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We are delighted to share the news that those who have been promoted to counsel in GWW’s legal advisory team are:

• Marta Lipinska, attorney at law, Warsaw office
• Kacper Kudlek, attorney at law, Warsaw office
• Rafał Pietruszewski, legal adviser, Warsaw office
• Łukasz Doniec, Legal Counselor, Office Director in Wroclaw
• Martyna Sługocka, PhD, legal sciences, office in Wrocław
• Marcin Borkowski, PhD, legal counsel, restructuring advisor, office in Poznan
• Rafał Rachowiecki, legal counsel, office in Poznań
• Grzegorz Antonowicz, legal counsel, office in Poznań

Congratulations! We wish you further success and continued professional development

Introducing the tax advisors, attorneys-at-law and tax counsels who have been promoted to counsel in GWW’s tax advisory team

• Kamil Szczęsny, advocate, Warsaw office
• Ewa Leszczyńska, tax adviser, Warsaw office
• Paweł Fabianowski, tax advisor, Warsaw office
• Jan Leuenberger, tax advisor, Warsaw office
• Łukasz Czyż, tax advisor, attorney, Warsaw office
• Justyna Mańczak, legal adviser, Warsaw office
• Patrycja Woźniewska, tax advisor, office in Warsaw
• Dominika Kamińska, tax advisor, office in Warsaw
• Michał Modrzejewski, tax advisor, office in Warsaw
• Artur Bubrowiecki, tax advisor, office in Warsaw
• Agnieszka Szymańczyk-Iwanicka, tax advisor, office in Warsaw
• Marta Surmacz, tax advisor, office in Warsaw
• Nina Berlińska, legal adviser, Warsaw office
• Karolina Matoga-Żak, tax advisor, office in Warsaw
• Katarzyna Górecka-Granat, tax advisor, office in Wrocław
• Karolina Belcyr – Nazar, legal adviser, office in Rzeszów
• Tomasz Piejak, attorney at law, Warsaw office

Congratulations! We wish you further success and continued professional development

In the GWW legal advisory team, the time has come for promotions.

The senior lawyers, SENIOR ASSOCIATES, have been joined by:

• Piotr Baranowski
• Przemek Fudala
• Justyna Gunia
• Filip Polaszek

Promoted to the position of ASSOCIATE:

• Ludwik Malisz

The following have been promoted to the position of JUNIOR ASSOCIATE:

• Katarzyna Niemiec
• Piotr Oksiuta

We would like to remind you what the promoted lawyers deal with ⬇️

Piotr Baranowski, legal adviser, GWW office in Poznań

Specialises in handling court proceedings in civil and commercial matters and issues related to the investment and construction process. He advises entrepreneurs on civil law and construction law. Piotrek has been a member of our team since 2022.

Przemysław Fudala, attorney-at-law, GWW office in Warsaw

Deals with real estate law, including commercialisation processes of retail and office space. He advises on handling investment and construction processes, including at the stage of real estate acquisition and disposal. He also deals with administrative and administrative court proceedings.

Przemek joined the GWW team in 2017.

Justyna Gunia, legal counsel, GWW office in Rzeszów

Specialises in providing day-to-day and comprehensive services to entrepreneurs in matters of individual and collective labour law, occupational health and safety, and also represents clients in court proceedings in matters related to labour issues. Drafts documents on the establishment and termination of employment relationships, as well as internal regulations and policies on employee issues. At GWW since 2023.

Filip Polaszek, legal counsel, GWW office in Warsaw

Specialises in real estate law, including the commercialisation process of retail and office space and the investment and construction process. He also deals with administrative and administrative court proceedings. He joined GWW in 2018.

Ludwik Malisz, trainee solicitor, GWW office in Warsaw

In his work, he focuses on real estate law issues from both the administrative and civil law side. He participates in drawing up analyses of the legal status of real estate, in working on commercial leases and in carrying out real estate sale and purchase transactions. He is a trainee solicitor in the Warsaw team. He has been associated with GWW since 2019.

Katarzyna Niemiec, junior associate, Wrocław office

She is part of the team dealing with the investment process. She is gaining experience in the area of administrative procedure, construction law, as well as spatial development issues.

Piotr Oksiuta, junior associate, Warsaw office

Supports lawyers dealing with real estate law, e.g. in real estate audits or bond issues of the largest development companies in Poland.

The new president of the European Volleyball Confederation, CEV – Confédération Européenne de Volleyball – was announced in August. He was appointed by Roko Sirkić, a former Croatian volleyball player.

This year’s changes also include new teams on CEV committees. Maciej Grzesiuk has been elected as a member of the CEV European Legal Commission . Maciek will hold this position during his term of office from 2024 to 2028. Congratulations!

