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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.
CASES WON
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02 .Our achievements:
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Legal 500 EMEA 2022
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Legal 500 EMEA 2022
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Legal 500 EMEA 2022
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Legal 500 EMEA 2022
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Chambers Europe 2022
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Chambers Europe 2021
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Chambers Europe 2021
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The Legal 500 EMEA 2020
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Chambers Europe 2020
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Legal 500 EMEA 2020
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Legal 500 EMEA 2020
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Legal 500 EMEA 2019
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.
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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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On the Polish legal market we are one of the leaders in providing legal advice to general contractors, subcontractors, investors and design companies implementing complex construction and infrastructure investments (roads, engineering, large-scale projects, power engineering, public utility facilities, sports facilities, industrial facilities). We have been advising our clients for over 15 years on the largest infrastructure and construction projects in Poland and representing parties in related court and arbitration disputes.
In The Legal 500, an international ranking of law firms, (for 2018, 2019 and 2020), 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.
Selected projects:
Road and bridge infrastructure:
Railway infrastructure:
Energy Infrastructure:
Industrial facilities / Large-scale infrastructure:
Water infrastructure:
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Managing Partner
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
We provide legal and tax advisory services to all participants in the real estate market, including owners and managers of facilities, using commercial and service, warehouse, production and office space, investment funds, developers, as well as banks financing real estate transactions. We provide clients with specialised legal and tax advice and solutions in relation to real estate transactions, including joint venture real estate projects. We provide legal and tax support to project owners and managers in the ongoing management of their property portfolio.
We are familiar with the needs and expectations of market participants in terms of:
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
We provide services to entities in the automotive sector by offering innovative solutions to legal and tax problems in all aspects of their operations. We advise both established vehicle manufacturers by supporting their sales activities, and suppliers and contractors in the automotive industry in a broad sense.
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Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
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
We support our clients in numerous projects in the field of intellectual property, R&D, information technology and modern technologies. We provide services both in the cases where IP/IT is only a part of a larger whole, and where intangible assets constitute the core of the project. We develop and implement comprehensive legal solutions that enable our clients to achieve their long-term goals. We look at projects from a broad perspective, regardless of the area affected by new technologies: robotics, medicine, mobile applications, to name but a few. Owing to our knowledge of the new technology market and our understanding of our clients’ business needs we are able to provide legal services on an individual basis.
In particular, we:
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
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
We know and understand the challenges of manufacturing and industry. We go hand in hand with the dynamics and diversity of these sectors by offering expert insights. For many years we have been advising leading members of the automotive sector on all aspects of their business. We are a trusted partner for the new technology industry, including robotics and industrial automation. We follow the principle of a comprehensive approach – we support our clients at the start of their activity by assisting at the laying of the foundation stone for the investment and we accompany them at the start-up of the first production line. We successfully support them in the construction of plants by advising on the purchase of land, participating in the selection of a general contractor, negotiations, as well as during the construction itself. We ensure the clients’ legal comfort in all areas: from real estate to construction law and contracts. We have experience in obtaining permits to conduct business in special economic zones. We draft contracts for entities at various levels of the supply chain. We provide legal security in crisis situations of missing and delayed deliveries, as well as in the case of deliveries of defective goods. We negotiate complex restructuring agreements.
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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
We provide legal advice on the acquisition of industrial robots, production lines, industrial machinery and production automation in general. We support entities interested in the acquisition in the selection of an appropriate contract model and its negotiation. When working for machinery manufacturers or distributors, we prepare contract templates and general terms and conditions, and negotiate exceptions proposed by contractors. Our advisory services in the field of civil and commercial law are complemented by the experience of our experts in financing (e.g. leasing contracts, special forms of securing contracts) and tax law (e.g. all kinds of investment incentives in the form of tax allowances). If it is not possible for the counterparties to reach an amicable agreement, we represent our clients in court disputes.
In particular, we:
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
We advise clients in the fast-growing micro and shared mobility sector, including multi-platform urban mobility providers in the field of taxis, carsharing as well as scooter and city bike operators. When working for these entities, we prepare and update contract templates as well as general terms and conditions of service. We also assist clients in day-to-day operations by drafting and reviewing agreements to market and implement new solutions in mobile applications for clients. Our advice on civil and commercial law is supported by the experience of our experts in the field of personal data protection, taxes, as well as financing (short-term lease, rental and leasing agreements).
In the field of urban mobility, we conduct active legal monitoring, reacting to new legal solutions that may affect the industry. We also support our clients in administrative proceedings and in building and maintaining relations with state and local government institutions.
In particular, we:
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Data Protection | Compliance Practice
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
As a law firm, we regularly advise our clients in Polish and cross-border transactions involving financial products. As part of our practice, we provide services to both financial and non-financial sector entities. We specialise in financing and refinancing transactions in which we advise (both banks and borrowers) on developing transaction structures, preparing the relevant documentation (including the establishment of collateral) and implementing the prerequisites for the disbursement of funds. We also advise entities offering financial products (especially leasing and loans) on preparing documentation templates (both for B2B and B2C trade). We have extensive experience in developing debt restructuring plans, including established security instruments.
