Month: March 2024

The results of The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 ranking have been announced

The GWW team was recognised in the categories of tax, private clients and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT).

Individual distinctions were awarded to Aldona Leszczyńska Mikulska, team leader for the private client team and Wacław Knopkiewicz, team leader for the TMT team.

TAXES (Band 3)

Band leaders: Artur Cmoch, Andrzej Ladziński.
Leading lawyers: Andrzej Próchnicki, Mariusz Tkaczyk, Piotr Świstak, Małgorzata Militz.

Clients about our work:

“GWW lawyers find the best way to solve my clients’ problems. They recommend the right tools to grow the client’s business and save money.”

”A unique team of top practitioners in the consulting market. The advisors have practice working with tax authorities and know their industry. They are practitioners, not theologians. They listen perfectly to the business and come up with solutions, reconciling business and law.”

”What sets them apart from their competitors is: better practice in working with tax authorities, listening more carefully to business, offering precise solutions rather than multiplying doubts, speed of advice.”

Featured projects:

• Advising ADOB on the sale of shares to Nouryon Chemicals International BV.
• Advising the main shareholders on the acquisition of Alumetal.
• Advising Develia S.A. on the sale of the Wola Retro office building located in the Daszyńskiego Roundabout area of Warsaw to Adventum Group for €69.3 million.

PRIVATE CLIENTS (Band 1)

Team leaders: Aldona Leszczyńska-Mikulska.
Lead lawyers: Tomasz Piejak.

Legal 500 about the Private Client team

GWW’s Private Client team counts founders of Polish companies, as well as family businesses and wealthy individuals among its clients. The practice offers these clients support in the areas of international planning, foreign trusts and family foundations. Asset protection structures are also part of the group’s broad remit.

Featured projects:

• Advising a client on the tax implications of a foreign trust for a Polish resident.
• Advising a family company on the development of a succession plan.
• Advising a private client on asset protection and succession planning.

 

TECHNOLOGIES, MEDIA, TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Band 3)

Team leaders: Wacław Knopkiewicz, Wojciech Krupa

Clients about our work:

”Each year of cooperation with the GWW TMT team reinforces our conviction that this is a team of the highest quality, whose working method is perfectly suited to the specifics of our needs.”

”As our group grows, new legal and regulatory issues arise, which become more complex and have an increasing impact on the business. The GWW TMT team can not only provide top-level legal support in resolving individual issues, but also – and this is of great value to us – take into account the impact of action on a particular matter on other areas of the group’s business.”

Awarded projects:

• Advising Orange Polska SA. on the auction for four frequency reservations in the 3.6 GHz band.
• Advising Fiberhost SA on the wholesale market.

The full ranking is available on the Legal 500 website: https://www.legal500.com/

We share with you another success of the GWW team in the ranking of firms and tax advisers organised by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

In this year’s 18th edition of the ranking, representatives of our law firm were among the winners. The ranking chapter, on the basis of the questionnaires submitted, selected the top tax advisers, taking into account the application of innovative solutions in complex, unique and socially important cases and leading to groundbreaking rulings or changes in the approach of the tax authorities. On the basis of this the following were selected:

Małgorzata Militz – who was awarded third place among tax advisors in the VAT category

Mariusz Tkaczyk – who received a distinction in the CIT category

Among the best tax advisory firms, the GWW law firm won third place in as many as three categories altogether:

• Third place in the category of tax disputes before courts and tax authorities – as we read in today’s edition of the DGP, the chapter appreciated the GWW team , “among other things, for bringing about two judgments of the Supreme Administrative Court concerning the admissibility of filing an appeal against a decision issued at the request of a taxpayer on the conditions for withdrawal of the effects of tax avoidance. In both cases, the head of the National Tax Administration argued that such an appeal would contradict the essence of this institution and, moreover, work to the disadvantage of a party and its acceptance would result in a violation of the prohibition of reformationis in peius. However, the taxpayers believed that they had not engaged in tax avoidance and that the filing of the applications was forced upon them by the provisions of the Tax Code. The NSA sided with them.”
• Third place in the category of largest tax advisory firms in 2023, in terms of number of substantive employees
• Third place in the category of largest tax advisory firms in 2023 in terms of revenue

Huge congratulations to the awardees as well as to the entire GWW team.

Another year and another time GWW among the best tax advisory firms in the Chambers and Partners Europe Guide 2024 list, thanks to wins in the categories:
👉 taxes in Poland (Tax in Poland)
👉 tax consultants (Tax Consultants) with an award for Artur Cmoch, partner at GWW

We would like to thank our clients for expressing their opinions on our cooperation, which they shared with the organisers of the compilation:
“The quality of customer service is of a high level.”
“They have a large team that includes trustworthy experts in every area of tax advice.”

GWW became a member of the nationwide employers’ organisation Employers of the Republic of Poland (https://pracodawcyrp.pl/) thus becoming part of the oldest employers’ organisation in Poland.

 

The aim of its activities is to create an employer-friendly state while keeping in mind that these activities should have a positive impact on the relationship between employers and employees. We believe that the varied activities of Employers of the Republic of Poland entail a real impact on the legislative process and the shape of laws in Poland.