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Managing Partner: Piotr Kochański

Equity Partners: Piotr Kochański, Paweł Cholewiński, Dariusz Dobkowski, Agata Dziwisz-Moshe, Anna Gwiazda, Marek Jeżewski, Jacek Kozikowski, Michał König, Markiyan Malskyy, Paweł Mardas, Mateusz Ostrowski, Andrzej Pałys, Bartosz Pawłowski, Karol Połosak, Rafał Rapala, Aleksandra Ryżkowska, Michał Walczak, Wojciech Wrochna, Monika Wojciechowska

Number of partners: 30

Number of other fee-earners: +100

Offices: Warsaw, Krakow

Firm Overview:

Kochański & Partners combines technological progress, experience and expertise to create innovative legal solutions and offer its clients top quality services.

The firm is not only a legal advisor, but also an invaluable business partner, supporting companies in finding answers to global challenges and megatrends. The firm is actively shaping the legal and social environment around the hottest contemporary topics such as data-driven economics, decarbonization, the metaverse, ESG, global infrastructure, global finance and capital markets.

The firm is well-known for its cross-border services, international cooperation and knowledge sharing programmes. Its experienced lawyers and tax experts advise international companies on becoming established in Poland (through incorporation, commercial arrangements or business acquisitions) or on trading with their partners throughout the world. Its advisors are able to coordinate and provide a seamless service with the firm’s network of international law firms in Europe, the UK, the USA and Asia.

Kochański & Partners is committed to applying and promoting ESG practices in its business and work environment. The firm is a member of the United Nations Global Compact, and a signatory of the Diversity Charter under the aegis of the European Commission. The firm has voluntarily participated in the non-financial survey by independent international auditor EcoVadis, being ranked in the 89^th percentile of participating companies and awarded a Silver EcoVadis Medal.

Main Areas of Practice:

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration

Kochański & Partners’ Dispute Resolution practice consists of international disputes, commercial disputes, civil and media litigation, and disputes of financial institutions. Within this practice, more than 40 lawyers are regularly engaged in sophisticated and challenging dispute projects, often of a landmark nature.

Kochański & Partners’ international disputes team receives instructions from foreign investors under bilateral investment treaties in the most complex investor-State arbitrations, while the commercial disputes practice faces an increasing number of instructions to represent clients in the most complex commercial cases, both via arbitration and in courts. The Civil and media litigation team supports freedom of speech, often defending journalists in high stakes disputes concerning leading political and media events in Poland and Central Europe. Kochański & Partners is also well-known for having the largest team of banking litigators in Poland, which places them among a limited pool of law firms creating strategies for financial institutions facing disputes over their market practice.

Key clients: Forteam Investment, Honwood Services, PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe, Aasted, Betomax (direct 100% subsidiary of Indus Holding), Ringier Axel Springer Poland, Bank BPH, LOT Polish Airlines, Bank PKO BP (the biggest bank in Poland), Castorama, Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (Polish national electricity transmission system operator)

M&A

Kochański & Partners’ lawyers provide comprehensive advice on M&A and private equity issues. They advise on noteworthy local and cross-border transactions and smaller scale complex projects, as well as assist strategic and financial investors and business entities.

The advantage of Kochański & Partners M&A team is their creative and pragmatic approach with priority always given to smoothly facilitate the achievement of a client’s business goals. The M&A team offers practical solutions and clear conclusions and precisely identifies and realizes the goals of each transaction.

Types of M&A transactions: share deals, asset deals, mergers, spin-offs and transformations of companies, including regulated market companies, restructuring of companies and groups of companies, exit structuring, drafting and negotiating shareholders agreements and joint venture agreements

Key clients: State Street Corporation, State Street Bank, State Street Global Advisors, LOT Polish Airlines, INDUS Holding (parent company of Betomax systems), Blachotrapez, Revolt Energy, Ringer Axel Springer, Echo Polska Properties (EPP N.V.), Redefine, Dom Development, AccorInvest Group, Universal Fibers, Knight Frank, Coca-Cola HBC, Reckitt Benckiser, Air Products, Savills

Tax

Kochański & Partners’ Tax team is best placed to provide comprehensive advice on both domestic and international taxation, including ensuring effective tax settlements and accounting.

