Specializations

Documents of financial institutions:

• development and verification of standard model contracts, regulations and other procedures for consumers and institutional customers;
• advice on minimizing the legal risks associated with the potential violation of provisions of consumer law within the implementation of new financial products;

Outsourcing contracts:

• development of outsourcing contracts and their verification for compliance with the requirements of the law;

Corporate law:

• corporate business services (establishing companies, general meetings and shareholders meetings service, changes in company bodies, transformations, etc.);
• appealing against shareholders’ meetings resolutions and general meetings’ resolutions;
• advice on and conducting court proceedings relating to the liability of the board members of limited liability companies towards the company’s creditors;
• advice on and conducting court proceedings relating to disputes between shareholders of companies;
• advice on and conducting court proceedings relating to disputes on companies’ activities;

Other:

• advice on „anti-money laundering” requirements;
• development of comprehensive documentation related to personal data protection (development of internal documents, personal data processing clauses, registration of personal data files to the General Inspector of Personal Data Protection);
• development of legal opinions on issues arising during financial institutions activities, including the evaluation of financial products sales models;

• development of legal opinions on the interpretation of the significance and effects of the provisions of the terms of contracts, notices etc.;

• assistance in drafting correspondence with contracting parties;

• assistance in drafting the correct provisions of specifications;

• assistance in negotiations with contractors;

• development of legal opinions on disputes;

• analysis of the Clients’ offers and studying the correctness of competitors’ offers;

• development of appeals to the National Appeal Chamber;

• development of accessions to the appeal proceedings before the National Appeal Chamber;

• development of complaints to the district court for the National Appeal Chamber sentences;

• optimization of the structure of capital transactions involving an element of public procurement;

• advice on the process of reorganization of entities and group of companies involving an element of public procurement (procurement in a group of companies, elimination of risk of loss of internal procurement in a group of companies etc.);

• optimization of the process of awarding public procurement by the Client;

• optimization of obtaining public procurement by the Client.

• advice on collective employment relationships, e.g. collective bargaining agreements and other collective agreements entered into between employers (their current and future owners) and trade unions;
• verification, modification and development of collective agreement projects, work, remuneration, social funds and bonus regulations;
• transaction advice, including support in staff takeovers, restructuring and integration of employment teams and outsourcing of employees, including group redundancies;
• advice on the transfer of an employing establishment or a part thereof;
• advice on temporary work and employment agencies;
• representing the employer in collective disputes and negotiations with employee representatives;
• comprehensive assistance during inspections by the National Labour Inspectorate;
• advice in individual employment relationships, including drawing up employment history documentation;
• full legal assistance in terminating employment relationships by notice, in disciplinary cases, and by mutual consent of the parties;
• advice on all forms of discrimination and mobbing;
• representing clients in lawsuits before the courts of each instance in the territory of the whole country and in settlement negotiations regarding labour law cases;
• extensive advice the management employment, particularly drafting management contracts;
• advice on monitoring and privacy protection of employees;
• advice on non-competition agreements, applicable during and after the employment term;
• advice on personal data protection in employment;
• advice on business immigration, in particular legalisation of labour law and residence of foreigners employed in Poland.

• legal advice, preparation of information and development of legal opinions concerning delegated cases, that may be submitted for settlement by a competent institution;

• development of summons, pleadings and legal opinions in civil and economic cases;

• participation in mediation and arbitration proceedings;

• representation in civil cases before the common courts, arbitration courts and Supreme Court;

• conducting enforcement proceedings;

• representing financial institutions before the President of the Office of Competition and Consumers Protection and before the Court of Competition and Consumers Protection in proceedings associated with charges of using practices violating collective consumer interests and recognition of applied clauses as abusive;

• representing financial institutions in negotiations and mediations  before the President of the Office of Competition and Consumers Protection;

• representing Clients in proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and other regulators.

• comprehensive audits and implementation of post-audit recommendations;
• comprehensive advice on matters related to personal data for both personal data controllers and processors;
• preparation of internal documentation related to the processing of personal data: security policy, IT system management instructions, contracts for entrusting the processing of personal data; agreements on the co-administration of personal data, a register of personal data processing activities, a procedure for handling the rights of personal data subjects;
• assessment of the activities of controllers and processors in terms of compliance with the provisions on the protection of personal data to ensure data protection 'by design' and 'by default';
• assessment of insurance distribution models in terms of compliance with personal data protection regulations;
• comprehensive support for projects that involve the transfer of personal data to third countries, in particular in relation to cloud computing solutions;
• preparation of guidelines for mailing and other forms of the use of personal data for marketing purposes, among others in accordance with the provisions of the Act on the provision of electronic services, telecommunications law or the Act on insurance and reinsurance activities;
• representing clients during inspections of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) and in proceedings before UODO;
• examining compliance of entrepreneurs' activities in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR;
• preparation of legal opinions related to personal data protection issues;
• preparation of analysis regarding data processing in connection with IT services;
• preparation of training in the field of personal data protection tailored to the client’s needs;
• performing the function of IOD on behalf of third parties.

SERVICE “DATA PROTECTION OFFICER (IOD)”

1. informing the administrator / processor and employees who process personal data about the obligations incumbent on them under the GDPR and other data protection provisions and advising them on this matter;
2. monitoring the compliance with the GDPR, other data protection provisions and administrator's policies in the field of personal data protection, including segregation of duties, awareness-raising activities, training of personnel involved in processing operations and related audits;
3. providing on request recommendations on the data protection impact assessment and monitoring its implementation in accordance with art. 35 GDPR;
4. cooperation with the supervisory authority;
5. performing the function of a contact point for a supervisory authority in matters related to processing, including prior consultations referred to in art. 36 GDPR, and, where appropriate, consulting on all other matters;
6. appointing a person responsible for carrying out the tasks of IOD.

• developing and reviewing of implementation, outsourcing and SLA contracts;
• developing and reviewing license agreements and agreements transferring copyrights;
• developing and reviewing contracts for the provision of services in cloud computing SaaS, IaaS;
• negotiating IT contracts on behalf of both the supplier and the recipient of services;
• developing a sales model for financial products with the usage of new technologies (so-called distance sales);
• advising on projects related to network security, database protection, personal data protection in the network, etc.;
• online trademark protection;
  consultancy in resolving disputes related to IT projects;
• creating e-commerce platforms;
•  setting up a business, transforming a sole proprietorship into a civil law partnership or commercial company;
• establishing a civil law partnership and commercial company, consulting in the scope of transformation and liquidation of companies as well as carrying out processes on behalf of clients (including full representation before registration courts - National Court Register);
• corporate servicing the bodies of business entities (including general meetings, shareholders meetings, the management board, the supervisory board), including the preparation of resolutions of company bodies;
• preparing, negotiating and reviewing contracts in business transactions as well as consultancy at the contract implementation stage, including dispute resolution at the pre-litigation stage and recovery of amounts due to clients;
• sale of shares and stock, negotiating in disputes between shareholders;
• appealing against shareholders’ meetings resolutions and the general meetings resolutions;
• establishing of holding groups, including foreign companies;
• building of a capital structure in order for tax optimization (e.g. establishing of limited partnerships or limited joint-stock partnerships);
• building of capital structure in order for liability of the board members and shareholders (eg. claims of the board members of a limited liability company).