The Legal 500 EMEA 202
This month, we have numerous reasons to celebrate! The Legal 500 EMEA 2025 rankings have been announced, and Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners has once again been distinguished in five practice areas.
Here’s a glimpse of our achievements:
- Data privacy & data protection – tier 1
- Intellectual property – tier 1
- TMT – tier 2
- Competition & Antitrust – tier 3
- Banking & Finance – tier 5
Ranked lawyers:
- Xawery Konarski as a Leading Partner in Data protection & data privacy and TMT.
- Grzegorz Sibiga as a Leading Partner in Data protection & data privacy.
- Agnieszka Wachowska as a Leading Partner in TMT.
- dr Katarzyna Menszig-Wiese as a Leading Associate in Competition & Antitrust.
- Karolina Grochecka-Goljan as a Leading Associate in TMT.
Recommended & key lawyers:
- Recommended lawyers in Data privacy and data protection: Xawery Konarski, Grzegorz Sibiga.
- Recommended lawyers in Intellectual property: Paweł Podrecki, Beata Matusiewicz-Kulig, Agnieszka Schoen, Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak, Tomasz Targosz.
- Recommended lawyers in TMT: Xawery Konarski, Agnieszka Wachowska, Karolina Grochecka-Goljan.
- Recommended lawyers in Competition & Antitrust: Paweł Podrecki, Tomasz Targosz, Katarzyna Menszig-Wiese.
- Recommended lawyers in Banking and finance: Jan Byrski
A big thank you to our clients, and congratulations to all the lawyers who have been ranked!
Chambers Europe 2025
We are pleased to announce that Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners has once again been honored in the prestigious ranking of the best law firms by Chambers and Partners Europe 2025. We have received a recommendation in three areas: Intellectual Property (Band 2), TMT (Band 1), and for the first time Banking & Finance: Regulatory (Band 2)!
This year, seven of our lawyers received individual recognition in four categories:
Banking & Finance: Regulatory
- prof. UEK Jan Byrski, PhD hab. (Band 2)
Intellectual Property
- Paweł Podrecki (Band 3)
- Tomasz Targosz (Band 3)
- Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak (Band 4)
TMT
- Xawery Konarski (Band 1)
- Agnieszka Wachowska (Band 3)
TMT: Data Protection
- Xawery Konarski (Band 4)
- Grzegorz Sibiga (Band 3)
We thank our clients for their trust and and big congratulations to all ranked lawyers and teams!
We’re back with another edition of our regular IP updates! In today’s IP Insights, prepared by Kaja Seń-Majewska, you’ll learn how to effectively protect your brand and avoid mistakes when registering it
In just a few months, a part of the new legislative package introducing design reform at the EU level will come into force. The reform seeks to modernise the design law and align it with advancements in new technology development.
WTR 1000 2025
We are pleased to announce that Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners and our lawyers have once again been recognized in the prestigious WTR 1000 ranking!
Individual nominations went to Prof. INP PAN dr hab. Paweł Podrecki (Bronze: enforcement and litigation) and Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak Ph.D. (Recommended – Individuals: prosecution and strategy).
Our law firm was awarded in the category of enforcement and litigation (Silver).
We congratulate the entire TKP team – this is our shared success!
Our sincere thanks to our clients, colleagues and ranking organizers!
Environmental protection is not just a matter of public image, but an increasingly complex area of regulations coming from both national and EU levels. It’s important to stay on top of these changes – not just for the company’s reputation but also to avoid concrete financial penalties.
Below, we present 6 key changes you should prepare for:
- Deposit System – when will it launch and what changes were made in the latest amendment?
- Regulation PPWR – how will waste packaging management change within the EU?
- Deforestation – new reporting and control obligations – how transparent must the supply chain be?
- EcoDesign – why is it becoming key to sustainable production and what should you focus on?
- Directive CSRD – how will it impact ESG reporting?
- Digital Product Passport – how will new CPR2 regulations affect the construction sector?
We encourage you to read:
Feel free to contact our experts: Rafał Klimek and Michał Sobolewski.
In today’s IP Insights, the last in the current series, we will outline the relationship between design law and copyright law, taking cars as an example.
In this latest edition, prepared by Piotr Grzybowski and Jacek Piasta, you’ll learn:
- When can protection under copyright law be invoked, and when under industrial design law?
- How do the rationale for protecting the two areas relate to each other?
- Can a car be a work under the copyright law?
We encourage you to read!
We encourage you to read the other publications in the IP Insights series:
Do you want to know how to invalidate your competitor’s design? Learn how to do it and see how others have done it in the latest edition of IP Insights. You’ll find practical tips and real-world case analysis.
In today’s release, Mikołaj Deptalski discusses:
- When can an industrial design be declared invalid?
- Examples of invalidated designs.
- Exceptions to invalidity – when does a design remain protected?
- Practical examples of exceptions.
We encourage you to read!
We encourage you to read the other publications in the IP Insights series:
- IP Insights. Industrial designs in the video games industry
- IP Insights. Unregistered community design – is it useful?
- IP Insights. Industrial designs – part II
- IP Insights. Industrial designs – part I
- IP Insights. Technical Considerations Versus ‘Creativity’ in Copyright Law
Stay tuned for the next edition in January 2025.
Did you know how widely an industrial design can be applied in the gaming industry? In previous editions, we discussed how a design protects the appearance of a product or its parts. This time, we’ll show how it can help video game creators protect their unique ideas.
In the latest material prepared by Maciej Majewski, you will learn:
- Which elements of video games can be protected by an industrial design?
- Why is protecting industrial designs crucial in the first years after a game’s release?
- What are the benefits of registering a design compared to copyright protection?
We invite you to read on!
We encourage you to read the other publications in the IP Insights series:
In the latest edition of IP Insights, we explore the topic of unregistered community designs and their practical implications.
From the material prepared by Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak, Ph.D. you will learn:
- What is an unregistered community design?
- How long is such a design protected, and what does this mean in practice?
- In which cases can an unregistered design be a key element in intellectual property protection?
We invite you to read!
We encourage you to read the other publications in the IP Insights series:
IP Insights. Industrial designs - part II
In today’s IP Insights, we continue our exploration of industrial designs, focusing this time on the application procedure and registration requirements for Community design protection.
In the latest IP Insights prepared by Justyna Sitnikow, LL.M., you’ll learn more about:
- the community design registration process,
- the option to defer publication,
- proper representation of designs,
- key benefits of registration.
We invite you to read!
We encourage you to read the other publications in the IP Insights series:
IFLR1000 Europe 2024
We are pleased to announce that TKP has been again recognized in the international IFLR1000 ranking in categories:
- Banking: Notable
- M&A: Notable
Congratulations to the awarded teams:
FinTech team:
prof. UEK Jan Byrski, PhD hab.
Michał Synowiec, PhD
Przemysław Janczak
Hubert Łączkowski
Piotr Rodzynkiewicz
Corpo team:
Wojciech Kulis
Maciej Toroń
Michał Sobolewski
Dariusz Krzak
Mykoła Zembra
Michał Kasprzyk
Jan Potyrała
We encourage you to review the complete ranking results on the IFRL website.
