Corporate Legal Services

See Also

Company Liquidation  ·   Company Formation  ·   Simple Joint-Stock Company  ·   Convert a Sole Proprietorship into a Limited Liability Company  ·   Contract Drafting and Review  ·   Reporting Changes to the National Court Register  ·   Minutes of Management and Supervisory Board Meetings

We provide ongoing advice on company, contract, tax, employment, intellectual and industrial property, and civil law. We implement solutions tailored to clients’ needs, taking account of a rapidly changing business environment.

Our corporate legal services include in particular:

Corporate support:

• Drafting corporate documentation, including amendments to articles of association, company agreements, incorporation documents and internal regulations.
• Preparing agreements and resolutions governing relations between shareholders, including drafting and negotiating joint venture agreements; drafting and reviewing management board members’ service agreements and negotiating them on clients’ behalf.
• Legal support for companies’ governing bodies: management and supervisory boards, shareholders’ meetings and general meetings. This includes drafting minutes and resolutions, including resolutions reviewing and approving annual financial statements, granting discharge to board members and distributing profits. We can arrange notarial services for shareholders’ meetings.
• Corporate legal services.
• Contract Support.
• Employment law support.
• Debt recovery.
• Tax Support.
• Dispute resolution.
• Advising on company dissolution and liquidation and preparing the necessary documentation.
• Conducting comprehensive legal due diligence on companies and their businesses and preparing reports on the findings.
• Handling registration proceedings before the National Court Register.
• Advising on company conversions, particularly conversions of limited liability companies into joint-stock companies and partnerships into companies.
• Advising on business mergers, sales, divisions and acquisitions, conducting legal audits and preparing the necessary documentation.
• Advising on transactions involving shares.
• Developing and implementing corporate restructuring concepts, taking account of tax, employment and regulatory matters.
• Advising in insolvency proceedings involving the liquidation of assets and proceedings allowing an arrangement with creditors.
• Assisting with the implementation of recovery programmes.
• Preparing legal opinions on companies’ operations.
• Advising on the protection of companies’ and shareholders’ rights and interests; helping resolve shareholder disputes, including through pre-litigation mediation; and representing clients in disputes between shareholders or between shareholders and the company.
• Providing legal advice and drafting personal data protection documentation, including for electronic services, commercial contracts, internal regulations, instructions and policies.
• Providing legal advice and preparing and updating registration applications to the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection.
• Developing and implementing corporate governance systems that balance the interests of all parties involved in a business.
• Advising on the most effective form of security in light of the transaction’s structure and purpose, including drafting, negotiating and reviewing security documents: pledges, mortgages, security assignments, transfers of title by way of security, sureties, guarantees, subordination agreements and escrow accounts.

Contract support:

• Drafting and reviewing commercial agreements and general terms of sale and service, and representing clients in negotiations in domestic and international transactions.
• Advising on the optimal form of security for obligations under commercial contracts.
• Drafting and negotiating investment agreements, including construction, design services, contract engineer, concession and supply agreements.
• Drafting and negotiating civil law agreements, including agency, licensing, trade mark and invention-related agreements, image rights agreements and other non-standard contractual arrangements.
• Monitoring the proper performance of contracts.
• Advising on civil law, including handling customer complaints.
• Participating in clients’ negotiations with banks, business partners and other parties.

Employment law support:

• Drafting and negotiating employment contracts and contracts of mandate.
• Advising on hiring employees.
• Ongoing support with employment matters.
• Drafting work rules, remuneration policies and other internal regulations.
• Assisting with the employment of foreign nationals.

Debt recovery:

• Drafting payment demands, statements of claim and applications to secure debtors’ assets.
• Conducting settlement negotiations and court proceedings.
• Handling enforcement proceedings for debt recovery in Poland and abroad and working with court enforcement officers.

Tax support:

• Advising on tax risk management, including appropriate structures, internal regulations and instructions, and applications for binding tax rulings.
• Preparing tax opinions and analyses.
• Advising on the tax optimisation of commercial transactions.
• Analysing and optimising the tax implications of clients’ mergers, acquisitions and restructuring, including divisions, mergers and contributions in kind.
• Assisting and advising in dealings with tax authorities, including verification activities, tax audits and tax proceedings.
• Filing complaints and representing clients before regional administrative courts and the Supreme Administrative Court.
• Applying to the President of Statistics Poland for interpretations of statistical classifications.
• Designing tax-efficient investment structures using international tax regimes.
• Preparing tax documentation, including transfer pricing documentation.

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+48 42 207 66 66

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kancelaria@krs-adwokaci.pl

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