COURT AND ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS

A court dispute between business entities rarely benefits anyone and usually is a consequence of a failure of negotiations or brutal actions on the part of one of the parties without any respect for the rights of the other party. We never advise our clients to sue their opponents before other ways of reaching an agreement have been exhausted, since the outcome of legal proceedings is always uncertain due to the fact that judges are only human. On the other hand, we must admit that we love complex court cases, which give professional lawyers a great opportunity to show off. Our team has been successful in lots of very difficult cases.

We act on behalf of our clients before civil courts, labour courts, administrative courts and courts of arbitration. We offer representation in criminal cases, as long as they are related to the business activities of our clients.

Major court cases conducted by our firm include:

Representing the parties in tens of proceedings for personal rights protection, a vast majority of which had a positive outcome
Representing the parties in a number of proceedings concerning intellectual property rights (copyrights or trademarks)
A legal dispute brought by an employee on a managerial position against a former employer for payment of more than PLN 200,000 based on a number of titles, which ended in complete success

Representing a pharmaceutical company in the proceedings conducted before the ICC court of arbitration in Paris
Representing a company’s shareholders in four parallel arbitration proceedings associated with a complex conflict between the shareholders

PRACTICE

COMPANIES LAW

A vast majority of our clients are companies. We support them in hundreds of cases, both relating to their development (establishment, capital increase, entry of new shareholders, restructuring) and to internal disputes.

MEDIA LAW

The media generate lots of legal problems, from administrative regulations through intellectual property law, personal rights protection, new technology law to the provision of services via electronic channels and personal data processing.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Protection of copyrights and related rights, trademarks, inventions and other industrial property rights is the foundation of knowledge-based economy. Whenever the law is used to support the implementation of new technology and innovative solutions, the youth of our legal team is of particular value.

COMPETITION LAW

There are two sides to competition law in our practice. The first one relates to forbidden agreements and market practices aimed at limiting competition. The second one concerns a ban on acts of unfair competition.

CONSUMER LAW

An entrepreneur must satisfy a range of specific requirements in the relations with consumers to avoid problems, sanctions or adverse publicity.

CONTRACTS LAW

In a well written contract, every word is in the right place and has been put there for a good reason and for a specific purpose. A badly written, inconsistent, ambiguous text, which omits significant issues, does not deserve to be called “a contract”.

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Providing legal services for such projects as the construction of a manufacturing facility, a residential building or a public road gives us special satisfaction as an opportunity to participate in building the real economy.

INTERNET LAW

We define the concept of “Internet law” as a set of issues directly associated with two main profiles of activities: obtaining and publishing content and selling goods and services.

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data) is a major problem for all businesses, in particular operating in the e-commerce sector and addressing their services mainly to consumers.

LABOUR LAW

Every company applies labour law, but not every one understands the risks resulting from ignoring this seemingly simple area.

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT LAW

Our firm works both with entrepreneurs seeking public contracts and with public sector entities awarding such contracts.