Nowaczyk, Piotr

Since 2015 full-time independent arbitrator, mediator and FIDIC accredited adjudicator.

• 1976 LLM, University of Poznan
• 1978-1982 Judge in Polish public courts
• 1984-1990 Admitted to the Poznan Bar, Poland
• 1991 Law Offices of S.G. Archibald, Paris
• 1991 Qualified for diplomatic service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw
• 1992 Jeantet et Associés, Paris
• Since 1993 Admitted to the Paris Bar, France, as avocat
• 1993-2015 Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, further SALANS, now DENTONS, Warsaw, Poland, Partner
• Since 1994 Admitted to the Warsaw Bar, Poland
• Since 2003 Polish Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris
• 2006-2009 Founder and editor of Polish Biuletyn Arbitrazowy
• 2006-2009 President of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce
• 2006-2010 UNCITRAL Working Group II Arbitration and Conciliation, Member, delegate
• since 2010 Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb)
• since 2015 full-time independent arbitrator, mediator and FIDIC accredited adjudicator

Over 350 commercial arbitrations: As arbitrator: Chairman: 70 (55 x Polish Chamber of Commerce, 5 x ICC and 15 x other international arbitration); Sole Arbitrator: 140 (2 x ICC, 100+ x other international institutions, 5 x international ad hoc arbitration, 30+ x Polish Chamber of Commerce); Co-arbitrator: 140 - including AAA-ICDR, BCCI, CAC, CAC, CACI, CAS, CICA-CCIR, CCP, CIETAC, DIA, DIS, ECCI, FAI, HCCI, IAA, IAC, IACA, ICAC Kyiv, ICAC Moscow, ICANN, ICC, IHK, FIDIC, Lewiatan, LME, NAF, PBA, PCC, PIIT, PKOL, RCA, SANIG, SCC, SIDiR, Swiss Rules, VCCA, VIAC, WIPO, UNCITRAL, other ad hoc; As counsel: 50+, including PCC, ICC, ad hoc; Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Advertising, agency, anti-counterfeiting, aviation, banking, combating unfair competition, commercial contracts, consortia, construction, copyrights, corporate, defence industry, distributorships, domain names, energy, enforcement, engineering, entertainment, environment, fashion, FIDIC, franchising, geographical indications, hostelry, industrial designs, information technology, infrastructure, insurance, investments, IP, IT, joint ventures, licenses, maritime, media, mergers & acquisition, oil and gas, patents, personal injuries, personal rights, privacy and trade secrets, privatisation, sales & purchases, see accidents, shipping, show business, sport, technology, telecoms, trademarks, transportation, white-collar crimes.

• Arbitration costs in Poland in questions and answers, Biuletyn Arbitrazowy Nr 5
• Enforcement of Money Judgments, Juris Publishing Release, Nowy Jork, 2008
• A new set of Rules of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce (together with A. Kakolecki), Romanian Review of Arbitration, No. 1, 2009, Revista Romana de Arbitraj
• Clash of Cultures, The Cross-Culture Aspects of Witness Examination. Biuletyn Arbitrazowy No 10
• Less emotion, more calculation, American Investor, vol. XIX, No 6, September 2009
• The new Polish arbitration law - need for cosmetic changes, Experts in Commercial Arbitration, Legal Media Group Euromoney, 2009
• Poland - The new Polish arbitration law - need for further changes, IBA Arbitration News vol. 14 No 2 September 2009
• Arbitrator of the 21st century (on the lookout of an ideal arbitrator) in International and domestic commercial arbitration on the threshold of the 21st century, Liber Amicorum a tribute to professor Tadeusz Szurski
• Sources of the Polish and International Law of Commercial Arbitration, (together with A. Kąkolecki) C.H.Beck – Volume 8 of System of Commercial Law
• Reflection on what is special in an arbitrator’s life, “Between East and West, Essays in Honour of Ulf Franke”, JurisNet, LLC, New York (March 2010); p. 365-381,
• Condition of Polish Commercial Mediation, World Arbitration & Mediation Review, Volume 4, No 1, 2010, Institute for Transnational Arbitration, The Center for American and International Law; NY.
• Особенности медиации в Польше и в центральной части Европы – in “Alternative Dispute Resolution from National and International Perspective (The Experience of certain European and Asian Countries” - Сборник статей к 5-летию Арбитражного суда при Новотомыской торговой палате, Выдавництво Тернопiльского нацiонального технiческого унiверситету iменi Iвана Пулюя; Tarnopol, Ukraine; 2011;
• UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules – Commentary (together with A. Szumański, M. Szymańska) – C.H.Beck, (November 2011);
• New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, Romanian Arbitration Journal (Revista Romana de Arbitraj), Nr 3/2012 (p. 16-20),
• Anti-suits injunctions in Poland – possibilities and perspectives (together with E. Bogucka), as a chapter in Liber Amicorum to honor dr Andrzej Tynel, KIG, p. 346-357,
• Enforcement of Money Judgments (together with W. Jaworski), Juris Publishing, New York, Release 32, 2012;
• The New ICC Arbitration Rules (together with A. Kąkolecki), Romanian Arbitration Journal 1, 2013, p. 50-59,
• Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards – Polish Law and Practice (p. 99-113) Croatian Arbitration Yearbook 2013, Zagreb, Croatia,
• Is it moral to charge VAT on arbitration? Revista Romana del Arbitraj Nr 1/Jannuary 2015, p. 11-14, Bucharest, Romania,
• International Arbitrator - Position, Mission or Career? in Liber Amicorum for prof. Jerzy Rajski The Challenges and the Future of Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Court of Arbitration Lewiatan, p. 63-72, 2015,
• Rethinking costs and costs awards in international arbitration: a call for less criticism of arbitration costs, but improvement of costs allocation practices (together with Konrad Czech), ASA Bulletin, volume 33, No.3, 2015 p. 494-513.
• Arbitration can be dangerous, ICC Institute Newsletter, Issue 11
• Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Poland – in Arbitration and Regulation of International Trade: Russian, Foreign and Cross-Border Approaches – Liber Amicorum in Honor of 70th Anniversary of Prof. A.S. Komarov, 432-443, 2019,
• Efficient Arbitrator – Call for Safety of Arbitrators – Post-conference Book „Efficient Arbitration: What does it mean? - VI. International Arbitration Readings in Memory of Academician Igor Pobirchenko“, Kyiv, 2020

• Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA)
• member of: Vienna Center Advisory Board 2010-2020
• UNCITRAL Working Group - Polish delegate
• International Bar Association (IBA) Arbitration Committee (Sub-Committee on Conflicts of Interest)
• Law Society of England & Wales
• Member: ASA, CEA, CEPANI, ICA, ITA, ÖVS, expert WIPO, FIDIC independent consultant, dispute board adjudicator