Management board of a professional partnership as a form of do-goodism

The amendment to the Code of Commercial Companies and Partnerships, which entered into force on 1 March 2019, was intended to answer the question of who can sit on the  board of a professional partnership. The amended regulations determine that apart from partners, third parties may also become members of the management board of the professional partnership. However, a new problem has arisen. The amended regulations require that at least one partner should be a board member. This means that partners must choose one from among them who will become a member of the board.

As a consequence, the amended regulations result in deterioration of the position of partners. Instead of facilitating their exercising of a free profession in the form of a professional partnership, new obligations are imposed on them.

A full text of the article by Marcin Borkowski, PhD, is available at the following link: https://www.wprost.pl/gospodarka/10208449/zarzad-spolki-partnerskiej-czyli-uszczesliwianie-na-sile.html