Practice areas
Ekspertise
Universlity
Innovativeness
Assistance in managing situations not just the consequences
Our goal is early identification and management of risks associated with the client’s activities. In our opinion, the most important thing is to be a few steps ahead of the client’s problems and professionally solve them to protect the client from negative legal and other consequences.
Meeting the expectations and achieving the goals of the client is the top priority for our team of experts. We are versatile, and to ensure this, we focus not only on specific client assignment, but also on all of the key features and aspects of the client’s business, legal regulations and practices pertaining to both specific assignment of the client and secondary legal and factual relationships. All solutions that benefit our clients come from our innovative approach to their business.
- merger and acquisition transactions;
- reorganisation (merger, division, separation, restructuring);
- joint venture;
- shareholder agreements;
- agreements with managers of the company;
- share/asset purchase and sale transactions;
- legal audit (legal and tax due diligence of companies);
- negotiations;
- other matters related to mergers and acquisitions.
- legal assessment of business environment;
- establishment of a legal entity;
- preparation, management and harmonisation of internal documents, procedures, rules, regulations of a legal entity with the requirements of legal acts;
- corporate assistance services (organisation and conducting of the company’s shareholders meetings; consultation on decisions made; preparation of voting agreements of the company’s participants, minutes of the company’s participant meetings, internal documents of the company: regulations of the management bodies; resolutions of the collegial management bodies and orders, minutes, decisions and appendices thereof of the sole management bodies; rules of procedure of the management bodies of the companies; job descriptions of employees of the companies; documents of securities issue (emission); transfer of documents; documents for increasing or decreasing authorised capital);
- representation of shareholders in relationships with other shareholders or legal entities (exercise of shareholder’s right to information; representation in general meeting of shareholders; preparation of shareholder agreements, voting agreements; supervision of the activities of the management bodies; challenge of resolutions of the general meeting of shareholders before the court; recovery of damages caused by management bodies of a legal entity; representation of the company in the process of privatisation of state or municipal property, etc.);
- preparation, auditing and negotiations with respect to all types of agreements (trade, distribution, franchise, warehousing, logistics, etc.);
- licences, permits;
- restructuring;
- liquidation;
- shareholder disputes;
- forced takeover and defence strategies;
- responsibilities of managers;
- company management;
- legal audit of transactions concluded by the company;
- business partner reliability analysis;
- corporate litigation;
- other matters related to corporate and commercial law.
- insolvency prevention measures;
- preparation and implementation of financial obligation management and business recovery plan;
- negotiations with creditors, debtors, financial institutions;
- debt recovery, representation in relationships with debtors;
- representation of the company in restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings;
- protection of the interests of managers and shareholders in case of insolvency of the company;
- management of bankruptcy proceedings, consultation of bankruptcy administrators or the creditors of bankrupt company on the matters of bankruptcy proceedings;
- defence of creditors’ claims in bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings; consultation on relationships with insolvent clients;
- consultation on the matters of scope of responsibilities of the company’s participants, management bodies;
- preparation of all documents required in bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings;
- representation in the sale of assets procedures, redemption of assets of a company undergoing bankruptcy or restructuring;
- legal review of company’s transactions and challenge thereof;
- representation in creditor committees and meetings;
- peaceful settlement agreements in bankruptcy proceedings;
- consultation of debtors, management of actual insolvency, reorganisation of activities;
- consultation on purchase/sale of seized assets, bad debts, portfolio and claims under bankruptcy proceedings;
- other matters related to restructuring and bankruptcy law.
- contractual employment relationships (consultation on the matters of conclusion, performance, amendment and termination of employment contracts);
- redundancies/termination of employment relationships;
- occupational health and safety;
- internal rules of procedure;
- matters related to employee discipline and material liability;
- compensations to managers;
- non-competition;
- information confidentiality;
- pre-trial and judicial labour disputes (representation in handling individual and collective labour disputes);
- consultation on the matters of labour law in merger and acquisition transactions;
- consultation on the posting of employees, cross-border work, employment through temporary work companies (agencies);
- legal audit of the personnel;
- preparation of documents (rules of procedure, instructions, other local acts, individual and collective agreements, work council election documentation, etc.);
- representation in negotiations, pre-trial institutions, courts;
- representation in collective legal labour relationships (with trade unions);
- other matters related to labour law.
- carrier’s civil liability, employee’s liability before the employer (carrier), indemnification, compensation for cargo loss, damage, delay in delivery, insurance-related disputes, etc.;
- representation of carriers, freight forwarders, agents, commissioners, consigners and consignees in court and in relationships with third parties;
- representation of the parties involved in cargo transportation in disputes (regarding payments under cargo insurance or carrier’s civil liability insurance agreements and rules; in insurance disputes, recovery of damage caused during or related to transportation);
- representation in cases related to compensation for cargo loss, damage or delay in delivery, detention, transfer of cargo to the consignee;
- responsibility for goods and consumer protection;
- duties and relationships with customs;
- other matters related to transport and logistics.
- drafting of shareholder agreements;
- breaches of fiduciary duties;
- violations of shareholder agreements;
- conflicts of interest;
- access to information;
- removal of management bodies;
- fraud and deception;
- conflicts between minority/majority shareholders;
- deadlock situations pertaining to the company’s management;
- official investigations of the company’s activities;
- negotiations and litigation pertaining to shareholder disputes;
- other matters related to shareholder relationships.