In particular, we:
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
We provide consultancy services to companies in the transport industry, involved in both freight and passenger transport by any means – be it air, land or sea. Owing to our interdisciplinary experience, we have a good understanding of the needs and requirements of the industry. We are also able to provide expert services to our clients operating internationally with the help of our extensive network of contacts with foreign lawyers. We assist our clients in the conclusion of freight forwarding contracts, the acquisition of logistics centres, the financing of business development, as well as in matters relating to labour law and the acquisition of vehicles for use in their operations. We also successfully represent our clients in disputes concerning the performance of transport activities, as well as in disputes with counterparties.
In particular, we:
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel | Co-Head of German Desk
Guided by our concern for the environment, we support recycling companies and any other companies that are committed to conserving natural resources. We offer our services to companies engaged in traditional recycling (e.g. of tyres), as well as to companies focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (e.g. involved in the construction of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles – EV). Our interdisciplinary team successfully assists our clients in every sphere of their business in this industry. In particular, we support our clients in obtaining financing for their business development, securing their intellectual property rights and providing contractual advice on EPC investments.
In particular, we:
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
We are familiar with the specific nature of the fast moving consumer goods market and the needs of the market participants. We know how important in the FMCG market are responsiveness and simplicity in formulating and presenting legal content. After all, each of us expects an efficient warranty service for small appliances or a clear presentation of special offers in a marketing leaflet.
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Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
For many years we have been a trusted partner for businesses in the agri-food industry. We advise agricultural producer groups on regulatory and registration matters, as well as on day-to-day operations by providing legal support in projects involving the acquisition and sale of enterprises, individual assets, and organised parts of an enterprise. We carry out transactions of sale and purchase of agricultural real estate combined with comprehensive due diligence. We specialise in advisory services for entities selling fruit and vegetables. Our knowledge of the industry allows us to successfully handle legal processes related to the sale and disposal of agricultural and food products. We support clients in meeting their waste and packaging management obligations. Our client portfolio includes, among others, renowned producers of table apples, Chinese cabbage and asparagus.
In particular, we:
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel | Co-Head of German Desk
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
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He represents clients in proceedings before common courts, in particular complex infrastructure disputes across the railway, road, energy, and building sectors, including those based on FIDIC standards. He advises regarding contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, remuneration for additional and substitute works. He also provides day-to-day legal advice on the performance of infrastructure projects. Author of numerous publications on bill of exchange law and settlement of additional works.
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. He specialises in conducting court proceedings, in particular proceedings associated with corporate disputes, M&A transactions and cross-border trading. He has represented clients in proceedings regarding liability for breach of representations and warranties given with respect to the sale of enterprises and in complicated corporate disputes over validity of resolutions on election of management board members. He has also represented foreign investors in disputes arising from breach of a shareholders’ agreement. He specialises in asset tracing and recovery matters. He also has experience in providing transaction advice to foreign entities carrying out investment projects in Poland.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in transactions, mergers and acquisitions, including share deals, asset deals and joint ventures, including due diligence. She provides day-to-day corporate and contract advice to Polish and foreign companies with respect to civil and commercial law, corporate governance and compliance. She specialises in labour law, including issues regarding work establishment transfer, regulating an employment relationship with management board members, non-compete agreements and manager contracts. Her clients include companies from the automotive, production, commercial and real estate sectors.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He represents clients in court and arbitration disputes, a vast majority of which concerns large infrastructure and large-size construction projects or supply of high-tech machinery (e.g. claims relating to unjustified contractual penalties, unsubstantiated use of a guarantee by an investor, refusal to pay for additional works). His experience also includes representation in disputes heard by international arbitration courts (e.g. a dispute before the ICC concerning a project carried out for an Asian counterparty on the African continent), including as part of investment disputes (BIT). In some cases, the value of claims exceeds PLN 200 million. He excels at conducting trials based on promissory notes and in proceedings regarding declaration of enforceability of judgments of foreign courts, including arbitration courts. In 2016 laureate of the prestigious competition “Rising Stars Lawyers — leaders of tomorrow”.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He advises clients in proceedings before common courts, in particular regarding infrastructure disputes. He has gained his experience in top Polish construction companies performing complex infrastructure projects for public contracting authorities. He also provides day-to-day legal advice on the performance of construction projects, including in particular on negotiations regarding amendments to construction contracts, performance of substitute works and pursuing claims relating to additional works.
Associate
Public Procurement Team
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She supports clients in proceedings before the National Appeals Chamber and common courts in particular from the construction and infrastructure sectors. She provides day-to-day legal advice on public procurement law at the stage of the tender procedure and the contract performance. She also has experience in pursuing claims in litigation and in enforcement proceedings, and in providing advice on property law.
Associate in the Energy and Renewables team. He specialises in energy law, with a particular focus on RES investments.
He advises Polish and foreign entities from the energy sector on regulatory, contract and corporate matters. He also assists clients in proceedings before the Polish Energy Regulatory Office. His experience also includes legal advice on investment processes, including in particular obtaining
administrative permits (construction, environmental, localisation permits) required to construct renewable energy sources.
