I am an advocate entered on the list of advocates kept by the District Bar Association in Krakow under the number KRA/Adw/3310. Krakow is the city where my law firm is based.
Before I set up my own law firm in Krakow, I worked in reputable law firms and was also a corporate lawyer - I headed the legal department of one of the largest companies in the clothing / sports industry in Poland.
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In the "Knowledge base" tab, you will also find basic information on matters in which our law firm in Krakow and other cities can help you. The information contained in this section is basic information for clients regarding civil law and other areas of law in which, as an advocate, I help clients of our law firm.
The areas of practice discussed on our website also include commercial law, construction law, real estate law, administrative law, and family law.
We specialize in cases in selected areas of law : civil law (including real estate law), company law, inheritance law, family law. The law firm also provides legal assistance in other areas of law related to running a business.
Legal services for companies include, for example, labor law, administrative law, and criminal law. Services in this area include conducting cases in court and before administrative authorities, preparation of legal opinions, legal advice and support provided to clients in day-to-day operations.
If you need legal assistance in this area, you've come to the right place!
The legal assistance we offer is legal advice in the scope covering the practice areas of the law firm, legal services for companies, representation in the course of negotiations, drafting and negotiating draft contracts, drawing up legal opinions, conducting cases before courts, representing clients before administrative authorities.
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Company law is one of the branches of private law. When thinking about company law, I think about the regulations governing the creation, operation and termination of companies (in particular through liquidation or transformation).
To put it simply, when we think about company law, we think about:
The vast majority of company law provisions are contained in two pieces of legislation:
The Civil Code contains, above all, provisions relating to a civil law partnership - the rules for establishing a civil law partnership, making decisions by partners of a civil law partnership, representing the company outside, and finally liquidating a civil law partnership. The Civil Code also contains a number of key provisions for the entire company law regarding the general principles of operation of legal persons and entities with legal personality.
The Code of Commercial Companies contains provisions on the rules of operation (creation, operation, termination) of all commercial law companies - general partnership, professional partnership, limited partnership, limited joint-stock partnership, limited liability company and joint-stock company. The provisions of the Commercial Companies Code also define the rules of capital operations performed on companies - division, transformation and merger of commercial law companies.
The provisions of company law are also found in a significant number of other legal acts - for example, the Accounting Act, the Act on the National Court Register, or the Act on local government. For the purposes of this article, however, we can assume that the two legal acts indicated above are of key importance - the Civil Code and the Code of Commercial Companies.
Before deciding to register a company, you should familiarize yourself with the selected forms of conducting business activity provided for by the company law and choose the one that will be optimal from the point of view of your business goals.
Such a decision should be made, among others, taking into account the advisability of limiting the risk of liability for debts related to running a business, the costs of changing the form of doing business, or tax problems with which you can change as a result of choosing different forms of doing business offered by the company law.
As an attorney, I can present you with a proposal of the most advantageous solutions provided for by company law in your situation and guide you through the process of registering a new company or changing the current form of doing business into a different form.
The functioning of companies may require various activities in the field of so-called corporate services . The company law obliges shareholders of companies and company authorities (management board, supervisory board) to adopt resolutions in certain situations, to hold meetings of partners or shareholders, to convene meetings of partners or shareholders.
Such obligations may result directly from the law or from the articles of association . Depending on the specific situation, the provisions of company law may impose various sanctions on failure to comply with these formalities - in particular, the invalidity of legal acts performed by the company.
My law firm is able to provide ongoing corporate services to your company or provide advice on specific company law problems that you may face during the operation of the company.
In the course of running a business, you may come to the conclusion that the form of business you have been using so far needs to be changed . This may be related to completely different situations, for example: the need for new partners to join the company, inheritance planning, the need to reduce the risk associated with running a business, or finally the need for tax optimization.
Company law offers a wide range of possibilities to make such changes . It is possible to register a new company and transfer the current activity to a new company using various techniques, transforming the current form into another form (this also applies to sole proprietorship and civil law partnership), transforming the company into another company, merging several existing companies, or dividing an existing company into other companies.
As an attorney from Krakow, I can help you choose the right form of business, guide you through the process of negotiations with partners and reorganize the legal form used so far.
My law firm in Krakow is able to solve all your problems regarding company law . Starting from establishing or reorganizing a business (selection of the optimal legal form, establishing a company or transformation from the current organizational form), through solving current problems as part of legal services (permanent or ad hoc), ending with liquidation, bankruptcy or change of the current organizational form.
As an attorney from Krakow, I am able to help you solve, among others, the following problems in the field of company law:
What is civil law?
Civil law is one of the basic branches of law . It regulates legal relations between entities that are in mutual relations on an equal footing, as opposed to other branches of law, in which, by definition, there is an element of subordination of one entity to another entity (e.g. criminal law or administrative law).
In the simplification adopted for the purposes of this description, we can assume that civil law consists of:
As an attorney running a law firm in Krakow, I can help you with virtually any matter in this area of law.
Issues related to the general part of civil law may arise in connection with the current operations of your company in Krakow or your current decisions in the field of various spheres of life.
Issues in this area are also very often the basis or at least a certain element of litigation . If you suspect the possibility of such a dispute in the future, or you have been served with a lawsuit filed by the other party to the dispute, remember to assess the risk and make the right procedural decisions.
