Wardynski & Partners
Legal Services | Poland
www.wardynski.com.pl
tel: +48 22 437 82 00 | fax: +48 22 437 82 01
Aleje Ujazdowskie 10 | Warsaw | 00-478 | Poland
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Lukasz SzegdaPartner
Offices
Warsaw, Poland | Krakow, Poland | Poznan, Poland | Wroclaw, Poland
- Tuesday, April 16, 2019 | Changes to Trademark Law from 16 March 2019
- Friday, February 22, 2019 | Strict Time Limits in Construction Work Contracts
- Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | Powers, Duties and Liability of Directors of a Polish LLC
- Monday, January 7, 2019 | Posting Workers to Poland? Learn About Your Duties Before the Polish Authorities
We focus on our clients’ business needs, helping them find effective and practical solutions for their most difficult legal problems.
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Partners
Pawel CiecwierzSenior Partner
Jan CiecwierzPartner
Anna DabrowskaPartner
Konrad GrotowskiPartner
Monika HartungPartner
Stefan JacynoManaging Partner
Szymon Kubiak, Ph. D.Partner
Mirella LechnaPartner
Krzysztof LibiszewskiPartner
Agnieszka LisieckaPartner
Michal NowackiPartner
Danuta PajewskaPartner
Anna PompePartner
Lukasz SzegdaPartner
Wlodzimierz SzoszukSenior Partner
Tomasz WardynskiPresident
Dariusz WasylkowskiSenior Partner
Krzysztof WiktorPartner
Krzysztof WojdyłoPartner
Tomasz ZasackiSenior Counsel
Associates
Karol CzepukojcAssociate
Sabina FamirskaAssociate
Monika A. GórskaAssociate
Joanna KrakowiakAssociate
Marcin PietkiewiczAssociate
Adam StudzinskiAssociate
Joanna SzafranskaAssociate
Katarzyna SzczudlikSenior Associate
Norbert WalasekSenior Associate
Kinga ZiemnickaAssociate
Of Counsel
Ewa Butkiewicz, Ph. D.Senior Counsel
Other
Agata KrygerMarketing Specialist
Daniel SmarduchAdwokat
Radoslaw WasiakSenior Attorney
Aleksandra WlodarczykMarketing Coordinator
Justyna ZandbergContent Marketing Specialist, Managing Editor
Katarzyna ZukowskaLawyer
Jakub MacekAdvisor
Changes to Trademark Law from 16 March 2019
Wardynski & Partners, April 2019
An amendment to the Industrial Property Law took effect on 16 March 2019, transposing into Polish law the Trademark Directive (2015/2436). The amendment is not revolutionary but will certainly have huge practical implications. The changes have been made primarily to better align the EU and national trademark systems. The main changes include: Removal of the graphical presentation requirement from the definition of atrademark Modification of the list of marks that are not registrable, i.e...
Strict Time Limits in Construction Work Contracts
Wardynski & Partners, February 2019
For a long time in Polish business practice it has been unclear whether clauses in construction work contracts that require one party to notify the other of circumstances being grounds for seeking additional remuneration are effective. Clauses of this kind can be found in contracts concluded according to FIDIC standard forms of contracts produced by the Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs-Conseils. This issue was considered by the Supreme Court in ajudgment of 23 March 2017 (V CSK 449/16), in particular clause 20.1 of aconstruction contract for building and finishing works for asewage system, concluded according to FIDIC contractual standards...
Restructuring of Debt of Work Service SA
Wardynski & Partners, January 2019
The Banking & Project Finance practice at Wardyński & Partners has advised a consortium of banks (Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas SA, Bank Millennium SA, Santander Bank Polska SA and PKO Bank Polski SA) in connection with restructuring of the debt of the Work Service SA group. The debt restructuring project of over two years included several complex annexes to the credit agreement, joining of the credit agreement by an additional lender and several guarantors, and systematic establishment of a number of security instruments in favour of the banks, including the group’s foreign assets as collateral. The debt restructuring process picked up speed in the last few months...
Transaction: ForFarmers and Tasomix
Wardynski & Partners, August 2018
Wardyński & Partners has advised ForFarmers in the acquisition of a majority stake in Tasomix companies and creation of a joint venture with the existing shareholders. On 2 July 2018, ForFarmers, a Dutch company listed on Euronext Amsterdam and one of the world's largest feed producers, acquired a majority stake in companies of Tasomix, a regional leader in the industry employing 250 people and producing over 390,000 tonnes of feed per year. In this manner ForFarmers carried out the provisions of an investment agreement concluded at the beginning of this year and launched close cooperation with the existing shareholders of Tasomix...
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