Jakub Lerner
attorney-at-law, partnerJakub 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
IFLR1000 2024, private equity, M&A (Notable practitioner)
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