About

Kieltyka Gladkowski KG Legal is a Polish law firm, with offices in Warsaw,  Krakow (Cracow) and with address office in New York (international branch of Polish law firm – MORE). Kieltyka Gladkowski KG Legal handles cross border cases. It has a dedicated corporate and private client desk. We advise international and domestic clients on the basis of Polish law, in litigation and in non-contentious matters.

Our particular focus is on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters, primarily within the technology; fintech and blockchain; cybersecurity; media and telecom; healthcare and life sciences; digital health; financial institutions; DeFi; defence; real estate, construction and infrastructure; transport and logistics; manufacturing; retail and distribution sectors; apart from standard areas of expertise like corporate; commercial; antitrust and competition; bankruptcy; BPO; commercial litigation; energy; employment.

We represent domestic and international clients within the full range of size, stage of development and scope of business: investors, start-ups, entrepreneurs, seed and angel venture funds, growing companies, small and mid-size companies, large global corporations.

The primary focus areas of Kieltyka Gladkowski KG Legal are:

  • Dispute resolution, conflict resolution and civil litigation
  • Commercial and corporate law, including corporate governance, financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions
  • IT law and new technologies, with a particular emphasis on e-commerce, video games, e-sports, blockchain, fintech, e-health, AI, AR/VR, mobile
  • Intellectual property
  • Employment law, including cross-border employment
  • Business to business contracts
  • Competition and antitrust
  • EU law
  • Data protection and data privacy
  • Regulatory law
  • Polish and international trademark law, copyright, licences
  • Private equity and venture capital
  • Insolvency law, restructuring, property management, business continuation, preparation and implementation of insolvency plans
  • Real estate project development
  • Residential property law
  • Real estate transactions (legal due diligence, legal advice on buying and selling real estate and real estate portfolios)
  • Public procurement and PPP
  • Compliance
  • Advising start-ups / companies and investors on company formation, funding rounds and transactions.

Kieltyka Gladkowski KG Legal developed its Private Client desk services for HNW individuals and their businesses and Next Gen Wealth, including legal advice in wealth management; succession planning; investments across different asset classes; legal support in creating trust funds and tax optimization as well as advice and support on business and corporate structuring (MORE).

All of our lawyers have studied and / or worked abroad. In our daily practice, we often work closely with foreign affiliated lawyers.

Kieltyka Gladkowski KG Legal is the member of a number of international organisations, including American Bar Association International Law Section, American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), BioLawEurope F.m.b.A., LifeScience Cluster, International Intellectual Property Law Association, Deutsch-Nordische Juristenvereinigung E.V., Deutsch-Niederländische Rechtsanwaltsvereinigung E.V., Advantage Austria (International unit of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce), through which KG Legal develops its cross border legal and business capabilities.

ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA, International Department of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce of Austria (Wirtschaftskammer Österreich – WKÖ) has entered the partners of KG Legal to the list of trusted lawyers (Vertrauensanwalt).

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Our information blog about legal updates and handled cases (link)

Selected recent legal projects and cross-border services within the IT and Life sciences industries:

  • contract for the maintenance and modification of the ICT system, including technical support services, system development and a series of trainings for internal users
  • legal service for an innovative IT project for an entity from the pharmaceutical, health care and well-being services sector
  • legal service of the Big Data project in the field of automation of the process of exercising rights from medical documents; legal protection of the software contract in the microservices architecture
  • representation of a pharmaceutical entity in negotiating a claim resulting from improper performance of an IT Big Data project due to the disadvantage of inadequate optimization of data operations speed, computing power and minimizing the failure rate of software providing real time data to physicians
  • legal protection of the company dealing in software development in the form of an analytical platform and algorithm. Creating a legal framework enabling adequate settlement of patients’ rights, collecting required signatures and archiving documents for the purposes of auditing
  • API license agreement with securing rights to the API source code, including processing, decompiling, modifying or disassembling APIs.

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Languages

  • English
  • Polish
  • German
  • Russian

Memberships

  • New York City Bar Association
  • American Bankruptcy Institute
  • Institiute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • BioLaw Europe FmbA
  • Life Sciences Cluster Krakow
  • Polish National Bar of Attorneys
  • Europäische Anwaltsvereinigung DACH
  • CALA Association
  • R3 Association
  • Advantage Austria
  • ITechLaw Association
  • ABA (American Bar Association)
  • REUNITE International
  • The Netherlands Polish Chamber of Commerce
  • Deutsch-Niederländische Rechtsanwaltsvereinigung
  • Deutsch - Nordische Juristenvereinigung

Staffing Figures

  • 2 Founding Partners
  • 3 Managing Partners
  • 1 Private Investigators
  • 2 Translators
  • 1 Retired Partners
  • 5 Student Trainees
  • 5 Senior Associates
  • 8 Of Counsels
  • 5 Associates
  • 6 Junior Associates
  • 5 Legal Trainees
  • 3 Administrative Staff
  • 2 IT Specialists
  • 2 Tax advisors