Service
- Corporate Law
- Contract Law
- Labour Law
- Public Procurement Law
- Real Estate Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Insurance Law
- Capital Markets Law
- Bankruptcy and Reorganisation Law
- Competition and Anti-monopoly Law
- Administrative Law
- Building Law
- Environmental Protection Law
- Taxation Law
- Litigation
- Criminal Economic Law and Fiscal Law
The Law Firm of Szmyrka, Nawrat & Wspólnicy sp. j. provides comprehensive corporate legal services, especially:
- Assisting in creating and liquidating companies, branches, agencies, foundations and associations in Poland and abroad
- Advising on merging, dividing and transforming companies, even as part of the restructuring of capital groups and holding companies
- Assisting in executing commercial transactions related to e.g. sales of companies and parts of companies, and sales of stocks and shares
- Conducting legal audits (due diligence) of companies, both for internal control and purposes in connection with transactions
- Advising on liquidating companies
- Tax advice on issues related to forming, transforming, dividing, merging and liquidating companies, as well as transactions involving companies, organized parts of companies and shares in companies
The Law Firm of Szmyrka, Nawrat & Wspólnicy sp. j. provides legal services related to commercial contracts, especially in:
- Preparing and drafting commercial contracts and other agreements related to commercial activities, including interdisciplinary issues and specific industry requirements
- Drawing up standard form contracts and drafting regulations
- Legal consultancy during negotiations
- Advising on choosing contractual arrangements
- Advising on securing a contract and providing the necessary collateral
- Analysing the legal risks associated with the contract
- Legal supervision over implementing agreements
- Supporting international trade agreements
We provide our clients with legal services in the field of collective and individual labour law, including:
Collective Labour Law
- Consulting on collective bargaining matters and collective agreements between employers and trade unions
- Representing clients in negotiations with organizations representing workers, and in collective bargaining and consultations
- Assisting in acquiring staff involved in corporate activities and in dealing with the effects of changing employment
- Assisting with collective redundancies
- Conducting legal research on labour in enterprises, i.e. verifying industrial documentation and documentation of collective regulations such as collective labour agreements as well as work and pay regulations
- Consulting on working time
Individual Labour Law
- Consulting on drawing up employee documentation related to employment
- Consulting on drawing up individual employment contracts, including contracts for managerial positions
- Consulting during negotiations on terminating employment contracts
- Representing clients in employment matters before labour courts at all levels of jurisdiction
- Representing clients in proceedings conducted by the National
- Labour Inspectorate and the Social Insurance Institution
- Representing clients in litigation with the Social Insurance Institution
We provide comprehensive legal services in the field of public procurement law, including:
- Advising on the procedures for obtaining public contracts
- Consulting on preparing tenders
- Devising means of legal protection
- Representing clients before the President of the Public Procurement Office, the National Board of Appeal and the courts in accusatorial procedures
- Consulting in the implementation of agreements, including assisting in negotiating amendments to contracts and making claims
- Assisting in realising FIDIC compliant infrastructure projects
The Law Firm of Szmyrka, Nawrat & Wspólnicy sp. j. provides comprehensive legal services related to all aspects of property transactions and management, including real estate development. In particular, we offer the following services:
- Determining and evaluating the legal status of property
- Organising (regulating) the legal status of property
- Providing legal representation before the Land and Mortgage Register Court
- Assisting in developing an optimal model for real estate transactions, taking into account such interdisciplinary matters as taxation and financial issues
- Advising on the various methods of acquiring and financing property rights
- Offering land, commercial, industrial and residential property services, including preparing and reviewing draft contracts (including real estate development agreements), participating in negotiations, advising on tender procedures, and providing legal assistance in concluding contracts
- Reviewing all agreements related to properties
- Acting before state administrative and local government bodies on real estate matters
- Representing clients in property litigation (including non-performance of contracts for sale of property)
- Representing property owners in restitution and compensation proceedings
- Creating and extinguishing security interests and usage rights in property (mortgages, easements); representing clients against mortgage creditors
- Representing foreigners in proceedings to obtain approval to acquire real estate
- Representing clients in disputes related to perpetual usufruct fees
- Preparing and reviewing property management contracts
- Providing legal services for real estate development
- Preparing and reviewing rental, leasing, loan, usage and other agreements on using real estate
The Law Firm of Szmyrka, Nawrat & Wspólnicy sp. j. has extensive experience in intellectual property rights as broadly defined (copyright, industrial property rights and unfair competition). In particular we provide the following services:
- Consulting, reviewing, negotiating and drafting contracts on rights to intangible assets (including royalties on the use of published works and trademarks, and copyright transfer and trademark protection)
- Enforcing claims for non-performance or improper performance of contracts
- Legal consulting on protecting computer programs and know-how
- Developing regulations on the use of intangible property, including websites and trademarks
- Legal assistance in conducting commercial activity in accordance with intellectual property legislation (observing the principles of fair personal use and fair public use)
- Representing both the victims and perpetrators of intellectual property rights violations in civil, criminal and conciliatory proceedings, and in proceedings before public administration bodies
- Mediation in copyright and industrial property rights disputes
- Organizing and conducting intellectual property rights training sessions for private and public entities
We provide legal services related to all aspects of individual and business insurance, especially the following:
- Consulting and assisting in negotiations aimed at signing agreements on all types of insurance products
- Representing clients in disputes on claims arising from insurance contracts
The Legal Firm of Szmyrka, Nawrat & Wspólnicy sp. j. offers, inter alia, the following services:
- Consulting and services for capital market transactions
- Organizational and legal restructuring of companies and preparing companies to be listed on the stock exchange
- Assisting in managing public share offerings
- Preparing prospectuses
- Representing clients before the Financial Supervision Authority, the Stock Exchange, and the National Depository for Securities
- Advising on fulfilling public disclosure requirements (current reports, notices of acquisition or disposal of major blocks of shares, notices of transactions in shares by management board or supervisory board members, etc.)
