We offer comprehensive legal services for commercial enterprises, ranging from company formation and registration to regular day-to-day service, as well as assistance with business transformation and restructuring, and dissolution proceedings. Our clients include Polish firms and foreign-owned companies with branches or subsidiaries in Poland, some of whom benefit from our close cooperation with non-Polish law firm partners, particularly in Germany, France and Switzerland.

Our core areas of expertise include:

• Selection of suitable business structures
• Composition and amendment of company memoranda and articles of association, as well as the negotiation of shareholder agreements
• Preparation of internal regulatory documents for corporate bodies, including operating rules and procedures
• Preparation of resolutions and minutes of meetings of the company?s governing bodies
• Legal representation at meetings with partners and shareholders
• Legal advice on the formation and operation of companies operating under German and Swiss law, as well as assistance in establishing such companies through our foreign law partners
• Establishment in Poland of branches of foreign-owned businesses
• Corporate mergers and divisions, transformation of business structures, and the preparation and execution of plans for dissolution
• Share Deal and Asset Deal sales of companies
• Legal advice on capital acquisitions, including the best methods for increasing share capital, and establishing supplementary payments and loans for the company from partners and shareholders
• Legal advice on liability for members of the company?s governing bodies
• Conflict resolution between competing shareholders and between shareholders and members of the company?s governing bodies
• Preparation of consortium agreements and legal advice on carrying out consortium projects
• Legal representation in court cases involving management board member liability with respect to company commitments and damages that members might have inflicted upon the company
• Legal representation in court cases pursued to set aside or declare invalid any resolutions passed at partner or shareholder meetings
• Legal representation before Polish State Authorities, including the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
• Due diligence investigations
• Preparation of investment contracts and provision of advice on Private Equity / Venture Capital projects
• Legal advice and representation of investors in equity funds
• Legal services for foundations and associations

We help our clients protect their rights to intangible / intellectual property in the following ways:

• Preparation of contracts for the use and transfer of intangible/intellectual property rights
• Resolving any trade matters related to intangible assets, including computer game characters and virtual movable and immovable assets
• Preparation of legal documentation used for commercialization of Virtual Reality (VR) rights
• Legal representation in intellectual property cases before common and administrative courts, including protection of copyright and neighboring (related) rights
• Legal advice on image protection and the preparation of image use agreements (e.g., advertising campaign use, photo shoots, videos)
• Preparation of dossiers related to setting up, using, and transferring databases, and legal representation in cases related to database registration

We provide comprehensive legal support for professional developers and businesses contracting information technology services in the implementation of IT projects. We support IT start-ups in preparing feasibility studies and creating legal frameworks for planned IT projects and their implementation. We serve online store operators and other businesses providing services by electronic means, particularly in support of their compliance with consumer protection laws.

Our core areas of expertise include:

• Preparation of feasibility studies for planned IT projects, taking into consideration existing risks and current legal constraints
• Preparation of legal advice for and negotiations of civil-law contracts for work; contracts for the transfer of intellectual property from IT project developers, graphics designers and other creators; and contracts with software developers and distributors, IT system implementation and maintenance companies offering cloud computing solutions, providers of hosting and other server solutions, Internet website owners, creators and operators of web pages, interactive agencies, and Internet providers
• Preparation of and guidance on service terms and conditions, including operating rules for providing services by electronic means, establishing privacy policies and amending existing contracts
• General support for the E-commerce industry, including preparation of and advising about operating rules for online stores and the implementation of new solutions and platforms
• Development and establishment of start-ups, including advice on selecting schemes for IT project implementation, preparation of contracts for team members, and development of investment contracts
• Consultation, negotiation, and preparation of contracts for software licenses, guarantees, service agreements, and hardware delivery contracts
• Preparation of internal audits for personal data processing, advice on enterprise data flow, and preparation of personal data processing documentation
• Legal advice on advertisement, media and the Internet
• Establishment of special purpose vehicles for use in IT projects
• Legal representation in court proceedings

We provide comprehensive legal service in the area of personal data protection under the provisions of national law and European law. Our service includes, in particular:

• implementation of appropriate data protection policies in the company in accordance with the provisions of national law and European law;
• screening of the company for identification of personal data processing, including the analysis of the level of the fulfillment of duties relating to the personal data protection;
• verification of legal, organizational and technical processes of data protection in the company;
• creating and advising on concepts of personal data protection;
• advising on personal data transfers to third countries;
• legal consultancy for persons responsible in the company for implementation of legal obligations relating to the protection of personal data;
• advising on interpretation and application of RODO provisions, including guidelines issued by the President of the Personal Data Protection Office;
• proposing and implementing procedures adjusting internal regulations in the company to the provisions of national law and European law;
• preparing personal data outsourcing agreements, templates of approval for data processing, records of processing activities, personal data breach notification policies and policies aiming to remove or mitigate consequences of personal data breach;
• day-to-day legal advising on personal data protection for data controllers and data protection officers;
• preparing responses for persons reporting personal data requests;
• preparing necessary findings, applications, and notifications to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office;
• assisting and supporting during inspections carried out by the President of the Personal Data Protection Office;
• representation before the competent regulatory authorities responsible for personal data protection, including the President of the Personal Data Protection Office;
• representation in court proceedings in cases relating to personal data protection.

