Ewa Rutkowska

Ewa Rutkowska is an expert in product liability, pharmaceutical law and healthcare law.

She has many years of experience in providing legal advice to Polish and international companies from the pharmaceutical, new technology, medical devices and FMCG sectors. She advises industry organisations which she has repeatedly represented as the public party in the legislative process, as well as supporting them in work on industry codes of best practices. She also works pro bono for non-profit organisations.

Ewa Rutkowska has many years of experience in product liability litigation, including highly publicised cases of global product recall from the market. She represents clients in other cases before courts of law and arbitration courts.

Before founding KRK, Ewa worked for Hogan Lovells (previously Lovells) for many years, creating and managing the pharmaceutical law and product liability practice. Later, together with her team of four, she joined Baker & McKenzie as a partner, where she worked for almost four years.

She is the chair of the Nominating Committee of the Court of Arbitration at the Confederation of LEWIATAN and a member of the Audit Committee at the Polish Arbitration Association. She is also a member of the team of mediators/conciliators of the Centre for the Amicable Resolution of Food-Related Disputes at the Polish Federation of Food Industry Union of Employers and the Senior Vice-Chair of the IBA Product Law and Advertising Committee.

She is also an author of numerous publications and articles on life sciences and product liability issues.