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Greenberg Traurig's Warsaw Office Employment Practice Head Anna Halas-Krawczyk Elevated to Shareholder

WARSAW, July 1, 2021 - Anna Hałas-Krawczyk, attorney-at-law and Head of the Labor and Employment Practice at the Greenberg Traurig Warsaw office, has been elevated to Shareholder as of July 1, 2021. 

Anna Hałas-Krawczyk established and developed Greenberg Traurig’s Labor and Employment Practice in Poland. She has vast experience in labor law and extensive knowledge of management contracts and incentive plans for top management. Her practice focuses on assisting a variety of foreign and domestic entities in conducting employment restructuring, mass redundancies as well as creating incentive schemes for senior employees. International legal rankings such as Chambers Europe and EMEA Legal 500 recommend Anna as one of the leading employment lawyers in Poland. Her recognized and recommended practice is supported by the team comprising Senior Associate Natalia Wołkowycka and Associates Angelika Makar and Marta Smoleńska.

“Anna Hałas-Krawczyk and her career development at Greenberg Traurig is a prime example of how our attorneys can and already are advancing – not just within our firm’s structure, but also as established leaders in the business community by building new practice areas and reaching for new business opportunities. At Greenberg Traurig we create the environment for all lawyers to lead and succeed based on one defining criteria: merit. This nomination also remains in line with our recently awarded title of Law Firm of the Year in Poland – Women in Business Law Awards 2021 and we are proud that the successes of our female lawyers have been internationally recognized,” said Lejb Fogelman, Senior Partner at the Warsaw Office of Greenberg Traurig.

“I want to congratulate Anna on this achievement – she is not just a great lawyer, but also an excellent practice and business leader, operating in a very demanding environment. Anna has also been vital to our success in 2020, with employment and management matters becoming even more critical for our clients. The road to success at our firm is wide open to everyone and this is a part of Greenberg Traurig’s organizational culture and DNA,” said Jolanta Nowakowska-Zimoch, Partner and Head of the Real Estate Practice. Jolanta will soon become the new Managing Partner of the Warsaw Office of Greenberg Traurig and together with Rafał Baranowski and Radomił Charzyński, the management team will succeed Jarosław Grzesiak who has managed the office for over 20 years.

“I am truly honored to have been nominated as a Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig. I would like to thank my clients for their trust and all of my colleagues for their continuous support. Although individual, this nomination marks the team success of the entire GT Employment Practice. This would have not been possible without our tremendous Associates – Natalia Wołkowycka, Angelika Makar and Marta Smoleńska who together with our legal assistant Agnieszka Wójtowicz compose one of the top tier teams in Poland. With such great support, our Employment Practice is firmly looking forward to the future,” said Anna Hałas-Krawczyk, Partner and Head of the Labor and Employment Practice.

The Warsaw office, where almost 60% of the team are women, strongly supports the inclusion and advancement of women in the legal profession through a unique program and resources designed to benefit the firm’s attorneys, clients, and future lawyers. With its involvement in both internal and external initiatives, the firm is dedicated to fostering the success of women attorneys. Greenberg Traurig was recently awarded the prestigious 2021 Poland Firm of the Year award at the highly esteemed Euromoney Legal Media Group “Women in Business Law Awards 2021 Europe”. The awards celebrate law firms that have developed strong, innovative practices and projects that highlight gender diversity, as well as women lawyers working in business law.

Greenberg Traurig LLP

Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, multi-practice law firm with approximately 2200 attorneys serving clients from 40 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Greenberg Traurig Grzesiak sp.k. was named the 2021 Poland Firm of the Year award at the highly esteemed Euromoney Legal Media Group “Women in Business Law Awards 2021 Europe” and the 2021, 2019, 2018 Law Firm of the Year in Poland by International Financial Law Review (IFLR). The Warsaw office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP provides legal services to clients in Central Europe and beyond and consists of approximately 100 lawyers. Team members are regularly recognized as leaders in numerous practice areas. Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, IFLR1000 and EMEA Legal 500 consistently rank them among the top tiers the areas of Corporate/M&A, Capital Markets, Real Estate, Private Equity, Tax, Banking and Finance, Project Finance, Energy, Dispute Resolution and TMT.

For additional information, please visit www.gtlaw.com.