FILIP WEJMAN, LL.M. (Harvard)
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Filip Wejman has over 20 years of experience in private law. In his legal practice, Filip often works on international projects.
SERVICES
Dispute resolution and litigation
Legal advice and expert opinions
Legislative and regulatory matters
Teaching and training
Transactions
EXPERTISE
Consumer law
Contracts
Corporate law
E-commerce
Enforcement of claims
Freedom of speech
Information technology
Intellectual property
International law
Torts
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Shareholder lawsuit to compel a public company to answer shareholder's questions (team lead).
Shareholder lawsuit over a major energy project, involving climate litigation – "a powerful precedent", The Economist. Representation of the shareholder during the meeting of shareholders of a public company: questions, discussion, filing formal objections, proxy voting, etc. Challenging the resolution of the company and representation in subsequent litigation (team lead). Dispute value: EUR 1.4 billion. Read more here and at The Economist, FT, and REUTERS.
Negotiation of retail, franchise, wholesale and other distribution agreements with luxury fashion brands.
Negotiation of e-commerce agreements with international platforms, representing a major retailer.
Negotiation of commercial lease agreements.
Broad scope of day-to-day legal services for a company involved in international commerce (retail and wholesale, on-line and brick-and-mortar).
Restructuring agreement and amendments of corporate governance for a Polish public company in arrangement bankruptcy (member of the team). Value: ca. PLN 2 billion.
Supported development of an expert witness opinion in international arbitration proceedings on protection of foreign investment in Poland. Dispute value: EUR multi-billion.
Expert advice to a law firm representing a party to an international dispute over ownership of a large Polish company (member of the team). Dispute value: EUR multi-billion.
Expert advice to a Polish company on debt repayment in context of restructuring of a foreign bank. Dispute value: EUR multi-million.
Expert opinion for a UK law firm, co-author. Subject: enforcement in Poland of a U.K. judgement handed down after a freezing order (Mareva injunction). Comparative analysis against the backdrop of Polish Constitution and civil procedure. Dispute value: ca. PLN 1 billion.
Expert opinion for the law firm representing one of the leading Polish financial companies in course of takeover of a foreign entity. Analysis of the draft acquisition agreement under foreign law, and of the buyer's contracts with other advisors: legal, investment, financial, strategic (co-author). Transaction value: ca. PLN 1 billion.
Expert advice on a common law trust from the perspective of Polish law.
Scenario analysis, transaction and litigation advice as regards decisions issued by the telecommunication market regulator (member of the team). Dispute value: PLN multi-hundred million.
Regulation / legislation
Proposal for the reform of the legal profession, drafted at the invitation of one of Polish political parties in parliament (co-author).
Drafting positions and regulatory proposals for a law firm representing a major IT company (member of the team). Subject: electronic signatures law.
Proposal for an overhaul of the Radio and Television Broadcasting Act, commissioned in 1999 by the Polish Ministry of Treasury (co-author).
