Tomasz Nadratowski graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdańsk in 2005 and completed the International and European Legal Studies Programme on the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp, including maritime and transport law.

In 2007 he obtained an LLM degree at University of Southampton School of Law in marine insurance, international trade, carriage of goods by sea. Since then he has been working with the leading maritime lawyers in Poland.

Tomasz has been called to the Bar in 2011 and specializes in marine insurance, international trade, carriage of goods by sea, admiralty and ship construction and finance. He has extensive experience in tax proceedings and for many years he has represented clients in disputes with fiscal authorities.

He is an arbitrator and the Deputy President of the Presiding Council of the International Court of Arbitration in Gdynia at Polish Chamber of Maritime Commerce and has taken appointments in ad hoc maritime arbitrations. Tomasz is the Founding Member of the Polish Maritime Law Association, active in several of its working groups engaged in legal research for the CMI.

He also has been invited by the Polish Maritime Law Codification Commission to the working group on marine insurance and has taken appointment in ad hoc maritime arbitration.

He is a member of the Maritime Law Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Michał has 50 years’ specialist expertise in maritime law. After graduating from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń he was an in-house lawyer in the Polish Ocean Lines (PLO). After admission to the Bar he worked in the PLO’s Legal Department, and between 1980 and 1994 he was its Vice Chief and Chief. His work for the PLO involved various aspects of maritime law including charters, marine insurance, P&I insurance, cargo claims, liabilities in respect of crew, taxation and social security of seafarers, collisions at sea and liability for damage caused by ships. In 1994-1999 Michał was a Managing Partner of the Maritime Law Bureau and in 2000 he has opened a law firm in Gdynia specialising in maritime law.

From 1982 until 2004 Michał was a maritime arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration for Marine and Inland Navigation (IMAC). He was also the arbitrator and the Deputy President of the Presiding Council of the International Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Maritime Commerce in Gdynia and the Court of Arbitration at the Cotton Chamber in Gdynia. He has also taken appointments as sole arbitrator. Michał was the Vice Chairman and the Chairman of the Polish Maritime Law Association. Since 2006 Michał has been the member of the Maritime Law Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 1980 – 1998 he was a legal adviser to the Polish government delegations at international conferences on maritime and transport law organized by CMI, IMO and UNCTAD. In 1987 – 1999 has was a member of the Maritime Law Commission and from 2006 he has been nominated a member and the Vice Chairman of the Maritime Law Commission for three consecutive terms of office, including the third terms of office since 2015. From 2005 until 2019 Michał was the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Norway and ran the Maritime Consulate in Gdynia.