Corporate and commercial disputes

1. Corporate disputes – examples of past projects:

• Successful fending off of attempted company hijacking – attempt to enter a company in the business register by persons purporting to be officers of the company, including representation in a case brought by the company where persons purporting to be officers of the company or shareholders attempted to accede to the proceedings;
• Representation of a company in injunction proceedings regarding claims related to challenging resolutions of the company’s corporate bodies;
• Representation of a company in court proceedings where persons purporting to be shareholders sought to establish existence of a corporate relationship between themselves and the company;
• Representation of a company in court proceedings where third parties sought to establish that a legal transaction that they executed with persons with no authorisation to represent the company was valid and effective;
• Representation of a company where a person purporting to be a shareholder sought to establish in court the wording of the company’s articles of association, claiming that an alleged “general meeting” amended its articles of association by granting personal rights to the individual concerned;
• Successfully preventing an attempt to use security in the hijacking of a company, to allow the security beneficiary to gain control over the company;
• Defending a company in several registry proceedings against third parties’ attempts to obstruct and prevent proceedings in a corporate dispute;
• Obtaining a final judgment, the first to be issued in Poland, ordering redress of ‘stock exchange loss’;
• Representation of foreign investors in the construction industry in complex post-transactional litigation concerning breach of representations and warranties by parties selling a business enterprise;
• Successful representation of a foreign client in a dispute with former shareholders regarding remuneration for advisory services during the post-transactional integration step;
• Legal advice leading to conclusion of a maintenance agreement between a dealer and a distributor of a top global automobile brand;
• Legal advice and representation of shareholders in a multifaceted and multipartite corporate litigation regarding resolutions revoking acknowledgement of proper performance of duties and consenting to the pursuit of the company’s claims;
• Successful representation of a real estate developer’s shareholders in a complicated and lengthy corporate dispute regarding the validity of resolutions appointing management board members;
• Advising a young inventor being a minority shareholder in a 3D printing company in proceedings regarding the protection of his rights.