Deloitte Legal, Gizicki i Wspólnicy sp.k.

Deloitte Legal, Gizicki i Wspólnicy sp.k. has a network of offices in major Polish cities: Katowice, Krakow, Poznan, Szczecin, Warsaw, Wroclaw. We provide comprehensive services in all legal matters. In our day-to-day work, we draw on the resources, knowledge and experience of the global network of law firms affiliated with Deloitte, which enables us to carry out international projects as well. Deloitte Legal addresses your challenges with comprehensive thinking, powered by experience and insights drawn from diverse business disciplines, industries, and global perspectives. We bring together legal advice, strategy, and technology to develop innovative solutions, create value for you and your business, and transform the way in which legal services are delivered and consumed.

Deloitte member firms have a long-standing reputation for helping clients to address complex, cross-border issues. Skilled and experienced Deloitte Legal* lawyers work together with other Deloitte professionals in tax, consulting and financial advisory to guide their clients through a project in a co-ordinated way around the world. Deloitte Legal, present in over 75 countries, is able to provide holistic guidance around strategic business decisions as well as offer support services that can increase efficiency and reduce the cost of some routine legal activities.

Areas of practice
Antitrust and competition: The competition and consumer law team provides full scope legal advisory for clients from various sectors and is best known from strategic advice in complicated M&A transactions, especially horizontal mergers and strategic advice for B2C businesses regarding consumer law issues. Its expertise includes assessment of distribution agreements in FMCG sector, as well as of consortium agreements between competitors, strategic advice on agency and franchise agreements (especially HSD and traditional trade) and high level advice with respect to consumer law issues in B2C relations. It also represents clients in antimonopoly proceedings and consumer related cases before Polish and European administrative bodies and courts.

Banking and finance: Deloitte Legal* has one of the leading banking and finance practices in Poland. Our team of highly qualified and experienced banking lawyers advises on a full spectrum of financial products, including leveraged and acquisition finance, corporate and investment grade lending, asset finance, project and infrastructure finance, real estate finance and restructuring and insolvency under Polish and English law.

Corporate, merger and acquisition: Deloitte Legal* provides a full range of corporate and transactional law services from complex advisory services related to major business life events (including advising in restructuring and mergers and acquisitions processes) through to general secretarial services.

Capital markets: The department is best known for its in-depth legal advice on equity capital markets transactions, including: IPOs, SPOs, ABB transactions, dual listings of companies on WSE, ESOP, disclosure requirements, structure of the transaction, regulatory approvals, transaction documentation, buy-back.

Commercial law solutions: companies are facing an increasing number of business challenges globally including more rigorous regulations and enforcement by local authorities in the countries where they operate. As experienced advisers with a practical focus, Deloitte Legal* can help clients meet these challenges and develop commercial solutions. It offers a broad base of commercial business law services in multiple jurisdictions. Its experience and global reach allow it to provide businesses facing complex legal regulations and challenges with personalised, tailor-made services.

Employment and pension solutions: turbulent economic times require companies to be agile and flexible in their staffing to remain competitive. Complex polices, frequent legislative changes and global operations make managing employee relations and compliance with employment law challenging for businesses. Deloitte Legal* HR Team has extensive experience of comprehensive support provided to both Polish and foreign employers operating in all economy sectors.  Our mission is to provide our Clients with a safe harbour where all HR-related legal issues can be properly addressed and solved.

Litigation and arbitration: Deloitte Legal’s lawyers defends clients’ rights and protect their interests in conflict situations. Focusing specifically on multinationals challenged with cross-border concerns, our dispute resolution professionals can help clients avoid possible litigation or, when it is unavoidable, represent clients in court to obtain a beneficial judgement. The offering is focused on four high-priority areas: civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, public litigation, tax litigation and employment litigation.

Life sciences and health care: Deloitte Legal helps to navigate all stages of the product life cycle, from clinical trials through manufacturing, distribution at the wholesale and pharmacy level, marketing, to reimbursement. In addition to providing extensive legal advice for the human pharmacy industry, our lawyers also specialize in the areas of medical devices and veterinary medicine, supporting the commercialization of the most innovative health solutions in the fields of biotechnology, genetics, and bioinformatics.

Project finance, energy and infrastructure: Deloitte Legal practitioners serve clients with a variety of energy, infrastructure and project finance legal solutions. Lawyers offer a broad scope of expertise, from strictly regulatory advice through assistance in infrastructure and energy projects (both, conventional and renewables) to experience in oil and gas, including biofuels.

Real estate: the real estate team operating within Deloitte Legal* has many years of vast experience in supporting domestic and international real estate transactions. In response to its clients’ expectations and needs Deloitte Legal* offers comprehensive legal services related to real estate transactions. With its experience it is able to create significant added value. Its services include: pre-transaction stage, due diligence advisory, transaction structuring, real estate acquisition, commercialisation of shopping centers, logistics and office space, planning and construction-related procedures, contracts to carry out architectural and building projects, general contractor agreements, real property leasing – sale and leaseback, creating real estate funds and shaping their structure, real estate and asset management, litigation.

Regulatory for financial sector and fintech law: A dynamically changing regulatory environment, complex business challenges and the ubiquity of technology require a specific approach to regulation. Deloitte Legal has a team of experts providing effective solutions for all players in the financial sector.

* “Deloitte Legal” means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firm affiliates that provide legal services. For legal and regulatory reasons, not all member firms provide legal services.