Global Law Experts is delighted to welcome Dr Piotr Mijal, LL.M., as an expert on intellectual property law in Poland. Dr Mijal combines practical experience as a Polish attorney-at-law with advanced academic qualifications and a clear, business-focused understanding of the legal challenges businesses face. His field of expertise sits at the intersection of intellectual property, information technology, and company law.

Intellectual Property Law in Poland
The Polish intellectual property landscape is shaped by European Union harmonisation, evolving digital copyright principles, data protection obligations, and the realities of platform-based business models. As a result, companies need to manage risks linked to unclear chains of title, cross-border licensing, open-source software, and the interaction between intellectual property protection and GDPR requirements.

Dr Mijal focuses on IP matters, from software development agreements to licensing, assignments, and copyright transfers. He also drafts bespoke SaaS and service agreements. Addressing ownership, permitted use, contractual responsibilities, and enforcement considerations at the drafting stage lays solid foundations for both innovation and commercial growth.

Technology, IT, and Software
In technology projects, contracts often determine more than price and scope. They allocate intellectual property rights, define each party’s responsibilities, specify permitted uses of software, establish how confidential information should be handled, and set out the consequences if performance falls short.

Dr Mijal specialises in drafting agreements that govern the creation, delivery, maintenance, licensing, and use of digital products and services. His work on SaaS and service agreements is particularly relevant to subscription-based models. These arrangements require careful treatment of access rights, usage permissions, service performance obligations, and ownership and control issues. Rather than relying solely on standard templates, they call for tailored agreements that reflect the specific features of the product, the service, and the commercial structure.

Licensing and copyright transfers are also central to investment, outsourcing, product development, and corporate transactions, particularly where multiple parties contribute to building or distributing software. Clear drafting reduces uncertainty about ownership and prevents later disputes over the scope of the rights granted. This preventive focus supports not only immediate contracting needs but also long-term business stability.

Closely connected to this work, Dr Mijal has particular expertise in data protection, including GDPR audits, data processing agreements, privacy notices and information clauses, and transfers of personal data outside the EEA. He also drafts privacy, cookie, and data-security policies.

Dr Mijal’s experience in this area strengthens his fit for Global Law Experts, as it reflects the increasingly international nature of technology commerce.

Company Law and Intellectual Property Structuring
Dr Mijal’s intellectual property expertise is strengthened by his extensive knowledge of company law and corporate governance. His areas of specialisation include entity formation, governance structures, shareholder relationships, equity transfers, amendments to articles of association, and corporate disputes. This corporate perspective is critical where intellectual property is a key company asset, or where ownership arrangements must be reflected in shareholder and investment documentation.

His doctoral research at the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration, focused on the removal of a shareholder from a private company. That work demonstrates an in-depth understanding of company law, shareholder relations, and corporate governance, including conflicts over control and the rights of minority shareholders.

Dr Mijal also concentrates on the contractual mechanisms that organise business relationships. In the technology context, this includes addressing intellectual property ownership in shareholder agreements, defining obligations connected to development work, and putting in place structures that support the company’s long-term plans. His approach recognises an important reality: even a strong intellectual property position can be undermined if corporate ownership and decision-making authority are not clearly defined.

This breadth of related expertise meets Global Law Experts’ selection standards. Rather than treating intellectual property as separate from the company that owns or uses it, Dr Mijal examines how rights, governance, contracts, and commercial strategy influence one another.

Academic Perspective and Professional Engagement
Dr Mijal maintains a strong academic orientation alongside active practice. He holds an LL.M. from Heidelberg University and a Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University, and has academic links with universities in Heidelberg and Salzburg. He is also listed among the experts of the Adam Smith Centre in Poland. These connections reflect ongoing engagement in comparative legal analysis, policy discussion, and the development of legal thinking.

He works in Polish, English and German, which supports his ability to act across Central Europe and beyond. Cross-border intellectual property and corporate matters require more than translating terminology. They demand an understanding of how contractual expectations, legal concepts, and business practices function in different contexts. Dr Mijal’s international academic ties and multilingual skills provide a strong foundation for this.

He also contributes to professional education through specialist writing, blogs, practitioner articles, speaking engagements, and teaching at professional programmes. His published work addresses legal issues related to new technologies and corporate digitalisation. Through these activities, he translates complex legal topics into practical guidance.

A Preventive and Commercial Approach
A defining feature of Dr Mijal’s practice is his focus on identifying issues early, before they develop into disputes, by putting in place clear provisions, workable licences, appropriate contractual structures, and dispute-avoidance mechanisms. This approach is particularly important because unclear ownership or poorly structured rights can directly affect investment, commercialisation, and enforcement.

Global Law Experts recognises the value of Dr Piotr Mijal’s focused and interconnected specialisation in intellectual property, IT, data protection, and company law, grounded in academic depth, multilingual communication, and a practical understanding of legal challenges.