Jan Stranz
Ph.D.

Attorney-at-law.
Partner at SMM Legal.

Contact details

jan.stranz@smmlegal.pl

Jan Stranz Ph.D.

Attorney-at-law.
Partner at SMM Legal.

jan.stranz@smmlegal.pl

Contact details

jan.stranz@smmlegal.pl

Specialisations

banking law

commercial law

company law

financial market law

mergers and acquisitions

Education

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Associations

Poznań Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law

Languages

English

Specialisations

banking law

commercial law

company law

financial market law

mergers and acquisitions

Profile

Attorney-at-law with many years of experience in advising corporate clients and the financial sector. As a Partner, he heads the Banking & Finance Department. He advises on banking, commercial, civil and capital market law.

Experience

He specialises in financial sector regulation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate restructuring, contract negotiation and corporate services. He advised the largest commercial banks, participating in projects such as the introduction of BLIK payments, the sale of a multibillion-dollar bond portfolio and the first implementation of the new AT1 capital instrument in Poland. He has handled M&A transactions worth billions of zlotys. He has been involved in numerous restructuring projects and complex legal audits.

Throughout his career, he has provided advisory services in corporate governance, ownership supervision and investor relations for banks, multinational corporations, financial institutions, entities with local government and State Treasury participation, as well as major companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

He is the author of more than a dozen academic publications, including commentaries on the Civil Code, the Bond Act, the Financial Instruments Trading Act and the Public Offering Act. He earned his PhD with a dissertation on corporate governance, minority shareholder protection, corporate groups and intra-group relations.

05.01.2024

SGB-Bank S.A. on Groundbreaking AT1 Capital Instrument Implementation in Poland

03.11.2022

Our Firm handled the legal aspects of the Gdańsk Refinery’s partial division

Publications

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