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Izabela Zielinska-Barlozek is a legal adviser and the partner in charge of Wardynski & Partners M&A Practice. She is also the head of the Poznan office. She provides legal support for M&A transactions and ongoing advice on corporate law. She has advised on transactions and coordinated legal support for acquisition and sale of enterprises and assets, as well as shares in companies, including in cooperation with foreign law firms on global transactions. She has taken part in many enterprise restructuring projects, including mergers and re-organisations. For many years she has headed teams of lawyers conducting comprehensive due diligence projects. She is involved in the activities of international associations, serving as chair-emeritus of one of the committees at Lex Mundi (a network of renowned independent law firms throughout the world) and vice-chair of the Real Estate Committee of the International Bar Association, among other posts. Izabela Zielinska-Barlozek graduated in law from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (1996), where she also completed postgraduate studies in European law (2004). She was admitted to the Poznan Chamber of Legal Advisers in 1999. She is the co-author of Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions (Warsaw 2011), Legal Risks in M&A Transactions (Warsaw 2013), and Environmental Law in M&A and Real Estate Transactions (Warsaw 2014), published by LexisNexis Polska in cooperation with Wardynski & Partners. Izabela Zielinska-Barlozek has worked at Wardynski & Partners since 1997.