We provide legal advice on public and private competition (anti-trust) law by preparing comprehensive B2B and B2C business solutions:

• We analyze contracts, business activities and practices in terms of their compliance with Polish and European Competition (Anti-Trust) Law
• We offer support for businesses who have suffered from acts of unfair competition by their competitors (private enforcement)
• We represent our clients in cases involving illegal slotting fees, unfair advertisement, and violations of business confidentiality
• We provide comprehensive legal services in the area of business-consumer relationship development, particularly in the verification of whether specific legal solutions avoid using prohibited clauses and whether they are compliant with Polish consumer law acts, civil-law guarantee requirements, contractual guarantee requirements, and the right of withdrawal from distance or off-premises sales contracts
• We draw up contracts, procedural rules, and B2C contract templates
• We provide legal support in proceedings before the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection and before the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection

We provide advice on selecting types of franchisement, no matter whether a franchise system is formed or joined:

• We advise clients on, negotiate, and draw up draft franchise and distribution contracts
• We analyze contracts and agreements between parties in terms of their compliance with competition (anti-trust) law (navigating clients past agreements that unfairly restrict competition)
• We interpret contractual terms and conditions in order to determine the actual extent of each party?s rights and obligations
• We analyze contract termination options
• We enforce (to the extent permitted by applicable Polish law) our client?s rights and the other parties? obligations under franchise and distribution contracts in pre-court and court proceedings

We prepare, negotiate and verify business contracts and agreements, taking into account the individual needs of our clients and prevailing professional standards:

• We provide support in selecting a suitable contract type and guidance on the best way to execute agreements, and in setting boundary conditions for business objectives
• We compose, offer guidance on, and help negotiate draft contracts, agreements and general terms and conditions used to satisfy business needs, and help avoid clauses that are prohibited in B2C transactions within Poland
• We interpret contractual terms and conditions that define what are the actual rights and obligations of parties
• We protect our clients? contractual rights and enforce the contractual obligations of other parties in pre-court and court proceedings
• We draw up and negotiate letters of intent, confidentiality clauses, exclusivity clauses and non-competition clauses
• We prepare investment contracts of any complexity and provide advice on Private Equity / Venture Capital projects

We work closely with cargo transport and freight forwarding clients both here in Poland and abroad. Our support includes, in particular:

• Preparation of and advice on cargo transport and freight forwarding contracts, general terms and conditions, and other transport-related contracts both for Polish and foreign markets, including under the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) and the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
• Preparation of trade contracts compliant with International Commercial Terms (INCOTERMS)
• Preparation of and advice on the use of cargo transport order templates
• Advice on vehicle purchase/lease contracts, vehicle repair/development contracts, and cargo transport infrastructure lease contracts
• Legal representation in court cases involving non-execution and improper execution of cargo transportation contracts (damaged goods, defected goods, delays, and claims pursued for damages under guarantee)
• Legal representation in pursuit of insurance claims
• Out-of-court and in-court enforcement of debts incurred by business partners
• Legal advice on starting domestic and international cargo transport businesses in Poland, selecting the business structure most legally suited to the client?s goals, and obtaining all necessary administrative permits
• Guidance on labor law issues involving the freight transport industry (including selection of appropriate time and attendance management systems for transport and logistics, and setting up remuneration schemes for transport companies, including derivatives, e.g., per diem allowances for overnight accommodation of drivers)
• Legal representation, when required, before such Polish authorities as the Road Transport Inspectorate, the National Labor Inspectorate, the Customs Office, and the Tax Office

Our Law Firm has broad professional experience in property law and provides comprehensive legal support for real estate transactions. We offer our services to institutional investors: real estate developers, property owners, construction companies (general contractors and subcontractors), property administrators, real estate agents, and domestic and foreign individual investors.

We collaborate regularly with notaries throughout the Lower Silesia region, and because of that we can provide comprehensive legal and notary services at each stage of an undertaking; consequently, we mitigate transaction risks, improve processes, and ensure top-notch legal security and a uniquely high quality of service.

