Monika Kierepa

Monika Kierepa is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Poland and a partner in the corporate department of Rymarz Zdort in charge of the due diligence team and the intellectual property practice.

After graduating with distinction from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1999, Monika completed postgraduate studies in internet law, at the Intellectual Property Law Institute of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 2003, and in intellectual property law, at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2006. She joined Rymarz Zdort, formerly known as Weil, Gotshal & Manges – Pawel Rymarz sp.k., in 2000 and qualified as an attorney-at-law in 2007.

As a member of the corporate and M&A team, she has extensive experience in commercial law and capital markets regulations. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, including those involving public companies, and on private equity investments. She also manages and supervises all projects at Rymarz Zdort involving full-scale legal due diligence investigations of companies or their enterprises, flagging any legal risks associated with their operations and indicating the measures that can be implemented to mitigate such risks when conducting a given transaction. She has also advised on many initial and secondary public offerings of securities.

In addition, she specialises in intellectual and industrial property law and has extensive knowledge of copyright law, trademark law and patent law. She advises companies from a wide range of industries, including energy, IT, biotechnology, and food and beverage, as well as internet portals, telecommunication companies and publishing companies on various aspects of intellectual property law.

The prestigious legal ranking publication, IFLR1000, has since 2018 singled Monika out as a “Notable Practitioner” for equity capital markets and M&A.