Full-service Law Firm Serving Clients from All Business Sectors

Domański Zakrzewski Palinka

ul. Traugutta 25 90-113 Lodz Poland

 +48 42 6372580
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www.dzp.pl
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Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka, established in 1993, is the largest law firm in Poland. A full-service law firm, it serves clients across all business sectors in every practice area and specialisation. The team consists of 24 partners and over 120 other lawyers who provide services throughout Poland from the firm's base in Warsaw and its additional offices in Poznan, Wroclaw, Torun and Lódz. Not only has the firm dealt with a vast range of cases both market and sector specific but it has also advised the Polish government on numerous matters, laying the foundations of capital market operations and co-creating Polish trade law.

The firm's clients are renowned international and Polish firms, industry leaders and some of the most innovative and dynamically developing companies on the market. Clients operate in various sectors including banking and finance, construction, electronics and engineering, food, industrial machinery, stock exchange, tourism, media and real estate. The team also provides services to leading firms in the telecommunications sector and companies dealing with the latest technology and e-business.

DZP's in depth knowledge, experience and awareness of the local environment enables it to assist numerous foreign investors in Poland and support various forms of capital investment in Polish businesses. The team combines an astute commercial awareness with a keen understanding of both the legal and business needs of their clients. The firm works with, among other institutions, the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency. Clients range from small companies starting up operations to international corporations and their Polish branches from almost all sectors and specialisations. Many firms that have decided to invest in Poland have taken their first steps with DZP and the firm is often the investor's main adviser from the company formation through all the subsequent stages of its development. DZP advises firms on acquiring Polish businesses, forming companies and preparing for greenfield investments including those in Polish Special Economic Zones (SEZ).

In realizing its aim to be the leading independent Polish law firm with an international range, the law firm has built up an extensive network of relationships with foreign law offices. Thus DZP can offer advisory services to Polish firms that are interested in expanding their operations to the international market and also to foreign firms seeking advice on Polish law. To meet its clients’ needs DZP has set up specialist teams providing advice to foreign clients in their mother tongue, be it German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Chinese. DZP also has lawyers who speak English, French and Russian. In addition, whether as a firm or through the personal engagement of individual partners, DZP acts in many international professional organizations such as the International Bar Association, the International Law Association and the International Trademark Association. Furthermore at least two senior lawyers take responsibility for each assignment in the firm and great emphasis is placed on training lawyers to international standards.

DZP has been ranked first for the eighth time in a row in the National Ranking of Law Firms published by Rzeczpospolita daily. The firm is consistently recommended and highly ranked in renowned international legal directories, e.g. Legal 500, Chambers Global, PLC Which Lawyer? and IFLR 1000.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Foreign Direct Investments/Investment Incentives; State Aid; Financial Institutions; Public Procurement; Environmental Protection; Intangibles Law; Personal Data Protection; Power Sector; Iberian Market; Italian Market; German Market; German Market

Practice Areas Description

Mergers & Acquisitions
DZP lawyers have handled dozens of mergers and acquisitions, including the largest operations of this type in Poland. The firm advises and represents clients in transactions involving share transfers, sale of enterprises and company mergers, divisions and takeovers.
Contact: Krzysztof Zakrzewski.

Securities & Capital Markets
DZP has a great deal of experience in providing legal services to Polish and foreign investment banks and other entities in respect of the trade in securities and capital markets. An important aspect of the firm’s activity is to propagate best practices in firms.
Contact: Andrzej Foltyn.

Banking & Finance
DZP is highly experienced in serving banks and financial institutions and their clients in all types of financial transactions. DZP lawyers advise leading Polish and foreign banks. They also work with international financial and government institutions.
Contact: Magdelena Skowronska.

Private Equity Funds & Venture Capital
The firm offers clients advice on capital investments (private equity), including those of an international nature. DZP also offers advice to private equity investors including both private and institutional investors as well as advisory firms looking for support in carrying out investment projects. It also advises on the financing or selling of a business.
Marek Swiatkowski.

Insurance & Reinsurance
DZP co-operates with leading Polish and international insurance undertakings and investment and pension funds. DZP lawyers give them legal assistance with proceedings before supervisory bodies and courts, setting up insurance associations, negotiations with large institutional clients etc.
Contact: Julita Zimoch Tucholka.

IP/IT
The firm’s extensive practice in the area of IP/IT includes advice to both Polish and international firms on how to protect trademarks, know-how, trade secrets and copyrights. DZP lawyers advise on property rights to technology, intellectual property rights and the transfer of such rights to other entities.The lawyers provide clients with advice on various aspects of their market operations, e.g. resolving regulatory disputes together with operating, distribution and other contracts.
Contact: Janina Ligner-Zeromska.

Real Estate
DZP’s Real Estate Team advises firms on the trade, administration and management of real estate. The team helps to draw up analyses of the legal status of real estate (also covering the risk of claims being brought by third parties, re-privatisation claims,etc.), devises real estate transaction concepts, represents clients in negotiations and draws up agreements and documents required for transaction.
Contact: Lech Zyzylewski.

Antitrust & Competition
The firm gives advice on regulatory provisions and competitive practices particularly in the context of the acquisition and concentration of businesses. DZP lawyers advise on market strategy, distribution methods and price control, promotion and advertising to eliminate any risk of practices violating competition and the drawing up of expert opinions that help safeguard firms against acts of unfair competition and protect brand name products.
Contact: Krzysztof Kowalczyk.

Employment
DZP's labour law team advises clients on matters relating to labour law and employee-employer relations, collective bargaining agreements and building up relations between employer and trade unions. DZP lawyers assist firms with the drawing up for example, of draft employment contracts, management contracts and non-compete agreements. They represent employers in court cases, advise on setting up management motivation packages (including option plans) and advise on social security. The lawyers also help foreign managers to obtain permits to work in Poland.
Contact: Boguslaw Kaplon.

Dispute Resolution
The Dispute Resolution Practice Group represents its clients in litigation cases, acts on their behalf in negotiations with business partners and acts above all before common courts, Supreme Administrative Courts, the Constitutional Tribunal as well as Polish and international arbitration tribunals.
Contact: Jozef Palinka.

Pharmaceutical Law & Biotechnology
DZP has set up a team that advises on promoting and advertising pharmaceutical products, regulations on sector activity, and obtaining permits. Lawyers have broad experience with all kind of problems under pharmaceutical law, from clinical trials and medical products admitted to trading due to processing to the protection of the intellectual property rights to these products.
Contact: Marcin Matczak.

Representative Clients

Financial Companies and Institutions: Commerzbank Deutsche Bank Nykredit, Getin Holding GE Money Bank Investkredit Bank Insurance Companies: Hamburg Mannheimer Signal Iduna Commercial Union PZU Manufacturing Companies: NSK Bridgestone Saint-Gobain Group Retail: Casino OBI MediaSaturn Holding Hennes & Mauritz Technology Companies: IBM Poland Toshiba Nokia Telecoms: PTC-ERA GSM ACN Europe TPSA Polpager

Agencies: Young & Rubicam Ogilvy & Mather DDB Corporate Projects Major Pharmaceutical Companies: GlaxoSmithKline Pfizer Bristol Myers Squibb MSD Teva Novartis Private Equity Funds: DBG Eastern Europe Enterprise Investors Innova Capital Energy Sector Companies: Vattenfall Group RWE Systems Enea Japanese Clients: Bridgestone Sumitomo Mitsui Fuji Seal Spanish Clients: OHL Group Fadesa Inmobiliaria S.A. Inditex Indal Comsa

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