Maciej Toroń
Bio
Maciej is an attorney-at-law with over ten years of professional experience in commercial law, waste management law, EU funds, and state aid. He advises commercial companies, non-governmental organizations, and family foundations. He also advises businesses that handle packaging waste and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), including recycling organizations and the deposit return system operator. Maciej works on projects financed with EU funds, advising managing authorities and regional development funds, as well as beneficiaries. He advises public entities and businesses on the granting and use of support constituting state aid or de minimis aid. He also advises venture capital funds and startups.
Maciej is a lecturer on state aid issues in the postgraduate programme Public Procurement at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
He is the author of academic publications concerned with the subject of human rights, competition law, and public international law. He has also co-authored a commentary to the Act on counteracting excessive delays in commercial transactions (payment backlogs) and publications on subjects including the simple joint-stock company.
Maciej studied at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University, and was awarded a scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for academic excellence and an Erasmus scholarship at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He also attended the Radboud Honours Academy Law Extra Programme, organized by Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), focusing on antitrust rules and their enforcement in the EU and the US.
Maciej is fluent in English.
