Practice:

Specialisations:

International Desks:

  • Heads the public procurement team and specialises in Polish and EU law.
  • Advises on complex investment projects carried out through partnership structures (PPP, concessions) and other forms of public-private cooperation, particularly with the participation of foreign entities.
  • Advises private and public entities at all stages of public procurement procedures, when applying legal protection measures, and during performance of public contracts.
  • Has extensive experience in advising clients in, e.g. the construction, energy, defence, IT, medical and waste management sectors.
  • Supports businesses during legal analyses of the effects of proposed amendments to public procurement legislation and during the legislative work itself.
  • Advises on competition law in public procurement, with special focus on the problem of bid-rigging.
  • Has provided strategic advice for many years to foreign entities expanding onto the Polish market and Polish businesses wishing to expand abroad.
  • One of the partners responsible for the development of international relations at DZP.
  • Co-Head of the Spanish Desk Team, which specializes in providing legal services in Poland to entrepreneurs from various economic sectors from Spanish-speaking countries.
  • Co-Head of the Korean Desk Team, which supports Korean companies looking to expand their business in the Polish and European markets.
  • Speaker at numerous seminars and conferences on problems related to, e.g. public procurement and infrastructure investments.
  • Co-author of highly regarded national and international publications, including "European Public Procurement. Commentary on Directive 2014/24/EU", "Combating Collusion in Public Procurement: Legal Limitations on Joint Bidding" and "Directive 2014/24/EU on Public Procurement. Commentary".
  • Vice-president of the Public Procurement Law Association.
  • Member of the International Bar Association (IBA), the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) and the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA).
  • Member of the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law and the Advocates Chamber in Barcelona.
  • Languages: Polish, English, Spanish, German.

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33rd Annual IPBA Conference in Chicago

Event | 24.04.2025

Katarzyna Kuźma will participate in a panel discussing global public-private partnerships and will present an overview of the PPP market in Poland.

International Public Procurement Conference

Event | 15.01.2025

Katarzyna Kuzma, head of the public procurement team, will take part in a panel on landmark CJEU judgments on public procurement at the international procurement conference.

2024 Nuclear Inter Jura Congress

Event | 03.11.2024

Tomasz Darowski, Katarzyna Kuźma and Kamil Pociecha from the Infrastructure and Energy Practice will examine issues relating to the development of Poland's nuclear power industry.