Łukasz Szymański

Łukasz Szymański is a Partner in the Banking and Finance team and heads the Insurance team in the Warsaw office of Taylor Wessing law firm. He focuses on providing legal advice to financial institutions. He has several years of experience in providing legal services to banks, insurers, leasing companies, finance companies, investment funds and financial institutions acting as lenders (including mezzanine lenders). Łukasz also advises lenders and borrowers in project finance transactions.
His practice focuses on three main areas for financial institutions: regulatory (mainly banking and insurance), restructuring and structured finance.
Łukasz regularly acts as a mediator at the Mediation Centre of the Arbitration Court at the Financial Supervision Authority and has also been appointed as an arbitrator of that court since November 2023.
Łukasz graduated from Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw and also studied at the Faculty of Law of Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. For more than a decade Łukasz was a lecturer at the Department of Civil Law and Private International Law at Cardinal Wyszyński University, where he mainly taught civil law.
Before joining Taylor Wessing, he worked at Deloitte Legal, Wardynski & Partners, K&L Gates and the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.
Łukasz is an attorney-at-law and a member of the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-law.