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We provide comprehensive advice on banking and finance law. We advise Polish and foreign banks, investment firms, venture capital and private equity funds, brokerages and insurance companies. 
We have extensive experience advising payment institutions. We also work for firms from the FinTech sector and clients involved in blockchain technology and trading in virtual currencies.
We provide strategic advice on key projects affecting the operations of banks and other financial institutions. We support banks in ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements, including requirements for introduction of new products. We also provide transactional advice for banks and other clients.
Thanks to close cooperation with international offices of Eversheds Sutherland, we are in a position to support clients on a one-stop shop basis.
Our services
• Advice on establishment, organization and restructuring of banks and other financial institutions in Poland 
• Ongoing legal support for banks
• Advice on negotiation and conclusion of credit agreements, particularly in real estate financing transactions and financing of participation in loan syndication deals 
• Advice on financing of development projects, particularly involving municipal infrastructure and renewable energy
• Advice on bond issues
• Comprehensive financial regulatory advice | MAR | MiFID | AML | Compliance | Recommendation H | Recommendation Z
• Representation in administrative proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and other regulators, and before the courts 
• Development of internal organizational regulations and general terms and conditions for banks, brokerages and funds
• Preparing documentation for services performed by banks and other firms offering financial services
• Advice on protection of professional secrecy, including banking secrecy
• Comprehensive advice on processing of personal data and profiling of consumers 
• Support for transactions involving purchase and sale of financial assets
• Purchase and sale of portfolios of receivables
• Advice on performance of reporting obligations by public companies
• Corporate governance
• Bank outsourcing
• Advice on capital markets law
• Support for capital transactions
• Advice on structuring of mass cashfree settlements
• Financing of receivables and systems for settlement of receivables (systems for settlements between businesses)
• Derivatives (litigation)
• Securitization of receivables
• Restructuring of bank receivables
• Finance leasing
• Foreign exchange law 
• Advice on ISDA Master Agreements
• Electronic payment instruments
• Classic and reverse factoring
• Leasing transactions
• Training for the financial sector

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We provide comprehensive advice on banking and finance law. We advise Polish and foreign banks, investment firms, venture capital and private equity funds, brokerages and insurance companies. 

We have extensive experience advising payment institutions. We also work for firms from the FinTech sector and clients involved in blockchain technology and trading in virtual currencies.

We provide strategic advice on key projects affecting the operations of banks and other financial institutions. We support banks in ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements, including requirements for introduction of new products. We also provide transactional advice for banks and other clients.

Thanks to close cooperation with international offices of Eversheds Sutherland, we are in a position to support clients on a one-stop shop basis.

Our services

  • Advice on establishment, organization and restructuring of banks and other financial institutions in Poland 
  • Ongoing legal support for banks
  • Advice on negotiation and conclusion of credit agreements, particularly in real estate financing transactions and financing of participation in loan syndication deals 
  • Advice on financing of development projects, particularly involving municipal infrastructure and renewable energy
  • Advice on bond issues
  • Comprehensive financial regulatory advice | MAR | MiFID | AML | Compliance | Recommendation H | Recommendation Z
  • Representation in administrative proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and other regulators, and before the courts 
  • Development of internal organizational regulations and general terms and conditions for banks, brokerages and funds
  • Preparing documentation for services performed by banks and other firms offering financial services
  • Advice on protection of professional secrecy, including banking secrecy
  • Comprehensive advice on processing of personal data and profiling of consumers 
  • Support for transactions involving purchase and sale of financial assets
  • Purchase and sale of portfolios of receivables
  • Advice on performance of reporting obligations by public companies
  • Corporate governance
  • Bank outsourcing
  • Advice on capital markets law
  • Support for capital transactions
  • Advice on structuring of mass cashfree settlements
  • Financing of receivables and systems for settlement of receivables (systems for settlements between businesses)
  • Derivatives (litigation)
  • Securitization of receivables
  • Restructuring of bank receivables
  • Finance leasing
  • Foreign exchange law 
  • Advice on ISDA Master Agreements
  • Electronic payment instruments
  • Classic and reverse factoring
  • Leasing transactions
  • Training for the financial sector


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