MAREK WIERZBOWSKI
By : (M.W.)
MAREK WIERZBOWSKI, 54, was appointed partner of international law firm Linklaters & Alliance. Wierzbowski studied law at Warsaw University and several foreign institutions, including the School of Law at the University of California at Berkely, before being awarded a professorship in 1997. He was associate dean of Warsaw University's School of Law from 1981-1985 and vice chancellor of Warsaw University from 1985-1990. He was also visiting or adjunct professor at a few U.S. law schools. Wierzbowski's legal practice has included a stint at Altheimer and Gray and Weil Gotshal & Manges, where he was appointed partner and later senior partner of the Warsaw office. Wierzbowski is also chairman of the board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and a deputy chairman of the Arbitration Court of the Polish Chamber of Commerce. His political activity has included advising parliamentary committees on laws regarding investment funds, bonds and public trading in securities, as well as being a member of the advisory board of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Poland from its inception until its demise in 1995. From 1993-1998, Wierzbowski was counsel to the treasury minister. Wierzbowski is married and has two children.
