Tomek Jankowski

Tomek is the Director of our Pacesetter Research team. Before he was an Analyst who’s research was focused on finance management consulting, which includes finance operations, balance sheet strategy & investor relations, portfolio & capital strategy, and transaction advisory services. Before joining ALM Intelligence, Tomek led the European asset-backed securities (ABS) and global collateralized debt obligation (CDO) report sourcing and research efforts for the asset-backed securities market intelligence firm Lewtan Technologies. Before that he spent five years with Capital Access International, a fixed-income market intelligence firm responsible for bringing the widely known fixed-income investment professional and securities profile tool eMAXX™ to the investment world. He was Director of North American data research when that firm was acquired by Lipper (a Reuters company) in 2002. Tomek earned a B.A. in History magna cum laude, with a minor in Cultural Anthropology, from SUNY at Buffalo (New York). In 2017 Tomek earned his Masters of Science degree in Applied Economics from Southern New Hampshire University. He also spent several years living and studying in Poland, Hungary, and other regions of Eastern Europe and has authored a successful book (published in late 2013) on Eastern Europe, which came out in a second edition in late 2021.

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February 28, 2024 | Law.com

Pacesetter Research: To AI or Not to AI?

Law firms contemplating AI in 2024 is like law firms contemplating desktop computers in 1990

By Tomek Jankowski

7 minute read

December 15, 2023 | Law.com

Pacesetter Research: Doing Business in a Digital World

Why law firms need to be experts in all core elements of data governance

By Tomek Jankowski

7 minute read

October 30, 2023 | Law.com

Pacesetter Research: Should Professional Services Firms Speak up?

We live and work in an increasingly volatile world. Is it appropriate for professional services firm to assert their voice in that world?

By Tomek Jankowski

6 minute read

September 13, 2023 | Law.com

ALM Pacesetter Research Takes a Closer Look at Legal Departments and Their Skill Set Gaps Approach

ALM Pacesetter Research examined legal departments and their skills set gaps approaches, and the findings suggest that while there is tremendous pressure for legal departments to do more with less, there may also be some missed opportunities in the form of un-utilized help yet to be leveraged

By Ruth Sierra | Tomek Jankowski

5 minute read

July 28, 2023 | Law.com

M&A Activity is Down, but Opportunities Still Abound

Deal levels (both volume and values) are down in 2023, but clients are still looking ahead for future advantage

By Tomek Jankowski

5 minute read

June 19, 2023 | Law.com

What can M&A really achieve for a company?

Successful M&A is a process, and like all processes skipping steps is not an option

By Tomek Jankowski

6 minute read

May 21, 2023 | Law.com

Billing hygiene as opportunity

With some noted exceptions, law firms are missing the opportunity of increased legal department touchpoints that billing hygiene offers

By Tomek Jankowski

4 minute read

April 15, 2023 | Law.com

Whither fintech, thither legaltech?

Fintech has been on an arc of evolution over the past two decades; can legaltech follow?

By Tomek Jankowski

7 minute read

March 23, 2023 | Law.com

When the Pacesetter Research Team Heads to New York

Where the attendees at LegalWeek are as much part of the value proposition as the official agenda

By Tomek Jankowski

5 minute read

February 26, 2023 | Law.com

Pacesetter Research: The business value of legal departments

Legal departments are caught between a rock and a hard place with spend management, but the solution involves more than just accounting software

By Tomek Jankowski

4 minute read

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