Ranking The Legal 500 EMEA 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/