Małgorzata Militz tax adviser and partner at GWW Tax has been awarded individual honours in the ITR World Tax ranking.

Our specialist was recognised by being awarded the titles in the area of Indirect Tax:

• Highly Regarded
• Woman in Tax.

The ITR World TAX ranking recognises the most effective tax practitioners.
We congratulate Małgosia on another success and wish her more!

The time for change has come. The new GWW Warsaw office is now open As of Monday, you can find us in a brand new location – in the very centre of Warsaw, in the headquarters building of the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Książęca Street. This is a change to the company’s headquarters, as well as to the place where our Warsaw specialists work.

Our new location in Warsaw 👇

GWW Legal & Tax

Książęca Street 4

00-498 Warsaw

GWW’s public procurement expert, attorney-at-law Marta Lipinska, has become a member of the Public Procurement Law Association.

The Association was established in 2017 by a group of specialists in the field of public procurement, public-private partnerships and construction works. It is intended as a space for the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the field of public procurement law in its broadest sense, including drawing on the best international models and promoting professional ethics among those working in this area of law.

Aldona Leszczyńska Mikulska and the Private Client team have once again topped the Chambers and Partner ranking in the Private Wealth Law category.

1st place – Band 1 for the head of the team, Aldona Leszczyńska-Mikulska
Clients asked by Chambers about Aldona: ‘I consider Aldona one of the leading lawyers on the market. She has perfect interpersonal skills to handle difficult situations.’ ‘Aldona is best-in-class.’

1st place – Band 1 for the entire GWW Private Client team
Clients asked by Chambers about the team: ‘GWW is a well-known player in the private client and wealth law field.’ ‘The people I’ve worked with at GWW are extremely collegial and professional.’

We are proud of our team Aldona Leszczyńska Mikulska, Tomasz Piejak, Krzysztof Gajdziński, Franciszek Dewille, Natalia Uchmanowicz, Michał Zieliński, Jakub Dziadur, Weronika Długokęcka, Kacper Skałkowski

The Public Procurement Court on 19 April 2024, dismissed the complaint of our client GWW’s opponent, whom we had represented before the NAC and the Court.

The case concerned allegations relating to the fulfilment of the conditions for participation in the proceedings, exclusion on the grounds of gross negligence and the signing of a reference using a facsimile.

The contracting authority, upon our recommendation, verified the scope of work at the investor of the reference investment, which led to the appeal being upheld. The appellant referred to the experience gained as a result of the merger with another company that was a subcontractor on the reference task.

The court indicated in its oral reasons that:

The Appellant is required to rebut the pleas put forward in the appeal. The Tribunal disagreed with its position that the Chamber had shifted the burden of proof to it.
It could not agree with the Appellant that it could rely on the evidence of the statement of the general contractor’s president, whereas the Employer had submitted a letter from the investor indicating the scopes of work of the subcontractors.
The Appellant could not claim that it did not know what scope of work the subcontractor had carried out, since it had become the legal successor of that entity and used its experience as its own.
The Applicant misled the Contracting Authority by showing gross negligence in accordance with Article 109(1)(8) of the PPL Act.
On the issue of the facsimile signature of the reference, the Chamber and the Court held that the document could not be considered as sufficient evidence without a second statement from the CEO of the general contractor signed with a qualified signature.

The case was led by Marta Lipińska, a attorney-at-law specialising in public procurement.

On 18 June 2024, a GWW webinar was held on the system for monitoring the carriage of goods in SENT (i.e. the System for Electronic Surveillance of Transport) and discussing the proposed changes to the regulations introducing the obligation to report carriage to the SENT register by foreign hauliers performing international road freight transport nt Poland.

During the webinar, participants were familiarised with
– issues related to the SENT register and the principles of its operation (e.g. basic registration obligations, ways of sending carriage declarations to the SENT register);
– goods covered by the SENT system, as well as those excluded from carriage monitoring;
– types/schemes of carriage covered by monitoring in the SENT system, as well as the roles of participants in these carriages and the basic obligations incumbent on them in relation to mandatory monitoring;
– Penalties for violations of obligations under the Act on the monitoring system for road and rail transport of goods and trade in heating fuels;

– rules for dealing with the unavailability of the SENT register (emergency procedure).

 

In addition, the proposed changes, which will come into force on 1 July 2024 and will concern foreign hauliers performing international road transport of goods nt Poland, were discussed, in particular those concerning the introduction of an obligation to notify carriage to the SENT register before its commencement nt Poland. The scope of data that will be subject to notification and penalties provided for in the Road Transport Act related to the breach of carriage monitoring obligations in SENT were also presented.