Areas of Expertise

Litigations

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Competition Law

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Trade Contracts

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Labour law

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Restructuring processes

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Corporate Consulting

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Taxes

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Investments and Transactions

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Litigations

we provide legal services for business owners in following areas:

  • company representation in pre-court and court proceedings
  • mediation management and company representation in arbitration proceedings
  • company representation before Supreme Court
  • representation in proceedings to secure claims and enforcement proceedings
  • representation in conciliation procedures
  • representation before Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) and Provincial Administrative Court (WSA)
  • pre-trial analysis and trial strategy formation

Competition Law

we provide legal services for business owners in following areas:

  • antimonopoly consulting in all aspects of Client business activity
  • representation in proceedings regarding consent to concentration
  • elimination of the risk of dominant position abuse
  • legal assessment of horizontal and vertical trade agreements
  • consulting regarding pricing agreements, including promotion rules and sales by-laws
  • consulting regarding forbidden contractual clauses
  • unfair competition - consulting and representation regarding unfair trading practices

Trade Contracts

we specialize in creation, verification and negotiation of trade contracts in following scope:

  • contracts in construction, development, production and commercial sectors
  • contracts regarding technological line purchase and start-up
  • trade contracts
  • marketing and licensing contracts
  • distribution (including distribution network) agreements, agency and franchising contracts
  • implementation contracts
  • contracts with media providers
  • executive contracts and supply / sale agreements
  • framework agreements and General Insurance Conditions (OWU)

Labour law

we represent big companies in following areas:

  • individual labour law
  • collective labour law
  • employment structure creation and optimization
  • employment restructuring processes consultancy
  • policies and by-laws creation and verification
  • specialized services regarding working time and elastic employment forms
  • representation in labour conflicts (both individual and collective)
  • representation in contacts with labour unions
  • consultancy services regarding collective litigations and creation and modification of collective agreements and internal by-laws
  • representation before The National Labour Inspectorate (PIP)
  • consultancy services regarding mobbing and discrimination prevention in a workplace, protection of personal property in employment relationships
  • creation and verification of incentive programs for managers
  • manager contracts
  • managerial training

Restructuring processes

we participate and provide legal assistance in widely understood businesses restructuring process. We especially advise on:

  • capital groups restructuring
  • many creditors debt restructuring
  • financial debt restructuring
  • “pre-pack” procedure execution
  • legal risks assessment of company’s current and past operations
  • merging companies both domestic or by applying cross-border merger procedure
  • companies division
  • transformations
  • in privatization processes of state enterprises
  • in restructuring proceedings according to The Restructuring Act of 15 May 2015
  • in bankruptcy procedures according to The Bankruptcy Act of 23 February 2003

Corporate Consulting

we specialize in permanent and on demand consulting services for share-holding companies:

  • current business operations services
  • company establishment (foreign law businesses included)
  • preparation of corporate documents e.g. contracts, statutes, agreements, resolutions
  • verification of internal policies, regulations
  • services for company governing bodies - boards of supervisors, general assemblies, shareholders meetings 
  • investment relations
  • informational duties for public companies
  • representation before Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF)
  • consulting on company’s initial public offering (IPO) and company delisting

Taxes

we specialize in widely understood tax law:

  • CIT, PIT, VAT, civil law activity tax,  property tax, excise duty
  • representation before tax and administration offices
  • current transactional advisory, also during restructuring and acquisition processes
  • applications for individual tax law interpretations
  • penal fiscal proceedings
  • enterprise tax audits
  • transfer pricing
  • international tax law

Investments and Transactions

continuous participation in our Clients projects, especially by:

  • company legal audits, organized parts of enterprises, assets - due diligence processes covering chosen or all legal aspects, cooperation with certified auditors and licensed asset valuers, establishing special purpose vehicles (SPV) and equipping them with assets
  • representation in negotiation processes - representation covering negotiatory aspects agreed with a Client, managed assets purchase, cooperation with mediators
  • transaction structuring - covering tax and cash flow aspects, guarantees and securing proper duties execution, cooperation and advise regarding capital raising, commercial law companies establishment, investment funds (FIZ, FIZAN)
  • M&A, mergers and acquisitions -  pre-trade audits, representation during negotiations, preparation of comprehensive transactional documents, verification of transaction execution conditions
  • investments contracts - consulting services and negotiations of contract conditions in business aspects, legal and tax security, handling of all legal and tax transactional and post-transactional aspects
  • handling of investment financing process - consulting services regarding forms of capital acquisition, negotiation, preparation and verification of documents related to debt financing, verification of safeguards, consulting regarding choosing banks, insurance companies, investment funds companies and defining rules of cooperation with them