Kochański & Partners’ tax experts have renowned expertise in the field of tax litigation, international taxation, tax compliance (including transfer pricing), dynamic tax planning and structuring, accounting and complex advisory to companies operating in innovative sectors. They conduct their projects in close cooperation with other practices in order to ensure clients receive multidisciplinary legal advice to maximize their chances at mitigating legal risk.

Clients recognize that their advisors do not limit themselves to simply solving a single problem. By taking a broader perspective and analyzing the company’s particular situation in depth, they show their clients new ways to make savings on their tax burdens, often through the obtaining of significant tax refunds.

The Tax team authored and published the ‘Taxation of Cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and Challenges in the Metaverse’, the first extensive tax report on this area in Poland.

Key services: dynamic tax planning (tax efficiency of transactions); tax compliance and tax reporting, including VAT, WHT, MDR and transfer pricing compliance; tax support in real estate transactions – share or asset deals; tax efficiency for innovative businesses; International Tax Law; CIT, PIT, VAT, local taxes; customs law; tax proceedings; tax support during the introduction of a company into the Polish or foreign market.

Key clients: State Street Bank, Tchibo, Schooner Capital, Johnson Matthey, Oxenwood Real Estate, Forza Foods, Redefine Properties, Pandora Jewellery, Techdow

Banking & Finance:

Kochański & Partners’ is best placed to advise its clients on every aspect of transactional banking, complex regulatory matters, litigation banking and innovative projects connecting banking and technology.

The company stands out as a pioneer and thought leader wherever technology merges with financial services. Kochański & Partners supported the biggest Polish bank in building their presence in the global metaverse and, in cooperation with the Polish Bank Association (ZBP), co-authored the major update to the Polish standard for cloud computing implementation in banks, acting as the exclusive legal counsel to the workgroup.

In terms of litigation banking, Kochański & Partners is among a limited pool of law firms creating strategies for financial institutions facing disputes over their market practices. They work with top tier banks, and as one of the premier law firms representing the banking sector have a current portfolio of over 7000 cases regarding claims over Swiss Franc related mortgage loans.

Key services: transactional banking, regulatory matters, cloud computing in the banking sector, financial services in the metaverse, litigation banking, cybersecurity in the financial service market

Key clients: Universal Fibers (subsidiary of H.I.G. Capital), State Street Global Advisors, Polish Bank Association (Związek Banków Polskich, ZBP), Bank BPH, Bank Millennium, Bank PKO BP, mBank

Energy

Kochanski & Partners offers both national and international clients a sophisticated legal and project management advisory regarding high profile energy projects, regularly acting on the development, financing, acquisition and disposal of a wide variety of energy generation and transmission assets, as well as specialist energy regulatory matters. The law firm is also building its reputation in the development of large scale and high profile infrastructural projects, with a unique and rich experience in the development of infrastructural projects in the Baltic Sea.

Kochański & Partners’ experts are best placed to advise its clients in all aspects of climate change and new technologies in the energy sector issues (including hydrogen, energy storage, and waste to energy projects). Their unique experiences in the energy market, also brings added value to infrastructural projects, in particular greenfield investments in which they advise on a number of auxiliary services including the development of the energy strategy for production facilities constructed or operated by their clients.

Key specializations: hydrogen advisory, nuclear advisory, offshore energy projects, ESG, capacity market, greenfield projects, RES, energy storage projects, biogas projects

Key clients: Ductor; CEE Equity Partners; Krynica Vitamin; Swiss Krono; Northvolt Systems Poland; SPP Group; Montis Capital; Orange Poland; Reckitt Benckiser; MFW Bałtyk (JV of Polish Polenergia and Norwegian Equinor)

Technology

Kochański & Partners’ Technology practice stands out as a thought leader in FinTech. They supported the biggest Polish bank in establishing their presence in the global metaverse and, in cooperation with the Polish Bank Association (ZBP), co-authored the major update to the Polish standard for cloud computing implementation in banks, acting as the exclusive legal counsel to the workgroup.

They authored and published the ‘Kochański & Partners Metaverse Report’, the first extensive report on the Metaverse in Poland.

The Technology Team specializes in all aspects of IT contracts, technology compliance, financial regulatory, blockchain & cryprtoassets, IT dispute resolution, and data protection, advising in particular, banks, insurance companies, payment services providers, investment funds and financial technology providers.

