Dec 23, 25

Magdalena Zablocka-Foulkes Joins Orlen as General Counsel

Former DLA Piper Counsel Magdalena Zablocka-Foulkes has joined Orlen as its new General Counsel.

Before the move, Zablocka-Foulkes spent over three years with DLA Piper as a Counsel.

Before that, she spent two years with Bird & Bird as a Counsel and 11 years with Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka as a Senior Associate, between 2008 and 2019. Earlier still, she spent three years as an Associate with Baker McKenzie, more than eight years as a Councillor with the Warsaw – Bielany Municipal Council, and two years as the Deputy Director of the department responsible for legislative issues of Masovian Voivodeship Sejmik.

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