At Compliance Partners, we serve our Clients by providing comprehensive tax and legal support in making business decisions.
Our team is composed of lawyers (legal counsels and lawyers) and tax advisers with many years of experience in serving entrepreneurs across a number of industries.
We support both international corporations and financial institutions, as well as local companies.
What makes us stand out is that we perceive the challenges faced by our Clients in a broader context. The advisory services we provide are far from being one-dimensional or limited to a selected aspect.
We believe that good communication and clear message are just as important as the knowledge and experience of our experts. We build our Client relationships based on partnership – we consider the mutual trust and personal commitment to be the basis.
Over the years, we have created a team of lawyers which, based on a wide range of competencies and bountiful experience, assists entrepreneurs in solving all types of legal problems.
CP is one of the founders and partners of the World M&A Alliance, a global network of transaction boutiques. We represent the World M&A Alliance network in Poland and we closely cooperate with the largest transaction boutiques, such as Goodbody from Ireland, Hamburg Commercial Bank from Germany, as well as Fineurop Soditic from Italy.
The World M&A Alliance network that we co-create has successfully completed more than 1,500 mergers and acquisitions. It is made up of more than 150 transaction bankers.
As part of the World M&A Alliance, we closely cooperate on cross-border merger and acquisition projects. We bring together experts in the countries of Africa, Europe, Asia, North and South America and Oceania.
The cross-border merger and acquisition projects implemented by the World M&A Alliance included:
food industry – more than 125 transactions,
chemical and pharmaceutical industry – more than 100 transactions,
financial industry – more than 50 transactions,
TMT industry – more than 200 transactions,
manufacturing and industrial sector – more than 225 transactions,
medical industry – more than 125 transactions,
consumer industry and retail – more than 200 transactions,
business services – more than 250 transactions,
construction industry and real estate – more than 100 transactions.
Compliance Partners is a law firm focused on advising entrepreneurs. Our versatile team of lawyers, legal counsels and tax advisers provides professional service which covers every branch of law and the economy. Our Clients represent, among others, such industries as:
We know how important it is from the perspective of the financial market actors to build a steadily growing business, which responds to the changing customer expectations while maintaining compliance with the changing regulations and regulatory requirements.
We understand that a good lawyer should know and understand the business they support just as well as they should know the regulations within which they act.
Within our team, we have gathered practitioners with experience in brokerage houses, investment fund companies, payment institutions, banks, and the insurance market actors.
We support our Clients in all legal aspects of their business:
insurance companies – from creating and implementing the insurance product and sales solutions to claim settlement
payment institutions – in particular, in designing and implementing regulations for new services (including in the FinTech area)
brokerage houses, banks and IFCs – in building a legal framework for new services, issuing opinions on operational compliance, in trading activities
We advise in the preparation, implementation and assessment of solutions required by law and recommendations of a supervisory authority.
In problem situations, we assist in administrative proceedings.
Among our services, a license-related activity occupies a special place – we appreciate the opportunity to represent our Clients in proceedings for granting permits to conduct a regulated activity.
Litigation can only be successfully conducted by experienced lawyers. Our litigation team is composed of legal counsels and attorneys only.
As far as disputes are concerned, we represent our Clients not only before common and administrative courts, but also in international arbitration proceedings.
Our international network of partners also allows to support our Clients before courts in other states.
Compliance Partners offers entrepreneurs assistance covering law and restructuring advice in the broad sense.
Wojciech Wątroba, a legal counsel and restructuring adviser, has exceptional knowledge and experience which he gained while working as a court executive supervisor for arrangement, and representing parties in the restructuring, as well as creditors.
There are four restructuring procedures under restructuring law, which allow an entrepreneur to enter into an arrangement with creditors. The aim of the arrangement is to satisfy creditors to the highest possible extent while enabling the company to continue its operations.
We present best solutions that give an entrepreneur a chance to avoid bankruptcy and improve the economic situation.
Szymon Oprzalski, a German lawyer and Polish legal counsel, leads a team dealing with matters of German-speaking Clients or Clients related to German law.
The main areas of support cover:
German law,
introducing Polish entrepreneurs into German-speaking markets and German-speaking entrepreneurs into the Polish market,
assisting Polish temporary employment agencies in activities in the territory of Germany,
advice on cross-border trading and business activities,
As part of Spanish Desk, we provide legal service in the territory of Poland to entrepreneurs from Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries operating in different industries.
The leader in this area, dealing with coordination and direct legal service, holds qualifications both in Poland and in Spain. This allows us to take into account the legal, cultural and linguistic differences, thereby creating the right conditions for the effective and safe conduct of our Clients’business.
At the same time, we cooperate with law firms in Spain and Latin America countries, supporting Polish entrepreneurs. As a result, we coordinate projects and provide comprehensive legal service to Polish entrepreneurs who operate in these countries.
We are practitioners in Compliance in the broad sense of the term, with experience gained while working for both the PFSA and the leading financial institutions in Poland.
We represent our Clients in proceedings related to obtaining a permit, but also in disputes with supervisory authorities. We create internal regulations and support our Clients in the areas of Compliance, AML, internal audit, personal data and risk management. We operate in all sectors of the financial market, and we address our services to:
innovative FinTech entities including, in particular, payment institutions;
Polish and foreign investment fund managers;
insurance institutions;
investment firms.
We successfully develop and implement Compliance systems also in entities outside the financial sector, adding value that goes beyond traditional legal advice.
