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Areas of practice

Practice areas

The practice of the Law Office covers tax, commercial, civil, corporate and financial matters, as well as white-collar and fiscal criminal matters. Support includes ongoing legal advice and representation in audits, disputes, and proceedings before authorities and courts.

Support in matters where the assessment of tax consequences, the position presented to the tax authority or the risk of fiscal criminal liability is decisive — from ongoing analysis and written submissions to representation in tax audits, tax proceedings and proceedings before administrative courts, as well as defence in fiscal criminal matters.

Example situations

  • the need to assess the tax consequences of a planned action, transaction or settlement model;
  • preparing a tax position or an application for an individual tax ruling;
  • a challenge to the tax treatment adopted, the right to deduct VAT or the classification of a transaction for tax purposes;
  • an announced or commenced tax or customs-fiscal audit;
  • the risk of fiscal criminal liability of a board member, business owner or person responsible for settlements;
  • the need to take a position after receiving a summons, notice or other letter in a tax or fiscal criminal matter.

Scope of support

  • assessing the tax consequences of planned actions, transactions or settlement models;
  • preparing tax positions, explanations, applications for individual tax rulings, appeals and complaints;
  • representation in tax and customs-fiscal audits, tax proceedings and before administrative courts;
  • defence in fiscal criminal matters and participation in questioning, hearings and other procedural steps;
  • assessing tax and fiscal criminal risk on the part of the business, board members or persons responsible for settlements.

Ongoing and ad hoc legal support for businesses in matters relating to agreements, corporate documents, resolutions and the legal consequences of actions taken in the course of business operations.

Example situations

  • preparing, reviewing or negotiating agreements;
  • the need to prepare resolutions or corporate documents relating to changes in a company’s structure, bodies or representation rules;
  • the need to assess the legal consequences before concluding, amending or terminating an agreement or taking corporate action;
  • the need to organise ongoing legal support for a business or a company’s corporate matters.

Scope of support

  • preparing, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements;
  • preparing resolutions and corporate documents;
  • assessing the legal consequences of planned actions, resolutions and decisions of a company’s bodies;
  • ongoing legal support in running a business, including the corporate matters of companies.

Support in matters involving banking law, financial law and capital markets — including the analysis of banking, brokerage, investment and transaction documentation, matters relating to financial products and instruments, and representation in disputes with financial institutions.

Example situations

  • a dispute with a bank, brokerage house, fund or other financial institution;
  • the need to analyse banking, brokerage, investment or transaction documentation;
  • a matter relating to a financial product, a financial instrument, exchange trading or a regulated market;
  • correspondence, an inspection or proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF).

Scope of support

  • analysis of contracts, terms and conditions, and banking, brokerage, investment and transaction documentation;
  • preparing positions in matters concerning banks, brokerage houses, funds, issuers or other financial institutions;
  • support in matters relating to financial instruments, exchange trading, regulated markets and proceedings before the KNF;
  • representation in disputes with banks, brokerage houses and other financial institutions.

Representation in civil and commercial matters concerning the performance of contracts, settlements between the parties, damages and claims between businesses — including an assessment of litigation risk and possible dispute scenarios.

Example situations

  • a dispute over remuneration, commission payment or a final settlement after the performance of a contract;
  • a dispute concerning the quality, scope or timeliness of services, deliveries or works performed;
  • a challenge to a set-off, a contractual penalty, the withholding of part of the remuneration or a deposit;
  • withdrawal from a contract, termination of a contract or a dispute over the consequences of ending the cooperation;
  • pursuing or defending against claims for damages.

Scope of support

  • preparing pre-litigation correspondence, statements of claim, responses to a statement of claim and further procedural documents;
  • assessing the possible scenarios, costs and risks of a dispute;
  • analysis of the other party’s position and the evidence;
  • representation before the courts and participation in mediation and settlement negotiations.

Support in criminal matters relating to business activity, transaction documentation, settlements between entities and decisions made by persons responsible for the business.

Example situations

  • a criminal matter concerning commercial activity, the documentation of transactions, the disposal of a company’s assets or actions taken in relation to counterparties or creditors;
  • the need to file a notice of a suspected business-related offence or to act in the proceedings as an injured party;
  • a business owner, board member or another person connected with the business is summoned for questioning in a white-collar criminal matter;
  • criminal proceedings connected with running a business after charges have been brought, an indictment has been filed with the court, or at the trial stage.

Scope of support

  • defence of suspects and defendants in pre-trial and court proceedings;
  • representation of injured parties, including businesses, and subsidiary prosecutors taking part in criminal proceedings;
  • participation in questioning, hearings and trials;
  • preparing notices, evidentiary motions, complaints and other procedural documents;
  • developing a line of defence or a course of action appropriate to the client’s procedural role.

Support in matters where the actions, omissions or decisions of board members, shareholders or commercial proxies may lead to personal liability, liability to the company, tax risk or an internal corporate dispute.

Example situations

  • a dispute concerning the liability of a board member or commercial proxy for a company’s obligations, tax or social-security arrears;
  • the liability of a board member, commercial proxy or person acting on behalf of the company for damage caused to the company;
  • a dispute between shareholders concerning the further conduct of the company’s affairs, the exercise of a shareholder’s rights or the way decisions are made;
  • a dispute concerning the validity of resolutions, the rules of representation, corporate documents or consents required within the company.

Scope of support

  • analysis of the grounds for liability of board members, shareholders, commercial proxies and persons acting on behalf of the company;
  • assessing the risk of personal liability — civil, corporate, tax and, where the circumstances require it, fiscal criminal;
  • preparing legal positions, responses, pre-litigation demands, draft resolutions and procedural documents in matters of liability or corporate disputes;
  • representation in disputes between shareholders and in matters concerning liability towards the company, creditors, the tax authority or the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS).

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