He coordinates and draws up numerous due diligence reports regarding the RES sector. He has also been involved in M&A transactions in the RES sector.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner | Head of M&A, Corporate and Commercial Practice
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Partner, Head of the Transaction (Corporate M&A) and Contract Counselling Team. Expert on corporate law, M&A transactions, and contract advice. He specialises in advising leading automotive, production, and new-tech companies. Marcin has supervised M&A transactions both on the buy and sell sides and has supported clients in forming complex joint ventures. His experience also includes cross-border transactions carried out in cooperation with international law firms. He provides strategic and contract advice to businesses from the new technology sector, and he advises clients on implementing Industry 4.0. Marcin supports businesses on entering the Polish market, through acquisition, forming joint ventures, or establishing an own structure in Poland, including on constructing production plants or creating services networks. His assistance on company law and M&A transactions includes providing strategic advice on corporate disputes and post-M&A matters, where he combines corporate practice with theory. Co-author of the commentary to the Commercial Companies Code for the publishing house C.H.Beck; member of the Editorial Board of Monitor Prawa Handlowego; has degrees in law and economics obtained in Poland and abroad.
Attorney-at-law, Partner who manages the Real Estate Team. For over ten years he has specialised in providing day-to-day and transactional legal advice to clients from the real estate, construction and automotive sectors. He handles transactions involving purchase, sale and lease of commercial properties. He also supports clients in financing and refinancing projects regarding investments in the real estate market. Moreover, he advises clients on joint ventures and restructuring of corporate groups, and antitrust questions.
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in personal data protection, copyright, industrial property rights and new technologies law. She provides comprehensive legal advice to Polish and foreign entities with respect to IT agreements, IP and data processing agreements, administrative proceedings before the Provincial Administrative Court, Polish Patent Office and EUIPO, compliance of data processing with legal provisions, combating unfair competition, and due diligences.
Radca prawny | Associate
Postępowania sądowe i arbitrażowe
Infrastruktura i budownictwo
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, and the Infrastructure Team. She advises clients on disputes related to constructure and infrastructure projects (including in particular real estate development and road projects).
She specialises in civil and commercial disputes before common and arbitration courts, including in particular with respect to infrastructure disputes. Her experience also includes advice on administrative law to entities from the construction and real estate sectors, procedures to regulate the legal status of real estate, and real estate due diligence. Her interests also include planning and zoning as well as real estate management.
Tax adviser with over twenty years of practice. Expert on Polish and international tax law. She provides services to businesses operating in the construction, leasing, automotive and investment sectors. She has extensive experience in taxation of investment processes, real estate deals, leasing agreements, business financing agreements, as well as intra-group settlements and transfer pricing documentation.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in civil and commercial cases, in particular construction and infrastructure disputes. She has extensive experience in handling disputes between shopping centres and lessees, especially those based on the rebus sic stantibus clause. Her experience also includes rendering legal services to creditors in bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings regarding their contractors. She provides day-to-day legal advice on court proceedings as well as infrastructure and construction projects.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Managing Partner
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Partner heading the 40-person Litigation and Arbitration Team and the Infrastructure Team. For over 20 years he has been representing Polish and foreign entities in complex court and arbitration proceedings, regarding in particular construction and infrastructure projects. He also advises and represents companies from the automotive and real estate industries, manufacturers, technology suppliers as well as financial institutions. Ranked as “Leading Individual” in Poland in “Construction/Construction Disputes” by the international ranking The LEGAL 500 (2018 – 2023). He also advises leading contractors and private investors on execution of complex infrastructure and industrial projects.
He has served multiple times as an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitration proceedings (ICC, Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, National Chamber of Commerce – KIG, Court of Arbitration Lewiatan). Professor in Civil Law, Head of the Civil Law Department at Kozminski University in Warsaw. He has authored over 100 publications in the field of civil law, commercial law and arbitration, member of the Board of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, member of ICC Poland, member of Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, member of the Polish Arbitration Association, chairman of the Expert Group on Law and Legislation of the Polish Association of Construction Employers, member of the Public Procurement Council.
(Experience as an arbitrator)
Author of over 90 publications on civil and commercial law and arbitration, including System Prawa Prywatnego [Private Law System], vol. 5, 6 and 7 (Prawo zobowiązań – część ogólna, Prawo zobowiązań – część szczegółowa [Obligations law – general part, Obligations law – specific part] C.H. Beck, 2006–2020); co-author together with judges of the Supreme Court of a commentary to the Civil Code (Kodeks cywilny. Komentarz. Zobowiązania – część szczegółowa [Civil Code. Commentary. Obligations – specific part]), J. Gudowski (ed.), Wolters Kluwer, 2013–2017); author of monographs “Umowy odnoszące się do osób trzecich” [Contracts relating to third parties] (C.H. Beck, Warsaw 2016); “Prowadzenie cudzych spraw bez zlecenia” [Negotiorum gestio] (C.H. Beck, Warsaw 2010), “Przejęcie długu, przejęcie praw i obowiązków z umowy” [Take-over of debt and rights and obligations under an agreemen] (C.H. Beck, Warsaw 2016)
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Energy and Renewables Practice
Energy and Renewables Team
Attorney-at-law, head of Energy / Renewables, with over twenty years of experience in advising Polish and foreign companies on, among others, crucial domestic investment projects regarding (conventional) energy sources and energy infrastructure.
