MAGDALENA CHOCHOWSKA
Summary
- More than 16 years of experience in versatile corporate and employment legal affairs, including more than 8 years as Head of Legal in health care and recruitment sector;
- Responsible for all legal aspects of the companies’ group in 7 countries (Poland, Germany, UK, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia), over EUR 120 million turnover for 2018, 30 companies, over 7500 employees; Working closely with the companies' managements and supervisory boards and engaged in every key project and decision making process;
- Long term experienced in developing and implementing new legal and business models in the organization;
- Experienced in developing and managing a team; Developed competences related to analytical and conceptual thinking;
- Responsible for coordinating multiple tasks in a changing work environment;
- High creative skilled; Business and results oriented;
- Team player and longtime mentor for younger colleagues;
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Associate at Employment and Litigation
Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i wspólnicy Sp.k.
03.2019
- Advised on all aspects of individual and collective labor law issues, in particular on hiring staff, redundancies, compensation and benefits, employment policies, discrimination, HR issues in M&A and reorganizations (including TUPE) as well as trade unions
- Successfully represented clients in employment litigation cases, in particular related to termination of employment (with or without notice), harassment (mobbing), labor penalties, overtime work, etc
- Negotiated and advised in number of separation processes with senior employees, including board members
- Advised on all HR issues in respect of posting of workers and cross-border employment
- Provided training in the field of labor law and participated in conferences and webinars in this field as a speaker
- Prepared legal memoranda and internal regulations and policies in labor law.
Head of Legal Department
Promedica24
12.2010 - 02.2019
- Comprehensive legal assistance in corporate law, in particular: assisted during companies’ authority meetings (prepared minutes and resolutions of the authorities) and rendered day-to-day service to management and supervisory boards of the companies
- Advised to Sales, Marketing, HR/Recruitment and Commercial teams on variety of commercial issues
- Drafted and negotiated all types of contracts concerning current operation of the companies, as well as corporate contracts, including commercial leases, marketing and sponsoring agreements, purchase of goods and services agreements, IT agreements, share purchase and shareholders' agreements and intragroup agreements
- Prepared documents required to set/wind up a company
- Represented companies in court’s litigations in civil and commercial law cases (prepared pleadings and negotiated)
- Advised to the companies in personal data protection and anti-trust/competition issues (supervised of the implementation of GDPR)
- Comprehensive legal assistance in employment law and social security law, in particular: prepared and negotiated documents relating to recruiting of personnel, conclusion and termination of employment and civil relationships, including managerial staff contracts and separations with senior employees in Poland, Germany and the UK
- Advised on all HR issues related to a staff employment
- Developed complex hiring structures in Poland and supervised the process of developing such structures of staff hiring in Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Austria
- Analyzed and prepared legal concepts of cross-border employment of personnel
- Drafted and negotiated outsourcing and mass recruitment contracts
- Prepared legal memoranda and internal regulations and politics in labor law
- Prepared documentation and carried out procedures of the election of employees’ representatives and collective redundancies
- Prepared documentation and carried out TUPE processes
- Analyzed and resolved issues related to cross-border employment, as well as prepared related documents (i.e
- A1 and E101 forms) and motions addressed to state bodies to interpret relevant provisions on cross-border employment
- Prepared documents and represented companies during Social Security and Labor Inspection inspections
- Represented companies in court’s and administrative proceedings involving aforementioned bodies
- Prepared press releases in labor law, in particular posting of workers
- Franchise and agency legal assistance, in particular: drafted and reviewed franchise and agency agreements, precontractual documents and handbooks, as well as franchise termination deeds
- Advised on all legal issues associated with operation of franchise network.
Lawyer
Wierzbowski Eversheds
07.2008 - 11.2010
- Prepared documents relating to conclusion and termination of employment, including documents relating to the procedure of group dismissal
- Prepared legal memoranda and internal regulations in labor law, participated in due diligence projects
- Rendered day-to-day legal services in employment and corporate law
- Prepared pleading and represented clients in court’s litigations in labor and civil law cases
- Provided training in the field of labor law and participated in conferences in this field as a speaker
- Prepared press releases in labor law.
