Scope of activities

Factors which can have a decisive influence on creating competitive advantage include choosing the most advantageous corporate form for a planned business enterprise, adjusting the existing form of conducting business to the economic and legal environment and making an effective use of organisational structures. Making shrewd and quick business decisions in these areas requires the application of legal regulations, in particular in the scope of company law.

Our offer in the scope of direct investments includes providing legal services to foreign entities and entities with a foreign capital share. In order to provide the whole package of services, we also offer accounting, human resources and payroll services as well as assistance in acquiring support funds for investment development.

Consulting in the energy sector includes a range of legal matters pertaining to the organisation and functioning of the sector, competition protection and preparation of investment.

Legal regulations pertaining to environment protection impose certain obligations on entrepreneurs. We help our clients define the scope of such obligations and support them in designing effective procedures to guarantee environmental compliance.

Each enterprise comprises various rights and intangible assets such as works, inventions, innovative solutions, technical and technological information, databases and know-how, which are subject to intellectual and industrial property rights. These assets increasingly often translate into the level of innovativeness and competitive advantage on the market. Intangible assets should be the most highly protected secrets of each entrepreneur and any infringements of such rights or even attempts to do so should trigger a strong reaction from the entitled entity.

In practice, the issue of intellectual and industrial property are among the most difficult legal matters. Applicable legal regulations are not always consistent and precise. They are highly abstract and include numerous and complex references and are increasingly often changed and supplemented by the legislator.

Market reality and the ongoing globalisation of the labour market as well as the implementation of Community regulations and frequent changes in the applicable provisions of law and the employee privilege principle in labour law disputes as well as severe sanctions imposed by competent authorities for non-compliance with the provisions of labour law make it necessary for employers to be familiar with both labour law and a number of other acts.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are complicated processes whose aim is to strengthen an enterprise’s position on the market, improve its financial situation and enter new markets. In the globalised world, mergers and acquisitions pay an increasingly important role, which translates into a growing demand for professional legal services in this respect.

Companies are transformed in order to adjust their corporate form to the nature and size of business. Due to their complicated legal nature, mergers, acquisitions and transformations require cooperation among specialists from various branches of law. Lawyers, tax advisers and tax optimisation specialists need to join forces to guarantee tax optimisation of planned undertakings.

Public procurement is an important legal branch both for awarding entities, who dispose of public funds and contractors applying for public contracts.

Applying for the award of a public contract is a complicated task for contractors. Terms of reference are often worded in a complicated manner, which is conducive to making mistakes, which in turn may even result in the offer being rejected. When preparing for public contract award procedures, the awarding entities should take all necessary precautions as well because even a seemingly insignificant mistake may entail irreversible consequences, making it impossible to award a public contract or making it necessary to repeat the time-consuming procedure.

We offer awarding entities a full package of legal services during the public contract award procedure, i.e.:

We provide contractors applying for public contracts with comprehensive legal assistance, including:

Legal aspects pertaining to real estate trading are often decisive when it comes to the profitability of an investment. Choosing the right form for conducting a transaction involving real estate and defining its tax consequences requires a thorough analysis of provisions from various branches of law.

Legal consulting for entrepreneurs investing in special economic zones constitutes one of the core areas of our practice. We have experience in providing services to entities operating business activity in special economic zones, in particular entities with a share of foreign capital.

At the preliminary stage of investments in special economic zones:

At the investment development stage:

In order to guarantee comprehensive services in the investment process and cost optimisation, we also offer our clients the possibility to use accounting, HR and payroll services provided by our special purpose vehicle – MBW Tax & Audit Sp. z o.o.

We offer succession planning, i.e., a strategy for informed and intentional estate management in the event of death. Security measures in this respect should include legal and financial elements combined into a functional solution, making it possible to avoid dangers resulting from statutory succession, tax optimisation, securing estate and settling accounts between successors and partners, and managing the distribution of assets. Managing estate in a long-term perspective and securing companies against emergencies which may happen to partners should be the standard practice guaranteeing security to a business organisation.

Cooperation between tax advisers, lawyers and HR and payroll specialists is a guarantee of comprehensive services in the process of mergers and acquisitions, including reviewing agreements and reacting to legal events which entail significant tax consequences.

Given the importance of telecommunications and modern technologies for the global economy, their role in the situation of Polish enterprises should be emphasised. The increasing number and degree of complication of provisions of law, which is the consequence of implementing European legislation, make it necessary to use professional support. The law firm’s offer is directed to research and development units, entities operating business activity in the scope of new technologies as well as telecommunications providers.