He specialises in energy law with a focus on renewable energy. Michał advises clients on renewables development and acquisition projects, including in particular due diligence checks in M&A transactions and RES financing, primarily in the PV sector. He supports clients in regulatory issues, key aspects of energy agreements, including connection agreements, component supply agreements, construction contracts, O&M agreements, and long-term power purchase agreements between producers of energy and corporate recipients (PPA, cPPA).
Before joining JDP, he gained experience in global law firms, being in charge of the national energy practice in one of them. Michał has been regularly recognised in international legal rankings (Chambers & Partners, Who’s Who Legal, IFLR 1000, Legal 500). In 2020, he was granted the Lexology’s Client’s Choice award.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law with the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He has many years of experience in litigating cases connected with infrastructure investments (road building, including cases based on FIDIC standards) and advice on broadly understood real estate sector. He has provided advice, among others, to general contractors at the contract implementation stage and in disputes associated with important infrastructure investments. He has also supported investment funds in the process of asset purchase and management. He has represented clients in litigation and arbitration, among others within the scope of contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, fees for additional and substitute works.
Associate | Senior Client Relationship Manager
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in M&A transactions, and corporate, commercial and contractual law. She advises, in particular, German-speaking clients. She has supported clients in restructuring of corporate groups belonging to international holdings. She advises entities from the production and automotive sectors on drafting general terms and conditions of agreements as well as delivery agreements.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Public Procurement Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in domestic and cross-border proceedings conducted before common and arbitration courts. He has experience in legal advice for the construction and railway sectors, as well as advice within the scope of public procurement and corporate law.
Associate in the Tax Team. He has extensive experience in supporting clients in disputes with tax authorities, related to tax and custom-fiscal inspections as well as tax and court-administrative proceedings.
He also provides advice on M&A transactions and company restructuring.
In addition to tax advice, he also holds seminars on tax matters for companies, financial institutions, manufacturers and local government units. Author of academic publications; lecturer at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce.
Scholarship within the Santander Universidades programme for social involvement, initiatives for the university and special academic and non-academic achievements.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Public Procurement Team
Attorney-at-law in the Public Procurement Team, the Litigation and Arbitration Team, and the Infrastructure Team. He provides comprehensive advice to Polish and foreign entities in the construction, road, transport and energy sectors, including in particular projects performed in the public procurement process and in the PPP formula. He advises both at the bidding and the performance stages. He has supported his clients in the largest infrastructure projects in Poland and in unique European infrastructure projects. He has also supported contractors in international tenders for projects within the NATO SECURITY INVESTEMENT PROGRAMME (NSIP) conducted on the basis of NATO directives.
Public procurement:
Legal advice to contractors on international tenders for projects within the NATO SECURITY PROGRAMME (NSIP) conducted on the basis of NATO directives.
Public-private partnerships:
Representation of contractors and contracting authorities in numerous proceedings before the National Appeal Chamber and Regional Courts:
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in legal advice on infrastructure projects (including road and railway infrastructure) executed based on FIDIC standards, including in a “turnkey” formula. He has represented investors and general contractors in numerous court and arbitration proceedings conducted, among other things, based on the arbitration rules of ICC and the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team, in the Corporate and commercial disputes specialisation. He specialises in white collar crimes, including proceedings concerning alleged regulated market abuse (also in light of the Market Abuse Regulation), criminal fiscal proceedings and matters regarding administrative fines imposed on entrepreneurs. He represents clients as a defence counsel and an auxiliary prosecutor attorney.
He devises and audits internal regulations intended to mitigate entrepreneurs’ liability under the AML, whistleblowing, criminal compliance provisions.
Lecturer on white collar crimes and AML at the postgraduate studies at the Jagiellonian University. His publications could be read in Parkiet, Doradca Restrukturyzacyjny, Czasopismo Prawa Karnego i Nauk Penalnych, Przegląd Sądowy, Monitor Prawniczy, and others. Co-author of the Commentary to the act on counteracting money laundering and terrorist financing published by C.H. Beck (2021).
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Real Estate Team
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in providing day-to-day legal advice to companies, including corporate advice. She also provides contractual advice and advice in the field of commercial law. She has been involved in transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. She supports clients from the automotive, production, commercial and real estate sectors. She has gained experience in the fuel industry while advising on issues regarding energy law: procedures conducted by the Energy Regulatory Authority, concession procedures; civil law: dealer, franchising, lease and sales agreements; intellectual property law and labour law.
