Piotr Nowaczyk

Education

Master of Laws, Poznań (1976), judge exam (1978), Bar exam (1984), postgraduate study in business law, Bar Research Center at the Polish Bar Council, Warsaw (1988), admission to diplomatic service (1991), École de Formation des Barreaux, Paris (1992), American Bar Association, Central & East European Imitative (CEELI) & International Legal Exchange Committee (ILEX), Washington D.C. (1993), Mediation and Conflict Prevention workshop, Sydney, 2002, WIPO Workshop for Arbitrators by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, 2003, Geneva, INTA Advanced Mediation CLE Program, San Diego, California, 2005, ICDR International Arbitrators Symposium, Advanced Case Management Issues, Prague, 2005, Cross Examination Skills Training in Arbitration, Hofstra Law School, Paris, 2008, Training for Trainers (in International commercial arbitration), SICA-FICA, The European Branch, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 2013, FIDIC Contracts Total Immersion Training Programme, Dublin, 2013, FIDIC Adjudicators Assessment Programme, Dubai, 2015, Training for Examiners (in International commercial arbitration), SICA-FICA, The European Branch, and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Amsterdam, 2015, FIDIC President’s List online Top-Up Training Programme, Geneva, 2021, validation of professional mediators, CAM Lewiatan, 2023.

Professional career

since 2015 Fulltime Independent Arbitrator, FIDIC adjudicator and Mediator, (1993-2015) DENTONS, former SALANS, founder and key member of litigation & arbitration department, Warsaw, ICC Court member (2003-2015), Paris, VIAC International Arbitration Board member (2009-2015), Vienna, delegate to the United Nations at the Working Group II Arbitration & Conciliation (UNCITRAL 2006-2010), New York, President of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce (2006- 2009), advocate in Warsaw (since 1994), admitted as avocat to the Paris Bar (1993), Jeantet et Associès, Paris, (1991-1992), advocate, Law Offices of S.G. Archibald, Paris (visiting lawyer 1991), advocate trainee and advocate practicing in Poznań Bar (1982-1990), judge trainee, judge assessor, judge juvenile, Poznań (1976-1982).

Arbitration experience

Chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, expert, or counsel in ca. 600 (six hundred) arbitral proceedings handled in 7 languages (English, Czech, French, German, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian), in 30 countries, under the arbitration rules of more than 40 arbitration institutions. As the ICC court member participated at the scrutiny of more than 300 international arbitral awards. President of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce (2006-2009), Polish delegate to UNCITRAL (Working Group II Arbitration & Conciliation), New York, (2006-2010), member of the VIAC International Arbitration Council, Vienna (2009-2019), member of the ICAC Kyiv Presidium since 2024.

Membership in organizations

• Listed in over 100 panels of recommended arbitrators worldwide, including: AAA-ICDR, INTA, ACICA, CEPANI, CIETAC, Dubai International Arbitration Center, HKIAC, ICAC Kyiv, ICAC Moscow, IHK, KLRCA Malaysia, KCAB, SIAC, VIAC, WIPO, Teheran Regional Arbitration Centre, The Cairo Regional Centre, Polish Bank Association, Polish Chamber of Information Technology; major courts of arbitration in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republik, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Uzbekistan, and others.
• Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and Dispute Board Federation (DBF); lifetime member of Indian Arbitration Council, expert WIPO, member of: IBA Arbitration Committee (Sub-Committee on Conflicts of Interest 2008-2010); The Institute of Transnational Arbitration, Dallas (2007-2019), VIAC International Advisory Board (2009-2019); Danish Arbitration Institute, Law Society of England & Wales; ASA, CAB, CEA, DIS, ICA, ICCA, ITA, ÖVS, and others. Board member of Polish Arbitration Association (PSSP), member of ICC Arbitration Commission, ICC Central and Eastern European Institutional Arbitration Group, Chinese European Arbitration Association e.V. (CEAA), ICC Task Force “Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration”, ICC Court Alumni Group and many others.

Publications

1. UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules – Commentary (together with A. Szumański, M. Szymańska) – C.H.Beck, 2011,
2. Is it moral to charge VAT on arbitration? Revista Romana del Arbitraj Nr 1/Jannuary 2015, Bucharest, Romania,
3. International Arbitrator – Position, Mission or Career? in Liber Amicorum for prof. Jerzy Rajski The Challenges and the Future of Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Court of Arbitration Lewiatan, 2015,
4. Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Poland – in “Arbitration and Regulation of International Trade” Liber Amicorum in Honor of Prof. A.S. Komarov, Moscow, 2019,
5. Efficient Arbitrator – Call for Safety of Arbitrators in „Efficient Arbitration: What does it mean?” ICAC Kyiv, 2020
6. Привела ли пандемия к дегуманизации арбитража? Ежегодный сборник МТС ТПП, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republik, Republik, 2022.