Dec 23, 25

Przemyslaw Karolak Joins Aion Bank as Deputy Head of Legal

Former Vodeno General Counsel Przemyslaw Karolak has joined Aion Bank as its new Deputy Head of Legal.

Aion Bank is a digital-first, subscription-based bank. It is part of the UniCredit Group.

Before the move, Karolak was with Vodeno as its General Counsel between 2024 and 2025 (as reported by CEE In-House Matters on April 16, 2024). Earlier, he worked as a Senior Associate for CMS between 2021 and 2024 as well as for Baker McKenzie between 2020 and 2021. Earlier still, he worked for Aon as a Lawyer between 2015 and 2019 and as its Head of Commercial law between 2019 and 2020 and also worked for Clifford Chance as an Associate between 2014 and 2015. He began his career working for Greenberg Traurig as an Associate between 2012 and 2014.

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