Nikoletta Bielut

BIOGRAPHY

EUROPEAN PRACTICE LEAD

Nikoletta Bielut is the founding European partner at Northline Counsel, resident in Warsaw. Her practice focuses on cross-border corporate and commercial transactions, investment structuring for regulated industrial sectors, and the EU regulatory and dual-use framework.

Nikoletta serves concurrently as General Counsel of the RNR Group, a defense procurement and trading organization operating across U.S., Polish, and Ukrainian jurisdictions. In that capacity she directs corporate governance, commercial contracting, and the regulatory architecture underlying cross-border defense-industrial transactions — experience that directly informs her advisory practice at Northline Counsel for clients operating in the same regulatory environments.

Her work spans Polish, German, and EU corporate and commercial law, with particular depth in the regulatory interface between commercial industry and export-controlled sectors. She is admitted to the Polish Bar Council and advises in Polish, English, and German.

PRACTICE AREAS

What Nikoletta advises on.

• Cross-Border Investment Structuring
  Fund vehicles, holding architectures, and co-investor arrangements across CEE industrial and infrastructure targets.
• EU Dual-Use Classification
  Classification under Regulation 2021/821, national implementation under Polish and German frameworks.
• Corporate M&A
  Share and asset acquisitions, joint ventures, and cross-border corporate restructuring in regulated sectors.
• FDI Screening
  EU Regulation 2019/452, Polish and German national implementations, CFIUS coordination where applicable.
• Sanctions Compliance
  EU, UK, OFAC counterparty and transaction screening. Beneficial ownership analysis.

CREDENTIALS

Bar admissions & qualifications

• Polish Bar Council (Okręgowa Rada Adwokacka) — Active
• EU Regulatory & Commercial

Professional history

Education

• University of Warsaw — Magister Prawa (Master of Law)