Scope of services
Civil matters
The civil cases conducted by the Law Firm also relate to claims under insurance contracts, contracts concluded with travel agencies, real estate management and recovery, including reprivatization.
- providing legal advice
- preparing legal opinions
- consulting and representing the client at every stage of both judicial and extrajudicial proceedings,
- preparation of lawsuits, motions, pleadings, appeals, complaints
- preparation, negotiation and verification of draft contracts, including sale, rent, lease, lending, agency, order, specific task, construction works contract, commission, loan, insurance, leasing, assignment, debt assumption
- solving problems related to claims arising from contracts, in the event of non-performance or improper performance of contracts, warranty claims, guarantees, non-conformity of the goods with the contract, contractual penalties,
- litigation
- enforcement cases
Scope of services
Legal Assistance for Entrepreneurs and other entities / economic affairs
The Law firm is prepared to provide legal services to companies regardless of their structure and organizational form. Therefore, this applies to commercial law companies, cooperatives, but also civil law partnerships and natural persons who are entrepreneurs.
- trade agreements (contracts)
- litigation
- permanent legal services for entrepreneurs
- preparing legal opinions
- corporate and business law
- public procurement
- legal audit of companies and enterprises
- preparation of lawsuits, motions, pleadings, appeals, complaints
- preparation, negotiation and verification of draft contracts, including sale, rent, lease, lending, agency, order, specific task, construction works contract, commission, loan, insurance, leasing, assignment, debt assumption
- solving problems related to claims arising from contracts, in the event of non-performance or improper performance of contracts, warranty claims, guarantees, non-conformity of the goods with the contract, contractual penalties
- enforcement cases
The law firm also provides legal advice for entities that do not deal with economic activities (associations, foundations, as well as local government units), as well as for natural persons
Scope of services
Banking Law
We cooperated in the CHF case being the subject of the European Court of Justice’s decision dispelling interpretation doubts regarding the effects of the bank entering into the loan agreement forbidden contractual provisions regarding indexation to the CHF rate.
- negotiating contracts concluded with the bank
- negotiating contracts with financial companies, including leasing and forfaiting
- handling bank courts disputes
- analysis of the so-called “franc” claims related to claims under loan agreements indexed / denominated in a foreign currency and conducting negotiations and litigation in this respect
Scope of services
Real Estate Law
Assistance in concluding all kinds of real estate contracts.
- examining the legal status of real estate,
- land and mortgage register analysis, including all risk, charges, potential restrictions, claims for damages
- analysis and preparation of appeals against administrative decisions regarding building conditions
- assistance in concluding all kinds of real estate contracts,
- legal assistance in administrative proceedings regarding obtaining all decisions necessary for planning construction investments
- consultancy and preparation of civil law contracts necessary for the purchase and sale of real estate, perpetual usufruct right, shares in real estate, preliminary contracts and all other contracts necessary for the preparation of an efficient investment process
- legal services and representation of clients during negotiations and concluding contracts with all parties involved in construction projects
- conducting court cases regarding real estate, including the abolition of joint ownership, proceedings for confirmation of inheritance, acquisition of property by prescription, land and mortgage register proceedings, etc.
- property recovery, so-called Warsaw land, real estate taken away on the basis of a decree of PKWN
Scope of services
Inheritance and Family Law
Conducting cases about:
- confirmation of inheritance acquisition
- inheritance division
- inheritance protection for a reserved share
- for recognition of unworthy of inheritance
- related to inheritance and gift tax
- divorce and separation
- regulating contact with children
- determining where to stay with the child, including parents who are foreign nationals
- alimony
- abolition of joint property of spouses and division of joint property of spouses
- paternity arrangements and denial
- incapacitation.
Scope of services
Criminal Law
Defense in criminal and penal-fiscal proceedings
- defense in criminal and penal-fiscal proceedings at the stage of preparatory and court proceedings at the level of all instances and before the Supreme Court
- defense and representation in enforcement proceedings
- drawing up private indictments and representing victims in criminal proceedings at the pre-trial stage, and then as the so-called auxiliary prosecutor in court proceedings
- preparation of pleadings and procedural applications, including: cassation, appeals, compensation claims for wrongful conviction, cases before the Strasbourg Tribunal
Scope of services
Administrative Law
Representing clients in administrative proceedings
- editing letters and complaints in connection with the activities of state administration bodies and local government units
- assistance in purchasing the required permits, licenses and concessions
- representing clients in administrative proceedings,
- representing clients in cases before administrative courts, including the Supreme Administrative Court
Scope of services
Intellectual property and copyright law and new technology law
New technology law and competition law
- advice on the registration of patents and trademarks
- preparation of contracts and negotiations on matters related to the transfer of copyrights and license agreements
- preparation of contracts and consultancy in the field of new technology law and competition law
- handling court disputes on the matters described above
Scope of services
Enforcement cases
Client representation in enforcement proceedings
The Law Office adv. Grzegorz Sikorski
Ph.D of law
A graduate of the Faculty of Law at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He also completed Postgraduate Studies in Commercial Law and Law at the University of Gdańsk, as well as Postgraduate Studies in Copyright at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Legal advisor since 1994. Entry on the list of lawyers – May 2005.
Author of several dozen publications in the field of civil law, including banking, commercial and also book (including ‘Pledgee’s situation in Polish law’, Toruń 2010, ‘Banking law. Commentary’, Warsaw 2015). Co-author of comments to the codes of the Civil Code. Commentary, Warsaw 2013, 2014, 2019 “Code of Civil Procedure. Commentary, Sopot 2017.
Legal assistance to individual and institutional clients
The Law Office serves the whole range of legal help, including client’s representation in legal actions and administrative proceedings.