The "Rising Stars – Leaders of Tomorrow 2017" competition, organized for the sixth time by Wolters Kluwer and the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, will select ten young lawyers who provide the highest standards of legal services drawing on their knowledge, entrepreneurial skills and social attitudes.

Małgorzata Sas-Madej, a CDZ advocate, was nominated as one of 30 rising legal stars of 2017. She specializes in business, commercial and capital markets law. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and restructuring transactions. Małgorzata advises public companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and represents clients in court proceedings related to corporate governance.

She graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University. She is a PhD student at the Department of Economic Policy of the Jagiellonian University. She is actively involved in pro bono activities.