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Grzegorz Kott

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Languages: Polish

Grzegorz Kott is an attorney-at-law and Of Counsel in the Banking & Finance team at Eversheds Sutherland Poland.

He specializes in banking, capital markets and insurance law, as well as commercial and civil law. He has almost 30 years of experience in providing legal advice to domestic and international banks and other financial market entities such as lending and payment institutions, investment funds, insurers and lessors.

Grzegorz provides day-to-day legal assistance, advising on obtaining financing, as well as on the establishment, acquisition and restructuring of companies, including financial institutions. He supports clients with financial market regulations and represents them before supervisory authorities. He negotiates credit facility documentation, including security packages, contracts for sale of receivables, and other similar contracts. He provides comprehensive advice on the provision of payment services.

Grzegorz advises banks, lending institutions and other financial entities on consumer regulations, in particular on financial issues, distance and off-premises sales, abusive clauses, and other issues related to consumer contracts. He represents clients in disputes with consumer market regulators. He also supports companies in developing new sales structures that comply with consumer regulations.

Grzegorz is a co-author of a commentary on the Consumer Credit Act (C. H. Beck, 2012). He also co-authored the chapter “Information restrictions in financial services advertising and fairness of competition” in the book entitled “Information in the financial services market” (Polskie Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne, 2019).

  • Drafting and negotiating agreements for a sale of receivables with a total value exceeding couple of billion Polish zloty.
  • Legal analysis and negotiation of group insurance agreements.
  • Drafting general terms and conditions and other insurance documentation for selected types of insurance cover.
  • Reviewing, amending and negotiating investment agreement portfolios with respect to employee pension programs and other savings plans.
  • Reviewing and drafting facility documentation for consumer credit offers for various sale channels.
  • Reviewing and amending internal regulations at financial institutions such as anti-money laundering procedures, client conflict procedures, and procedures for implementing the Market Abuse Regulation.
  • Co-author of a commentary on the Consumer Credit Act (C. H. Beck, 2012)
  • Co-author of the chapter “Information restrictions in financial services advertising and fairness of competition" in the book entitled “Information in the financial services market" (Polskie Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne, 2019)
  • Advising on obtaining financing for the construction of photovoltaic farms, including negotiations of the loan agreement and security package. 
  • Advising companies from the non-bank financial sector on establishing and changing the structures for providing payment services, including cross-border structures.
  • Representing companies from the non-bank sector in proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority on the licensing of activities in the field of payment services.
  • Advising lending institutions on the creation and change of the consumer credit business model, including the development and change of loan products, financing activities and negotiating the sale of NPL portfolios. 
  • Advising entities in various sectors of the financial market on the establishment of insurance distribution structures. 
  • Advising one of the largest Polish banks on changes in the structure of the provision of money transfer services. 
  • Advising financial sector entities on the analysis and amendment of internal regulations regarding AML procedures, conflict of interest prevention procedures, MAR implementation procedures. 
  • Advising the Ministry of Finance and the Polish Financial Supervision Authority on a project aimed at establishing a legal and technological framework for the development of the FinTech and SupTech sectors in Poland.
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Grzegorz Kott

Of Counsel

Grzegorz Kott

Of Counsel

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