Jacek Becker
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Jacek Becker

Associate

Email

jacek.becker@aoshearman.com

Phone

+48 22 820 6156

Offices

Warsaw

V-CARD
Jacek is an advocate in the litigation department.

He represents commercial, financial and energy sector clients in complex, multijurisdictional and multiparty corporate and commercial litigation cases involving share purchase agreements, joint ventures, loan facilities, project finance and challenging resolutions of commercial companies’ authorities.

He has extensive experience in civil, commercial, and corporate law, including contractual, tort and corporate liability.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • A global company generating energy from renewable sources in a series of proceedings to annul the resolutions of the shareholders meeting of its subsidiary and invalidate the agreements for purchasing rights to energy storage projects with a value exceeding EUR 130 million.
  • A foreign commercial bank in a dispute with a value exceeding PLN 56 million against the companies being the shareholders of its debtor and their beneficial owners for compensation for preventing the satisfaction of claims, based on the structure of the so-called “corporate veil piercing” (previous firm experience).
  • A foreign commercial bank in proceedings to annul a resolution of the shareholders meeting held following the seizure of title to shares in the course of injunction proceedings and the structure of the conservatory measures (previous firm experience).
  • A Polish investment fund in a complex dispute regarding corporate debt restructuring (previous firm experience) A member of the management board of one of the largest delicatessen chains in Poland in proceedings to ban them from pursuing business activity (previous firm experience).

Pro bono

  • Judging Oxford Socio-Legal debates held by the Court Watch Foundation Poland Advising at the Student Legal Clinic at the University of Łódź.

Published Work

  • J. Becker, Spółka partnerska [w:] M. Wieczorek, R. Wrzecionek, Spółki osobowe. Czynności notarialne. Klauzule w aktach notarialnych. Wzory aktów notarialnych, Warszawa 2023, s. 296-522
  • J. Becker, A. Zbrojewski, Nieważność umowy przewłaszczenia na zabezpieczenie nieruchomości mieszkalnej - art. 387(1) k.c. [w:] K. Stępniak (red.), Państwo i prawo w czasach COVID-19, Warszawa 2020, s. 661-681

Qualifications

Admissions

Poland, Warsaw Bar Association 2022 (Advocate)

Academic

MA, Law, University of Łódź, 2018
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.