Biography: Arbitration

Piotr Nowaczyk is a partner at Salans, an ex-judge, advocate, chartered arbitrator, president of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce (2006 to 2009), fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, member of Vienna Center advisory board, UNCITRAL working group II on arbitration and conciliation, Swiss Arbitration Association, Canadian Bar Association, Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, lifetime member of Indian Arbitration Council, a WIPO expert, FIDIC independent consultant, arbitrator of 50 major arbitral institutions, with 30 years of experience in court rooms and major arbitral institutions. He is also a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Mr Nowaczyk attended the University of Poznań (Master of Laws, 1976), judge in the Polish courts (1978 to 1981), admitted in: Poznań (1984), Paris (1993) and Warsaw (1994).

Piotr has built up the litigation and arbitration department in the Salans' Warsaw office from scratch. He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in ca. 150 arbitral proceedings, under the rules of the ICC, AAA-ICDR, CAC, CACI, CAS, CCCF, CCIR, CCP, CSGS, HCCI, IACA, ICANN, ICAC Kyiv, IHK, MAC Minsk, MCAC Moscow, NAF, PCC, PIIT, Swiss Rules, VIAC, WIPO, UNCITRAL and other ad hoc arbitration.

Piotr's main areas of practice include; intellectual property, FIDIC construction contracts, investment, banking, military industry, energy, oil & gas, international sales, sport, M&A and joint ventures.

Numerous articles on court and arbitration proceedings. Speaker on many international conferences, teaches arbitration at the Warsaw Bar. He speaks fluent Polish, English, French, German, Russian, Italian.