Associate in the Real Estate Team. His core area of expertise includes real estate law, renewables and company law. He supports clients at all transaction stages regarding real estate acquisition (including asset deals and share deals), lease agreements (offices, warehouses, BTS) and negotiations. In his practice, he also conducts due diligence checks of real estate and prepares comprehensive transactional documentation. Moreover, he advises with respect to all real estate aspects regarding construction law, agricultural property purchase and sale, zoning and RES projects. He represents clients before administrative authorities and courts in cases related to real estate.
Senior Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He provides legal advice on civil, administrative, commercial, corporate and economic law. In addition to drawing up court pleadings and representing clients before courts, his experience also includes supervising contracts (also those based on FIDIC standards) in terms of formal issues, including contracts performed by international entities. He also negotiates contracts, draws up opinions and assesses risks.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in domestic and cross-border proceedings before common and arbitral courts, in particular with respect to infrastructure projects, including projects based on FIDIC standards, claim management. He supports the Litigation Team in proceedings regarding increase or payment of remuneration increased due to a production costs spike, based on the rebus sic stantibus clause. He also has experience in handling disputes regarding contractual penalties for withdrawal from a construction contract, delay in payment of remuneration for additional and substitute works, use or defence against use of a guarantee, withdrawal or defence against withdrawal from a contract, contract settlement between consortium members. He provides day-to-day legal advice on court proceedings, public procurement and real estate law.
Expert in guiding large companies through changes in tax regulations. He gained experience in the largest international consulting companies. He specialises in tax processes and procedures and has extensive experience in developing and managing tax matters and risks in large global corporate groups. He has been involved in many projects related to business development (e.g. switching to the franchise model) and growth (e.g. expansion to foreign markets). Michał also advises with respect to tax reliefs and exemptions.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in commercial and corporate law, contract law and AML/CTF compliance. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, including share deals and asset deals. She also conducts and coordinates due diligence reviews. Moreover, her experience includes advising on projects across various sectors, including IT, RES and FMCG sectors. She ongoingly supports Polish and foreign clients on corporate issues, including corporate restructuring and corporate governance. She assists Italian-speaking clients with company law matters, however not only, as her experience also includes, among other things, cross-border inheritance proceedings.
She specialises in acquisition (share deal and asset deal), financing and sale of real estate, including joint venture transactions. She conducts due diligence of real estate and prepares comprehensive transactional documentation. She supports clients in reviewing the legal and actual status of real estate, lease agreements for office, warehouse and commercial premises, as well as administrative decisions issued in the investment process.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Rechtsanwalt | Of Counsel
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law, Of counsel. A long-established expert on corporate law, M&As, commercial law, joint ventures, cartel law, as well as project development and financing. As part of the M&A practice, he advises Polish and international concerns on complex transactions, including cross-border M&As and joint venture agreements, e.g. to a German owner on the restructuring and subsequent sale of more than 210 discount stores, or to a German concern in connection with the construction of a facility producing offshore wind farm foundations in respect of the structure (SPV) and terms of cooperation with Polish partners, and the subsequent sale of its shares in the joint venture. He has also supervised corporate restructuring processes in a number of enterprises representing various sectors of the economy.
Author of publications in Polish and German on commercial law and cartel law, with subjects including: the exercise of voting rights from ownership interests/shares, contesting resolutions of meetings of shareholders/partners, representing limited liability companies in agreements with management board members, reporting and confidentiality obligations during due diligence reviews, manager buyouts (MBO) in joint-stock companies, and cross-border mergers. Author and editor of the Commentary on the Commercial Companies Code, C.H.Beck (3rd. ed. 2020) and Beck-online.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel | Co-Head of German Desk
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in commercial and corporate law, compliance, and contract law. She provides day-to-day advice to entities with German and Swiss capital, including in particular drafting and negotiating contracts, such as complex contracts on distribution, supplies, and implementation of technological lines. She supports clients in the contract performance, also in crisis situations where a party does not perform a contract or performs it improperly. Her clients include international production and retail chains. She also has experience in helping foreign investors enter the Polish market, including obtaining permits for operating in Special Economic Zones. Her advice is focused on the client’s business needs and ensuring the highest level of legal security. She successfully represents clients in disputes regarding the contract performance.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She represents clients in complex disputes regarding infrastructure investment projects: railway and roads infrastructure, power engineering, large-scale facilities, including disputes associated with contracts based on FIDIC standards. She has represented clients in cases heard by international and Polish arbitration courts (proceedings conducted pursuant to regulations of ICC, SCC, SAKiG). She provides day-to-day advice on the performance of infrastructure projects. Author of publications in the field of arbitration, among other things; co-author of the Commentary to the Rules of the Court of Arbitration Lewiatan.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She provides legal advice to contractors and subcontractors, and ongoing support in court proceedings, in particular with respect to infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, and remuneration for additional and substitute works. Her professional interests also include copyright matters.
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. He specialises in court proceedings, including in particular corporate disputes. His experience includes i.a. support in proceedings regarding complex corporate disputes over validity of resolutions on election of corporate bodies’ members and determination of the shareholding structure in companies.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in advising top construction companies on the performance of infrastructure projects, with particular focus on legal advice to general contractors, investors, subcontractors and designers. He represents clients in court proceedings regarding in particular abuse of a performance bond and contractual penalties for late payment of remuneration for additional and substitute works. In his career, he has also advised clients from the recruitment, finance and production sectors.
