Przemyslaw Karolak Moves In-House as Vodeno General Counsel

Former CMS Warsaw Senior Associate Przemyslaw Karolak has joined banking-as-a-service cloud-native platform Vodeno as its General Counsel.

Vodeno describes itself as a European banking-as-a-service provider “that combines its proprietary blockchain-based, cloud-native platform with services based on the ECB banking license of partner Aion Bank. Together, Vodeno/Aion are uniquely positioned to offer comprehensive embedded financial services for banks, lenders, and merchants across multiple sectors.”

Before joining Vodeno, Karolak spent two and a half years with CMS as a Senior Associate. Earlier, he spent a year with Baker McKenzie, being seconded to the EBRD as a Counsel, between 2020 and 2021. Before that, he spent four years in-house with Aon, two of which as its Head of Commercial Law. Even earlier, he spent two years as an Associate with Clifford Chance and two more with Greenberg Traurig.

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