Marek Wiśniewski

Experience based on facts

Marek Wiśniewski started working in the legal sector in March 2013. Over the years he understood one thing: Polish courts operate too slowly for local business. At Lublin Union Arbitrage he makes sure that companies can return to work, instead of wasting energy on multi-year pleadings. Discretion is our standard, which is why Marek rarely talks about details, but his effectiveness can be seen in the concrete numbers of closed cases.

To date, he has personally conducted 137 arbitration proceedings. Most of them concerned disputes over payment in the logistics sector on the Poland-Ukraine-Germany route. Marek's average duration of proceedings is 19 business days from the moment the application is received. This is a significant difference, considering that in the district court in Lublin one waits an average of 6 months for the first hearing. Clear rules of the game are the foundation for him in every meeting with entrepreneurs.

Marek specializes in conflicts over improper performance of a contract or lack of timely payment. In November 2024, he helped settle a dispute over 42,300 PLN between a construction wholesaler and an aggregate supplier. Instead of waiting two years for a verdict and risking legal representation costs, the parties under his supervision agreed in 4 hours and 15 minutes. We solve the problem, we don't look for the guilty – this sentence Marek repeats at every opening of a session.

Before joining Lublin Union Arbitrage, Marek managed the out-of-court collection department in a medium-sized production company for 8 years. He knows the realities of running a business in the region from the inside. He knows perfectly well that a payment bottleneck at the level of 15,700 PLN can shake the liquidity of a small workshop. Court is a last resort, which is why Marek always first looks for common points in trade documentation and goods collection protocols.

In his daily work, he uses hard data and specific provisions of the civil code. He does not use psychological methods of persuasion, but analyzes invoices, emails, and confirmations of shipment. If he sees that one side evidently failed a delivery deadline, he says it straight, based on the evidence presented. Such honesty in relations shortens talk time by at least 30%. Without unnecessary formalities and without fluff.

It happens that a case is too complex for one session. Marek then conducts two separate clarification panels so that each side can freely present its cost calculations. In December 2023, he saved a contract worth 118,400 PLN in this way, where an error in technical specification halted production for 3 weeks. Thanks to his intervention and setting the compensation amount, deliveries started in 5 days from reporting the case to LUA. Honestly, if not for arbitration, this company would probably have declared bankruptcy before the end of the year.