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Tomasz Pyrkowski Becomes Head of Legal and Compliance Eastern Europe for Philips Lighting

Tomasz Pyrkowski Becomes Head of Legal and Compliance Eastern Europe for Philips Lighting

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Polish lawyer Tomasz Pyrkowski has become the new Head of Legal and Compliance Eastern Europe for Philips Lighting.

According to Philips Lighting, the company is "the world leader in lighting products, systems and services, delivers innovations that unlock business value, providing rich user experiences that help improve lives." In addition, according to the company, "with 2016 sales of EUR 7.1 billion, we have approximately 34,000 employees in over 70 countries."

Pyrkowski has been Head of Legal and Compliance CEE at Philips Lighting since July 2016, and his new role adds Russia and Central Asia to his areas of responsibility. He was a Senior Associate at Gide Loyrette Nouel from October 2014 through June 2016, and most of the ten years before that at CMS. He obtained his law degree from Lund University in 2002 and then a Master's from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in 2003. He obtained an LL.M. from the Stanford Law School in 2010. 

 

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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