The Law Firm of Szmyrka, Nawrat & Wspólnicy provides legal services on matters related to restructuring and reorganizing enterprises, as well as services to debtors and creditors covering all the legal aspects of bankruptcy and reorganization procedures. Our range of services covers:
- Legal analyses of the positions of enterprises
- Consulting on transactions concluded with business people in financial difficulties
- Consulting on preparing and implementing remedial, restructuring and reorganizational programmes
- Representing clients in negotiations with creditors
- Consulting on reorganisation and bankruptcy procedures
- Preparing applications for declarations of bankruptcy and instigating reorganisation proceedings
- Consulting on preparing conciliatory and reorganisational proposals
- Consulting on company liquidation
- Consulting on cross-border insolvency
- Consulting with and representing debtors in bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings
- Consulting and representing creditors in bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings
- Consulting with and representing clients in transactions affecting assets in bankruptcy, including transactions involving acquisitions of companies and/or individual assets from the trustee in bankruptcy
- Advising members of company bodies on their obligations under bankruptcy legislation and other regulations designed to protect creditors against debtor insolvency
- Representing board members of capital companies in proceedings related to their personal liability to creditors for company debts as well as their liability for not having submitted applications for bankruptcy in due time
- Advising on anti-competitive practices
- Advising on practices that infringe consumer rights
- Removing any non-compliance of businesspeople with the prescribed regulations governing the abovementioned matters
- Conducting internal audits of commercial documentation of clients, in particular distribution agreements and cooperation agreements
- Advising on the supervision of mergers and acquisitions of companies
- Advising and representing clients in proceedings before the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection and in court appeals
- Advising on matters related to unfair competition
- Representing clients in disputes connected with unfair competitive practices
We provide legal services in the field of administrative law, both substantive and procedural. We offer our clients the following:
- Preparing legal opinions on substantive administrative law and administrative procedures
- Preparing complaints, claims and other applications provided by law for public administration and local government bodies
- Representing clients in administrative proceedings before state administration and local government bodies
- Representing clients in appeals and before administrative courts (Regional Administrative Court and the Supreme Administrative Court in Warsaw)
We have extensive experience in providing legal advice to businesspeople and their partners in the construction industry. We offer the following services:
- Legal assistance in organising the construction process
- Drafting contracts for construction works, including FIDC compliant contracts, and assisting in negotiations
- Legal assistance in obtaining construction permits from state administration bodies, including decisions related to land development conditions, building permits and occupancy permits
- Legal assistance in planning and land development matters
- Consulting on developer relations
- In relation to disputes - representing clients before the courts
Our environmental legal services include:
- Advising on issues concerning environmental protection law and nature protection law, including waste management, gas and/or dust emission, water consumption and sewage collection, soil quality, protection against electromagnetic radiation and protection against noise
- Representing clients in proceedings before public administration bodies, in particular in proceedings to obtain permits
The Law Firm of Szmyrka, Nawrat & Wspólnicy sp. j. provides legal services in taxation and customs law, especially:
- Analysing economic events from a legal and taxation perspective, including any potential taxation risks associated with them
- Assessing the taxation effects of agreements and transactions
- Planning transactions, business ventures and investment processes, including optimizing their taxation liabilities
- Taxation advice on choosing the optimal company form and structure, even during mergers, divisions and transformations
- Taxation advice on trading the company and/or its stocks and shares
- Preparing taxation and legal opinions
- Ongoing taxation consulting
- Preparing applications to the taxation authorities for individual interpretations of taxation law
- Representing clients in taxation audits conducted by the taxation and/or fiscal control authorities
- Representing clients in taxation proceedings before the taxation and fiscal control authorities
- Representing clients before customs administration bodies
- Representing clients in proceedings before administrative courts in disputes with the taxation and customs authorities
- Appearing in judicial and administrative litigation concerning taxation issues
- Conducting taxation audits
- Taxation and legal advice on transactions with affiliated entities
We represent our clients in all types of disputes before the common courts at every level of jurisdiction, the Supreme Court, and the arbitration and conciliatory courts.
The Law Firm of Szmyrka, Nawrat & Wspólnicy sp. j. specializes in criminal economic law and fiscal law. We provide legal assistance in the following:
- Analysing issues related to commercial activity with a view to preventing any risk of criminal liability
- Defending criminal cases related to commercial activity (including cases where the charges concern managerial crime, money laundering, corruption, moving assets out of business entities, frustrating executions, fictitious transactions and/or bankruptcy, breaching the provisions of the Accounting Act, exposing business entities to losses, both in preparatory proceedings conducted by law enforcement agencies (police, prosecutors etc.), and in court proceedings
- Defending criminal and fiscal cases (including cases where the charges concern taxation or customs offences), whether brought by the taxation authorities, fiscal control authorities or the public prosecutor, and in court proceedings
- Representing collective entities subject to liability in criminal proceedings
- Representing the interests of commercial entities that are victims of crime in criminal proceedings