Attorney-at-law, admitted to the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law (registration No. WA-9026). Founder and Managing Partner of Kancelaria Prawna Skarbiec (Skarbiec Law Firm), a boutique advisory firm with more than twenty years of experience in tax law, corporate structures and cross-border advisory.
Clausewitz wrote that war is the continuation of politics by other means. Law is the continuation of interests by other means, and like every continuation, it requires someone who understands both the objective and the instrument. For more than twenty years I have stood at that intersection: between the entrepreneur’s interest and the machinery of the state, between a corporate structure and its tax consequence, between what the client wants to achieve and what the system permits, forbids, or pretends not to see.
I advise entrepreneurs from more than a dozen countries. Some of them appear on Forbes lists. Some come to me because the tax authority has just seized their accounts and frozen the business they spent twenty years building. Both groups share the same need: someone who is not afraid of complicated cases and who understands that behind every tax structure stands a human being, their family, and everything they have built.
I specialise in disputes with tax authorities, international tax planning, crypto-asset regulation and asset protection.
The Lawyer as Strategist: On the Art of Counsel
Law as Battlefield: On the Art of Legal Strategy
The Eternal Problem of Unchecked Power
Why I write
Colbert, finance minister to Louis XIV, said that the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. The modern fiscal apparatus sometimes forgets the second half of that formula. Someone has to keep reminding it, and to explain to entrepreneurs what is changing, why it is changing, and what to do about it before the change reaches them.
That is why I write. I publish regularly in Rzeczpospolita, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and Parkiet, Poland’s leading legal and business dailies. Skarbiec Law Firm produces over one hundred expert articles a year, in Polish and English, and its total body of published work exceeds 10,000 texts: from CJEU judgments on VAT, through the anatomy of crypto pyramids, to the geopolitics of frozen Russian assets. This is not marketing. It is a test of whether I can explain a complicated thing so that it is understood by someone who has it on their shoulders but is not a lawyer.
I am the author of AI Decoding Satoshi Nakamoto, on artificial intelligence tracing the creator of Bitcoin, because the place where technology meets law is the last great terra incognita of jurisprudence, and someone has to start mapping it. I am also co-author of the award-winning book Bezpieczeństwo współczesnej firmy (The Security of the Modern Company).
Recent publications
Articles – https://kancelaria-skarbiec.pl/en/news-publications/
Selected ebooks
Changing Tax Residency. A Guide for Those Considering Relocation for Tax Purposes (2026; ENG)
Shielding Directors: A Practical Guide for Foreign Directors of Polish Companies (2026; ENG)
The WGI case
Thucydides wrote of justice that it exists only between equals. The victims of the WGI affair, the Warsaw Investment Group, one of the largest financial pyramids in Polish history, were equal to no one: neither to the perpetrators, nor to the system that was supposed to protect them and failed.
I have represented them since 2006. When we started, no one had heard of the iPhone, YouTube had only just stopped being a startup, and the global financial crisis was still two years over the horizon. Since then governments have changed, the law has changed, almost everything has changed. Only our determination has not. A conviction was handed down in 2026; the case is now at the appellate stage. Twenty years is scandalously long. But Fabius Cunctator, whom the Romans mocked for his delaying, saved Rome, because there are things that must not be left half-finished, even when the world stops believing in them.
The Zondacrypto case
WGI taught us patience. Crypto cases teach its opposite: whoever delays a day loses the trail. In the case of the Zondacrypto exchange I represent more than 130 victims; for each of them we prepare an individual criminal notification, and the proceedings are conducted by Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office, with strands of the case running in parallel across several jurisdictions.
I do not guarantee the recovery of funds, because no honest lawyer guarantees that. I guarantee that the case will be run the way we run WGI: to the end.
Recognition
Kancelaria Prawna Skarbiec holds leading positions in the tax advisory rankings of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (4th place among firms employing more than 10 licensed professionals in 2023, among the leaders again in 2024 and 2025) and Rzeczpospolita (recognised three years in a row: 2024, 2025 and 2026). In 2024 and 2025 the firm was also listed among the leading law firms in the same daily’s legal ranking.
Winner of the International Tax Planning Law Firm of the Year in Poland title (The Lawyer International Global Awards). Four-time laureate of the European Medal (from 2015 to 2018), awarded jointly by the Business Centre Club and the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels, among other things for the management of international holding structures and the representation of entrepreneurs in customs and fiscal inspections. Laureate of the Diamond to the Golden Statuette of the Polish Business Leader (Business Centre Club).
What clients say: reviews of Kancelaria Prawna Skarbiec.
What I do
Disputes with tax authorities. Tax audits, customs and fiscal inspections, assessment proceedings, recovery of withheld VAT refunds, complaints to the administrative courts. Gordon Tullock explained why officials prefer to refuse rather than agree: refusal is safe, agreement carries risk. The system rewards overzealousness and punishes its absence. My job is to make sure that overzealousness does not turn into lawlessness; where it does, administrative law, where the citizen meets the state, begins.
International tax planning. Cross-border structures, double taxation treaties, economic substance, tax residency, CFC rules, exit tax, withholding tax, transfer pricing. Moltke taught that the commander sets the objective and the officer in the field chooses the means. The client says: “I want to run a business from three jurisdictions.” I build the structure that makes it possible, in accordance with the law of each of them.
Crypto-asset regulation. Crypto taxation, MiCA, CASP, DAC8, AML/KYC, token structuring. I have advised in this industry since 2014, before most law firms in Poland noticed that blockchain was more than a buzzword. New technology, old rules of strategy: whoever knows the terrain holds half the victory.
Asset protection and family foundations. Sun Tzu wrote that the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. The best asset protection is the kind no one ever tests, because the structure is so solid that no one tries to attack it. Family foundations, trusts, asset diversification, succession planning.
Corporate and holding structures. Transactional due diligence, restructurings, mergers, demergers, transformations. Every structure tailor-made, because in corporate law ready-made templates are like battle plans drawn up far from the front: they look logical on paper and do not survive contact with reality.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Robert Nogacki?
Robert Nogacki is an attorney-at-law (Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law, registration No. WA-9026), founder and managing partner of Kancelaria Prawna Skarbiec, operating continuously since 2006. He specialises in disputes with tax authorities, international tax planning, crypto-asset regulation and asset protection. He is the author of more than 10,000 publications and one of the most frequently quoted tax law experts in the Polish media.
Can Robert Nogacki’s bar registration be verified?
Yes. The registration under No. WA-9026 appears in the publicly accessible register of attorneys-at-law maintained by the professional self-government; it can be checked in the national search engine of Polish attorneys-at-law.
What cases is Robert Nogacki currently handling?
Among others, the representation of more than 130 victims in the Zondacrypto exchange case, in proceedings conducted by Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office, and, continuously since 2006, the WGI case, currently at the appellate stage.
