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Katarzyna Marczuk-Pieńkowska

Katarzyna Marczuk-Pieńkowska

Counsel

Katarzyna Marczuk-Pieńkowska

Counsel

Warsaw

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Katarzyna Marczuk-Pieńkowska, advocate, counsel in Dentons' Warsaw office, is a member of the Environmental Protection Practice team.

She specializes in administrative law, particularly in environmental, construction and planning law, focusing on legal issues relevant to Environmental Impact Assessment (also with entities and NGO participation aimed at blocking investments) and IPPC procedures, waste management, land remediation and infrastructural projects.

Katarzyna has broad experience in representing clients in administrative procedures, proceedings before administrative and civil law courts. She has carried out a lot of due diligence reviews, prepared numerous memoranda and legal opinions including environmental coverage. She advises key players in the renewable energy market (in particular those operating in the field of wind farms and biogas plants) and real estate market, including in relation to their participation in procedures concerning the invalidity of environmental permits and the resumption of relevant proceedings.

Experience

Confidential clients: Legal advice and representing a group of companies operating in the wind energy sector in relation to aspects concerning environmental decisions and building permits for respective investments, including those initiated by social organizations, aiming at the annulment of said decisions or their reversal through the resumption of proceedings, as well as in proceedings related to the operation of wind farms and their possible environmental impact.
Confidential client: Advice and representation in administrative court proceedings initiated by third parties in relation to the introduction of the so-called 10H rule with respect to wind farms, as well as proceedings aimed at declaring local master plans invalid with respect to the permissibility of such investments.
Confidential client: Preparation of a legal due diligence report, regarding a complex of real properties to host a logistics center project in northern Poland, taking into account environmental aspects, including possible land contamination.
Confidential client: Legal advice regarding the possibility to extend a biogas plant on the basis of previously obtained administrative decisions.
Confidential client: Legal advice to a client with respect to an environmentally innovative real estate development project in Warsaw.
Confidential client: Legal advice to a client operating a waste treatment installation.

Recognition

In the Media

She is an author of approximately 30 publications, including:

"Wątpliwości interpretacyjne mogą sprzyjać stronie” [Interpretive doubts may favor a party], Rzeczpospolita, October 13, 2020
"Doręczenie przez obwieszczenie wymaga większej aktywności strony” [Service of notice through annoucement requires more activity of the party], Rzeczpospolita, November 19, 2019
"Decyzja środowiskowa dla zrealizowanej inwestycji” [Environmental decision for a completed investment], Rzeczpospolita, December 4, 2018

Activities and Affiliations

Prior and Present Employment

Counsel, Dentons, Warsaw, 2023 to date
Senior Associate, Dentons, Warsaw, 2021–2023
Senior Associate, Szymańczyk Roman Deresz Karpiński Adwokaci Sp. p., Warsaw, 2012–2021
Associate, Kancelaria Radcy Prawnego Daniel Brodowski, Warsaw, 2010-2012
Associate, Kancelaria Adwokacka Mariusza Winiarczyka, Warsaw, 2008-2011
Junior Associate, Kancelaria Gessel, Warsaw, 2007