Key clients: ERGO Hestia, mBank, mBank Hipoteczny, mElements, Nest Bank, IZFIA (Chamber of Fund and Asset Managers), GFT Group, Związek Banków Polskich (Polish Banks Association), MAIN, Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy (Credit Agricole Group), PKO BP, Getin Noble Bank, Tameshi Investments

Real Estate

Kochański & Partners’ Real Estate practice acts for domestic and international business and advise on the full range of real estate transactions. The team has the commitment, resources and know-how to advise on all aspects of the ‘property cycle’, including acquisitions, developments, environmental, planning and leasing advice, as well as financing and exit.

Key services: general real estate advice, real estate transactions, forward purchase and forward funding projects, construction law, lease agreements, real estate financing, real estate restitution

Key clients: Panattoni, Oxenwood Real Estate, Beneteau Group, Ikea, Coca Cola, Savills Property Management, Johnson Matthey, AccorInvest Group, Skanska, Havi Logistics, Reckitt Benckiser, Equiniti Group PLC

Infrastructure

Kochański & Partners Infrastructure practice provides comprehensive advice to both economic operators and contracting authorities on the preparation and implementation of investment processes in all sectors of infrastructure and construction. The team supports its clients at every stage of the investment process, including the phase of preparing technical documentation for proceedings or obtaining financing for a given project.

The team is also best placed to provide support on designing and implementing the optimal litigation strategies within disputes arising between the investor and the contractor / subcontractor.

Since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the Infrastructure team, in close cooperation with the Ukrainian Desk and the Public Procurement practice, has consistently raised its voice in the ongoing debate on the direction of the country’s reconstruction, initiating numerous stationary events and webinars.

Key clients: Baltic Pipe Project (GAZ-SYSTEM), Northvolt, NewCold (Westport Capital), STRABAG, Johnson Matthey, DCT Gdańsk (Deepwater Container Terminal), Mecanotubo Poland, SIAC

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Dr iur Michal Bedkowski-Koziol	Partner, Head of Competition & Antitrust Law Practice	View Profile
	Mr Pawel Cholewinski	Partner, Head of Commercial Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate	View Profile
	Mr Dariusz Dobkowski	Attorney at Law, Partner, Head of Global Transactions	View Profile
	Ms Weronika Duda	Counsel, Co-Head of German Desk	View Profile
	Ms Dominika Durchowska	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Agata Dziwisz-Moshe	Partner, Head of Tax Practice	View Profile
	Mr Aleksander Galos	Of Counsel	View Profile
	Ms Anna Gwiazda	Partner, Labor Law Practice	View Profile
	Ms Malwina Jagiełło	Senior Associate	View Profile
	Dr Marek Jezewski	Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution Practice	View Profile
	Mr Piotr Kochanski	Attorney at Law, Managing Partner	View Profile
	Mr Michal König	Partner, Head of Commercial Disputes	View Profile
	Dr Jacek Kozikowski	Partner, Head of Asian Desk	View Profile
	Mr Marek Król	Attorney at Law, Partner, Head of Banking and Finance	View Profile
	Dr Jakub Krysa	Partner, Head of Public Procurement Practice	View Profile
	Ms Weronika Magdziak-Śliwa	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Mirosław Malczeski	Senior Associate	View Profile
	Dr Andrzej Malec	Partner	View Profile
	Dr hab Markiyan Malskyy	Partner, Head of Ukrainian Desk	View Profile
	Ms Karolina Marciniszyn	Partner, Head of Intellectual & Industrial Property Law Practice	View Profile
	Mr Pawel Mardas	Partner, M&A	View Profile
	Ms Monika Maćkowska-Morytz	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Mateusz Ostrowski	Partner, Head of Litigation Practice	View Profile
	Ms Magdalena Papiernik-Konig	Counsel	View Profile
	Mr Andrzej Pałys	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Karol Polosak	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Rafal Rapala	Partner, Head of Corporate Practice, Shareholders Conflicts	View Profile
	Ms Aleksandra Ryżkowska	Partner, Head of International Practice Development, Head of Chinese Business Desk	View Profile
	Ms Aneta Serowik	Counsel	View Profile
	Mr Wojciech Wrochna	Partner, Head of Energy, Natural Resources & Chemicals	View Profile
	Mr Krzysztof Zieba	Partner, Head of FMCG, Retail & Automotive and Trade & Distribution Law…	View Profile
	Mr Jan Ziomek	Advocate, Partner, Head of FinTec, NewTech Sector Practice	View Profile
	Mr Wojciech Śliż	Counsel	View Profile

