You are welcome to read article about the judgement of the European Court of Justice known as the judgement regarding “the rule of law” in Poland. What consequences will it have for the European arrest warrants issued by Polish courts? Attorney-at-Law Joanna Waśko discusses the judgement in her latest article on the Lexplorers.pl blog.
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In the current edition of the Chambers High Net Worth 2018 ranking GWW was singled out as a recommended firm in Band 1 which means we are the best Private Wealth Law Practice in Poland!
Recommendations:
"They have an established private client reputation, and they do a lot of domestic tax planning work”;
“The quality of a law firm is its people, and this firm has never let us down. They come up with new and creative solutions and implement them";
“very long experience with private clients and offers a complete service for UHNW individuals";
The title recommended lawyer was awarded to:
• Aldona Leszczyńska-Mikulska – Band 1
Recommendations:
"very, very professional"; "one of the best people who I've worked with for tax matters. She has a very good knowledge, very smart, and sophisticated"; "She has a broad knowledge and experience of both legal and tax issues for private clients. She is perfectly organised with excellent client relations skills"; "clients enjoy working with her, and she is always available to her clients"; “she is always around and responsive to my emails. I trust her advice and she is very engaged"; "She is really a great expert, and a pleasure to work with".
• Artur Cmoch – Band 2
Recommendations:
"He has very good technical skills, and is an excellent tax expert. I can only think highly of Artur. An excellent hands-on lawyer"; "He is always very creative and a forthcoming partner"; "He is always a fountain of new ideas, and is always very good at following things up. He is very communicative. You can sit down with him, and in half an hour he'll have come up with five different ideas".
More about the GWW Private practices:
Private Clients
Family Business and Succession Planning
The Chambers Europe listing is prepared by Chambers and Partners, an independent firm analysing the legal services market worldwide. Titles are granted on the basis of recommendations obtained directly from clients and other lawyers.
Chambers High Net Worth 2018: https://www.chambersandpartners.com/173/2633/editorial/21/1#profileEditorial_1277671
More about Chambers and Partners: https://www.chambersandpartners.com/about-chambers
In the Rzeszów branch of GWW we hosted the Vice President of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Rzeszów, Mr Ryszard Kisała, who handed over the certificate of membership in the Chamber to GWW. A working meeting was also held during which initiatives were discussed which the Rzeszów branch intends to undertake in co-operation with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Rzeszów.
The Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Rzeszów associates more than 200 economic entities and reaches almost 10,000 companies. The Chamber has, as its goal, the economic development of the Podkarpacie Region.
More: http://iph.rzeszow.pl/index1.html
Grzegorz Karwatowicz (a lawyer, of counsel at GWW Legal) conducted a training on 27 and 28 June 2018 for the National Revenue School regarding irregularities and financial fraud in EU projects and financial settlements of EU projects.
The training attendees included representatives of the Chambers of Revenue Administration from all over Poland and representatives of the Ministry of Finance. This is not the first training of this type. In the past, Grzegorz Karwatowicz had already conducted training for the Chamber of Revenue Administration and for the Centre of Professional Education of the Ministry of Finance.
In the current ranking of top tax consulting companies in 2017 organized by Rzeczpospolita, GWW Tax ranked:
We received an additional distinction in the category of prestigious transactions for tax consultancy in the transaction concerning the takeover of a Cypriot company, Metalem by Cyfrowy Polsat. Our services concerned the development of the transaction concept and we also provided support in the process of its implementation. We also obtained individual interpretations for our client, which confirm the tax neutrality of the conducted process.
We are also a leader in the category of other interesting judgments submitted by the participants of the ranking and recognized by the Competition Jury. GWW made it in as many as 3 out of 12 judgments:
1. Referral of a preliminary ruling to the EU Court of Justice – a decision of the Supreme Administrative Court (file ref.no. I FSK 65/16) of 28 November 2017 – regarding the time when the tax obligation arose. Regardless of the outcome of the decision, the case will have ground-breaking significance for the construction industry, as it determines the correctness of VAT settlements.
2. The final ruling of the Provincial Administrative Court in Wroclaw (file ref. no. I SA / Wr 343/17) of 31 October 2017, which leads to the development of a very advantageous interpretation of VAT provisions regarding the right to deduct input tax related to the use of reverse charge. Taxpayers who did not declare the tax due to transactions subject to reverse charge do not have to fear that in the case of the tax amount being determined by the office, they will be deprived of the right to deduct tax due.
The verdict of the Supreme Administrative Court (file ref. no. II FSK 163/15) of 21 February 2017, concerning the impact of the delivery of the limitation period. The Supreme Administrative Court stated that it is important – with the obligation arising in the manner specified in art. 21 § 1 point 1 of the Tax Code – the date of the decision of the appeal body, and not the date of its delivery.
On Saturday, 23 June, representatives of GWW participated and won in the 7th Henryk Strzelecki National Regatta Dean's Cup organized by Poznan Bar Association.
The winning team was composed of:
The competition took place on the Kierskie Lake. More.
We are the proud sponsor of the Lemkin Collection – a collection purchased as part of the Lemkin 2018 project, organized by the Witold Pilecki Center for Totalitarian Studies on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The collection contains publications in the field of law, history and sociology, published in Polish and in English. These are both classic works from the literature on the subject, as well as the latest titles, presenting an innovative approach to this topic.
You are welcome to read the publications devoted to Raphael Lemkin and the problems of research on genocide, which as of today are available in the Library of the Warsaw University.
In connection with the expansion of the Rzeszow branch of GWW, we have undertaken a number of activities aimed at legal and tax support for initiatives contributing to the development of entrepreneurship in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. One of them is cooperation in the field of training for entrepreneurs between GWW and the Municipality of Dębica.
As part of our cooperation, on June 25 we are organizing a free training for companies from the Dębica Commune, including the Mielec Special Economic Zone (Pustków and Zawada sub-zone). The training will Focus on the changes in the processing of personal data that occurred after 25 May 2018, in connection with the GDPR entering into force.
We are pleased to announce that for the first time in the history of GWW, a patent attorney has joined our group of associates.
Ms. Katarzyna Sas now works in the Rzeszow branch.
A patent attorney, a member of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys in Warsaw, entered on the list of patent attorneys and on the list of professional representatives of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Branch in Rzeszow and post-graduate studies in Industrial Property Law at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration.
She is the author of a guidebook for entrepreneurs in the field of industrial and intellectual property rights and didactic materials to quarterlies on intellectual property protection, addressed to entrepreneurs as part of cooperation with the Rzeszow Regional Development Agency. She also conducts trainings, workshops and conferences in the field of intellectual property law.
Ms. Sas specializes in industrial property law and in comprehensive domestic and international protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs and trademarks.
As part of the Public Procurement School 2018 held in Wisła, Agnieszka Zaborowska, attorney-at-law, held workshops entitled "Practical use of samples in the public procurement procedure".
This year's ninth edition of the conference was organized by the Mining Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Its main theme focused on the electronisation of public procurement and with 240 participants it broke the attendance record.
The Ministry of Energy and the Public Procurement Office took patronage over this year's Public Procurement School.
