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Rafał Morek is an advocate and partner who heads the Arbitration Team in the Dispute Resolution practice at CMS in Poland. He is registered as an advocate in Poland (at the Warsaw Bar Association) and as a foreign lawyer with the Law Society of Scotland.
He specialises in dispute resolution, especially arbitration and mediation, as well as in infrastructure investments and construction law.
He has taken part - as an arbitrator or attorney-in-fact - in over 100 proceedings conducted in accordance with the rules of ICC, ICSID, SCC, VIAC, CAS in Lausanne, SA KIG, Lewiatan, UNCITRAL and others. He is also a mediator and a mediation coach, and often acts as a negotiator or member of Dispute Adjudication Boards (DABs). He is Chairman of the ICC National Arbitration Committee in Poland and Vice-President of ICC Poland. He is a regular arbitrator and former Vice-Chairman of the Arbitration Council of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, an officer of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association, and a member of the Arbitration Council of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS).
His construction practice focuses on advising on infrastructure projects, including risk management and dispute avoidance. He advises investors, contractors, designers and consultants at all stages of the investment process. He is a member of FIDIC Task Group 15, and a co-author of “FIDIC Golden Principles” (2019).
He is recommended by internationally recognised rankings Chambers Global and Chambers Europe (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), The Legal 500 (Dispute Resolution), and Who’s Who Legal (Arbitration: Global Leader, Thought Leader). He is also recognised as a Market Leader in the categories of International Disputes (2019) and Arbitration and Mediation (2022) by the “Rzeczpospolita” daily.
Rafał is a researcher at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and the author of numerous publications on private and comparative law. He has given guest lectures as a visiting lecturer at foreign universities.
