01 . About our Law Firm :
We offer top-notch legal counselling dedicated to selected industries. In particular, we assist companies operating in sectors such as construction, infrastructure, real estate, modern technologies, production, transport, services, as well as banks and investment funds.
Our clients appreciate our knowledge, experience and commitment to the development of their business. For several years, our clients’ recognition has been reflected in our high positions in international rankings, such as Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500. We regularly win accolades in: Construction; Dispute Resolution; Arbitration; Public Procurement; Real Estate; Commercial, Corporate & M&A.
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02 .Our achievements:
We focus on a few selected fields of expertise, in which we provide legal counselling and legal representation of the highest quality. Expertise and experience in these areas allow us to achieve tangible results for our clients. In addition to litigation, construction and infrastructure investment projects, we successfully advise on M&A transactions, the real estate sector, public procurement, labour law and personal data protection.
Our clients operate, among others, in the following industries: construction, property development, automotive, industrial production, distribution of specialised equipment, tools and robots, transport, financial services and modern technologies and FMCG.
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Our team represents Polish and foreign entities in proceedings before common courts as well as before arbitration tribunals in Poland and abroad (the Polish Chamber of Commerce, Lewiatan, ICC, VIAC, DIS, UNCITRAL). Clients especially value our vast experience and efficiency in litigating or arbitrating complex cases concerning construction and infrastructure investment projects. In this area, we have handled about a dozen precedent-setting cases (including before the Supreme Court), often contributing to the formation of the Polish case law.
Prof. Przemysław Drapała combines vast experience and skills as an attorney ad litem with experience gained as an arbitrator.
Our Law Firm has also successfully represented leading automotive and real estate companies and suppliers of complex technologies, as well as financial institutions in litigation and arbitration pertaining to their areas of activity. We have also been successful in handling litigations regarding mergers and acquisitions (M&A), commercial contracts, and consequences of declaring bankruptcy, but also proceedings to have arbitration court awards overturned.
We cooperate with reputable foreign law firms representing Polish businesses and supporting foreign companies in proceedings conducted in Poland or related to Polish law.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Managing Partner
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
We are one of the leading law firms on the Polish legal market in providing legal advice to general contractors, subcontractors, investors and design companies implementing complex construction and infrastructure investment projects (roads, engineering, large-scale projects, power engineering, public utility facilities, sports facilities, industrial facilities). For over 15 years we have been advising our clients on the largest infrastructure and construction investment projects in Poland and representing parties in related court and arbitration proceedings.
In The Legal 500, an international ranking of law firms, (for 2018-2022), our law firm was recognised as a Leading Firm (Top Tier) in the Construction/Construction disputes category, and Prof. Przemysław Drapała was awarded the Leading Individual in Poland title in this category.
Our lawyers have unique experience in disputes concerning (i) remuneration increases due to unpredictable market changes (e.g., increase in prices of materials and services in the construction market); (ii) claims of the parties arising in connection with withdrawal from a contract, and (iii) prohibition of payment under a bank guarantee (unjustified drawing on the guarantee).
Moreover, we successfully advise our clients on matters concerning, among others, claims for delays in construction site handover, faulty design documentation, payment and increase of remuneration, settlement of completed additional and substitute works, general construction costs, charged liquidated damages, performance of warranty or guarantees of quality, as well as other claims arising in the course of the execution of construction investment projects.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Managing Partner
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Our clients trust us with preparing and conducting transactions concerning purchase, sale, transformation, division and mergers of companies, as well as with the sale and purchase of business enterprises, organised parts of business enterprises and their respective assets.
We take a comprehensive approach to the transactions we conduct. We draft and carry out appropriate action strategies, which help our clients achieve their business goals. We look at transactions in business, legal and tax terms. We also carry out intra-group restructuring, including cross-border restructuring, to enable our clients to use their resources more effectively and arrange their business processes in the most convenient manner. Additionally, we support their day-to-day corporate operations.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner | Head of M&A, Corporate and Commercial Practice
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We provide legal advice on all types of projects relating to trading in and financing real estate transactions. We provide legal and tax services for real estate transactions and joint venture projects at a national and cross-border scale. We advise our clients on the day-to-day management of their real estate portfolios. Our clients include building owners and managers, property developers and construction companies.
In particular:
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
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We are well aware of how important it is to properly secure relations with a contracting party, and that a well-prepared contract should protect the client’s interests when these relations do not go as planned. We combine expertise with business expectations while providing legal security to our clients, particularly with regard to situations that no one expected at the time of concluding the contract. We draft not only contract templates, including general terms of sale and service provision, but also complex “tailor-made” contracts.
We analyse contracts comprehensively, taking into account both commercial and legal and tax issues. Also, we take into consideration aspects of personal data protection and intellectual property protection. Working closely with foreign law firm partners, we carry out projects extending beyond the Polish jurisdiction, providing clients with comprehensive services for their cross-border ventures. We speak English and German.
We also support our clients during negotiations, as well as in enforcing contract provisions in the event of their non-performance or improper performance by the contracting party.
We support our clients’ advertising and marketing activities by creating legal frameworks for such activities, including rules and regulations, guidelines or bulletins for their promotional campaigns, competitions and loyalty programmes. We review draft contracts received by our clients from their contracting parties, with a view to ensure safe implementation of their business plans.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner | Head of M&A, Corporate and Commercial Practice
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel | Co-Head of German Desk
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We provide legal advice to Polish and foreign entities at all stages of public procurement procedure (both regular and sectoral), in particular with regard to infrastructure, energy and services sectors. We successfully represent our clients in proceedings before the National Appeals Chamber. Complaints filed by us with common courts against judgments issued by the National Appeals Chamber have led to precedent-setting rulings in several cases.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Head of Public Procurement Practice
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
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We support our clients with respect to individual and collective labour law matters, both from a domestic and cross-border perspective.