Lawyer
Walosinski Kubicki Komosa Legal Counsels and Attorney
12.2006 - 06.2007
- Prepared and negotiated contracts in civil law, in particular in law of contracts (agency, distribution, sponsorship, advertisement)
- Prepared legal memoranda in aforementioned areas, as well as in personal data protection, protection of competition and counteracting unfair competition
- Prepared pleadings in civil and commercial proceedings.
Legal Specialist
ACTA Law Office for Rendering Legal Services to Economic Entities
03.2005 - 11.2006
- Prepared contracts, legal memoranda and pleadings in civil, commercial and administrative proceedings
- Supervised execution of verdicts.
Legal Assistant
Irena Skubiszak – Kalinowska Counselor Office
11.2004 - 02.2005
- Drafted contracts, memoranda, legal analysis and pleadings in civil, commercial and labor law
- Participated in office client service.
Education
Legal counsel -
District Chamber of Legal Counsels’ in Warsaw, Poland
Apprenticeship -
District Chamber of Legal Counsels’ in Warsaw, Poland
01.2011
LL.M. in Comparative Law -
University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL, USA
01.2008
Master in Law -
University of Warsaw College of Law and Administration
01.2005
Languages
Polish
Proficient
C2
English
Proficient
C2
German
Upper intermediate
B2
Publications
- The Work-Life Balance and Transparency Directive finally passed. New obligations of employers and rights of employees (Outsourcing&More, Say-June 2023)
- Forms of employment in Poland (https://investmentpotential.pl/formy-zatrudnienia-w-polsce/)
- It will be very difficult to fire an employee-soldier (Rzeczpospolita, 26 May 2022)
- (R)evolution in employee sobriety testing rules? (Outsourcing&More, Sept–Oct 2021)
- Postponed vacation leave will expire later (Rzeczpospolita, 19 August 2021)
- New obligations resulting from the conclusion of contracts for specific work (Outsourcing&More, Jan-Feb 2021)
- New regulations governing posting workers to work abroad (Outsourcing&More, Nov-Dec 2020)
- Not every country has managed to implement the posting directive (Rzeczpospolita, 6 Aug 2020)
- Increasingly easier rules for employing foreigners in Poland (Outsourcing&More, Jan-Feb 2020)
- Changes in the labor law. What's next with the minimum wage? (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, 12 Oct 2019)
- Posting of workers under the stricter supervision (Rzeczpospolita, 23 June 2016)
- Set of articles on posting of workers (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, 15 May 2014)
- Breach of non-competition clause by the employee (Gazeta Finansowa, 28 Aug – 3 Sept 2009 No. 34)
- Works council – new regulations (Legal Alert Wierzbowski Eversheds, July 2009)
- Employee’s liability for breach of non-competition clause (Dziennik, 9 Feb 2009)
Volunteer Experience
- 04/01/12, 04/01/15, The Ethics Committee of The Employment Agencies Association (Stowarzyszenie Agencji Opieki)
- 04/01/10, Niebieski Parasol organized by the District Chamber of Legal Counsels’ in Warsaw
- 10/01/04, 06/01/05, Student Legal Assistance Center at the University of Warsaw – Law Clinic, Labor Law Section
Hobbies and Interests
- Riding a motorbike
- American football
Timeline
Senior Associate at Employment and Litigation
Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i wspólnicy Sp.k.
03.2019
Head of Legal Department
Promedica24
12.2010 - 02.2019
Lawyer
Wierzbowski Eversheds
07.2008 - 11.2010
Lawyer
Walosinski Kubicki Komosa Legal Counsels and Attorney
12.2006 - 06.2007
Legal Specialist
ACTA Law Office for Rendering Legal Services to Economic Entities
03.2005 - 11.2006
Legal Assistant
Irena Skubiszak – Kalinowska Counselor Office
11.2004 - 02.2005
Legal counsel -
District Chamber of Legal Counsels’ in Warsaw, Poland
Apprenticeship -
District Chamber of Legal Counsels’ in Warsaw, Poland
LL.M. in Comparative Law -
University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL, USA
Master in Law -
University of Warsaw College of Law and Administration
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