Anna Frankowska is a US-qualified attorney, a partner in Weil’s corporate department and the head of the Warsaw office’s capital markets practice.
After graduating magna cum laude from St. Louis University in 1987, she received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law at Champaign-Urbana. After graduation she worked in a leading law firm in Chicago. Since returning to Warsaw in 1994, Anna has advised international investors on capital markets transactions and major privatisations. She joined Weil in 1996 and is the Firm’s leading capital markets expert.
Anna has represented both underwriters and issuers in connection with numerous public offerings of Polish companies, many of which involved concurrent offerings to Polish and international investors.
The prestigious legal ranking publication Chambers & Partners has consistently ranked Anna as a leading specialist in capital markets and corporate/M&A. According to the most recent Chambers report, “Anna Frankowska ‘possesses unique knowledge and expertise in capital markets. I love working with her,’ enthuses a source.” Various other prestigious international legal ranking publications, such as Expert Guides, The Legal 500, IFLR 1000 and PLC Which Lawyer?, also recommend her as an expert in capital markets transactions.
Anna has been repeatedly named as one of Poland’s best capital markets specialists in surveys carried out by the Rzeczpospolita daily. She was again named by her peers and leading Polish companies as Poland’s best capital markets lawyer in the 2011 survey carried out by Forbes Polska.
Anna is fluent in English.