Practice
We represent clients before international and domestic arbitration tribunals, as well as before national courts.
Our lawyers have acted as party representatives and as arbitrators in arbitrations under numerous rules, including the ICC, LCIA, DIS, SCC, VIAC and UNCITRAL. We have been involved in a host of unique cases on behalf of both corporations and individuals. Our lawyers represent clients in cases that cut across an array of legal disciplines. Our expertise also includes pre-emptive advice on how to reduce exposure to the risk of litigation.
We help our clients with M&A transactions, real estate deals, joint-venture agreements, investment agreements, commercial contracts and renewable energy projects. We also advise clients on employment law, privacy and data protection. In all these areas, we rely on our dispute resolution experience to effectively avoid potential disputes, or to secure our clients’ position in the event of a dispute.
The key areas of our dispute resolution practice include:
- disputes concerning defects in buildings, commercial, office and warehouse spaces
- disputes concerning delays and disruptions to construction work
- disputes over payment of remuneration for construction work
- disputes over increasing or decreasing contractors' remuneration
- disputes over payment for additional work
- disputes concerning the joint and several liability of investors for paying subcontractors remuneration
- disputes over the payment and reduction of liquidated damages
- disputes over the effective withdrawal from a construction contract
- disputes over wrongfully calling on a bank guarantee
- disputes between developers and housing communities obtaining freezing injunctions over assets of investors, general contractors and subcontractors, as well as defending against such injunctions
- securing evidence regarding the status of construction work prior to commencing litigation
- disputes arising from FIDIC model contracts
- disputes over ownership of real estate
- disputes over the conclusion of a final contract for the sale of real estate
- disputes concerning the effectiveness of withdrawing from a preliminary agreement for the sale of real estate
- disputes concerning injunctions prohibiting the sale or encumbrance of real estate
- fraudulent transfer disputes
- disputes between investors financing real estate investments
- disputes with owners of neighbouring real estate, including disputes with owners blocking real estate developments
- disputes over real estate acquisitions
- disputes over the payment of rent for buildings, commercial, office and warehouse spaces
- disputes over rent reductions due to defects in leased real estate
- disputes over the termination of leases and rent reductions
- disputes over the effectiveness of termination of lease agreements
- disputes concerning settlements under contracts for the distribution and sale of electricity or gas fuel
- disputes over court orders concerning assets of companies in the energy sector
- disputes over the payment of liquidated damages and compensation for non-performance of contracts for the distribution and sale of electricity or gas fuel
- disputes over the termination or variation of contracts for the distribution and sale of electricity or gas fuel due to an extraordinary change in relations under the “rebus sic stantibus” clause
- disputes over payment of remuneration for balancing services
- disputes concerning the invalidity or withdrawal from contracts for the sale of property rights resulting from green certificates
- disputes concerning the lease of land for renewable energy investments
- disputes arising from contracts based on EFET standards
- disputes concerning refusal to award a subsidy by the National Centre for Research and Development, the Polish Development Fund SA, the Agency for the Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture and other institutions
- disputes concerning infringement of a beneficiary's obligations and correctness of a project's implementation in connection with EU funds or State aid
- disputes concerning repayment of subsidy from EU funds or State aid
- disputes concerning financial corrections in connection with the EU funds
- disputes concerning termination of a subsidy agreement
- obtaining injunctive relief prohibiting the disposal of key assets of a company, as well as defending against such measures
- obtaining injunctive relief suspending entries into the commercial register, as well as defending against such measures
- disputes concerning issues of new shares
- disputes over the annulment or revocation of resolutions of corporate bodies
- disputes over the exclusion of a shareholder, the deprivation of a shareholder's voting rights and the dissolution of companies
- disputes concerning the payment of liquidated damages and damages for the improper performance of shareholders; agreements and investment agreements
- disputes concerning the liability of board members for a company's obligations towards private and public entities
- acting as advisor to companies’ supervisory boards and examining matters relating to the operations of companies or their assets
- disputes regarding professional negligence
- disputes regarding the liability of insurance companies under civil liability insurance
- disputes regarding the international sale of goods under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
- disputes regarding defects in industrial equipment, machines and production lines, including disputes arising from contracts concluded on the basis of Orgalim conditions
- disputes regarding the supply of goods under INCOTERMS
- disputes regarding trade in medical devices
- disputes regarding the dissemination of false or misleading information
- disputes regarding the poaching of customers and employees
- disputes regarding misleading advertising
- disputes regarding the extension of payment deadlines for goods delivered or services rendered
- disputes concerning the liability of sellers for a breach of representations and warranties
- disputes related to indemnity
- disputes over “earn-out” payments
- disputes over exercising "drag along" and "tag along" options
- disputes over the cancellation of contracts for the sale of a business or shares
- disputes over a breach of the seller’s obligations to refrain from competitive activities
- asset tracing, in cooperation with licensed detectives
- actions for fraudulent conveyance
- disputes regarding the termination of employment contracts with key employees
- disputes over bonus payments, overtime and claims under golden parachute agreements
- disputes over breaches of non-compete agreements
- disputes over breaches of non-disclosure agreements
- disputes concerning the solicitation of employees by competitors
- disputes over the payment of remuneration for implementing IT systems
- disputes over contractual penalties and compensation for the non-performance or improper performance of IT contracts
- trademark infringement litigation
- obtaining injunctive relief to prohibit the use of trademark, as well as defending against such measures
- copyright infringement disputes
- disputes concerning violations of data protection laws
- disputes concerning works of art
- disputes between cryptocurrency exchanges, payment processors and exchange users