since 2023 she has been a member of the Civil Law Codification Commission at the Council of Ministers, working on the reform of private law.

• Representing the management board of a large listed company in a dispute over damage caused by its former CEO (value of the claim: over PLN 50 million)
• Defending a parent company in a multi-year corporate dispute with minority shareholders before the Court of Arbitration at the Lewiatan Confederation
• Advising a supervisory board in proceedings to declare invalid a management board resolution of key importance to the capital group
• Representing institutional clients in multi-party proceedings challenging shareholders’ meeting resolutions
• Conducting a corporate dispute to protect minority shareholders’ rights in connection with a squeeze-out
• Strategic advice on the restructuring of a complex capital group in the context of the liability of company bodies
• Representation before the Supreme Court in cases concerning the validity of legal acts performed by a management board acting beyond its authority