Dentons

Tax, Development and Innovation Grants and Incentives

Michał Turczyk, PhD, is a partner in the Dentons’ Warsaw Tax team, where he heads the Development, Innovation Grants and Incentives Practice.

Michał has more than a decade of consulting experience in advising on foreign direct investments in Poland and Central Europe, investment incentives and tax reliefs, as well as innovations and state aid. He specializes in investment and R&D activities funding, including R&D from non-commercial sources (such as EU funds, government grants, tax reliefs and other). He has set up and managed cross-border and cross-functional project teams across Central Europe and globally.

He has assisted clients on major investment and R&D projects in Poland as regards using subsidies, tax benefits and investment tax allowances, including in Special Economic Zones and Polish Investment Zone, for businesses from the manufacturing, food processing, energy, new technologies, outsourcing and other sectors. Michał has supported major multinationals in developing investment strategies, site selection, implementing and managing the investment process as well as further development based on innovative activities in Poland.

As part of his advisory, he conducts negotiations with central and local government administration and investment support agencies. Michał has experience in the scope of state aid and competition law proceedings, including state aid notifications to the European Commission and representing clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

He advises clients on identification and optimization of non-commercial sources of financing investments, R&D works and innovations. Michał undertakes projects aimed at identifying and defining R&D activities of enterprises in a range of industries by creating and coordinating dedicated teams staffed with researchers, theoreticians and business practitioners. He has advised clients with regard to amended state aid and tax benefits regulations in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia and Canada.

He co-authored a report for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education on the new model tax incentives system to foster R&D activities in Poland. He has acted as an expert adviser to the Ministry of Economy on creating a new tax relief for R&D in Poland and assisted in developing the system in Slovakia.

‣ Dentons partner since 2018 ‣ With Dentons since 2018

English; Polish

‣ Jagiellonian University, 2014, Doctor of Laws ‣ University of Warsaw, 2008, “PreMBA” – Business Administration ‣ Jagiellonian University, 2005, Studies in the area of administration ‣ Jagiellonian University, 2005, Master of Laws ‣ Tilburg University, 2004, European Law Programme ‣ Jagiellonian University, 2003, Program in American Law in collaboration with the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law