Michał Gajowczyk
Attorney-at-law
Doctor of Juridical Sciences
Manager
Background
Dr Michal Gajowczyk is an attorney-at-law who co-operates with the law firm SDZLEGAL Schindhelm from 2023 as a manager in Litigation & Arbitration department.
Between 2002 – 2007 he studied Law at Law, Economy and Administration Faculty at University of Wroclaw. In 2012 he defended Ph. D. thesis “Enterprise as a subject of contribution to a capital company”. In 2009 he also graduated from “Diploma in English and European Union law” course at University of Cambridge and University of Wroclaw.
Between 2007 – 2011 served an apprenticeship as an attorney-at-law trainee at District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Wroclaw. Since 2012 he was enrolled on attorney-at-law list.
Dr Michal Gajowczyk has worked as an attorney-at-law since 2012. He advises domestic and foreign business entities on dispute & resolution matters. He has a broad experience of working as a litigator in renowned Warsaw law firms as well as Head of Legal in international IT companies.
Dr Michal Gajowczyk specialises in conducting pre-court negotiations and advising or representing clients during litigation procedures before regular courts, courts of appeal and Polish Supreme Court.
- representation of a company from the real estate development sector in a dispute concerning the determination of the invalidity of a contract for road works concluded on the basis of Article 16 of the Act on Public Roads (as part of which the court granted the law firm's client precedent-setting security to halt an investment worth approximately PLN 5 million and prohibited the litigant from imposing contractual penalties);
- representation of a Czech company in a complex international court dispute concerning recognition of a legal act of enterprise disposal as ineffective (in fraudem creditoris) to the value of more than CZK 10 million, as part of which side disputes were conducted: for revocation of a bankruptcy agreement, for deprivation of enforceability of an international enforcement title, for compensation from a bailiff for unlawful cancellation of a bank transfer to the amount of more than PLN 2 million;
- representation of a client in a case for damages in the amount of approx. PLN 600,000 in connection with failure to timely file a complaint with the Provincial Administrative Court, in which precedent-setting issues of causality between violation of the deadline and damage in the form of an obligation to pay VAT were resolved, including the issue of so-called "tax carousels";
- representation of a development company in a dispute over the defendant's obligation to make substitute declarations of intent regarding the sale of several real properties worth approx. PLN 10 million, in which the following issues were resolved: the possibility of