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She advises on M&A transactions (including share deals, asset deals and joint ventures). She carries out and coordinates due diligence checks. Her experience includes day-to-day corporate advice to Polish and foreign entities, with a particular focus on carrying out reorganisation processes (mergers, transformation, division), devising and implementing corporate governance mechanisms, and handling capital changes in companies. Moreover, she advises clients on creating and negotiating commercial agreements.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Litigation and Arbitration
Infrastructure and Construction Industry
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He represents clients in proceedings before common and arbitration courts, in particular in complex infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC standards. He has extensive experience in advising clients on complicated civil and commercial disputes before common courts, mediation proceedings and settlement negotiations. He represents both private and state-owned entities in disputes regarding infrastructure projects, real estate, and contractual and tort liability. Author of publications on civil proceedings.
Associate in the Public Procurement Team, the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He provides legal advice at each stage of contract award procedures, with particular focus on construction and infrastructure projects. His legal services concentrate on providing day-to-day legal advice, in particular at the stage of the contract performance. He also supports clients in appeal proceedings before the National Appeal Chamber and common courts.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in litigation before common courts, including in particular infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual penalties and remuneration for additional and substitute works. She provides legal advice to companies from the construction and infrastructure sectors.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in court proceedings, in particular infrastructure disputes, among others based on FIDIC standards. He has experience in advising companies from the construction and railway sectors, and providing legal support on public procurement matters and disputes over contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, remuneration for additional and substitute works, using or defending against using bank and insurance guarantees, withdrawing or defending against withdrawing from a contract, settling a contract in connection with the contract withdrawal. In JDP he provides legal support in court proceedings and infrastructure and construction projects.
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. Before joining JDP, she worked in a Polish branch of a European law firm chain. Her experience includes, among other things, M&A transactions and financing of assets (e.g. leasing of shopping centres and warehouse facilities) and real estate, including due diligences. She also supports clients in corporate matters by providing day-to-day legal assistance to companies.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Infrastructure and Construction Industry
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in court and arbitration proceedings, in particular regarding construction and infrastructure projects (primarily for the energy, road and tram sections) and production. She assists clients in developing strategies to resolve disputes amicably, including in negotiating settlement agreements; she also advises on post-arbitration and enforcement proceedings. Her extensive experience includes day-to-day legal advice on contract performance, including infrastructure projects and contracts awarded in the public procurement regime. Her clients include both investors and contractors. She effectively handles criminal proceedings and advises clients on managing crisis situations.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Of Counsel
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in civil law and administrative law. Author of over 70 scientific publications in the field of civil law (general part, property law, law of obligations) and public law. His publications on civil law deal with such issues as liability for the so called indirect damage, rebus sic stantibus clause, obligations denominated in foreign currencies, construction contracts and cooperative law. Co-author of the Commentary to the Civil Code edited by Konrad Osajda (Legalis – electronic edition, C.H. Beck – 2013 and 2017 printed editions), commentary to the act on repayment of certain outstanding amounts owed to companies resulting from performance of public contracts (Wolters Kluwer – Lex 2012 electronic edition, C.H. Beck – 2013 printed edition). Author of the commentary to the act of 21 June 1990 on return of benefits groundlessly gained to the detriment of the State Treasury or other state-owned legal persons (C.H. Beck – Legalis 2018, ed. K. Osajda).
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team, admitted to the Warsaw Bar Association. Before joining JDP he worked for 6 years in one of the Big Four companies in Warsaw, he also practiced in local law firms in Cracow and New York. He has participated in numerous restructuring projects including mergers, de-mergers, transformations and cross-border reorganisation of entities across different business sectors. He has also been involved in several M&A transactions, including share deals, asset deals and joint ventures, as well as participated in numerous legal due diligence processes. He provides day-to-day corporate and commercial assistance including in particular corporate governance, repatriation of cash to shareholders, creating and changing shareholding structures, as well as commercial contracts.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in proceedings before common courts, in particular in infrastructure disputes, among others based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, remuneration for additional and substitute works. Moreover, she provides legal services regarding court proceedings and legal advice on infrastructure and construction projects.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. He has extensive experience in providing legal advice to and representing Polish and foreign top companies in civil, commercial and corporate disputes. He has successfully supported and represented clients in numerous proceedings before Polish common courts and international arbitral tribunals. His experience also includes providing legal advice on damages. He represents entities from the banking, private equity, infrastructure and energy sectors.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in legal advice on the execution of complex construction projects concerning, among others, road and railway infrastructure (executed based on FIDIC standards) as well as communication and energy infrastructure. He also advises on the execution of large-scale projects (including execution of public utility facilities). He represents clients in litigation and arbitration with respect to, among others, contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, remuneration for additional and substitute works as well as indirect costs (overheads and construction general costs) in the extended time for completion. He advises participants of the construction process (general contractors, subcontractors, designers and investors) on mutual relationships, participates in negotiations concerning amendments to contracts, settlement of construction works (also after withdrawal from a construction contract), acceptances and claim adjustment procedures concerning construction and other damage. He represents clients in criminal proceedings regarding construction projects.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Data Protection | Compliance Practice
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law with the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in personal data protection. She advises clients on compliance of business processes with data protection regulations, GDPR implementation, post-implementation audits; she also performs duties of a data protection officer. For several years she has been providing legal advice on data protection to companies and other entities processing personal data, also being an information security administrator (currently data protection officer).
