Areas of practice

• Polish and German commercial law and companies law
• establishing companies, branches, and representative offices in Germany and Poland
• drawing up company contracts or statutes
• changes in the composition of company bodies
• contracts with board members
• responsibility of members in company bodies
• raising or lowering of initial capital
• sale or acquisition of shares
• transformation and merging of companies
• due diligence
• company liquidation and bankruptcy
• Polish and German civil law
• contracts based on the civil code
• contracts in business transactions (including factoring)
• general terms of trade
• dishonest competition
• bankruptcy and reorganisation law
• Polish and German real estate law
• preliminary agreements and final contracts in the trade of real estate where foreign subjects are involved
• contracts for building works
• statutory permits and licenses (Poland)
• Polish, German and international labour law
• managerial contracts
• job contracts involving foreign subjects
• job termination and severance pay
• international arbitration
• ‘ad hoc’ within courts of arbitration
• in fixed Arbitration Courts: at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, at the German Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and at the Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit
• conducting arbitration proceedings in Polish and in German
• litigation in Germany and Poland
• representing clients in business and civil issues before the courts of all instances in Poland and in Germany
• privatisation and reprivatisation in Poland