GKR Legal

GKR Legal

GKR Legal was founded in January 2017 by four partners — Agnieszka Gołębiowska, Edyta Krawczyk, Michał Roszkowski and Anna Szczęsna — each of whom spent nearly two decades advising businesses before spinning out from a leading Polish law firm. The firm is structured as an advocate-and-attorney-at-law partnership, operating from a single office on Mokotowska Street in central Warsaw. The founders explicitly frame the launch as a decision to take full ownership of their practice and client relationships rather than scaling under a larger brand. The firm’s practice spans intellectual property, M&A, corporate law, real estate, administrative law, competition law, IT law, data protection, employment law, and litigation and arbitration. Its website emphasizes experience before the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) and the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection (SOKiK), including cases on monopolistic agreements, merger control, and collective consumer-interest violations. GKR Legal also represents clients in constitutional-law disputes involving personal-rights claims against the State Treasury, including proceedings before the Constitutional Tribunal. The client base is concentrated on Polish entrepreneurs, with specific mandates cited for e-business operators, advertising agencies, and banking institutions. GKR Legal operates as a compact, partner-led firm. Its named partners are supported by a small team of advocates and attorneys-at-law; the size of the professional staff is not publicly disclosed. In 2024 the firm earned recognition in the Legal 500 ranking, as noted on its website, though specific practice-area rankings were not disclosed. The firm also publishes a blog covering current legal developments, including EU-fund clawback litigation, labor-law transformations by the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP), and the ongoing Getin Noble Bank disputes. Structurally, GKR Legal differentiates by trading scale for partner accountability. The four named partners anchor every major mandate rather than delegating to junior associates. The partnership agreement is built around fixed-fee transparency and direct partner access, which the firm argues relieves the agency cost that entrepreneurs face inside larger full-service firms. That model shapes everything from its lack of a Warsaw satellite office to its decision not to pursue international-firm branding or multidisciplinary expansion.