Weremczuk Bobel Badowska & Partners

Weremczuk Bobeł Badowska & Partners holds a well established position on the Polish legal market. Our vast experience allows us to provide top quality legal services to both Polish and foreign entrepreneurs. The founding partners of Weremczuk Bobel Badowska & Partners for several years worked for leading international law firms before they decided to set up their own law firm focused on providing legal assistance to foreigners investing in Poland. Both, partners and lawyers of the firm have significant experience in advising on complicated cross-border transactions as well as in providing legal assistance to international Clients, cooperating in this field with major international law firms.

Our law firm has offices in and operates from two venues Poznań and Warsaw where the core of our business is located. Using modern means of communication we provide day-to-day legal advice to Clients located in other cities in Poland or if our Clients so wish abroad.

Weremczuk Bobeł Badowska & Partners is a member of the network of independent law firms with a global reach, thanks to which we can ensure to our Clients legal support also in all European jurisdictions, in North America, South America, Africa, Australia, China and the Middle East.

We provide legal services to our Clients in Polish, English, German or French, according to our Clients needs.
The Firm is a full-service law firm. It offers to its Clients the knowledge and experience particularly in the following fields:

Corporate law

• setting up of companies, preparation of required documentation and representation of Clients before registry courts, preparation of internal corporate
• documentation required for companies operation,
• preparation and amendment of statutory documentation,
• day-to-day advice on operations of corporate bodies,
• legal support related to meetings of shareholders or supervisory boards,
• transformation of companies, liquidation of companies

• full documentary support on financing of investment transactions for the benefit of credit institutions as well as private investors,
• preparation and negotiation of investment agreements and related security agreements,
• preparation and negotiation of loan agreements and related security agreements, including syndicated loans,
• preparation of agreements on financial and operational leasing,
• regulatory advise for the benefit of foreign banks and financial institutions,
• representation of Clients in completion of transactions

• assistance in choosing most beneficial legal structure for transaction,
• preparation and negotiation of share/stock purchase agreements,
• preparation accompanying documentation

• preparation of documentation related to admitting of stocks into public trading,
• preparation of documentation concerning increase of share capital through public offer as well as private placement,
• preparation of legal parts of prospectus, preparation of documents related to acquisition of stocks,
• preparation of stock option plans,
• day-to-day advisory for companies listed on Warsaw stock exchange

• preparation and verification of employment contracts, employment regulations, remuneration regulations,
• preparation and negotiation of management contacts,
• legal support related to conclusion and termination of employment contracts,
• legal support related to relationship with trade unions,
• representation of Clients in labor law trials

• preparation for an ordering party of a documentation related to bidding procedure for goods and services,
• representation of contractors in  public procurement proceedings,
• preparation of remedies (appeals) and representation of Clients before National Appeal Chamber and the courts

• preparation, analysis and legal support in negotiations on construction agreements (including FIDIC standard),
• preparation and negotiation of real property acquisition contracts (including preliminary contracts),
• preparation of audits and reports on the legal status of real properties,
• preparation and negotiation of contacts with general constructor, architects, engineers and with final purchasers of real estates,
• representation of Clients in administrative procedures related to building construction,
• advise on zone planning issues,

• preparation of lawsuits and other court letters,
• negotiations with debtors on repayment of receivables,
• representation of Clients in enforcement proceedings,
• advising on insolvency law and representation of Clients during insolvency proceedings

• preparation and negotiation support with respect to agreements on transfer of intellectual property rights and license agreements
• legal audits concerning risk of infringement of intellectual property rights of third persons in case of introduction of a new product to the market
• representing Clients in copyrights court trials
• protection of Clients against illegal infringement of intellectual property rights by third parties
• day-to-day advise on trademarks and designs registered with Patent Office, enforcement of intellectual property rights

• advise on risk management related to liability for breach of environmental law
• regulatory advise on waste management issues, in particular electronic equipment
• preparation of agreements with recycling plants, occupier of electronic waste
• assistance in obtaining administrative permissions in respect of conducting business activity in the waste management sector

• tax analysis of commercial transactions
• advice on legal persons income tax
• advice on natural persons income tax, property tax, civil transactions tax
• analysis of disputable tax issues, preparation of motions to tax authorities for issuance of binding tax interpretations
• representation of Clients against tax authorities