Doing Business In

Poland

Business environment

Poland is an increasingly attractive market, having achieved a very stable economic growth and managing to quickly mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the decline in FDI projects in Poland was one of the lowest. In comparison to other European countries, the COVID-19 pandemic influenced Polish GDP growth to a lesser extent than other European members, which led to the Polish economy recovering swiftly.

Despite the war in Ukraine, Poland remains a stable investment location, being a member of the most strategic alliances, such as NATO, and economic– such as the UE. Its attractiveness in investors’ eyes is also influenced by the reliable banking sector and mature financial sector, well-developed infrastructure and the increasing value of foreign direct investments (FDI).

Poland has an excellent central position, straddling Western and Eastern Europe. The key advantages of Poland as a business location is coastal access, allowing to become being the second most popular destination for offshore FDI projects. The central position also provides a crossroads for European trade and transport routes. In recent years, an additional advantage for the global trade come from significant numbers of well-developed logistic centres.

There are many ways foreign investors may set up business, mainly depending on country of origin. The biggest advantage is granted to persons from Member States of the UE and the European Free Trade Association, who may start economic activity in the Polish territory under the same conditions as Poles.

A popular form of conducting business by those from abroad is via establishing a branch of the company, which allows expanding its business activity and conducting it without establishing a separate legal entity under Polish law. For investors interested in becoming more closely associated with Poland, operating on a larger scale and conducting business in a more structured and formalized way, there are various forms of possible commercial companies. All types are available under the Commercial Companies Code and provide different options suitable for a wide range of business activity. These types of commercial companies are partnerships and corporations, which differ on personal and capital issues, such as responsibility.

Economy

Despite Poland being a stable investment location, the war in Ukraine, has brought many challenges for both the Polish economy and economies of countries worldwide. The ultimate results of the war are hard to currently predict, but regardless of the geopolitical and economic challenges (which have not significantly impacted the general investment situation) Poland remains a safe and stable place to do business.

Poland is the fifth most populated country in the EU, the largest country in CEE, and the sixth largest economy in the EU. The economic growth is visible also by the increasing number of cities with more than 200k of residents, which is already at 14.

The key financial stability agencies continue to rate Poland highly, with no changes compared to previous years, providing a stable outlook for the future.

Poland is currently investing in numerous strategic projects, including energy and infrastructure. It is also the largest beneficiary of EU cohesion and funding for regional development. A crucial part of this funding is targeted towards R&D enterprises, innovation and environmental projects. One attractive form is a CIT exemption for investors under Polish Investment Zones and numerous government grants. There is a wide range of tax preferences provided for investors, such as relief for automation.

Current opportunities & future prospects

Poland is a very attractive investment location from the perspective of the demographics of society and the labor market, which continues to offer competitive labor costs, connected with the highly educated affordable skilled work force. Poland is the largest academic hub in the CEE region with more than 300 institutes of higher learning. Impressive are also numbers describing the volume of students: more than 1.2 mln in total and about 350 thousand graduates each year. 20% of these are graduates of engineering or technical faculties.

At the same time, Poland is a very attractive place to live and work for skilled employes – the unemployment rate is about two times smaller than the average in the EU. Moreover, Polish people as a society are relatively young in comparison to other European countries. The structure of society and a high level of education makes Poles very open to using new technologies. One more important note regarding a relatively young society is an increasing awareness of the importance of subscribing to an meeting ESG standards.

Among the most promising industries are: information and communications technology, electronics and business services. As an example, over the past 4 years the number of FinTechs in Poland has nearly doubled – rising to almost 300 in 2022. The following factors account for the successful growth in this area: the overall macroeconomic situation, the number of technical university graduates and highly-skilled experts, as well as high demand for technology-enabled financial services and, following the COVID-19 pandemic, the change of customer behaviors. Other prospective sectors are: aerospace, business services, home appliances, pharmaceutical and medical.

