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Gide Loyrette Nouel Warsaw offers advice covering all aspects of business law, mainly in the following areas: |
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The Warsaw Office advises local and international corporations on the acquisition of Polish businesses.
- Acquisitions of listed and unlisted companies on the Warsaw stock exchange, acquisitions in the course of a sale/purchase of assets, corporations and going concerns, formation of joint ventures. |
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The Office, which includes leading expert lawyers on privatisations in Poland, acts for French and foreign investors in various industries.
- Privatisations in the energy, automobile and defence industries, as well as the chemical and agri-food industries... |
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The Office has been involved in several major transactions on the Polish market.
- Floatation of Polish companies, acquisitions/transfers of listed companies, takeover bids, company delistings, etc. |
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The Office regularly assists and advises Polish and international financial institutions, whether on granting credits or mortgage loans, or for other transactions including syndicated-loans collateral, loan portfolio restructurings, refinancing of borrowers' businesses, issues of investment and bonds certificates, securitisation projects, etc. |
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Ever since the Office was launched, it has been heavily involved in major real estate transactions: local implantation of mass retailers (sale/purchase of land, construction of hypermarkets and hotels), negotiation of leases (offices, logistic warehouses, etc.).
At a time where the Polish real estate market is reaching its second period of maturity, the Office is actively involved: advice on transfers of real estate portfolios to financial or strategic investors.
The Office also handles cases involving planning and development issues. |
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The Office advises on transactions linked to public service concessions: water, waste treatment, electricity, heating in urban areas, highways. |
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With in-depth understanding of Polish tax law, the Office's lawyers offer a full range of contentious and non-contentious legal services ranging from one-off advice to tax planning for acquisition projects and company restructurings. The Office also has substantial experience in the tax aspects of real estate. |
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The Office handles litigation and arbitration in all areas, especially intellectual property disputes, civil, commercial and administrative litigation, and competition law. |
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The Warsaw Office, in liaison with the Brussels Office, regularly advises on competition and distribution law issues.
- Competition law: restrictive measures, clearances for regional mergers.
- Distribution law: setting up distribution networks in Poland and Eastern and Central European countries.
- International trade: assisting an international group in obtaining the cancellation of import safeguard measures.
- Dumping: acting for a client bringing a lawsuit against dumping practices. |
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The Office is involved in all areas of employment law and employment protection.
- Employment law: employment aspects of restructurings, drafting employment contracts for local and expatriate employees, redundancies, and Polish expatriates abroad.
- Employee shares schemes: setting up profit-sharing schemes in companies' Polish branches.
- Employment protection: status of "seconded" and "expatriate" employees in Poland. |
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The Warsaw Office has a vast and rich experience in the area of intellectual property rights in Poland. This experience covers not only the protection of intellectual property rights within the scope of customs, civil or criminal proceedings, but also the preparation and complex servicing of transactions relating to intellectual property rights or transactions having some aspects connected with intellectual property.
The Warsaw Office closely cooperates with certain renowned patent agent offices in Poland, which, upon request of and in collaboration with our Office, conduct proceedings connected with the registration of trademarks, patents and industrial designs with the Polish Patent Office, as well as with the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market in Alicante.
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The Warsaw Office has an extensive experience in the area of bankruptcy law. It provides legal advice to its clients with regard to:
- filing a petition for declaring bankruptcy of a debtor and representing a creditor in the course of bankruptcy proceedings
- seizing the assets of a debtor in the course of bankruptcy proceedings
- acquiring dependent companies following the declaration of bankruptcy of the dominant company
- bankruptcy proceedings instituted upon demand of a creditor of one of the largest companies in Poland
- applying for the first time in Poland for European bankruptcy proceedings instituted and conducted by a foreign court to be extended to a Polish company and acquisition of the assets of the bankrupt company by a client. |
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