Ms Barbara Skardzińska is a legal counsel (radca prawny) and holds a doctorate in legal sciences, with over 15 years of experience in providing legal services to domestic and foreign business entities.
Ms Barbara is a graduate (summa cum laude) of the Faculty of Law and Administration and of the Interfaculty Environmental Protection Studies (Międzywydziałowe Studia Ochrony Środowiska) of the University of Warsaw. She also completed bachelor’s studies in international economic relations at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and the postgraduate studies “Mergers and Acquisitions of Enterprises” at the same university. In 2018 she defended, with distinction, her doctorate in international space law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, and in 2024 she became a graduate of the Stern Leadership Academy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Ms Barbara studied or conducted research at more than twenty academic centres around the world, successfully combining academic work with professional practice. She gained extensive professional experience working for Polish companies from the new technologies sector and at the largest Polish and international law firms, such as White & Case and Weil, Gotshal & Manges (now Rymarz Zdort Maruta). In her practice she advised commercial law companies and financial institutions, supporting them, among other things, in investment processes, infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisitions transactions, restructurings and debt financing processes. Since mid-2024 she has served as Director of the Legal Office at the Head Office of PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A., where she is responsible for coordinating the company’s legal services.
For her academic and professional achievements Dr Skardzińska has been awarded many times. In 2023 she was among the 25 most outstanding women lawyers in Poland according to Forbes Women, and earlier she received a special award in the “Rising Stars Lawyers – Leaders of Tomorrow” (Rising Stars Prawnicy – liderzy jutra) competition, organised by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and the publishing house Wolters Kluwer.