Legal system

The Polish legal system is based on both domestic regulations and EU law. Direct implementation of European law is broadly based, meaning that harmonization of Polish law with the EU legislation is a fact in many areas.

The Polish legal system is not based on case law in contrast to the UK or the US legal system. However court judgments and decisions of judges adopted in previous cases have impact on dispute resolution, being an important component of the Polish legal system.

What is also important is that the Polish legal system is quite stable, but is subject to change and development. The same concerns taxation in Poland.

Due to the plethora of regulations, foreign investors should take care when choosing legal forms and structures for doing business in Poland, to ensure they select the one which is the most efficient and appropriate for them.

Foreign investment restrictions

The Polish business ecosystem is open for foreign investment, both in terms of the market availability as well as in terms of legal regulations. Nevertheless some restrictions must be taken into consideration by foreign investors, in particular related to the acquisition of real estate and certain other investments in specific areas under the regulation dated 24 July 2015 on control of investment. These restrictions concern in particular the following sectors:

1. electricity generation;
2. production of petrol or diesel oil;
3. pipeline transport of crude oil, petrol or diesel oil;
4. warehousing and storage of petrol, diesel, natural gas;
5. underground storage of crude oil or natural gas;
6. production of chemicals, fertilizers and chemical products;
7. production and trade in explosives, weapons and ammunition as well as products and technology for military or police purposes;
8. regasification or liquefaction of natural gas;
9. reloading of crude oil and its products in seaports;
10. distribution of natural gas or electricity;
11. telecommunications activity;
12. transmission of gaseous fuels;
13. extraction and processing of metal ores used for the production of explosives, weapons and ammunition as well as products and technologies for military or police purposes;
14. production of devices, instruments and medical devices;
15. production of drugs and other pharmaceutical products;
16. trade in gaseous fuels and gas with foreign countries;
17. generation or transmission or distribution of heat;
18. reloading in inland ports;
19. processing of meat, milk, cereals, fruit and vegetables.

Foreign investors contemplating acquisition of shares in companies conducting business activity in the above sectors, or acquisition of enterprises or organized parts of enterprises of such companies, are required to notify the Polish Antimonopoly Authority (UOKiK) on the investment. In some specific cases the UOKiK may block such transactions. Obtainment of UOKiK clearance is also required with respect to transactions exceeding certain value thresholds.

Top tips to takeaway “What to know before Investing”

Poland is an attractive market for foreign investments, and not only for macroeconomic reasons, but also the straightforward legal system which is harmonized with EU legislation in many areas.

One of the greatest strengths of the Polish business landscape is its stock exchange and capital markets. The Warsaw Stock Exchange may be the primary or the secondary stock exchange market for foreign investors looking for growth of their capital.

Planning business in Poland requires mapping of the Polish regulations with the specifics of Polish ecosystem. Due to the complexity of the domestic regulations, foreign investors are advised to hire professional legal and tax advisors who may assist them in optimum structuring of their expansion on the Polish market.

Authors: Paweł Mardas and Anna Szepietowska

Interviews

Piotr Kochański, Founding Partner, Managing Partner in the Executive Management

Polish law firms routinely focus on the experience of their own lawyers. However, what really matters today is the experience from the clients’ perspective – it’s their time and needs that are the priority

Coronavirus is said to be going to irreversibly change the face of business; will the legal sector also be affected? What has been the influence of COVID-19 on law firms?

Piotr Kochański: The coronavirus pandemic has only accelerated the processes I have been talking about for a long time. Businesses, not only law firms, now understand the need to digitalise their operations and introduce advanced solutions, in both internal organisation management and customer service. At Kochański & Partners we have already been undertaking and developing these processes for a decade. The pandemic forced companies to suddenly switch to remote work, for which many of them were unprepared in terms of organisation and technology. Therefore, solutions and technologies enabling joint work on documents or secure access to databases have become increasingly relevant. With the pandemic, those lawyers who had been reluctant so far, at last are understanding that digitalisation of legal services is no longer a choice, but a necessity.

What does this mean for clients?

PK: The value offered by technological solutions in the area of legal services is, above all, an enormous saving of time – for both lawyers and clients. With the automation of repetitive operations, lawyers will be able to fully dedicate themselves to intellectual work that cannot be performed by computers. Nowadays, the greatest value we can offer clients is creative time dedicated to them. Lawyers can now focus on developing innovative solutions and looking for opportunities to develop their clients’ businesses.

