Michał König

Education

• New York University School of Law, M. in International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration (2014);
• Warsaw University, Master of Law (Magister), summa cum laude (2013);
• British Centre for English and European Legal Studies, Cambridge University in cooperation with the Law Faculty of the University of Warsaw, Graduation with distinction (2013).

Professional career

• Kochański & Partners sp.k. – Partner, Head of Commercial Litigation & Arbitration Practice, February 2019 – currently; Senior Associate at the Dispute Resolution Practice, October 2017 – February 2019; Associate at the Dispute Resolution Practice, August 2015 – October 2017;
• White & Case P. Pietkiewicz, M. Studniarek i Wspólnicy – Kancelaria Prawna sp. k. – member of the Dispute Resolution Practice, October 2014 – June 2015;
• Clifford Chance Janicka, Krużewski, Namiotkiewicz i wspólnicy sp. k. – trainee at the Dispute Resolution Practice, May – June 2013.

Arbitration experience

Counsel in more than a dozen arbitrations conducted under the rules of Polish and foreign permanent arbitral institutions, as well as under the UNCITRAL Rules, both in Polish and English, including: 

• representing an international supplier of industrial gases and chemicals in a dispute over a pricing formula and valorization (Rules of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration);
• representing a major Polish mineral water producer in an investment arbitration against the Slovak Republic (UNCITRAL Rules);
• representing a pharmaceutical company in a quality dispute with a drug manufacturer (Swiss Rules of International Arbitration);
• representing a company in the confectionery industry in a product conformity dispute (Arbitration Rules of the SCC Arbitration Institute);
• representing a company from the railway industry in a dispute over the ownership of the railway infrastructure and monetary claims arising therefrom (Rules of the Court of Arbitration at the  General Counsel to the Republic of Poland);
• representing a leading manufacturer of noise and vibration monitoring equipment in a dispute with one of its foreign distributors (Rules of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce);
• representing a provider of software solutions for the fitness industry in a series of proceedings against software users from a number of various jurisdictions (Rules of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce).

Counsel in a number of post-arbitral proceedings for the enforcement of domestic and foreign arbitral awards, as well as for the annulment of domestic Polish arbitral awards.