Our core areas of expertise include:

• Surveying and the assessment of the legal status of properties
• Identifying and mitigating transaction risks
• Preparing and verifying the validity of real estate transaction contracts
• Negotiating terms and conditions for acquisition and disposal of any category of real estate
• Providing legal advice on the acquisition of special properties, including agricultural land and forests
• Negotiating and drawing up contracts with design and construction project participants (general contractors, architects, designers, and construction supervisors)
• Providing legal guidance on the commercialization of non-commercial real estate
• Preparing contracts for the use, lease, and administration of buildings and structures
• Participating in commercial construction projects: office buildings, hotels, warehouses, and commercial centers
• Providing legal representation in obtaining stakeholder consent, permits, and administrative decisions required for construction, in particular building permits and administrative decisions to acquire properties (e.g., permits from the Minister of Interior and Administration for the acquisition of Polish properties by foreigners).
• Preparing and negotiating documents related to financing property acquisition, including through loan or lease
• Preparing and negotiating documents related to property leaseback
• Making all necessary entries in land and mortgage registers (e.g., changes in ownership resulting from property acquisition or succession regimes, entries of compulsory mortgages, etc.)
• Legal advising on acquisition of developer properties (verifying contracts for the reservation of premises, negotiating developer agreements and property sale contracts, verifying the absence of illegal clauses, etc.)
• Interacting with notaries before and during the execution of contacts, where such assistance is required
• Preparing real estate for construction (division / merging / delimitation)
• Creating documentation and providing legal representation in any matters related to changes in spatial planning or decisions on development conditions
• Performing legal representation in court cases:

– Reconciliation of land and mortgage register entries with actual legal status

– Nullification of agreements

– Usucaption (acquisition of a property through occupancy over a prescribed period of time)

– Succession

– Annulment of joint ownership

– Establishment of or changes in easement

– Delimitation of boundaries

– Prosecution of criminal trespass

• Legally advising on succession and inheritance of agricultural real estate

We support businesses, company boards, and HR departments in choosing suitable forms of employment for their firm?s employees, drawing up related documentation and dealing with day-to-day employment issues; we specialize in providing services to employment agencies and other entities conducting cross-border posting of workers.

Our core areas of expertise include:

• Preparation of contracts for work and services
• Cooperation with employment agencies on the preparation of documents related to temporary employment
• Management of issues related to the cross-border posting of workers under Polish and European law
• Development of company remuneration regulations for staff
• Formulation of company policies on social media appropriately governing the use of e-mail accounts, instant messengers, and social networking platforms
• Preparation of management contracts for members of company governing bodies
• Legal representation in disputes concerning claims under the labor law
• Preparation of documents concerning establishment, change, and termination of employment relationships
• Composition of legally suitable anti-competitive, confidentiality, and entrustment clauses and agreements
• Development of plans for business restructuring, including business takeovers
• Verification of employment documentation for legal compliance
• Employment of foreigners
• Development of legal regulations for remote work
• Legal representation for employers during inspections or before such Polish public authorities as the National Labor Inspectorate
• Treatment of personal data protection issues in employment relationships

One of the greatest advantages we offer clients is our outstanding expertise in cross-border proceedings, with particular focus on Polish-German and Polish-French interactions. We provide our legal services under the Polish and European law, but we also represent our Poland-based clients through foreign partner law firms before German and French courts.

Our core areas of expertise include:

• Representation in enforcement proceedings across the European Union on the basis of enforcement orders issued in Poland or in other EU member states
• Representation in court actions concerning cross-border bankruptcy, including: initiation of main and secondary bankruptcy proceedings, representation of creditors in cross-border bankruptcy litigation, and the reporting of claims in response to cross-border bankruptcy declarations
• Representation in international proceedings for the division of estates and succession matters
• Coordination of legal services for our clients in court proceedings in close cooperation with foreign law firms, particularly in Germany, France and Switzerland

We represent our clients at every stage of legal proceedings before general and administrative courts and public authorities.

Our core areas of expertise include:

• Analysis and assessment of our clients? claims in order to select the most suitable procedural strategy in court
• Legal representation in civil and commercial cases before common courts and before the Supreme Court
• Legal representation before labor courts in cases concerning employment relationships
• Legal representation in administrative proceedings before any public administration body, regional administrative court, and the Supreme Administrative Court
• Legal representation in civil and commercial cases in pre-court proceedings (e.g., mediation, and out-of-court settlement negotiations)
• Close cooperation with foreign law firms in proceedings before foreign courts, particularly in Germany, France and Switzerland
• Legal representation in cases related to public procurement before arbitration teams assigned by the Public Procurement Office, the National Appeal Chamber, and common courts
• Legal representation before the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection and before the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection

Our comprehensive legal services include support for our clients in acquiring real estate from property developers within the primary mortgage market.
This package includes:

1. Verification of the legal status of a desired property
2. Analysis of reservation, developer, and sales agreements
3. Negotiations of draft contracts, including subsequent amendments made following our Law Firm?s initial recommendations, and proposed final drafts of agreements between parties
4. Interaction with notary offices for all notary transactions
5. Verification of court entries in land and mortgage registers
6. Payment of all notary fees related to contracts requiring notarization (provided that the client approves of the use of our recommended notary offices)

If you plan to establish a commercial company, we will provide you with comprehensive legal services that range from conceptual work to the successful entry of your company into public registers.