Member of the Committee for Data Protection at the Polish Chamber of Commerce; in the years 2016–2018 member of the Expert Committee for reforming data protection regulations in the European Union at the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data. She gives lectures on legal issues at a university; author of publications on data protection in specialist quarterly “ABI EXPERT”.
She is a certified auditor of internal quality management systems pursuant to ISO 9001:2000 standard and a lead auditor of information security management systems pursuant to ISO 27001 standard.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Head of Public Procurement Practice
Public Procurement Team
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. Head of the Public Procurement Practice. He provides comprehensive legal advice to contracting authorities and contractors. He has also participated in proceedings before the National Appeals Chamber and the regional court. He specialises in contract law, infrastructure projects and law of the European Union. Author of publications in the field of public procurement and Community funds. Member of the Public Procurement Law Association. Lecturer at the post-graduate studies in the field of public procurement. He has gained experience in working at an institution supervising projects co-financed from EU funds, including as the head of the public procurement auditing division.
He provides day-to-day advice on largest infrastructure projects in Poland. Examples include:
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Consumer law
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in legal advice in the field of new technologies law, intellectual property law, and contract law. She advises companies from the IT, medtech, automotive, and financial services sectors. Her experience also includes comprehensive advice to Polish and foreign companies on M&A transactions requiring a due diligence at the buy and sell sides.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Counsel
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in legal advice on construction projects, including in particular road, railway, energy and industrial projects. He supports clients in the negotiation, performance and settlement of construction contracts in Poland and abroad, including contracts based on FIDIC standards (claim management). He represents clients in numerous proceedings regarding increase and payment of remuneration increased due to an unexpected change in circumstances of contract performance, including increase in production costs, on the basis of the rebus sic stantibus clause. He has extensive experience in handling disputes regarding payment of remuneration for additional or substitute works, pursuing or defending against contractual penalties for non-performance or improper performance of a contract, using or defending against use of a guarantee/security deposit, withdrawing or defending against withdrawal from a contract, contract settlement between consortium members. He also handles cases regarding, i.e. disputes over lease agreements, combating unfair competition, proceedings before market regulatory authorities as well as restructuring of companies.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction (Corporate M&A) Team. She advises Polish and foreign companies with respect to M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, corporate governance and business development in Poland. She gained her experience in international law firms and in UniCredit AG in Munich where she advised on public companies bonds, government bonds and bonds of financial entities.
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in court proceedings, including in particular complex corporate disputes over the validity of resolutions of corporate bodies and the determination of the shareholding structure.
For the past three years, she has also been handling civil and commercial proceedings regarding large infrastructure projects in Poland concerning primarily contractual penalties, withdrawal from construction contracts and remuneration for additional and substitute works. She also advises entities from the construction, infrastructure and real estate sectors.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Head of Employment Practice | Counsel
Transaction and Contract Counselling Team
Attorney-at-law in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team, head of the Employment Practice. She advises employers on individual and collective labour law issues, day-to-day employee matters and crisis situations; she develops effective remuneration and incentive systems, participates in complex procedures of employment restructuring and layoffs, and advises in connection with transferring the entire or part of a work establishment. She also represents employers in the proceedings before employment tribunals, if a settlement is not possible. She is an author of a number of scientific publications on civil law and popular science publications in the field of labour law.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He supports clients in disputes regarding construction and infrastructure investment projects (in particular from the road, railway and energy sectors). He also has experience in the field of the industrial and intellectual property law. His academic interests include mainly the public banking law, and as a hobby he studies rhetoric and legal argumentation.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in proceedings before common courts, in particular disputes regarding infrastructure projects. She provides day-to-day legal advice on litigation and the performance of infrastructure and construction projects.
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team and the Employment Practice. She specialises in legal advice to business entities, including corporate advice to companies. She provides day-to-day advice on employment, company and commercial law, contract law and mergers and acquisitions. She has participated in M&A projects, including due diligences. Her experience in the field of employment includes day-to-day advice on individual and collective labour law matters and employment of foreign workers.