The general part of civil law defines the basic principles of the functioning of civil law . Such rules include the ability to be the subject of legal transactions (e.g. a party to contracts), methods of concluding contracts, defects in declarations of will, methods of calculating deadlines in civil law, or the rules of limitation of claims.
Inheritance law is a branch of civil law that defines the rules for the transfer of property rights and obligations after the death of the person who is their subject. In other words, the inheritance law defines the rules for acquiring rights and obligations arising from inheritance, including the subject of inheritance (scope of inheritance rights and obligations), persons entitled to inheritance (both statutory and testamentary inheritance), or persons entitled to acquire rights related to with inheritance other than by inheritance (especially legatees), as well as the rules of liability for inheritance debts.
The provisions of the inheritance law are mostly contained in two legal acts . The provisions of substantive law (i.e. defining the essence of individual elements of law) are generally found in the Civil Code. The provisions on the procedural aspects of inheritance law, in turn, are generally found in the Code of Civil Procedure.
Provisions on inheritance law are also found in a number of other legal acts concerning both substantive law and procedural law. Examples of such laws include the Notarial Law and the Banking Law.
The inheritance law defines, above all, the scope of rights subject to inheritance. It defines which rights and obligations are included in the inheritance (of a property nature) and which rights and obligations are not subject to inheritance (of a personal nature).
The inheritance law also defines the rules for acquiring inheritance rights . Inheritance can occur in two ways: by statutory inheritance (which is the primary method of inheritance) and by testamentary inheritance.
Statutory inheritance takes place by virtue of the inheritance law itself - no intervention of the testator is needed in this respect. The provisions of the inheritance law specify the detailed order of inheritance of the testator's closer and more distant relatives (by establishing several groups of persons entitled to statutory inheritance).
Testamentary inheritance, on the other hand, is an optional method of inheritance . It is possible for a single inheritance to be inherited both by statutory inheritance and by testamentary inheritance. In this respect, the provisions of the inheritance law define the rules for drawing up and revoking wills. The inheritance law introduces the possibility of drawing up two main groups of wills:
Common wills include a holographic (handwritten) will, a notarial will and an allographic (official) will. These wills can be made by the testator at any time.
Among the special wills, the law of inheritance provides for the possibility of making a travel will, an ordinary will and an oral will. In this case, the possibility of making a will depends on the occurrence of special circumstances that allow a departure from the usual rules for making a will.
The inheritance law also introduces mechanisms to protect heirs against completely arbitrary disposal of inheritance property by the future testator. This mechanism is a legitim - property that should be received from the testator by the closest relatives during the testator's lifetime or after his death.
The provisions of the inheritance law define in particular the circle of persons entitled to receive the reserved share , the circle of persons obliged to pay the reserved share, the rules of inheritance of the reserved share, and finally the rules of limitation of the claim for payment of the reserved share. For many people, the provisions of the inheritance law regarding the legitim are ridiculous and not adapted to current economic realities.
Regardless of personal observations on this issue, it should be remembered that as long as the Polish system of inheritance law is not amended in this matter, the legitim will be an important element of inheritance law.
Courts in Krakow hear more and more cases of legitim. These matters are becoming more and more complicated due to the increasing amount of property left by the testators.
Upon the opening of the inheritance, all heirs become co-owners of the inherited property in parts corresponding to the inheritance shares. For this reason, it is necessary to distribute the property between individual heirs, in other words, to divide the inheritance.
Although the division of the inheritance is not mandatory (such an obligation does not result from any provision), it is usually advisable for economic and legal reasons (for example, to avoid problems with the management of real estate shared by many people).
The inheritance law grants the possibility of inheritance division in two ways :
The contractual division of the inheritance is the division of the inheritance made by agreement between all the heirs . Due to this, the provisions of the inheritance law require that the division of the inheritance should be made in the case of consent between all persons entitled to the inheritance. Lack of such consent makes it impossible to carry out the contractual division of the inheritance, leaving the heirs only with the court method of dividing the inheritance.
The inheritance division agreement should specify which elements of the inheritance fall to specific heirs. It can be concluded in any form , unless the inheritance includes real estate - in which case it is necessary to divide the inheritance in the form of a notarial deed.
Judicial division of inheritance is possible both in the case of agreement between the heirs as to the principles of division of the inheritance, and in the absence of such agreement. In the absence of such consent, this is the only possibility of dividing the inheritance , which is provided for by the provisions of the inheritance law.
It is usually advisable to perform a contractual division of the inheritance due to its speed and potentially lower costs. Judicial division of the inheritance is usually carried out when it is impossible to reach agreement on the valuation of the inheritance property or the allocation of specific elements of the inheritance to individual heirs.
Courts in Krakow hear many cases of inheritance division. These cases are often of a very lengthy nature due to problems with the valuation of assets included in the inheritance and the questioning of possible valuations by the heirs participating in the proceedings for division of the inheritance.
Inheritance law is also much more institutions than those listed above. Among others, the following can be mentioned:
You must remember that determining the legal situation in which you find yourself requires a broad look at the provisions of the entire inheritance law and the search for optimal solutions both in terms of the expected effects and the costs necessary to achieve the assumed effects. If you are looking for a lawyer in Krakow who will give you a broader look at your problems related to inheritance law, please contact my office.
My law firm in Krakow deals in particular with inheritance law. I am no stranger to any problems in this area of law. If you are looking for an inheritance attorney in Krakow , you've come to the right place!
As an attorney in Krakow, I am able to help you in the following matters, among others:
