Wardyński and Associates Ltd.

We provide comprehensive advice on all legal aspects related to the real estate market

We advise on civil, commercial and public law, including in particular property law, bond contracts, real estate management, spatial development law, and construction law.

We maintain contacts with the best advisors in the world and have access to global know-how, thanks to which we serve clients at the highest level, in accordance with international standards and taking into account cross-border issues. Our team members speak English, German, Spanish and Italian.

Individual and collective labor law

For many years, we have been advising on individual and collective labor law in the Polish and EU aspects. We deal with social insurance and legalization of work and stay of third-country nationals in Poland. We also conduct court disputes in the field of labor law before courts of all instances throughout the country.

We help our clients at every stage of their business, providing individually developed solutions that ensure not only full legal security, but also the achievement of intended business goals.

Thanks to close cooperation with other practitioners, we offer comprehensive solutions that take into account not only employee issues, but also related issues of civil, corporate, tax and criminal law.

We comprehensively advise our clients and actively support them in the following areas:

• employment structures, establishing and terminating employment relationships, e.g. negotiations, hiring managerial staff and key employees, and the so-called "hard redundancies" of high-level and sheltered workers,
• employment restructuring, e.g. construction of an internal employer, individual and group layoffs, transfers of workplaces, M&A transactions, employee outsourcing,
• atypical (flexible) forms of employment, e.g. temporary work, civil law contracts,
• litigation before courts of all instances throughout the country and settlement negotiations in labor law matters, including mobbing, discrimination, accidents at work, employee claims resulting from the termination of employment contracts, social packages,
• risk management, including due diligence ,  forensic audits , investigations with criminal elements in the case of employee violations,
• internal policies and codes, including work and remuneration regulations, codes of ethics, anti-discrimination policies, policies regarding employee monitoring and privacy, use of company property, responsibility for property,
• remuneration, bonus and other benefits systems for employees at various levels,
• employee monitoring and employee privacy protection, including recording, e-mail box control, social networks,
• mobbing, protection of personal rights,
• discrimination in employment and civil law relations (members of the management board, contractors), including in particular in the field of remuneration and the right to improve professional qualifications,
• protection of personal data in employment,
• relations with trade unions, e.g. negotiations, agreements and collective labor agreements, collective disputes, strikes,
• works councils and employee representatives, information and consultation obligations,
• employee matters related to the creation and operation of European companies, including agreements, special negotiating teams, European Works Councils,
• accidents at work, incl. post-accident proceedings, risk management and employee claims,
• occupational health and safety, including compliance  in cooperation with health and safety specialists,
• social insurance, including social insurance of third-country nationals of various status in Poland, in the EU and other countries,
• legalization of work and residence of third-country nationals, including board members and employees of diplomatic and consular missions, churches and religious associations in Poland and the European Union, e.g. work permits, visas, residence cards,
• conducting disputes with the competent authorities regarding the legality of work and stay of third-country nationals in Poland, e.g. expulsion proceedings,
• inspections of the National Labor Inspectorate,
• certification and operation of employment agencies,
• training in the field of employee matters addressed, depending on the needs, to employees of various levels and employers,
• candidate verification programs ( pre-employment screening ).

Corporate services for companies

Our experiences:

• long-term ongoing legal services in the field of matters regulated by the Code of Commercial Companies, provided to entities operating in various sectors of production and provision of services,
• establishing capital companies with one or more partners; for many companies with several shareholders, shareholders' agreements regulating their relations have been prepared,
• establishing partnerships, including limited partnerships, in which general partners were legal persons,
• merger of capital companies both in the ordinary and simplified mode,
• transformation of capital and personal companies,
• division of capital companies also by separating a specific part of the company's assets and related activities,
• participation in the process of cross-border mergers of companies, one of which was a Polish company,
• setting up European companies,
• participation in restructuring processes of groups of companies belonging to domestic and international holding companies in order to simplify management structures and reduce operating costs.

Protection of intellectual property rights

For many years, we have been supporting clients both in managing their portfolio of intellectual property rights and in enforcing them.

Intellectual property rights protect intangible goods, primarily works, patents, trademarks and industrial designs, i.e. goods of an intellectual nature, which - embodied in tangible objects - are traded. They are of great economic importance and often determine the market and economic success of a company. The legal acts regulate in detail the ways of obtaining rights to these goods and the rules of using them, and also specify what actions of third parties constitute their infringement. Combating unfair competition is a separate legal regime. It may supplement the protection of individual intellectual property rights, as well as constitute a separate basis for protecting the interests of entrepreneurs.

We advise clients and represent them before civil and criminal courts in disputes regarding the fight against infringements of intellectual property rights by third parties, as well as unfair competition. We cooperate with customs authorities in proceedings concerning goods infringing intellectual property rights seized at the border.

In cases requiring it, we form interdisciplinary teams consisting of lawyers advising in various fields of law, but we also cooperate with many outstanding scientists from various fields, especially with representatives of the doctrine.

Advising clients from the insurance sector

We provide clients from the insurance sector with a wide range of services in various fields of law, taking into account the specificity of insurance activity and specific regulations in this area.

Our advice includes in particular:

• corporate, tax and regulatory issues related to the conduct of insurance activities in Poland by domestic and foreign insurance companies;
• advice on creating insurance products;
• preparing, giving opinions and negotiating insurance contracts regarding life insurance, other personal insurance and property insurance, including, among others, credit and other business insurance contracts, third party liability insurance contracts for sponsors and investigators in clinical trials, life insurance contracts with an insurance capital fund;
• preparation and review of general terms and conditions of insurance, advice on good practices;
• preparation and issuing opinions on agreements regulating banking and insurance cooperation ( bancassurance );
• comprehensive  due diligence  of insurance companies;
• conducting insurance disputes;
• restructuring the assets of insurance companies;
• analysis of insurance issues for the purposes of M&A transactions.

We also act as a claim representative of a foreign insurance company offering motor third party liability insurance.

Our clients include Polish and international insurance companies and insurance brokers. We also advise clients of insurance companies.