Konrad Stolarski, Ph.D.
Partner at FTL, attorney-at-law, and holder of a PhD in law from the Jagiellonian University. For many years, he served as an assistant professor at the Institute of Law at the Krakow University of Economics, as well as a lecturer at numerous renowned Polish universities and academic and industry organizations. He was a research fellow at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.
He has been recommended in leading international legal rankings: The Legal 500 in the Banking and Finance category (since 2021) and Chambers FinTech (since 2022). In the “Rzeczpospolita” law firm ranking, he was recognized as a leading lawyer in FinTech (2022), a recommended lawyer (2023, 2024), and a leader (since 2025) in capital markets and regulatory advisory.
Member of the Management Board of the European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF), as well as a thematic editor and member of the editorial board of Monitor Prawa Bankowego. Legal expert for the Polish Organization of Non-Bank Payment Institutions (PONIP) and for Polish and international financial and credit institutions. Coordinator of the working group on the digitalization of corporate banking within the Banking Technology Forum operating under the Polish Bank Association (ZBP), member of the working group on distributed registers and blockchain at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, the Artificial Intelligence working group (GRAI), and the regulatory standardization for crypto working group at the FinTech Poland Foundation. Member of the Polish Association of European Law and the Association of New Technology Law.
He specializes in and practices in the areas of financial market regulation and new technology law, competition law, tax law, as well as anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF). He has many years of experience representing clients before administrative authorities and common and administrative courts, including in cross-border proceedings. He has advised on numerous multi-jurisdictional projects subject to various national and international legal regimes.
For years, he has actively participated in legislative processes at the stage of drafting laws key to the financial market, both at the Polish and European Union levels.
