2025 →
Pekao Investment Banking S.A.
Member of the Supervisory Board.
Attorney-at-law
Michał
Bałabanow
Legal advice for issuers, investment firms, banks and investors, as well as for family foundations and family office structures. Capital markets, transactions and regulation — in Polish and in English.
The firm
I advise on commercial law and on securities law in its broadest sense, with particular focus on the activities of investment firms.
My clients include investors, issuers, investment firms and banks, as well as family foundations and family office structures. In every matter I act in the client's best interest — with a clear understanding of the commercial reality and of the outcome the client wants to reach.
Once I take on an engagement, I commit to it fully and to the highest professional standard.
- Education
- Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw
- Admission
- Attorney-at-law (radca prawny) admitted by the Regional Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law in Warsaw
- Languages
- Polish, English
Practice
Capital markets and public offerings
Prospectuses and offering documents, IPOs and secondary issues, admission to trading, disclosure obligations and MAR.
Investment firms and regulation
Licensing proceedings, MiFID II, dealings with the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, internal procedures and compliance.
M&A transactions
Deal structuring, due diligence, documentation and negotiations — on the buy side and the sell side.
Banking and finance
Banking products and services, financing documentation, prudential and supervisory requirements.
Corporate governance
Company bodies, support for supervisory boards and shareholder meetings, duties of board members, remuneration policies.
Family foundations and family office
Establishing a Polish family foundation, its statute and bodies, the permitted scope of activity, succession and tax consequences.
Experience
Over the course of my career I have taken part in more than one hundred transactions on the Polish and international capital markets.
2020–2024
Warsaw Stock Exchange
Member of the Supervisory Board.
2014 →
SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Lecturer on the postgraduate programme in Capital Markets Law and Economics.
2011
J.P. Morgan
Professional experience also gained in London, at the investment bank J.P. Morgan.
2009–2022
PKO Bank Polski S.A.
First as legal counsel to the Head of the Brokerage House, then as director for transactions and financial advisory at the Brokerage House, and from 2019 to 2022 as deputy head of the legal department of PKO Bank Polski S.A.
2007–2010
Exchange Court at the Warsaw Stock Exchange
Served as judge.
2007–2008
UniCredit CAIB Poland S.A.
Lawyer.
2004–2007
Prof. Marek Wierzbowski & Partners
Lawyer.
100+
transactions on the Polish and international markets
20+
years of practice
Contact
Michał Bałabanow
Attorney-at-law (radca prawny)
Regional Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law in Warsaw
VAT ID: 9591446441
REGON: 140293410