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