Hello, I'm adw. Damian Dechnik.
Attorney (Final Bar Exams passed in 2017, Master of Law – equivalent of Juris Doctor - in 2010), working as a lawyer on daily basis since 2012, also a Mediator since 2021 included on the list of "permanent mediators" kept by the President of the District Court in Wroclaw. A graduate of the Doctoral Studies in Legal Sciences at the Institute of Civil Law of the WPAiE University of Wroclaw and author of the articles exploring the relationship between contract law and property law. A graduate of the Postgraduate Studies in Compliance Management and the Postgraduate Studies in Project Management at the University of Wroclaw. Student at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics - Postgraduate Studies in Banking.
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- Years of Relevant Experience10-15 years
- Seniority LevelDirector
- Highest Level of EducationMasters
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Current / Most Recent Job Title
Managing Owner of the law firm, Attorney , Compliance Officer, Mediator.
Current / Most Recent Employment
DPW Legal Kancelaria Adwokacka (law firm)
Industry
Specific Jurisdictions That I'm Qualified In or Can Cover
Professional Membership / Certification
Member of the Wroclaw Bar Association - as an Adwokat (equivalent of an Attorney in the USA or a Barrister in the UK) WRO/Adw/1907. Also certified as: - Triple E European Foundation Certificate in Banking [EU] (EFCB 3E), - Associate Chartered Banker [UK] approx. in 8/2025, - Compliance Officer, - Certified Internal Auditor (CIA by the IIA) approx. in 5/2025, - Internal Auditor for Compliance Management Systems in accordance with the ISO 37301:2021 standard, - Internal Auditor for Anti-Bribery Management Systems in accordance with the PN-ISO 37001:2017-05 standard, - Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS by the ACAMS), - PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management, - Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) approx. in 6/2025.
Skills
My skill set is based on identifying and considering all the potential risks or risk factors, that are connected to the business, process, case - and processing all the necessary information to presents the solutions that will secure stakeholder from situations that could appear and interfere within his business. It’s a skill characterised by dealing with business, compliance and process/project management. Broad scope of legal services throughout the whole career. In the area of attorney's work as a corporate – commercial lawyer, issues in the field of compliance, regulatory compliance manifest themselves within other cases as an inherent element of a lawyer's daily work. The main scope of work included: civil law, contract law, corporate law, commercial law, administrative law, labor law, GDPR, insurance law, insolvency law as well as construction law, real estate law, property law and similar. Issues in the field of financial law, small payment institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, electronic payments, claims submitted by customers to banks and cross-border payments and similar cases (based on: AML, MFiD2, MFiR2, PSD2, MiCA, WTR2, CBPR2, SEPA, EBA guidelines etc.) also occurred during legal services provided to clients. Legal services involve: - developing company’s corporate structure that will mitigate the liability connected with business, - drafting company’s internal regulations, internal policies, internal procedures in compliance with the Regulatory Requirements Framework; - registration of the general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited joint-stock partnerships, limited liability companies, foundations, trusts in the National Court Register of Poland, - registration of the legal entities to other registers within their Regulatory Requirements, - caring out transformations, divisions and mergers of commercial companies (M&A), - drafting contracts (sales agreements, license agreements, development agreements, lease agreements, lending agreements, loan agreements, pledge agreements, donation agreements, leasing agreements, insurance agreements, service mandate agreements, employment contracts, cooperation agreements, NDAs, non-competition agreements, framework agreements, civil partnership agreements, contracts for specific work, construction works contracts), - taking charge of contract negotiation and litigation, litigation support and dispute resolution, - conducting cases on behalf of the clients before common courts (district, regional and appellate courts), the Supreme Court, local government or government administration bodies, the Provincial Administrative Court and the Supreme Administrative Court, as well as all other authorities (The General Inspector of Financial Information), - legal services related to property law, construction law and the investment process (including: drafting real estate sale contracts, rental agreements, lease contracts, construction contracts, contracts for specific work, legal-architectural analysis of a plot of land, zoning decisions or building permits), as well as pre-litigation and court proceedings entangled with claims arising from the investment process and real estate law cases (violation of possession, usucaption of real estate, easements, division of real estate, reconciliation of the legal status in the land and mortgage register etc.). As an Internal Auditor I was responsible for: - corporate legal audit, legal due diligence of companies’ internal procedures and documentation, AML and anti-bribery management systems audit. Also, as a Compliance Officer: - preparing policies, procedures, reports, recommendations, requests, proposals and arrangements regarding the need to adapt the company activities, internal company regulations, template contracts and company documents.
Areas of Professional Interest
Legal, regulatory, compliance and audit services related to: - corporate law, - commercial law, - banking law and financial law, - contract law, - wholesale / retail industries, - construction / development / real estate industries, - AML, - anti-bribery, - legal due diligence.