Disputes, debt collection, enforcement
We represent our clients in the procedures before common courts, including commercial courts, and in mediation procedures, before courts of arbitration, and in the arbitration procedures. Debt collection and enforcement procedure comprise an important part of our practice. Here the law firm works with trusted court bailiffs.
The success of the law firm is clearly proven by the debts that we recovered on behalf of our clients, whose value is in millions.
The success of the law firm is clearly proven by the debts that we recovered on behalf of our clients, whose value is in millions.
Contracts
We draw up and negotiate commercial contracts on behalf of our clients, we also verify and modify the drafts of such contracts. We also offer comprehensive services consisting e.g. in identifying all and any risks related to the given contract, including tax risks. The individual contractual solutions are adapted to the individual needs of our clients as much as possible and are intended to secure the interests of our clients to the highest extent possible. We aim at minimizing the risk of a dispute on the grounds of unclear or ambiguous contractual provisions.
We successfully handle court disputes on the grounds of interpretation of contractual provisions. Over the past nine years, we have issued opinions on thousands of contracts, we have drawn up many contracts, including those adapted to complex commercial relations. A lot of them still function as templates for subsequent arrangements.
We successfully handle court disputes on the grounds of interpretation of contractual provisions. Over the past nine years, we have issued opinions on thousands of contracts, we have drawn up many contracts, including those adapted to complex commercial relations. A lot of them still function as templates for subsequent arrangements.
Public Procurement
We provide advice in terms of drawing up tenders and in interpreting the provisions of Terms of Reference (ToR). We analyse documents provided by the clients in terms of whether they meet the requirements posed by the contracting authorities. We also help the contracting authorities in properly preparing and holding the public procurement procedures. We provide representation in the disputes related to implementation of public procurement contracts. We stand in for the contractors and the contracting authorities in the matters resolved by the National Chamber of Appeal and in the procedures held before regional courts on the basis of complaints filed against the decisions of NCA. We also train employees of the contracting authorities and of companies that apply for public procurements.
In this respect, we managed to win several dozen disputes before the National Chamber of Appeal and the regional courts, we also ensured that several hundred objections (when they were still binding) were considered, as a result of which our clients signed many public procurement contracts.
In this respect, we managed to win several dozen disputes before the National Chamber of Appeal and the regional courts, we also ensured that several hundred objections (when they were still binding) were considered, as a result of which our clients signed many public procurement contracts.
Real property and investment process
We provide comprehensive assistance in terms of purchasing, selling and managing developed and undeveloped investment real properties for different purposes: residential, office, commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential. Our assistance covers all legal issues of real property trade, including: tax and financing advice, obtaining building permits, development permits, and demolition permits from administration authorities, we also provide representation in eviction cases. We perform due diligence for real properties (detailed legal analyses), we issue opinions on the contents of land and mortgage registers and documents collected there, as well as of any other documentation related to real property. We draw up and analyse sale agreements, tenancy and lease agreements, contracts related to the investment process, including construction works contracts. We participate in regulating the legal status of real properties. We manage all and any cases related to the act on real property management, including the cases related to perpetual usufruct and real property development. We provide representation before local government authorities and we provide advice in the tender procedures pertaining to real property. We participate in all and any actions concerning real property, ranging from the purchase, through investment implementation, ending with selling for a profit. We also provide advice in terms of optimising costs and public charges, and we establish special-purpose vehicles. We also provide services to housing communities and housing cooperatives, in all aspects of their operation. We work with trusted notarial law firms that ensure that the transaction is made quickly and safely.
In this respect, we managed e.g. to close many investment contracts pertaining to real properties located all over Poland. Moreover, we also won multiple disputes related to enforcing the rights of owners an perpetual users. We also helped in carrying out multiple construction projects, including large residential-service facilities and special-purpose facilities.
In this respect, we managed e.g. to close many investment contracts pertaining to real properties located all over Poland. Moreover, we also won multiple disputes related to enforcing the rights of owners an perpetual users. We also helped in carrying out multiple construction projects, including large residential-service facilities and special-purpose facilities.
Labour law
We draw up employment contract, management contracts, non-compete contracts, and other documents related to employment. We represent both employers and employees in court disputes. We provide advice in the area of restructuring employment and terminating employment relations, including group lay-offs and resolving collective labour disputes. We draw up all and any internal documents, including work regulations, remuneration by-laws, rules of the company social benefit fund and the rules governing the use of company cars.
Our assistance made it possible to work out an agreement that was beneficial for both parties in multiple cases, thus avoiding lengthy and expensive court disputes.
