Pawel Kulak Promoted to Principal Counsel at Nordic Investment Bank

Former Senior Counsel Pawel Kulak has been appointed as the Nordic Investment Bank’s Principal Counsel.

Kulak joined the Nordic Investment Bank in 2021 and has been with the team in Helsinki for over three years. He previously spent five years in Luxembourg with the European Investment Bank. Before that, he spent three years in Warsaw with CMS, and, earlier, three more with Clifford Chance, starting in 2010.

The Nordic Investment Bank is an international financial institution owned by eight Nordic and Baltic countries. It provides long-term loans and guarantees on competitive market terms to clients in the public and private sectors and finances sustainable projects that increase productivity and benefit the environment.

“I am privileged and honored to be able to continue my humble contribution to financing the development of the Baltic Sea Region and to building bridges between Poland and the Nordic & Baltic States, in this new role,” commented Kulak.

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