Jan W Woloniecki is head of litigation at Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki and specialises in complex civil litigation and international commercial arbitration, private international law, insurance, reinsurance and insolvency, banking law and telecommunications law. He is admitted as a barrister in England and Wales (1983) and a barrister and attorney in Bermuda (1991). Mr Woloniecki is a member of the Bermuda Bar Association, the International Bar Association, ARIAS (UK), ARIAS (US), COMBAR, the International Insolvency Institute, the International Association of Defense Counsel and the London Court of International Arbitration, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Mr Woloniecki has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Bermuda and Court of Appeal for Bermuda in over 40 cases. In addition to his practice as an advocate before the Bermuda courts, he has an extensive international arbitration practice, and has accepted appointments as an arbitrator in international arbitrations (ICC/LCIA) and domestic (Bermudian) arbitrations. As counsel and arbitrator he has participated in arbitrations held in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bermuda and the US. He acted as an expert witness (on Bermudian and English law) in numerous cases before US courts and arbitration tribunals.

In 1999 Mr Woloniecki was the only lawyer in Bermuda to appear in the prestigious Euromoney Best of the Best, in which he is listed as one of the world’s top 20 insurance and reinsurance lawyers. He continues to be ranked among the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance lawyers in the most recent Euromoney Expert Guides. Chambers Global states: ‘According to one international lawyer, Jan Woloniecki is “quite possibly the brightest and most able insurance lawyer on the island. He has the rare ability to combine good practical knowledge with a really sound understanding of the law and excellent oral presentational skills.” Peers agree that he has played an important role in the growth of Bermuda as a location for hearing reinsurance disputes.’ Mr Woloniecki is also listed in the Euromoney Expert Guides among experts in commercial arbitration and the world’s leading insolvency and restructuring lawyers, and in The International Who’s Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, published by Law Business Research.