Conflicts are inevitable. Dispute resolution is one of our leading specialties, having been recognized in international rankings for years. We have represented clients in disputes worth more than 12 billion euros and have spent thousands of hours in the courtroom and boardrooms ensuring disputes are resolved.
What we offer
- Strategic consulting in disputes.
- Pre-dispute counseling, including management of key business relationships to mitigate risks.
- Pre-trial correspondence, seeking to narrow the dispute.
- Securing the subject matter of a dispute (especially when it is a company), securing intangible assets, securing data, securing access to critical services and ensuring business continuity, and securing evidence (e.g., construction status).
- Obtaining specialized evidence (damage assessment, company valuation, psychological evaluations, technical opinions, computer forensics, etc).
- Representation in court and in domestic and international arbitration.
- Mediation services.
- Representation in criminal proceedings related to business disputes.
Selected experience
- The total value of cases our lawyers have handled exceeds 12 billion USD
- Corporate: We've represented shareholders and companies in dozens of corporate disputes, including public companies, with values reaching tens of millions of euros. These disputes involved issues such as management actions detrimental to the company and shareholders, conflicts between shareholders, and breaches of investment agreements.
- Arbitration: We've represented clients in international and domestic arbitration, including investment arbitrations, with values exceeding 2 billion euros. Also serving as arbitrators.
- Mediation: We've represented contractors and awarding authorities in mediations before the Polish State Solicitor's Office resulting from public procurement contracts
- Construction: We've represented a municipal utility company in a series of construction disputes totaling approximately 30 million USD. These disputes involved misleading the investor and the abandonment of construction by an unreliable public procurement contractor for significant technological elements. The disputes concerned issues of contract termination, misleading the client when entering into the contract, guarantees in construction contracts, rights to technical designs, and liability towards subcontractors.
- IT: We've represented a global software house in an international arbitration worth approximately 40 million USD regarding a failed IT project in the financial sector.
- Competition: We've represented a manufacturer with proprietary technology accused of stealing technology, clients, and personnel to suppress them as a competitor. We've represented a leading capital group from the food sector in unfair competition proceedings valued at several hundred million USD.
- Big Tech: We've represented a Polish political party and its members in a case concerning deplatforming by Meta (Facebook), including obtaining a court injunction and restoring the Facebook page before the start of proceedings in merit. We've represented an individual on a pro bono basis in proceedings concerning personal data protection violations by OpenAI's artificial intelligence LLM ChatGPT.
Reputation
- Our "How to Write Pleadings and Conduct Communication in Disputes. The Little Book on Writing Pleadings", with numerous enthusiastic reviews, has become Wolters Kluwer Poland's No 1 best-selling book of 2022. It was published in English in 2023 as "Little Book on Drafting Pleadings".
- The sheer volume of disputes we've handled (over 12 billion USD) speaks for itself
- We have been recommended in international rankings.
- We act as arbitrators.
- We regularly publish on dispute matters, and are authors of academic publications on construction disputes.
