The employment group at Clifford Chance is a popular choice among private equity funds in Poland seeking employment advice on termination of employment, management incentive plans and day-to-day issues. The team can also be seen regularly handling restructurings and collective redundancies, as well as disputes concerning bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination. Tomasz Derda heads up the practice and brings corporate expertise to employment matters.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Collaboration and the team set-up significantly help with achieving the client's goals.’

  • ‘Grzegorz Nowaczek - outstanding in collaboration, kindness, flexible approach, engaged, trustworthy, loyal and solution oriented.’

  • ‘Very responsive and practical team providing high quality advice. They understand our business and know the important stakeholders.’

  • ‘Grzegorz Nowazck is a sharp and responsive lawyer providing practical advice. He is able to think along with the business and thinks in solutions, not in problems.’

Key clients

  • Mondelez
  • Prosus/Naspers
  • OLX
  • Kingspan
  • Stryker
  • CBRE Investment Management
  • Allegro
  • Arriva
  • Waterland
  • Arvato
  • Hillwood
  • Esdec
  • Allego
  • Adyen N.V.
  • HES International
  • Ringier Axel Springer
  • Aalberts

Work highlights

  • Advising Prosus on all aspects of employment law in Poland.
  • Advised Allegro on employment aspects related to the operation of a stock option plan based on the participants' entitlement to Allegro.eu shares.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Tomasz Derda

Other key lawyers

Grzegorz Nowaczek, Joanna Kamińska, Aleksandra Ulatowska