Jakub Lerner

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Jakub Lerner

attorney-at-law, partner
M&A, private equity, complex commercial transactions, capital markets

Jakub Lerner, LL.M., has a broad-based transactional practice advising public and private companies, private equity firms and corporations as well as Polish entrepreneurs in structuring and negotiating mergers, acquisitions, investments, divestitures, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions.

He has many years of experience advising on numerous transactions, including share deals, asset deals, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and other forms of corporate restructuring. He also advises on complex international transactions and advises companies entering into international joint ventures.

He is admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales, an attorney-at-law, State of New York, USA and an attorney-at-law in Poland.

Before joining Wardyński & Partners, he worked with international law firms in New York and Warsaw.

He is a graduate of Jagiellonian University and Cornell Law School, and attended Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Cornell Law School, USA, postgraduate studies (LL.M.)

SGH Warsaw School of Economics, postgraduate studies in accounting and corporate finance

Noerr, partner in the Warsaw office, co-head of corporate and M&A practice in Central & Eastern Europe

CMS Cameron McKenna

Hogan & Hartson/K&L Gates

Weil, Gotshal & Manges (New York)

Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law

New York State Bar Association

Law Society of England and Wales

The Legal 500 EMEA 2024, Commercial, corporate and M&A

The Legal 500 EMEA (2017–2021), corporate law/M&A

The Legal 500 EMEA (2018–2020), private equity