Maria Beroud-Mazur

An attorney with over a decade of experience in litigation and broadly defined legal advice to businesses. She has been working with W&CO since 2013, currently as an Associate Partner.

She specializes in legal advice related to transactions involving the purchase, sale, lease and commercialization of commercial and industrial real estate, as well as mergers and acquisitions of enterprises and their organized parts.

She has participated in numerous projects related to the acquisition of real estate and organized parts of enterprises for residential purposes, accompanying leading Polish developers from the moment of conducting a legal audit, through participating in negotiations related to establishing the terms and conditions of planned transactions, then dealing with the preparation of draft investment agreements, implementation of subsequent stages of the transaction, until the investment process was closed.

For several years, she was constantly involved in the comprehensive service of one of the Polish developers listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, providing full legal support to companies from the capital group: from ongoing legal advice, through real estate acquisition transactions and the implementation of construction investments, to ongoing corporate services for the capital group, including amendments to the statutes and articles of association as well as internal regulations of the group companies.

She has extensive experience in providing legal advice on personal data protection and new technologies law. She has prepared numerous legal opinions related to personal data protection, including numerous opinions designed to provide clients with clear guidelines for minimizing legal risks related to personal data protection within organizations. She has coordinated and supervised implementation projects related to compliance with personal data protection regulations for entities such as Polski Holding Hotelowy sp. z o.o., the Municipal Office of Educational Finance of the Capital City of Warsaw, and Biomed-Lublin S.A. For several years, she also served as the Personal Data Protection Inspector for a capital group of companies operating in the hotel industry.

Currently, he coordinates the work of a several-dozen-person FINLITY team handling high-volume disputes, primarily disputes in the banking and insurance sectors between financial institutions and consumers.

She conducts training and educational activities for professionals, particularly in the areas of banking law, personal data protection, and civil and commercial law. She also speaks at numerous training sessions and webinars, combining the perspective of a litigator with the ability to translate complex legal issues into accessible, implementable recommendations for participants. Her training experience also includes preparing and implementing training courses related to:

• personal data protection (GDPR) – including issues of practical implementation of compliance requirements, administrators’ liability and incident response,

• tort and contractual liability of participants in the investment process,

• criminal liability in business transactions, in particular in the scope of risks related to the use of false invoices,

• issues related to unauthorized payment transactions and the liability of financial market entities. Unauthorized transactions, sanctions for free credit, and PLN loans based on the WIBOR reference rate.

Awards and Recommendations

Recommended lawyer in the area of ​​security and personal data protection in the “Rzeczpospolita” Law Firm Ranking 2024.

She received individual recommendations in The Legal 500 EMEA rankings in the Dispute Resolution category.