Jakub Lerner

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Jakub Lerner

attorney-at-law, partner

M&A, private equity, complex commercial transactions, capital markets

Practices

Corporate Law & Public Companies

Sectors

Jakub Lerner, LL.M. co-heads the M&A and Corporate practice. He has a broad-based transactional practice, advising public and private companies, private equity firms, multinational corporations, as well as Polish entrepreneurs on 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 regularly advises on complex cross-border transactions and assists clients entering into international joint ventures.

He is consistently recommended in leading legal directories for M&A and private equity, including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, IFLR1000, and Lexology, among others.

He is admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales, an attorney-at-law in the 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 also attended Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Education

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

Professional experience

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)

Organizations

Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law