Filip Leśniak is an advocate admitted to practice in Poland, a partner in the corporate department of Rymarz Zdort Maruta and a member of equity capital markets team.

Experience and education:

Filip is a specialist in commercial company law, M&A transactions, and capital markets regulations. He has advised leading players in national and foreign markets on a number of significant M&A and joint venture transactions involving listed and non-public companies. He also advises on public offerings and accelerated book building processes, including transactions in the financial institutions sector, as well as public tender offers. He has been involved in nearly 30 processes requiring the preparation of company prospectuses or equivalent disclosure documents, most of them being IPO projects.

Among the clients he regularly serves are international and domestic investors, as well as public and private companies from various economic sectors, including regulated institutions.

He uses his expertise to support issuers, selling shareholders and investment banks in relation to each and every aspect of public offerings and private placements of securities conducted on the domestic and international capital markets.

His experience also includes advising on issues related to the disclosure obligations of public companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, as well as market abuse prevention regulations.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2011 and also completed a course in US law at the Center for American Law Studies co-organised by the University of Warsaw and the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Filip qualified as an advocate in 2015.

Awards and rankings:

The prestigious legal ranking publication IFLR1000, in 2023 has ranked Filip as one of a select few “Highly Regarded” lawyers for equity capital markets.

In the 2023 edition of the legal ranking, The Legal 500, Filip was recommended in the field of capital markets.

Recent news

Rymarz Zdort Maruta advises brokerage house Biuro Maklerskie PKO BP on issue of new and sale of existing shares in Archicom valued at PLN 220 million

30 October 2023

We are pleased to announce that we advised the brokerage house Biuro Maklerskie PKO BP, which acted as the global coordinator in an accelerated book-building (ABB) process concerning the issuance by A...

Rymarz Zdort Maruta advises brokerage house Biuro Maklerskie PKO BP on issue of new and sale of existing shares in Archicom valued at PLN 220 million

Rymarz Zdort advises on IPO of Huuuge, Inc.

22 February 2021

Rymarz Zdort advised Credit Suisse Securities, Sociedad de Valores, S.A. and J.P. Morgan AG, joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners, and IPOPEMA Securities S.A., a joint bookrunner, on the IP...

Rymarz Zdort advises on IPO of Huuuge, Inc.

A PLN 4.5 billion share sale agreement concluded by AccorHotels in connection with a tender offer for 100% of the shares in Orbis launched by AccorInvest

13 January 2020

Rymarz Zdort, formerly Weil, Gotshal & Manges – Pawel Rymarz sp.k., advised AccorHotels on the execution of a share sale agreement and the launch of a tender offer by AccorInvest for the sale of 1...

A PLN 4.5 billion share sale agreement concluded by AccorHotels in connection with a tender offer for 100% of the shares in Orbis launched by AccorInvest
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