So the lawyer of the future is also a business advisor?

PK: Yes, indeed. Today lawyers are expected to not only know the legal environment of an organisation, but also to understand their clients’ business goals. Lawyers must think holistically about the needs of companies, and this requires an in-depth knowledge of the specific nature of their business. This is why at Kochański & Partners we focus on five main sectors of the economy: energy, infrastructure, real estate, financial services, and new technologies, science and industry. With this approach, we are able to fully understand our clients’ industries and business environment and customise our advice to their individual needs. A good example is the legal assistance we provide to financial sector companies in implementing cloud computing solutions. Cloud computing offers enormous opportunities for financial and infrastructural optimisation for banks, but so far its application has been hampered mainly by cybersecurity issues and regulatory constraints. Our firm, through the experience gained from our involvement in the works on PolishCloud standards, assists financial institutions in implementing cloud solutions in compliance with cybersecurity requirements.

Is such a proactive and business-oriented approach the future of Polish law firms?

PK: It definitely is. In Poland, the use of state-of-the-art technologies by lawyers and their business orientation, are still a novelty, but at leading global law firms this revolution is in full swing. At Kochański & Partners we understand these needs and are changing our approach to multidisciplinary legal advice, which is why major international law firms often choose to work with us as their local Polish partner. We have recently formalised such an alliance with one of the world’s largest law firms.

Press Releases

Jan Ziomek joins Kochański & Partners as Head of FinTech within the NewTech Sector Practice | This is the next stage of a carefully planned and consistently implemented consolidation.

Kochański & Partners – Concentration, Consolidation, Consistency

Successful management buyout at Jansen

Kochański & Partners advised on the purchase of a 75% stake in first-league GKS Tychy Football Club

KOCHAŃSKI & PARTNERS IS AWARDED THE ECOVADIS SILVER MEDAL

Kochański & Partners strengthens its international position, as Agnieszka Chrzanowska appointed new IBA Publications Officer

KOCHAŃSKI & PARTNERS JOINS THE UN’S LARGEST SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS INITIATIVE – THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT

Deadlock clauses in shareholders’ agreements

New liability rules for artificial intelligence in the European Union

Kochański & Partners advised Savills on the acquisition of Knight Frank’s property management division

Piotr Kochański’s business advisory vision

The roots of the current ESG revolution

Trends in the regulation and taxation of crypto – a summary of the Kochański & Partners debate

Kochański & Partners Has Advised on the Strategic Baltic Pipe Energy Project

The Work-life balance directive — Changes to the Labour Code and new rights for employees

We are ready to change the world – step by step

We advised Klima Energy, supporting the development of green energy

SLAPP – a global legal problem that, if unchecked, could stifle freedom of expression

Paweł Cholewiński heads up Kochański & Partners’ Transactional Practices Group

Polish Tech Pitches to Private Capital – the event organized in cooperation with the London Stock Exchange

Polish Tech Pitches to Private Capital | Access to International Finance

Publication of the PolishCloud 2.0 Standard

We are expanding FinTech and strengthening the Capital Markets and Banking & Finance Practices

Promotions at Kochański & Partners

Publication of METAVERSE REPORT KOCHAŃSKI & PARTNERS

Jakub Krysa – Head of Public Procurement Practice and Spanish Desk

Markiyan Malskyy – New Partner and Head of Ukrainian Desk

Rebuilding Ukraine in practice – financing sources and investment perspectives

Sale & Leaseback as an alternative form of financing

Tenders for Ukraine | Current status, rules of participation and prospects

Kochański & Partners has advised Inovo Venture Partners on its acquisition of shares in SunRoof

Kochański & Partners Expand Financial Institutions Disputes Practice with 2 Partner Promotions

The issue of Swiss franc loans remains a key challenge for the financial sector in Poland. Banks' uncertainty over the options for regulating this problem is casting a shadow over development of the banking sector in Poland. The coming weeks and months will therefore be crucial for the development of business and litigation strategies by financial institutions. 

