The European Commission nominated Filip as a candidate arbitrator and expert on trade and sustainability in disputes regarding trade agreements between the EU and third countries. He has served as an arbitrator in over fifty arbitrations, as a presiding arbitrator, side arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator. He specialises in the resolution of domestic and international commercial disputes. He has experience in advising and handling cases before international arbitral tribunals (including ad hoc arbitrations in New York and London).

He is a registered arbitrator on the lists maintained by Poland’s largest arbitration institutions: the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw and Lewiatan Arbitration Court in Warsaw, and by leading foreign arbitral institutions: International Centre for Dispute Resolution, international division of the American Arbitration Association (United States), Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong), South China International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (China), Arbitration Court at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Bulgaria), Riga Arbitration Court (Latvia), Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration (Lithuania), Maldives International Arbitration Centre (Maldives), Arbitration Center of Mexico (Mexico), Court of International Commercial Arbitration (Romania), Qatar International Center for Conciliation & Arbitration (Qatar), Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa International Court (South Africa) and Energy Disputes Arbitration Center (Turkey). He is also on the London Court of International Arbitration’s database of arbitrators for appointments made by that institution.

He successfully combines his professional practice with academic work. He is a lecturer in law at Brunel University of London (United Kingdom) and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland).

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Education

  • PhD in Law, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
  • LLM, International Trade and Foreign Investment Law, University of Ottawa
  • Master’s degree in Law, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

Selected projects

  • Representing clients in cases concerning domestic and international sale of goods, often involving the application of the CISG (1980 Vienna Convention on International Sale of Goods);
  • Providing day-to-day legal advice to one of the leading US-based multinational corporations in its daily operations in Poland as regards litigation with distributors and contractors, and representing the client in court proceedings;
  • Providing advice to one of the leading Canadian mining companies in various contentious matters vis-à-vis state agencies during the process of obtaining mining permits;
  • Representing a client in a case concerning unfair competition using Google Ads (previously AdWords), which resulted in an unprecedented compensation granted by a state court in Central and Eastern Europe;
  • Representing clients in cases at the ICDR/AAA in disputes arising out of franchise agreements concerning a chain restaurant;
  • Representing clients in various cases regarding long-term cooperation agreements, such as franchise agreements, distribution agreements and post-M&As;
  • Advising on an international lease agreement of an aircraft, insofar as concerned dispute settlement and the multi-jurisdictional execution of rights and obligations.
Awards