Piotr Putyra

Bio:

• Managing Partner since 2015
• Graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University (Master of Law)
• Lecturer of Company Law
• Acting as Polish Law Expert in foreign courts, incl. courts in the Netherlands and Norway
• Supervisory Board member of a Polish domestic payment institution (entity supervised by the Polish Financial Supervision Committee – KNF)
• Advisor to numerous KNF supervised entities, including: banks, electronic money institutions, payment institutions, investment firms
• Certified participant of numerous KNF CEDUR lectures
• Member of Bar Association

Payment Services and FinTech Attorney:

• Recognized and awarded regulatory attorney with strictly practical approach based on experience in dozens of projects
• Leading specialist in Payment Services Law, E-money Law, Banking Law, Telecom Law both on Polish and EU level
• Successfully conducted numerous (40+) licensing, passporting, M&A projects for national domestic payment institutions (PSD2), small payment institutions, e-money institutions, investment firms, fintech, crypto entities
• Expert in AML / CFT, with significant experience in structuring KYC / KYB / ID verification models
• Expert with significant experience in cybersecurity, whistleblowing, risk management, strong customer authentication (SCA) modeling

Consumer Loan Expert:

• Advises to numerous entities from the consumer loan sector
• Designed and introduced to the market two entirely new models of consumer lending, which became successful and then copied by other market participants
• Introduced to the Polish market first non-bank credit card product
• Represents in front of Competition and Antitrust Authority of Poland (UOKiK) in cases and projects related to consumer lending

Transaction Attorney:

• Piotr Putyra predominantly advises to international corporations and funds their investment ventures in Poland
• Experienced in advisory to foreign investors in both greenfield and brownfield projects in Poland
• Expert in Mergers and Acquisitions, negotiator in number of notable projects and advisor in M&A projects financing
• Leader in acquisition transactions e.g. in payment services, fintech, IT and real estate industry