Lauded for its ‘in-depth knowledge’ and ’pragmatic’ approach, Baker McKenzie Krzyzowski i Wspólnicy Sp.k. fields one of the market’s most internationally attuned employment practices, combining day-to-day Polish advisory work with a steady flow of regional and global mandates. The team advises on the full range of workforce matters, from structuring employment models and handling sensitive dismissals to steering internal investigations and immigration issues, and is particularly active in the tech, pharmaceutical, shared services and manufacturing sectors. Practice head Michal Lisawa focuses on high-stakes terminations and workforce reductions, and is also well versed in data protection issues, bonus structures and discrimination-related matters.
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Testimonials
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- Close and personal collaboration, quick response time, sense of urgency, local expertise, and insightfulness.
- Incredible commercial awareness, not afraid to share recommendations, fantastic availability, great expertise.
- Babanczyk, Bartlomiej Sierpinski, Krzysztof Both provide quick and accurate responses to complex legal matters, draft their advice with precision and to the point, and proactively offer a market perspective and business-oriented approaches and risk assessments.
- ‘Team of professional legal advisors, great customer experience, very responsive, regular updates on legal changes, participation in workshops for HR managers.'
- ‘Availability, responsiveness, professionalism.'
- ‘There is really a seamless collaboration amongst the team. I feel fortunate to have one point of contact, who is able to provide a very comprehensive, pragmatic and straight to the point solution taking all necessary legal viewpoints into consideration.'
Key clients
- Accenture
- Active Campaign
- Apple
- Baxter
- Becton Dickinson (BD)
- Biogen
- Brambles
- Broadcom
- Colt Technology
- CSL Behring
- Donaldson
- Fedex Dataworks
Work highlights
Assisted Baxter in all employment-related aspects of separating their kidney business in Poland, including setting up new employers as well as several waves of transfers of employees to new employers and related matters.
Assisted Intel with all employment-related aspects of carving out the Altera business in Poland and relevant transfers of employees.
Advised Pitney Bowes in all employment-related aspects of exiting Poland, including two separate collective redundancies projects.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
Michał Lisawa
Other key lawyers
Karolina Gozdzikiewicz; Magdalena Chochowska; Bartłomiej Babańczyk; Piotr Rawski