Piotr Nowaczyk

Practice Areas

International arbitration, FIDIC dispute resolution, mediation

Career

1976-1982 Judge trainee and judge in public courts, Poznań

1983-1990 Practicing lawyer, counsel in all levels of the courts

1991 Law Offices of S.G. Archibald, Paris

1991 Qualified for diplomatic service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw

1992 Jeantet et Associés, Paris

1993-2014 SALANS, now DENTONS, core member of Arbitration Practice, partner

2003-2015 ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris, court member

2006-2009 President of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce

2009-2014 Advisory Board of Vienna International Arbitration Center (VIAC),

2006-2009 Founder and Editor in chief of Biuletyn Arbitrażowy, Warsaw, Poland

2006-2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration and Conciliation Working Group, delegate

since 2010 Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.)

since 2015 FIDIC Accredited Adjudicator (listed on the FIDIC President’s List, 2021)

since 2015 Full time Independent Arbitrator, Adjudicator and Mediator

Professional Memberships

Bar admission: Poznań Bar (1983), Paris Bar (1993), Warsaw Bar (1994)

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb),

International Bar Association (IBA), Arbitration Committee,

Law Society of England & Wales, registered as a Foreign Lawyer,

International Trademark Association (INTA), ADR Committee,

ICC Arbitration Commission, Paris,

Polish Arbitration Association, member of the Executive Committee,

Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA),

Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS),

Consulting Engineers and Experts Association (Polish Member of FIDIC),

Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA), lifetime member, New Delhi,

Austrian Arbitration Association (AAA),

Association Française d’Arbitrage (AFA),

International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA),

ICC Central and Eastern European Institutional Arbitration Group,

ICC Task Force “Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration”,

ICC Court Alumni Group,

International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICAC), Kyiv, member of Presidium.

Publications

Comparison of the security taken by financial institutions in Poland and Canada, Ladner Downs, Vancouver, 1992 Canada,

Taping of telephone conversations, IBL, March 1999; (IBA publication),

Le financement d’une société à responsabilité limitée par un associe étranger, Le Courier de Varsovie, 1999,

"Oral arguments in Polish procedures" by Jongloed, Netherlands as part of “75 jaar juridisch disput Tobias Asser”,

Nouvelle loi polonaise sur l’arbitrage, ICC Bulletin Vol. 16 No. 2, 2005;

Mediate Your Troubles Away, Warsaw Voice, 2006,

Gerichtsverfahrenpraxis in Polen, 2006;

Discreet Charm of Arbitration, Warsaw Voice, 2006,

Conciliation in Europe: systems in comparison, Cammera Comerciale di Venezia, 2007;

Arbitrator of the 21st century (on the lookout of an ideal arbitrator) Liber Amicorum to Tadeusz Szurski,

Arbitration costs in Poland in questions and answers, Biuletyn Arbitrażowy No 5,

Новый польский закон об арбитраже, «Международный коммерческий арбитраж» No. 4, 2008, Moscow;

A new set of Rules of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce , Romanian Review of Arbitration, No. 1, 2009,

Clash of Cultures, The Cross-Culture Aspects of Witness Examination. Biuletyn Arbitrażowy No 10,

Less emotion, more calculation, American Investor, vol. XIX, No 6, 2009,

To memory of Robert Briner, Biuletyn Arbitrażowy No 13, 2010,

Sources of the Polish and International Law of Commercial Arbitration, C.H.Beck – Volume 8 of System of Commercial Law, 2010,

Reflection on what is special in an arbitrator’s life, “Between East and West, Essays in Honor of Ulf Franke”, JurisNet, LLC, New York 2010

Institutional arbitration versus ad hoc in the construction disputes, Arbitration Bulletin No 14,

Condition of Polish Commercial Mediation, World Arbitration & Mediation Review, Volume 4, No 1, 2010, Institute for Transnational Arbitration, The Center for American and International Law; NY,

New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, Czech Yearbook of International Law, vol. II, 2011, Juris,

Особенности медиации в Польше и в центральной части Европы – in Alternative Dispute Resolution from National and International Perspective (The Experience of certain European and Asian Countries - Сборник статей, Tarnopol, Ukraine,

UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules– Comentarty, C.H.Beck, 2011;

New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, Romanian Arbitration Journal, Nr 3, 2012,

Międzykulturowe Aspekty Mediacji Biuletyn Konsultant (SIDiR) Nr 26, 2012,

Anti-suits injunctions in Poland, chapter in Liber Amicorum to honor dr Andrzej Tynel, Polish Chamber of Commerce,

The New ICC Arbitration Rules , Romanian Arbitration Journal, 2012,

Inter-cultural Aspects of Mediation Biuletyn Arbitrażowy No 19, 2013,

Enforcement of Money Judgments, New York, JurisNet, LLC 2013.

Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards , Croatian Arbitration Yearbook 2013, Zagreb,

Is it moral to charge VAT on arbitration? Revista Romana del Arbitraj Nr 1 2015, Bucharest, Romania,

No Jokes about Arbitrators! ICC Institute Newsletter Issue 4, 2015,

International Arbitrator, Position, Mission or Career? in Liber Amicorum for prof. Jerzy Rajski The Challenges and the Future of Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Court of Arbitration Lewiatan,

Sources of Law, Guidance and Rules, C.H.Beck – Volume 8 of System of Commercial Law, 2015.

Rethinking costs and costs awards in international arbitration: a call for less criticism of arbitration costs, but improvement of costs allocation practices, ASA Bulletin, volume 33, No.3, 2015

Arbitration is made for gentlemen, MacLawye®

Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Poland, in Arbitration and Regulation of International Trade: Russian, Foreign and Cross-Border Approaches – Liber Amicorum in Honor of 70th Anniversary of Prof. A.S. Komarov,

Arbitrators are great individualists, ICC Institute Newsletter, Issue 12,

Efficient Arbitrator – Call for Safety of Arbitrators, Post-conference Book „Efficient Arbitration: What does it mean? - VI. International Arbitration Readings in Memory of Academician Igor Pobirchenko“, Kyiv,

Arbitration is as old as mankind, ICC Institute Newsletter, Issue 14, 2020,

Arbitration can be dangerous; Global Law Experts, 2021

Arbitration is an adventure; ICC Institute Newsletter, 2021,

Arbitration creates new customs – Global Law Experts, 2021,

Привела ли пандемия к дегуманизации арбитража? Ежегодный сборник МТС ТПП, Bishkek, Kirgistan., 2022,

Cóż jest niezwykłego w życiu arbitra? Palestra Nr 1-2/2023,

Wyzwania dla polskiego arbitrażu, palestra.pl/pl/e-palestra/69/2023,

„ЧТО ОСОБЕННОГО В ЖИЗНИ АРБИТРА?” Ежегодный сборник МТС ТПП, Bishkek, Kirgistan.

Arbitraż w czasie wojny - Prawo Morskie 2024 tom XLV

Personal

Lucky man, married with children & grandchildren