Joanna Presz-Król

Practice Areas

Joanna Presz-Król specialises in public procurement law, business law and partnership and company law.

Attorney at law, managing partner of Pieróg & Partners Law Firm.

She has advised on hundreds of public procurement procedures for supplies, services and works with values ranging from several hundred thousand to several billion zloty.

She has excellent experience in providing legal services for IT projects, in particular, she has been involved in conducting proceedings for the implementation or maintenance of the largest IT systems in the country;

As part of her day-to-day legal assistance, she advises commercial law companies on a wide range of business and commercial law issues, including nearly 2 years as legal counsel to the supervisory board of a joint stock company with a majority shareholding of the State Treasury, one of the largest entrepreneurs in Poland.

She is efficient negotiator in proceedings conducted under negotiated procedures and in disputes arising at the contract implementation stage.

She has successfully represented dozens of contracting entities and economic operators before the National Appeals Chamber and regional courts.

Career

Joanna Presz-Król has several years of experience in the area of public procurement gained, among other things, during her work in the Control Department of the Public Procurement Office and within market-recognised law firms. She has been with PIERÓG & Partners Law Firm for 15 years. Over the past 10 years, she has combined her professional service to clients with her duties involving the management and coordination of the Firm's team.

Long-time lecturer in postgraduate programmes on public procurement law at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Valued trainer of general public procurement law training courses as well as those dedicated to the employees of a specific economic operator or contracting entity. Speaker at a number of prestigious conferences. Author and co-author of commentaries, books and press releases, including the first commentary on implementing legislation on the market.

Professional Memberships

Member of the National Association of Public Procurement Consultants (OSKZP)

Publications

More than 40 publications in the trade press and journals.

Glosa to the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU of 17.11.2022, C-54/21, Antea Polska S.A., Pectore-Eco sp. z o.o.,

Book publications: a) Application of the civil code in public procurement - selected issues, Presscom Publishing House, 2023; b) European single procurement document, Presscom Publishing House 2018, c) Commentary on the Implementing Regulations to Public Procurement Act, Beck Publishing House 2016, d) VADEMECUM Statements and documents in public procurement, Presscom Publishing House 2013,

Awards