Kuba Ruiz

Commercial, FinTech, IT & TMT

Polish Bar Association

Kuba is a senior counsel in the Commercial team at Bird & Bird's Warsaw office. He focuses on major IT and commercial projects and transactions, as well as developing his dispute resolution practice. He also advises on financial sector regulatory issues relating to pan-European payments and fintech projects, including outsourcing and cloud computing. His experience covers Polish market flagship IT implementation projects, as well as multi-billion euro International Arbitrations based on Bilateral Investment Treaties, where he has proudly represented Poland before the Arbitral Tribunals in Stockholm, The Hague and Warsaw. When advising clients, he aims to be responsive, timely, business oriented and legally sound. He keeps his advice concise, but he is always delighted to discuss all related legal issues and jurisprudence. Before helping to establish our Warsaw office in 2008, he has been working on IT projects and dispute resolution matters in leading law firms in Poland since 2004. During his career, he spent a year in the Netherlands, working between Warsaw, The Hague and London. When he is not working, or spending time with his family, he plays and watches sports, and try to understand basic quantum physics – just for fun.