Associate in the Transaction and Contract Counselling Team. She specialises in intellectual property law, new technologies law and personal data protection. She also has experience in M&A transactions, including legal due diligences. She advises Polish and foreign companies from the pharmaceutical, FMCG, IT, automotive and other sectors. She is also involved in pro bono legal advice.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She represents clients in proceedings before common courts and arbitral tribunals, including in particular in infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC standards. She supports entities from the construction and infrastructure sectors. Her extensive experience includes drafting contracts for the construction industry, including construction, supervision, management and maintenance contracts.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in proceedings before common courts, in particular in infrastructure disputes, also based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, remuneration for additional and substitute works. Moreover, she provides legal services regarding court proceedings and legal advice on infrastructure and construction projects.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in domestic proceedings before common courts with particular focus on infrastructure disputes, including cases based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual and judicial indexation, remuneration for additional and substitute works, and contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts and for delay. She has experience in providing day-to-day contractual advice and legal advice on construction and infrastructure disputes before common courts.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in court proceedings, in particular in infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC standards and regarding remuneration for additional and substitute works. Moreover, he provides legal services regarding court proceedings and legal advice on infrastructure and construction projects.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Partner
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law, Partner in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He is an expert in handling complex and multifaceted court and arbitration proceedings, including in particular construction and infrastructure projects, i.a. expressways, railways, sports facilities, logistics centres and shopping centres. He has successfully represented clients before common courts, the Supreme Court and arbitration courts (ICC, National Chamber of Commerce, Court of Arbitration Lewiatan). He advises contractors, subcontractors and private investors on performance of construction projects. He has conducted many complex proceedings, e.g. court disputes concluded in 2019 with settlements with PKP PLK S.A.; under the settlements the general contractor revitalising railway sections obtained over 40 million zloty.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Senior Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She represents clients in proceedings before common courts, regarding in particular infrastructure disputes, including cases based on FIDIC standards, with respect to contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts and for delay and remuneration for additional and substitute works. She has represented clients before common and arbitration courts in civil, criminal and commercial (including in particular corporate disputes) proceedings. She also has experience in advising businesses in compliance procedures.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in proceedings before common courts, in particular in the field of infrastructure disputes, including cases based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual penalties and remuneration for additional and substitute works. She provides advice in court proceedings and on the performance of infrastructure and construction projects.
Radca prawny (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration
Infrastructure and Construction Industry
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in providing legal advice on the performance of construction and infrastructure projects, and representing entities (especially investors and general contractors) in court proceedings. Her experience also includes providing legal advice to entities from the real estate, energy, and e-commerce sectors, and carrying out due diligence checks of real estate.
Attorney-at-law in the Real Estate Team. Expert in legal advice on the real estate trading, including joint ventures, financing transactions, lease agreements, construction law, administrative law and reprivatisation proceedings. He advises foreign and domestic entities in preparing and carrying out all stages of real estate transactions, from planning to preparing necessary documentation, negotiations with contracting parties to signing documents and potential further actions. He provides legal advice with respect to day-to-day portfolio management and restructuring and indebtedness of corporate groups, on the side of both borrowers and lenders. He advises clients mainly from the real estate industry but he also supports entities from other sectors, such as the production or automotive sectors, on real estate matters.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in substantive and procedural civil law. He advises clients on domestic and cross-border proceedings before common courts and arbitration courts. He also draws up legal opinions and participates in settlement negotiations. His experience also includes legal advice to the construction industry (FIDIC), including bankruptcy and restructuring matters.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in court proceedings, in particular in infrastructure disputes, among others based on FIDIC standards, with respect to contractual penalties, remuneration for additional and substitute works, and costs of contract performance in an extended time for completion. She also provides legal services regarding court proceedings, infrastructure and construction projects, and bankruptcy and restructuring procedures.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Attorney-at-law in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in disputes in civil cases, regarding in particular infrastructure projects (contractual penalties for the withdrawal from a construction contract or for delay, and remuneration for additional and substitute works), banking transactions (loans, bank guarantees), and criminal cases, regarding in particular frauds, forging documents and promissory notes, and abuse of powers in managing company’s affairs.
Her experience includes representing clients from the construction, banking and fuel sectors before common courts, arbitration courts and law enforcement authorities.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in civil and commercial proceedings, in particular infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, and remuneration for additional and substitute works. She also provides legal advice for companies from the construction and infrastructure sectors. She has experience in handling proceedings regarding liability for damages, including with respect to infrastructure projects, and company law.
Adwokat (Attorney-at-law) | Associate
Litigation and Arbitration Team
Infrastructure Team
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in civil and commercial litigation before common courts, including in particular infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual penalties for withdrawal from construction contracts, contractual penalties for delays, remuneration for additional and substitute works. She provides legal advice to companies from the construction and infrastructure sectors.
Head of the Tax Team. Tax adviser with over twenty years of experience, including in Big Four companies. Expert on Polish and international tax law, including restructuring, mergers and acquisitions of enterprises, tax proceedings for both Polish and foreign entities. She advises Polish and foreign clients, including French-speaking entities, from key sectors of the economy (energy sector, trade, real estate, FMCG). Author of numerous Polish and foreign publications. Editor of the commentary to the OECD model convention on double taxation.
Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team, the Infrastructure Team. She specialises in proceedings before common courts, in particular in the field of infrastructure disputes, including cases based on FIDIC standards, regarding contractual penalties and remuneration for additional and substitute works. She provides advice in court proceedings and on the performance of infrastructure and construction projects.
