After two challenging years in the venture capital and startup market (marked by declining capital inflows), the outlook for 2025 seems much more optimistic.

New provisions of the Public Procurement Law ("PPL") concerning the electronization of public procurement procedures came into force on 18 October 2018.

As we enter Q2 2025 and in a bid to understand the complexities of a changing environment, Bartosz Jankowski (New Tech, Cybersecurity, Dispute Resolution) takes a look back at what shaped the business world in the past few...

In its ruling of 4 February 2016, the Provincial Administrative Court in Poznan held that it is inadmissible for the issuance of a correcting note to actually result in the change of the entity being a party to a sale contract.

The UBO Register will be non-confidential, publicly accessible and free of charge.

In a request for a preliminary ruling requested by District Court of Warsaw, Poland to the European Court of Justice ("ECJ"), three Polish citizens brought an action against Provident Polska...

One year has passed since the Act on Counteracting the Unfair Use of Contractual Advantage in the Trade of Agricultural and Food Products entered into force.

At the end of 2021, the President of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (Polish: Urząd Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, UOKiK) issued two decisions...

Changes affecting the use of proxy voting by shareholders in joint stock (especially public companies) were made to the Commercial Companies Code at the start of December 2008.

The author presents legal possibilities enabling minority shareholders to challenge decisions of management boards in public companies.

According to the recently published project of the legal act referring to supervision and protection of investors on the financial market, all corporate bonds, investment certificates...

Electronic identity ("eID") and electronic trusted services ("eTS") are currently regulated at the EU level in the eIDAS Regulation of 23 July 2014.

It is relatively easy to secure under Polish law a simple financing, where a single lender extends a loan to a single borrower.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Polish VAT regulations unlawfully restrict taxpayers' right to deduct input VAT by making it dependent on invoice receipt dates rather than possession at filing time. This landmark decision addresses how EU member states can impose formal requirements on VAT deductions and examines the balance between tax collection measures and fundamental principles of VAT neutrality and proportionality.

Numerous amendments to the Act on National Court Register came into force on 15 March 2018. They implement, among others, new rules on filing financial statements ...

Dorota Rzążewska is a managing partner of JWP Patent and Trademark Attorneys and the founder of JWP Foundation.

After conducting a formal proceeding, on 7 October 2021 the Polish Data Protection Authority ("DPA") issued a decision (number: ZSPR.440.331.2019.PR.PAM) towards one of the largest online media provider in Poland.

In Lendlease Construction (Europe) Limited v Aecom Limited [2023] EWHC 2620 (TCC), the English Technology and Construction Court (TCC) examined the nature and extent of a Consultant's obligations...

Real estate companies are required by law to report their shareholding structures within three months of the end of the tax year, with shareholders of such companies bearing a similar responsibility.

As we move further into 2025, the intersection of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations with the real estate sector—across Poland, the EU, and globally—is set to evolve significantly.