New Infrastructure & Environment Practice Leader at Kochański & Partners

Beyond.pl and Kochanski & Partners join forces

Kochański & Partners Strengthen Their Tax Team

Kochański & Partners named “Law firm of the year: Central Europe” by The Lawyer

It is our great pleasure to inform you that the Kochanski & Partners law firm has received the title of “Law Firm of the Year: Central Europe” in the prestigious “Lawyer Awards 2020” competition.

Kochanski & Partners strengthens the Technologies Team

Idea Bank paves the way for financial sector in obtaining cloud computing certification

Kochański & Partners shortlisted for the Lawyer Awards 2020

Świtalski family mansion and grounds in Sowiniec seized by Forteam Investments Ltd.

Arbitral Tribunal: Slovakia’s actions against Muszynianka showed “willful disregard for the law”

Change in Leadership in the Kochański & Partners Capital Markets Practice

Kochański & Partners acting as legal counsel to Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne

Another litigation win for Kochański & Partners: Onet journalist walks free from court

Kochański & Partners’ Litigation Success Before the Supreme Court – Royalties

POLISHCLOUD ACADEMY: Cooperation with leading consulting and technology companies brings banks closer to the cloud

New Kochanski & Partners business strategy and marketing team

K&P acts as legal counsel on cloud computing implementation standard for banks

Kochanski & Partners is the exclusive legal partner of the working group on a standard for cloud computing implementation in banks, established by the Polish Bank Association (ZBP) and the Banking Technology Forum.

Ringier Axel Springer Poland consolidates dispute resolution services by choosing K&P

K&P Authors a Report on M&A Market Structure in Poland

The K&P Transaction Advisory and Analysis team has prepared a report on the structure of the M&A market in Poland. The report presents an in-depth analysis of current trends in the M&A market and phenomena affecting its structure in the first half of 2019.

Kochanski & Partners advised Groupe Beneteau on the acquisition of Delphia Yachts

Kochanski & Partners (K&P) advised Groupe Beneteau (France), one of the two largest sailing and power boat manufacturers globally, on its transaction with Delphia Yachts – Poland’s leading boatbuilder. As a result of this transaction, the rights to sailing and power boat designs, and the building and marketing activities of the Delphia and Maxi Yacht brands were acquired.

Kochanski & Partners has advised Coca–Cola HBC Polska on the lease of new headquarters

Kochanski & Partners Law Firm has advised Coca-Cola HBC Polska sp. z o.o. in the negotiations and execution of a lease agreement for office and warehouse space in the Business Garden office complex in Warsaw.

K&P has successfully advised on the sale of an office building located in the centre of Warsaw

New opportunities for Japanese capital in Poland

Kochański & Partners – special sponsor of GC Summit Central & Eastern Europe Legal500

GC Summit – Central & Eastern Europe invites the most esteemed in-house counsel from the CEE’s most prolific companies to discuss their changing roles as in-house leaders and the challenges, issues and opportunities they are facing in 2019 and beyond. Between comprehensive panel discussions and the opportunity to meet and engage with fellow in-house counsel, GC Summit – Central & Eastern Europe promises to be a practical, forward-looking event bringing together the region’s top legal minds.

Kochański & Partners – Founder of the Anti-Fraud Association

For many years now, we have observed with great concern the growing level of economic crime and abuse affecting Polish companies. This has made us aware not only of the inherent weakness of the system, but also of the limited effectiveness of ad hoc actions, which do not significantly reduce the problem while consuming large amounts of money.

K&P has advised EPP on the acquisition of the O3 Business Campus II

Echo Polska Properties N.V. (EPP) has acquired from Echo Investment S.A. another building of the O3 Business Campus office complex in Krakow under the right of first offer (ROFO) contract. The office building, constituting the second stage of the O3 Business Campus office was valued at EUR 49.2 million.

K&P advised Davidson Kempner Capital Management on the high profile GBP 180 million financing

We advised US investment firm Davidson Kempner Capital Management on the high profile GBP 180 million financing granted to Pepkor Europe of the Steinhoff Group

K&P has advised EPP on the acquisition of King Cross Marcelin shopping centre

Kochański & Partners law firm (K&P) advises EPP on its EUR 91.1 million acquisition of King Cross Marcelin shopping centre in Poznan – EPP’s first entry into Poznan.

Legal Developments

Hermès wins landmark case against MetaBirkin, setting precedent for NFTs in the fashion industry

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