Piotr Korzynski

Piotr (Pete) E. Korzynski is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Corporate & Securities Group in Chicago. He has experience advising clients on public and private mergers and acquisitions, equity dispositions, corporate finance, SEC compliance matters and corporate governance.

Pete has previously maintained an active pro bono practice and has served as the Chair of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law's Professionals' Council, a volunteer board supporting the organization's national anti-poverty advocacy. He has represented the Shriver Center and asylum applicants in various US federal appellate matters, including in argument and briefing in Ferreira v. Lynch, 831 F.3d 803 (7th Cir. 2016) (clarifying that adverse credibility findings against asylum applicants may not be based on trivial inconsistencies from, or on otherwise unreliable, preliminary interviews).

Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Pete was an attorney in the corporate practice group of a New York-based international law firm. He also previously served as an extern to the Honorable Joan B. Gottschall, judge of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. While in law school, Pete served as a senior editor and articles committee member of the Stanford Law & Policy Review.

Pete has experience representing clients across a range of industries, from e-commerce and life sciences to beverage can manufacturing and meat processing. He has represented clients on both the buy- and sell-side of negotiated and contested public and private M&A transactions, which have utilized a broad range of transaction structures. He has also represented clients on financing transactions in the public and private capital markets, including equity offerings and bond offerings.

Co-author, "Practical Tips for Taking Companies Private," Reuters, 6 September 2022

Co-author, "Recasting a Boilerplate Provision: Exclusive Forum Provisions for Private Delaware LLCs After a Decade of Public Corporate Developments," Deal Lawyers / CCR Corp., 1 September 2022

Co-author, "Engineering Innovation: Bayer In-House Counsel on Fostering Innovation Through Growth," Corporate Counsel / Law.com, 27 January 2022

Co-author, "Fuzje i przejęcia – prywatne transakcje M&A w Stanach Zjednoczonych," Rzeczpospolita (leading Polish daily newspaper), 14 October 2021

Author, "'Forcing the Offer': Considerations for Deal Certainty and Support Agreements in Delaware Two-Step Mergers," Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, 2 April 2018

Stanford Law School

JD, with Pro Bono Distinction, Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in Constitutional Law I

2012

University of Chicago

BA, with general honors, Phi Beta Kappa, Lee Family Prize

2007