- patents;
- copyrights;
- design;
- trademarks;
- brands;
- rights related to databases;
- business secrets and confidential information;
- technology transfer;
- legal due diligence with respect to mergers, acquisitions and other transactions;
- licence agreements;
- service agreements;
- conclusion of IT service and other agreements;
- e-commerce agreements, privacy policy;
- disputes with institutions issuing patents/registering trademarks;
- representation in intellectual property cases;
- misleading advertising;
- unfair competition;
- data protection and privacy;
- franchise rights;
- entertainment law;
- other matters related to intellectual property and information technologies.
- public procurement procedures and compliance with them;
- public procurement strategy;
- proposal assessment;
- justification of the price;
- assessment of validity of claims and decisions;
- taxes;
- analysis and implementation of recommendations of institutions;
- preparation of agreements;
- negotiations;
- disputes;
- other matters related to public procurement.
- consultation on all tax-related matters;
- tax planning and optimisation;
- tax verification, including parallel tax verification in merger and acquisition transactions;
- representation of the client during inspections conducted by tax authorities;
- negotiations and litigation with tax authorities;
- preparation of inquiries, requests for a binding decision, agreement on tax amount;
- consultation on optimal structure of transactions;
- tax consultation on the matters of acquisition, merger, reorganisation, restructuring and termination of business;
- international taxation;
- application of agreements for the prevention of double taxation;
- selection of country of establishment;
- other matters related to tax law.
- assessment of the lawfulness of actions of municipal and state public administration entities, as well as of adopted individual and normative legal acts, submission of legal conclusions;
- territorial planning;
- construction, reconstruction, legalisation of arbitrary construction;
- licences and permits;
- complaints about individual and normative legal acts adopted by municipal and state public administration entities;
- representation in administrative dispute commissions and administrative courts in challenging the lawfulness of individual and normative legal acts adopted by municipal and state public administration entities;
- administrative disputes;
- other matters related to administrative law.
- taxes;
- public procurement;
- insurance;
- securities;
- embezzlement, waste, money laundering
- document forging;
- tax-related and other fraud;
- VAT fraud;
- criminal bankruptcy;
- provision of incorrect data about income;
- investigations on income and expenditure of natural persons, unjust enrichment;
- book-keeping and accounting violations;
- illegal activities;
- civil service;
- accounting;
- civil action in criminal case;
- other matters related to financial crimes.
- class actions and group actions;
- commercial and agreement-related disputes;
- corporate disputes and company management;
- labour disputes;
- disputes with insurance companies;
- intellectual property disputes;
- international arbitration;
- resolution of investment-related disputes through arbitration;
- cases of violation of public law;
- disputes related to real estate and territorial planning;
- recognition of foreign court and arbitral judgements;
- white-collar crime cases;
- restructuring and bankruptcy cases;
- tax-related disputes;
- disputes in cases involving “phoenix” companies;
- shareholder disputes;
- disputes concerning public procurement;
- competition-related cases;
- cases concerning property and assets;
- debt collection;
- enforcement of court and arbitration judgements;
- other matters related to judicial proceedings and arbitration.
- legal due diligence of real estate companies and real estate management companies;
- preparation, verification and negotiation of preliminary and main residential, commercial, agricultural, forestry, aquatic, other land and structure purchase and sale, rent and leasing agreements;
- preparation, verification and negotiations of real estate design, general construction, maintenance, contracting, subcontracting, rent, leasing, pledge, management and other agreements;
- acquisition of property on the basis of limitation period, easement establishment;
- consultation on financing of projects and transactions, EU funding matters, securities, restructuring, insolvency (bankruptcy);
- administrative and regulatory matters: establishment of zones, land use, construction permits, environmental matters, public procurement;
- establishment and implementation of collaterals (mortgage, pledge);
- development of railway infrastructure;
- immovable cultural heritage;
- change of principal purpose of use of structures, premises;
- consultation of real estate buyers, sellers, owners, lessees, pledgors on the matters of acquisition, management of real estate, determination of share in joint community property, division and separation from joint community property, transfer, restriction of rights, conclusion of agreements, legal assessment of terms and conditions of agreements;
- representation of the client in negotiations with the parties (negotiations on terms and conditions of agreements, conclusion of agreements) in public authorities (Real Property Register and Cadastre, Mortgage Register, Register of Property Seizure Acts in registering/deregistering property rights to real property, restriction of such rights, legal facts), in relationships with state and municipal institutions (obtaining permits for real estate transactions and construction, change of principal purpose of use of land), in processes related to preparation of territorial planning documents;
- taxation of assets and transactions;
- consultation on financing and re-financing of acquisition transactions;
- consultation on insurance of guarantees and loss compensation obligations;
- property operation and management agreements;
- restructuring of investments in real estate;
- representation in and consultation on dispute resolution in courts of all instances and arbitration;
- other matters related to real estate law.
- Financial and investment consultancy;
- Risk assessment;
- Contract auditing;
- Financial services regulatory;
- General compliance advice;
- Venture capital;
- Funds;
- Securities market;
- Start-ups;
- Project financing;
- Insurance law;
- Representation and dispute resolution;
- Other issues relate to finance, investment and start-ups law.