Specialisations

We have experience in:

corporate disputes concerning:

• challenging resolutions of the Shareholders’ Meetings and the General Meetings;
• exclusion of a shareholder or dissolution of the company;
• disputes between shareholders;
• enforcement of claims relating to corporate relationships (priority right, pre-emption right, call and put options, drag along and tag along clauses)
• deprivation of a shareholder’s voting rights;
• enforcement of claims against members of the management board for liabilities of the company and defence against them;
• enforcement of claims against members of the company’s bodies in respect of their functions;
• proceedings for breach of non-compete by shareholders, members of bodies;
• compulsory buy-out of shares;
• advice on attempts at hostile takeovers of companies, including public companies;

proceedings against banks:

• invalidating agreements denominated and indexed to a foreign currency;
• eliminating prohibited clauses from agreements;
• disputes over so-called remuneration for the use of capital;

real estate disputes regarding:

• development activities;
• regulation of the legal status of real estate, including reconciliation of the land register with the actual legal status;
• execution of preliminary and final agreements;
• making substitute declarations of intent;
• rights under investment and construction agreements;
• leases and rental agreements;
• the abolition of co-ownership, usucaption;
• surrender of immovable property or cessation of trespass;
• cases concerning expropriation and payment of compensation;

intellectual property proceedings:

• copyright infringement;
• combating unfair competition;
• protection of personal rights;
• infringements of intellectual property rights on the Internet;

debt collection:

• recovery of debts owed by entrepreneurs;
• recovery of debts from persons managing limited liability companies;
• handling cases under the Actio Pauliana (recognition of an act as ineffective against a creditor);

administrative proceedings and administrative court proceedings, including in relation to administrative fines arising from:

• GDPR;
• the Act on Public Offering;
• the Act on Trading in Financial Instruments.

In our cases we act as follows:

• we comprehensively analyse the legal and factual situation of the client,
• we carefully select the litigation tactics while taking into account the chances of winning the case and enforcing a favourable judgment, we estimate the costs of the entire proceedings,
• we support clients in negotiations, represent them at court hearings and take an active part in enforcement proceedings,
• we prepare any documentation necessary for a quick and effective conclusion of the dispute.