Witold Daniłowicz

Year of birth

1954

Nationality

  • Polish

Languages

  • English
  • German
  • Polish
  • Russian

Specializations

  • commercial agreements in general
  • company law
  • finance, banking
  • infrastructural projects
  • media and new technologies
  • mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
  • real estate, construction
  • transport

Professional certification

Legal Counsel, adwokat w stanach Luizjana i Teksas w Stanach Zjednoczonych

Education

  • Universtiy of Wrocław faculty of Law – Master of Law (1977);  
  • Postgraduate program In international law at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, the  Netherlands (1982); 
  • Louisiana State University Law Center – Juris Doctor and Master of Laws (1985).

Professional career

  • Currently – Managing partner of DJBW. 
  • 2012 – 2013 Managing Partner of DJW. 
  • 1993 – 2012 Managing Partner of the Warsaw office of White & Case LLP. 
  • 1985-1993 – Associate and then Partner at Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston, Texas and London, United Kingdom.

Arbitration experience

  • Arbitrator in the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce and The International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna.

Membership in organizations

  • President of Polish Association of Legal Employers.

Publications

  1. The Relations between International Law and Domestic Law in the Jurisprudence of International Court of Justice, XII  Polish Yearbook of International Law 153 (1983);
  2. The Choice of Applicable Law in International Arbitration, 9 Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev., 237 (1986);
  3. “Floating” Choice of Law Clauses, 20 Int’l Lawyer, 1005 (1986).