Pro Bono
LANGUAGES
Polish (native)
English (fluent)
German, French, Russian (intermediate)
EDUCATION
1998
Master of Law
Jagiellonian University
1998
CUA International Business and Trade Summer Law Program
1997-1998
School of German Law
Universities: Heidelberg, Mainz and Jagiellonian
2003
Attorney exam
2004
Master of Laws (LL.M)
Harvard Law School
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, DISTINCTIONS
2d Workshop on American Affairs
Young Leaders Program 2000, Dräger Stiftung
2003-2004
Kościuszko Foundation Exchange Fellow at Harvard University
Bronze Cross of Merit
Decision of the President of the Republic of Poland of 3 October 2012
In Recognition of Services to Justice
Medal awarded by the Minister of Justice on 22 October 2012
NGO of the Year
2013 Award of the National Bar of Legal Advisors
For INPRIS, a legal think tank
OUTSIDE POSITIONS
Co-founder and Member of the Board
INPRIS, a legal think tank
Member of the Program Board
Precedent Litigation Program
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
SELECTED FORMER POSITIONS
Assistant, Chair of the Private Law
Jagiellonian University
Member of the Polish-German Center for Banking Law
Jagiellonian University
Head, School of American Law
Jagiellonian University
Senior Researcher
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Teaching Assistant
Harvard Extension School
Internet & Society course offered by the Berkman Center for Law and Society at Harvard Law School
Member of the grading committee
The Path to Harvard national competition (Droga na Harvard)
Co-founder
Warsaw Legal Hackers
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
F. Wejman, F. Zoll
Prawo ochrony konsumenta w okresie zmian
Kraków 1997
Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
F. Wejman, F. Zoll
Sprzedaż konsumencka
Zmieniona propozycja dyrektywy o sprzedaży i gwarancjach jakości dóbr konsumpcyjnych
Przekład z jęz. angielskiego, francuskiego i niemieckiego oraz wprowadzenie
Kwartalnik Prawa Prywatnego 4/1998
F. Wejman
Student poradni jako kurator
Klinika 1/1999
M. Spyra, F. Wejman
Dyrektywy wykładni bankowych wzorców umów
Prawo Bankowe 11/2000
F. Wejman
Wprowadzenie do cywilistycznej problematyki ustawy o podpisie elektronicznym
Prawo Bankowe 2/2000
M. Spyra, F. Wejman
W sprawie przesłanek obowiązywania regulaminu bankowego (art. 384 k.c. w zw. z art. 109 prawa bankowego)
Prawo Bankowe 11/2000
A. Niżankowska, F. Wejman
Rękojmia za wady przy leasingu
Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego 1-2/2000
F. Wejman
Wzorce umów na stronach WWW i w poczcie elektronicznej
Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego 4/2000
F. Wejman, F. Zoll
Zawody prawnicze w Polsce - Raport Rządowego Centrum Legislacyjnego
Warszawa 2000
F. Wejman
Pełnomocnictwo
w: Encyklopedia prawa bankowego pod red. W. Pyzioła
Warszawa 2002
Published by PWN
F. Wejman
Wpis do rejestru kwalifikowanych podmiotow - czy polska ustawa o podpisie elektronicznym jest zgodna z dyrektywą?
w: M. Grzybowski, M. Berdel-Dudzinska (red.)
Prawo i ustrój Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w perspektywie integracji z Unią Europejską
Rzeszów 2002
Published by Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania
F. Zoll with assistance of F. Wejman
Fryderyk Zoll's Jr. Theory of Copyright and the Challenges of our Times
Organon 32/2003
Komentarz do art. 7 Prawa bankowego
w: Prawo bankowe - Komentarz pod red. F. Zolla
Kraków 2005
Published by Wolters Kluwer
Ok. 10 haseł nt. prawa gospodarczego w:
Profesjonalny Serwis Bankowy
Warszawa 2005
Published on-line by Wolters Kluwer
A. Bodnar, Ł. Bojarski, F. Wejman
Nowa adwokatura
Warszawa 2007
Published by Instytut Spraw Publicznych
Translations
A. Niżankowska przy współpracy F. Wejmana
Ustawa o używaniu języka francuskiego i orzeczenie Rady Konstytucyjnej. Przekład z jęz. francuskiego
Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego 1-2/2000
F. Wejman
Dyrektywa o wspólnotowej infrastrukturze podpisów elektronicznych. Przekład z jęz. angielskiego, francuskiego, niemieckiego oraz wprowadzenie
Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego 1-2/2000
L. Wortham
Główne zasady regulacji amerykańskiego zawodu prawniczego
Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego 3-4/2008
Editing Work
Research Group on the Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group)
Monachium 2007
Published by Sellier. European Law Publishers
Research Group on the Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group)
Monachium 2009
Published by Sellier. European Law Publishers
H.Schulte-Nölke (ed., in cooperation with) Ch.Twigg-Flesner, M. Ebers
EC Consumer Law Compendium - Comparative Analysis
Universitat Bielefeld
Bielefeld, 2008
Redakcja naukowa przekładu z angielskiego
S. Shavell: Ekonomiczna analiza prawa wypadków
Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego 2005