This package includes:

1. Preparation of draft memoranda / articles of association for your company
2. Preparation of any other documents necessary to register your company in public registers
3. Interaction with notary offices for all notary transactions required to establish your company
4. Preparation of applications and supporting documents required for the completion of business registrations
5. Execution of registration procedures resulting in the valid and final entry of your company into public registers

We provide comprehensive legal services for implementing personal data protection policies for your company in compliance with Polish and European laws.

This package includes:

1. Company-wide screening for applicable personal data processing operations, and analysis of the implementation of legally required personal data protection processes
2. Legal consultation for corporate officers responsible for personal data protection
3. Design of a company-wide personal data protection concept
4. Proposal and implementation of procedures that ensure corporate compliance with Polish and European data protection laws
5. Preparation of corporate personal data protection policies
6. Preparation of contracts for outsourcing personal data processing
7. Legal representation before regulators competent in any matter related to personal data protection

If you are disappointed with the quality of tourist services you?ve engaged and you plan to pursue a claim for damages and just satisfaction for a wasted holiday, we will provide you with comprehensive legal support both during your holiday stay and after you return home. We will help you recover the value of the benefits you were promised and to secure any evidence necessary to pursue claims, if necessary, at a later date.

This package includes:

1. Urgent assistance while you are still away from home
2. Help in securing evidence of improper performance of tourist services
3. Analysis of claims amounts for damages and just satisfaction based on industry-adopted assumptions and professional service standards
4. Pre-court proceedings against the tourist organizer
5. Preparation of demands for compensation payment by the tourist organizer
6. Preparation of claim statements for payment of damages and just satisfaction awards
7. Legal representation in all court proceedings
8. Enforcement of court-ordered payments levied against the tourist organizer

This is an ideal package for businesses that are usually not exposed to payment bottlenecks, but nevertheless still have customers with outstanding debts that need to be enforced. This is also a great option for those who have never carried out a legal enforcement of claims and would like to try it out.

This package includes:

1. Analysis of debt claims and review of options to pursue debt claims in Polish courts
2. Screening for debtor solvency
3. Preparation and dispatch of two letters demanding payment
4. Conduct of settlement negotiations with the debtor
5. Preparation of a debt repayment arrangement based on terms and conditions agreed between the client and their debtor
6. Inclusion of an appropriate solution in the debtor settlement agreement that realistically secures payment to the creditor

Are you planning to run a temporary employment agency or to post employees abroad temporarily? Our Law Firm offers a broad range of services designed especially for start-up employment agencies or other businesses that plan to post workers overseas on a temporary basis.

This package includes:

1. Legal representation while entering your business in the temporary employment agency register
2. Development of operating rules governing the provision of temporary work
3. Preparation of draft agreements between employees and the temporary employment agencies
4. Preparation of draft agreements between employees and employer-users
5. Preparation of draft information documentation, statements, and certificates required to run a temporary employment agency
6. Development of processes for posting employees abroad from Poland under all applicable laws

Without even realizing it, every day we enter into a number of contracts of lesser or greater legal significance. For businesses, contracts serve an all-important role as the legal basis for their income. Nowadays, contracts can be entered into not only in writing or orally, but also by means of modern technology, e.g., electronic mail or instant message. Therefore, both managers and staff should know the basics of entering into contracts, their basic contractual rights and duties, the consequences of improper execution of contracts, and the options for terminating them.

Our training is intended for business owners and their employees, and the basic objective is to introduce you, step by step, to the process of effectively entering into contracts in Poland, including determining when to enter, how long should be the duration, and what contract model is most appropriate. At our training sessions, we discuss the matter of legal representation and basic methods for screening businesses and verifying their solvency, and we also consider best practices for implementing contracts and requirements those parties must comply with in order to secure their rights in case other parties improperly execute their obligations. Our training might also become the basis for introducing relevant procedures of entering into and securing contracts at your company.

Our training is based on workshops where participants discuss situations that they actually experienced in their workplace. We can adapt the training agenda to individual business needs, such as specific legal issues or specific contract types.