Prof. of the University of Gdańsk Joanna Kruczalak-Jankowska

Of Counsel at the Law Firm Głuchowski Siemiątkowski Zwara i Partnerzy. Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk, Head of the Department of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdańsk. Member of CERIL, INSOL, and the Steering Committee of the Forum for Restructuring and Insolvency Law. She has been associated with the Głuchowski Siemiątkowski Zwara Law Firm since 2018.

Author and co-author of over 80 publications in the fields of commercial law, insolvency law, and restructuring law, including:

Author’s Books:

• Bankruptcy Announcement: Effects on Liabilities in National and Cross-Border Bankruptcy Proceedings (2010, Warsaw, LexisNexis Poland, ISBN 978-83-7620-395-9)
• Management Contracts (2000, Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Prawnicze)

Co-author of Books and Articles:

• The Role of Courts in Restructuring and Bankruptcy Proceedings: Best Practices, Barriers, and Instruments to Improve the Bankruptcy System in Poland (Gdańsk, 2019)
• Restructuring and Bankruptcy Law in the System of Commercial Law (2020, Warsaw, ISBN 978-83-8128-960-3)
• Evolution of Consumer Bankruptcy in Poland: A Chance for a New Life for Insolvent Debtors? (International Insolvency Review, 2022, Wiley)
• The Relation Between the Duration of Insolvency Proceedings and Their Efficiency (with a particular emphasis on Polish experiences) (International Insolvency Review, 2020, vol. 29, no. 3, Wiley)
• Simplified Restructuring Proceedings – Selected Comments (Przegląd Sądowy, 2021, no. 10)
• Group of Companies in Insolvency and Restructuring Proceedings: Common Solutions for Common Problems (Benedetti Lorenzo, Galanti Lucilla, Jesus Rúben, et al., Przegląd Ustawodawstwa Gospodarczego, 2021, no. 5)

Author’s Articles:

• Can the Approval of a Restructuring Agreement Be an Effective Restructuring Tool During the COVID-19 Pandemic? (Przegląd Prawa Handlowego, 2020, no. 6 (334))
• On the Border of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law: Comments on the Supreme Court Judgment of 8.05.2019 (V CSK 207/18) in One Hundred Years of Polish Commercial Law: A Jubilee Book Dedicated to Professor Andrzej Kidyba (Dumkiewicz Małgorzata, Kopaczyńska-Pieczniak Katarzyna, Szczotka Jerzy, eds., 2020, vol. 2, Warsaw, Wolters Kluwer)
• Evolution of Legal Regulations on the Restructuring and Bankruptcy of Cooperative Savings and Credit Unions in Private Law in the Service of Society: A Book Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Adam Jedliński (Zakrzewski Piotr, Bierecki Dominik, eds., 2019, Sopot, Spółdzielczy Instytut Naukowy, pp. 163-173, ISBN 978-83-946628-4-4)
• Sale of an Enterprise or Its Organized Part as Part of a Prepared Liquidation (Pre-pack) (Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze, 2018, vol. 39, pp. 295-304)
• Standstill Agreement in Private Law Treatises: A Jubilee Book Dedicated to Professor Wojciech Popiołek (Pazdan Maksymilian et al., eds., 2017, Warsaw, Wolters Kluwer Polska, ISBN 978-83-8107-156-7)
• Mission-Oriented Activities of State-Owned Companies: The Example of Public Television and Port Authorities (Przegląd Naukowy Disputatio, 2018, vol. 25)
• The Constitutional Principle of Social Market Economy and State-Owned Companies (Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze, 2017, vol. 37)
• Interests and Goals of State-Owned Companies in State-Owned Companies in the Capital Market (Kidyba Andrzej, Michalski Marek, eds., 2017, Warsaw, Wolters Kluwer Polska, ISBN 978-83-8107-448-3)

Between 2017 and 2019, she led the scientific project ACURIA – “Assessing Courts’ Undertaking of Restructuring and Insolvency Actions: Best Practices, Blockages, and Ways of Improvement”. This was a research program carried out by four European countries: the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Italy. It was funded by the European Union’s Justice Programme (2014-2020).

Between 2017 and 2020, she also led a project at the University of Gdańsk called “Become Competitive with UG – Enhancing Skills in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises“, co-funded by the Regional Operational Programme of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The goal of the project was to improve the labor market situation for the residents of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, employees of SMEs, and people of working age by offering postgraduate studies and training.

Prof. Kruczalak-Jankowska speaks fluent English and also communicates in German and Russian.