Profile: Jan W Woloniecki

Commercial Arbitration

Biography: Commercial Arbitration

Jan Woloniecki is senior counsel and head of litigation at Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki. Before moving to Bermuda he practised at the English Bar and then worked for four and a half years at Clifford Chance, London. He is a door tenant of Brick Court Chambers in London. Mr Woloniecki was part of the team that set up Bermuda law firm Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki in 1999. The firm specialises in international commercial litigation and arbitration, insurance, reinsurance, corporate, commercial and insolvency law. Mr Woloniecki's practice covers international commercial litigation and arbitration, private international law, insurance, reinsurance, insolvency, banking and telecommunications law.

Mr Woloniecki's experience as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator includes arbitrations held in Bermuda, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US. He has appeared as counsel in Bermuda in nearly 40 commercial cases reported in www.bermudalawreports.net. He is the co-author, with Terry O'Neill, of The Law of Reinsurance in England and Bermuda (Sweet & Maxwell, second edition, September 2004), the first edition of which won the 1998 British Insurance Law Association book prize. He edited the chapter on insurance companies in Totty & Moss on Insolvency (Sweet & Maxwell) and contributed the section on Bermuda law to the fourth edition of Mark Hoyle's Freezing And Search Orders (Informa).

Mr Woloniecki obtained an LLB from the University of London and an LLM from Cambridge University. He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (1983), and the Bar of Bermuda (1981). He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, ARIAS (US & UK), LCIA, the International Bar Association and the International Association of Defence Counsel.

Insurance and Reinsurance

Biography: Insurance & Reinsurance

Jan Woloniecki is senior counsel and head of the litigation department at Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki. Before moving to Bermuda he worked for four-and-a-half years at Clifford Chance in London, prior to which he practised at the English Bar. He is a door tenant of Brick Court Chambers in London. Mr Woloniecki was part of a team of lawyers who set up The Bermuda law firm Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki in 1999, specialising in international commercial litigation and arbitration, insurance, reinsurance, corporate, commercial and insolvency law.

Mr Woloniecki's experience as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator has included arbitrations held in Bermuda, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US. He is the co-author (with Terry O'Neill) of The Law of Reinsurance in England and Bermuda (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd edition September 2004) - the first edition of which was the winner of the 1998 British Insurance Law Association Book Prize - and editor of the chapter on insurance companies in Totty & Moss on Insolvency (Sweet & Maxwell).

Mr Woloniecki received his LLB degree from the University of London and his LLM degree from the University of Cambridge. He was admitted in 1983 to the Bar of England and Wales (Gray's Inn) and in 1991 to the Bar of Bermuda. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, ARIAS (US), ARIAS (UK), LCIA, the International Bar Association, and the International Association of Defense Counsel.

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Commercial Litigation

Biography: Commercial Litigation

Jan Woloniecki is senior counsel and head of the litigation department at Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki. Before moving to Bermuda he worked for four and a half years at Clifford Chance in London, prior to which he practiced at the English Bar. He is a door tenant of Brick Court Chambers in London. Mr Woloniecki was part of a team of lawyers who set up The Bermuda Law Firm Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki in 1999, specialising in international commercial litigation and arbitration, insurance, reinsurance, corporate, commercial and insolvency law.

Mr Woloniecki's experience as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator has included arbitrations held in Bermuda, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US. He is the co-author (with Terry O'Neill) of The Law of Reinsurance in England and Bermuda (Sweet & Maxwell), 2nd edition September 2004) - the first edition of which was the winner of the 1998 British Insurance Law Association Book Prize - and editor of the chapter on insurance companies in Totty & Moss on Insolvency (Sweet & Maxwell).

Mr Woloniecki received his LLB degree from the University of London and his LLM degree from the University of Cambridge. He was admitted in 1983 to the Bar of England and Wales (Gray's Inn) and in 1991 to the Bar of Bermuda. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, ARIAS (US), ARIAS (UK), LCIA, The International Bar Association, and the International Association of Defense Counsel.

Insolvency and Restructuring

Biography: Insolvency & Restructuring

Jan Woloniecki is senior counsel and head of the litigation department at Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki. Before moving to Bermuda he worked for four-and-a-half years at Clifford Chance in London, prior to which he practised at the English Bar. He is a door tenant of Brick Court Chambers in London. Mr Woloniecki was part of a team of lawyers who set up the Bermuda law firm Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki in 1999, specialising in international commercial litigation and arbitration, insurance, reinsurance, corporate, commercial and insolvency law.

Mr Woloniecki's experience as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator has included arbitrations held in Bermuda, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US. Mr Woloniecki is the Bermuda correspondent for the International Journal of Insurance Law, and the Bermuda and Caribbean correspondent (jointly with Ms Kehinde George) of Insolvency Lawyer. He is also the co-author (with Terry O'Neill) of The Law of Reinsurance in England and Bermuda (Sweet & Maxwell, 2004, 2nd edition), which was the winner of the 1998 British Insurance Law Association Book Prize, and editor of the chapter on insurance companies in Totty & Moss on Insolvency (Sweet & Maxwell).

Mr Woloniecki received his LLB degree from the University of London and his LLM from the University of Cambridge. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Gray's Inn) in 1983 and to the Bar of Bermuda in 1991.

Mr Woloniecki is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, ARIAS (US), ARIAS (UK), LCIA, The International Bar Association and the International Association of Defence Counsel.