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Ms Rosenberg heads the competition and antitrust practice at BM&A and she also has significant experience in regulated sectors, as well as in trade-related issues. The antitrust practice at BM&A's has been developed based on a solid academic background combined with extensive practical experience in representing local and foreign clients in antitrust investigations, merger control cases, and in the development of compliance programmes. BM&A antitrust practice has been recognised by clients for its result-oriented focus, which aims at shaping clients' business strategies to meet both legal requirements and business objectives.

Andrea has spoken at such organizations as the Quebec Bar Association, the U.S.-Canada Board of Trade Joint Conference in Washington, D.C., and the Centre for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria. She has been an instructor for the Real Estate section for the Canadian Bar Association Course, and is a member of the Ontario Bar Association Real Estate and Immigration section. She is also a past member of the executive of that section, and is a past member of the International Centre for Shopping Centres, the mentor committee of Commercial Real Estate Women, and the Centre for International Legal Studies.

Sometimes you turn on the news and you say, "Is there anyone left to hack?" Sony Playstation Network — done, the government of Turkey — tick, Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency — a breeze, the CIA — falling off a log. In fact, a friend of mine from the security industry told me the other day that there are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't. I mean three companies providing cybersecurity services to the FBI have been hacked. Is nothing sacred anymore, for heaven's sake?

Anyway, this mysterious group Anonymous — and they would say this themselves — they are providing a service by demonstrating how useless companies are at protecting our data. But there is also a very serious aspect to Anonymous — they are ideologically driven. They claim that they are battling a dastardly conspiracy. They say that governments are trying to take over the Internet and control it, and that they, Anonymous, are the authentic voice of resistance — be it against Middle Eastern dictatorships, against global media corporations, or against intelligence agencies, or whoever it is. And their politics are not entirely unattractive. Okay, they're a little inchoate. There's a strong whiff of half-baked anarchism about them. But one thing is true: we are at the beginning of a mighty struggle for control of the Internet. The Web links everything, and very soon it will mediate most human activity. Because the Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an old-age dilemma that pits the demands of security with the desire for freedom.

Sometimes you turn on the news and you say, "Is there anyone left to hack?" Sony Playstation Network — done, the government of Turkey — tick, Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency — a breeze, the CIA — falling off a log. In fact, a friend of mine from the security industry told me the other day that there are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't. I mean three companies providing cybersecurity services to the FBI have been hacked. Is nothing sacred anymore, for heaven's sake?

Anyway, this mysterious group Anonymous — and they would say this themselves — they are providing a service by demonstrating how useless companies are at protecting our data. But there is also a very serious aspect to Anonymous — they are ideologically driven. They claim that they are battling a dastardly conspiracy. They say that governments are trying to take over the Internet and control it, and that they, Anonymous, are the authentic voice of resistance — be it against Middle Eastern dictatorships, against global media corporations, or against intelligence agencies, or whoever it is. And their politics are not entirely unattractive. Okay, they're a little inchoate. There's a strong whiff of half-baked anarchism about them. But one thing is true: we are at the beginning of a mighty struggle for control of the Internet. The Web links everything, and very soon it will mediate most human activity. Because the Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an old-age dilemma that pits the demands of security with the desire for freedom.

In terms of invention, I'd like to tell you the tale of one of my favorite projects. I think it's one of the most exciting that I'm working on, but I think it's also the simplest. It's a project that has the potential to make a huge impact around the world. It addresses one of the biggest health issues on the planet, the number one cause of death in children under five, which is … ? Water-borne diseases? Diarrhea? Malnutrition? No, it's breathing the smoke from indoor cooking fires — acute respiratory infections caused by this. Can you believe that?

In terms of invention, I'd like to tell you the tale of one of my favorite projects. I think it's one of the most exciting that I'm working on, but I think it's also the simplest. It's a project that has the potential to make a huge impact around the world. It addresses one of the biggest health issues on the planet, the number one cause of death in children under five, which is … ? Water-borne diseases? Diarrhea? Malnutrition? No, it's breathing the smoke from indoor cooking fires — acute respiratory infections caused by this. Can you believe that?

Anna Dabrowska is a legal adviser and a partner and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Environmental Law practices at Wardynski & Partners.

She is involved mainly in transactional work, focusing on corporate law. She has taken part in many mergers and transformations of legal entities, as well as share purchase transactions and business acquisitions.

She also provides assistance to many clients in day-to-day issues arising in the operation of businesses in Poland, including setting up, restructuring and liquidation of companies, partnerships and branches, effecting changes in corporate structures, and initiating and monitoring related registration proceedings.

She has worked for Wardynski & Partners since 2004.Earlier she worked for Deloitte & Touche Tax Advisory and Wasylkowski & Partners. However, she started her legal career when she was still in law school working part time for her current law form, Wardynski & Partners.

Anna has co-authored two books published by LexisNexis Polska in cooperation with Wardynski & Partners: Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions (Warsaw 2011) and Legal Risks in M&A Transactions (Warsaw 2013).

She has also co-authored a publication for the LexisNexis in London as part of their database of law and regulation.

Anna is a member of the Warsaw Chamber of Legal Advisers since 2007.

I have been working in this law firm since December 2004 and my main area of expertise are Merger's and Acquisitions.

I want you to imagine what a breakthrough this was for women who were victims of violence in the 1980s. They would come into the emergency room with what the police would call "a lovers' quarrel," and I would see a woman who was beaten, I would see a broken nose and a fractured wrist and swollen eyes. And as activists, we would take our Polaroid camera, we would take her picture, we would wait 90 seconds, and we would give her the photograph. And she would then have the evidence she needed to go to court. We were making what was invisible visible.

I want you to imagine what a breakthrough this was for women who were victims of violence in the 1980s. They would come into the emergency room with what the police would call "a lovers' quarrel," and I would see a woman who was beaten, I would see a broken nose and a fractured wrist and swollen eyes. And as activists, we would take our Polaroid camera, we would take her picture, we would wait 90 seconds, and we would give her the photograph. And she would then have the evidence she needed to go to court. We were making what was invisible visible.