We provide ongoing legal services for HR departments and managerial staff, advise clients on selecting the right form of cooperation with employees, draft necessary employment-related documents, draw up rules and regulations and internal policies, develop effective salary and incentive schemes. Thanks to close cooperation between lawyers from various fields, in particular personal data, and tax advisors, we offer optimised solutions, taking into account all aspects of contractual parties’ interests.
Our experience also includes comprehensive support during the procedure of transferring a work establishment or its part to a new employer, including complex transactions involving the sale and purchase of enterprises.
We advise our clients in crisis situations: in mobbing and discrimination proceedings, consultations with trade unions and employee representatives, as well as in employment restructuring processes.
We also support employers during layoff procedures (including the so-called group layoffs), we develop strategies for out-of-court dispute resolution, we participate in negotiations, and in the absence of an agreement, we represent employers in disputes before labour courts.
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Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Employment Practice | Counsel
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As part of our consulting services, we support clients in the implementation of data protection projects and of the GDPR. This applies in particular to mobile applications, websites, software and other personal data processing technologies used in business. We advise clients on services and marketing activities using new technologies and other projects that require the collection of information about users, clients, employees (e.g. in connected cars or monitoring systems), also when international transfers are involved. We support clients in regulating data processing within groups of companies. We have experience in auditing already implemented projects and entire companies for compliance with data protection regulations, also in terms of industry requirements.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Data Protection | Compliance Practice
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We support Polish and foreign businesses in:
We advise our clients on M&A transactions and restructuring processes, including structuring of a transaction/process, its implementation and post-transaction synergy.
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Tax Adviser | Head of Tax
Tax expert | Co-Head of Tax
Tax Adviser | Tax Manager
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We advise businesses that already have a compliance system in place and those that want to implement such system or its elements in their companies. We assist our clients in all stages of devising a compliance system, including risk management, procedures development, training sessions and information campaigns, internal investigations and public authorities inspections. Our services also include auditing compliance systems as part of a review and improvement process.
Our teams are aware of how important compliance is and how it should be developed and adjusted to a given company to be effective. Therefore, depending on what the client needs, we also focus on selected areas, using the expertise of our lawyers and advisers across various fields.
We devise and consult anti-corruption procedures, gift and discount policies, AML/CFT policies, conflict check procedures, client check procedures, corporate governance documents, in particular reflecting the distribution of responsibilities in a company, violation report procedures and authorities inspections procedures. Our expertise in the field of compliance also includes GDPR (GDPR Compliance), taxes (Tax Compliance) and HR (HR Compliance).
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Data Protection | Compliance Practice
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel | Co-Head of German Desk
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Our experienced team represents domestic and international clients in all types of corporate and commercial disputes. The team comprises both litigators and lawyers with extensive experience in handling corporate matters, M&A and international projects.
Our expertise includes, but is not limited to, registration procedures, proceedings regarding corporate bodies’ resolutions and shareholder rights. We also provide advice in matters concerning the liability of corporate-body members.
Our services in the area of commercial disputes concern in particular transactional and post-transactional (post-M&A) disputes, in which we successfully represent our clients.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner | Head of M&A, Corporate and Commercial Practice
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
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The primary focus of our IP/IT/Advertising and Media Law Practice is to legally secure intellectual property which, in the changing reality, is inherent to each business.
We create legal frameworks for the online presence, including drafting legal documentation for electronic services such as apps, online portals and other new technology products.
Our experts support entities from the IT and new technologies sectors by:
We have extensive expertise in providing legal advice to the marketing and advertising industries, regarding in particular:
We prepare opinions on the conformity of concepts as well as marketing and advertising activities to law, with a particular focus put on projects related to sensitive products (alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceuticals).
Our team provides legal assistance to the media sector in the area of content publishing, especially digital content, through all communication channels (Internet, TV, radio).
In our practice, we represent clients in proceedings regarding:
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
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We provide comprehensive legal advice on criminal matters, tax offences and white collar crimes. We act for our clients as a defence counsel, counsel to an aggrieved party and auxiliary prosecutor. Our services span legal support in internal investigations through to devising internal regulations to limit the risk of violations. We provide day-to-day legal assistance to entities subject to the regulations on combating money laundering and terrorism financing; we carry out legal audits, design procedures and assess risk in light of domestic and EU legislation. The results that we deliver to our clients come from the combination of legal inputs from all our teams.
Our services include, in particular:
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Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
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We advise Polish and foreign clients on energy issues with a particular focus on renewables.
We provide legal services for investments in the energy infrastructure, including among others:
Our team conduct legal and tax due diligence checks for purposes of acquiring, or financing the acquisition of, and performing RES projects in Poland.
We assist energy companies with fulfilling their regulatory obligations (concessions, permits, registrations, disputes over grid connections, tariffs).
Our experience also includes legal advice on executing, amending and performing crucial agreements in the energy sector, including grid connection agreements, EPCs, BoP agreements, equipment supply agreements, O&M agreements, transmission and distribution agreements, and power purchase agreements (PPA, cPPA).
Moreover, we advise on extraordinary measures in the wake of an increase in energy, heat and gas prices.
Thanks to the legal inputs from our infrastructure, M&A, real estate and tax teams we can comprehensively support our clients in complex and multifaceted projects.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Energy and Renewables Practice
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05 . Team :
Our team consists of 75 lawyers with the highest qualifications. They are graduates of the best universities in Poland and abroad, and have gained experience in both domestic and international markets.
Their competence and practical knowledge allow the JDP law firm to cooperate on an on-going basis with reputable foreign law firms and advisory companies and to complete projects throughout Europe.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner | Head of M&A, Corporate and Commercial Practice
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Data Protection | Compliance Practice