LEON PACZYŃSKI

Leon Paczyński joined the Warsaw office of global law firm Linklaters as the firm's "know-how" lawyer. Previously Paczyński worked for a number of major international law and accountancy firms in Warsaw as well as for the Privatization Ministry and Economy Ministry. Prior to his arrival in Warsaw in 1991, he was based in London and in Ottawa, Canada, with the federal government. He is a qualified English solicitor with an LLM in International Law from the University of London and an LLB from the University of Ottawa. He enjoys writing for legal journals and has written a book on Poland's financial system for Euromoney Books. He is fluent in Polish and English.