Karol Ruszkowski | Warsaw | Hogan Lovells

Karol Ruszkowski

Senior Associate Corporate & Finance

Ruszkowski Karol

Karol Ruszkowski
Ruszkowski Karol
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Recognized for advising financial institutions, including insurance companies, banks and payment institutions in various legal aspects of their day-to-day activity, Karol Ruszkowski focuses on the legal aspects of cooperation between insurers and banks (bancassurance). This includes advising on the structure and principles of such cooperation, introduction and modification of internal and external procedures, drafting of agreements and other relevant documents regulating such cooperation, assisting in negotiations between insurers and banks and drafting insurance documentation, including general terms and conditions of insurance.

Karol also advises on M&A transactions in the insurance market. He represents financial institutions in regulatory proceedings before the regulators, including the Commission for Financial Supervision (KNF) as well as the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK). He also successfully represents these clients in court proceedings, including common courts (civil proceedings), Supreme Court, the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection (SOKiK) as well as administrative courts.

Karol has also been advising other participants active in financial markets, including investment fund management companies and general pension societies. He is also involved in advising payment institutions in their day-to-day activity, including regulatory aspects and regular commercial activity.

Representative experience

Advising insurers, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, pension funds, intermediaries and other sector professionals on numerous transactions and projects executed on the Polish market.  

Advising on various forms of bank and insurance cooperation such as agency agreements or insurance contracts for the benefit of third party.

Advising comprehensively insurers, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, pension funds, intermediaries and other sector professionals on doing business in Poland. 

Advising and drafting of legal documentation for all banking and insurance products.

Credentials

Education
  • Master of Law, University of Warsaw, 2011
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Warsaw
Court admissions
  • Poland
Memberships
  • Warsaw Advocate's Bar

Recognition

Insurance (Poland), Recommended

Legal 500 EMEA

2020