Our assistance made it possible to work out an agreement that was beneficial for both parties in multiple cases, thus avoiding lengthy and expensive court disputes.
Mergers, acquisitions, selling enterprises
We render comprehensive services with respect to disposal of shares or stock of companies, selling enterprises or their organised parts, mergers, divisions, acquisitions of companies, entrance of investors in companies, collecting additional capital. We also provide advice in terms of legal-tax analysis, this is why we are able to provide our clients with a solution that is optimal not only in terms of formal requirements, but also in terms of their cost-effectiveness and business perspective. We draw up legal analyses for companies and other market participants (due diligence) in terms of a potential risk related to a given transaction.
Our counselling made it possible to finalise several dozen corporate transactions in different industries, including the transactions with the participation of foreign and cross-border capital.
Our counselling made it possible to finalise several dozen corporate transactions in different industries, including the transactions with the participation of foreign and cross-border capital.
Corporate Services
Within our operations, we also render services related to establishing, registering and providing on-going services to commercial companies and partnerships, as well as to foundations, cooperatives, associations, housing communities. Legal assistance in this respect applies to the entire process of establishing an entity and its on-going operations, including:
- working on incorporation documents,
- registration in the National Court Register and in other public registers,
- legal assistance for the bodies – e.g. with respect to the resolutions made, the assemblies, meetings and discussions held,
- changes to contracts and other internal documents, including registration,
- drawing up all and any corporate documentation (e.g. guidelines, regulations, retainers, arrangements, decisions, instructions, etc.) and legal audits in this area
We are successfully providing on-going assistance to multiple entities from multiple industries that differ in size – starting with small undertakings – sole traders, ending with joint-stock companies listed on the stock exchange that employ several hundred employees – and in legal form – starting with partnerships with two partners, through foundations, housing cooperatives and associations, ending with companies with a complex internal structure and international capital groups.
Local government units and public organisational units
We have extensive experience in handling local government units and State Treasury units. Within the services provided to this group of entities, we are handling all and any areas of their operations: we provide the assistance to the authorities, we represent them before common and administrative courts, we regulate civil-legal and administrative relations, we assist in holding meetings, we draw up internal documents – by-laws, instructions, resolutions, we draw up agreements, decisions and other solutions. An important element of our services rendered to those units includes collecting the public-legal receivables and handling public procurement, contest and tender process.
Our effectiveness is this complicated branch of law is proven by the fact that we successfully retain the same units for many years, and we render comprehensive services under that retainer, encompassing all areas of activity of our clients, from standard contracts that we handle every day until the contracts for multiple millions in value, including EU contracts.
Our effectiveness is this complicated branch of law is proven by the fact that we successfully retain the same units for many years, and we render comprehensive services under that retainer, encompassing all areas of activity of our clients, from standard contracts that we handle every day until the contracts for multiple millions in value, including EU contracts.
Administrative affairs
In this area we ensure representation in all and any cases before public administration and local government authorities in the course of the administrative procedure. These include e.g. registration issues, issues related to regulated business activity – permits, licences, concessions, marketing permits, related to the investment process with real property as its subject. The representation also covers acting before higher-level administrative authorities, Local Chambers of Appeal, Voivodship Administrative Courts and the Supreme Administrative Court. We draw up opinions and drafts of administrative decisions in different matters, e.g. related to environment protection, investment process related to real property, with seizures and use of public land as its subject.
The successes of the law firm in this area are possible largely thanks to the ability to combine the experience in handling public sector units (both state and local government administration) and while providing assistance to private entities – investment companies and companies whose operations require involvement in the procedures that are in the discretion of the administration authorities and for natural persons.
The successes of the law firm in this area are possible largely thanks to the ability to combine the experience in handling public sector units (both state and local government administration) and while providing assistance to private entities – investment companies and companies whose operations require involvement in the procedures that are in the discretion of the administration authorities and for natural persons.
Advertising, promotion, media, moral rights
We also render legal services in terms of the widely-understood advertising and promotion of services or products offered on the market. In this area, we specialise in drawing up specialist contracts on cooperation and services, regulating the issues concerning copyright and other intellectual property rights, drawing up by-laws of competitions, etc. We are also dealing with the widely-understood legal assistance for the market of advertising, outdoor, press, radio, television and the Internet. We also represent clients in the disputes in the area of image, moral rights and rights of creators.
In this respect, the law firm has successfully participated in multiple projects and campaigns implemented in the nation-wide media and rendered services in the course of major events.
In this respect, the law firm has successfully participated in multiple projects and campaigns implemented in the nation-wide media and rendered services in the course of major events.
