Practices
- Corporate finance (including LMA templates, cross-border financings, English law and German language documentation) including security packages and ISDA documentation – advising lenders, borrowers, sponsors and issuers
- Financing of company and real estate acquisitions
- Financial due diligence
- Project financing, including legal advice on project implementation
- Refinancing and debt rescheduling
- Bonds and derivatives
- Securitisations
- Leasing, factoring
- Cash pooling
- Representation of lenders and borrowers in bankruptcy proceedings and restructuring processes
- Design of compliance management systems
- Ongoing monitoring, adjustment and improvement of compliance management systems
- Conducting internal investigations (both as an independent investigator and in support of compliance officers)
- Securing evidence in the forms used in court
- Explaining and analysing compliance violations
- Defence at the investigative stage in criminal proceedings and in proceedings resulting in the imposition of fines
- Representation before investigative and supervisory authorities
- Preventive measures to improve existing compliance management systems
- Real estate due diligence
- Acquisition and disposal of real estate (share deal and asset deal, sale and leaseback, etc.).
- Real estate private equity and investment funds (including acquisitions of portfolios including commercial properties such as logistics parks, shopping centres, office buildings and non-commercial properties such as student residences)
- Financing and refinancing of real estate projects
- Greenfield and brownfield projects
- Development projects
- Asset management
- Representation of owners, tenants, asset managers or banks
- Lease agreements, adaptation and completion contracts
- Construction contracts (including: FIDIC) and legal support of the construction process
- Litigation and arbitration
- Support in the grant application process
- Support at every stage of the real estate development project (zoning, environmental decisions, water permits, building permits, connection and supply of utilities, amendments to issued permits, transfer of permits to new entities, regulation of intellectual property rights, etc.).
- Creation of distribution structures and distribution companies
- Procurement and supply contracts
- Master supply agreements
- Factoring or equivalent sales financing products
- General terms and conditions of sale, B2B and B2C
- Statutory information obligations; right of withdrawal
- Online financial services
- Loyalty programmes, customer data analysis (including data privacy protection)
- Cooperation between third-party providers and trading platforms
- Support in disputes covered by sales regulations, transport and distribution law
- Representation before the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) and national courts in cases involving abuse of dominance, vertical agreements (including unannounced inspections and audits) and consumer protection
- Representation before the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) in concentration control cases (concentration notifications)
- Developing, implementing and monitoring compliance programmes in line with competition law (including conducting specialised in-company employee training programmes and workshops)
- Development of guidelines in the area of antitrust law, minimising the risk of violation of regulations
- Acting on behalf of a wide range of global, regional and domestic investors (including PE/VC companies, banks, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds and other financial institutions)
- Buy-out procedures
- Advising sellers and management teams on larger transactions with private equity investors
- High-risk and growth investment companies
- Financing acquisitions and structuring financings
- Structuring investments between the investor, co-investors, management and, if applicable, previous owners
- Public-private and public takeovers
- Exit transactions (sale and initial public offering)
- Secondary acquisitions (portfolio)
- Advising in civil proceedings before national courts of first instance, on appeal and before the Supreme Court
- Advising in administrative proceedings, including before the Financial Supervision Authority, the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, the Energy Regulatory Office and other administrative authorities
- Out-of-court support in legal disputes and advice to non-interested parties
- Assessment of the risks involved in pre-court and out-of-court proceedings, as well as dispute resolution, in particular through negotiation
- Representation in arbitration proceedings
- Extensive experience regarding commercial and regulatory disputes involving transactions and acquisitions, loans and advances, construction works, complex commercial contracts and participants in insolvency proceedings
- All types of transactions relating to business acquisitions and disposals (share deal, asset deal, enterprise deal)
- Ongoing corporate and contractual advice
- Cross-border acquisitions and restructuring of company portfolios
- Acquisitions involving public companies, squeeze-out and delisting procedures
- Management buy-out, management buy-in and leveraged buy-out procedures; development of exit strategies and support in the due diligence process
- Reorganisation processes
- Joint ventures
- Establishment and liquidation of companies
- Shareholder meetings
- Disputes between shareholders
- Liability of board members and managers