Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak

• Succession planning for individuals

Working hand in hand with our clients, we elaborate the best scenarios for succession for the family and the family business.

• Relocation

We plan the relocation of foreign clients to Poland and of Poles abroad.

• Family foundations

We advise on and help establish foreign and Polish family foundations and place them within the structures of family firms. The solutions and structures we propose respond to the individual needs of our clients. We guide you through the entire process of establishing a foundation, from drawing up the articles of association and contributing assets to the registration and continued operation of the family foundation. We provide comprehensive consultancy, covering legal and tax issues. Since we understand all the needs and concerns of our clients, we provide individualised solutions.

• Reviewing and structuring family firms

The great business ideas of their founders may have led to the creation of many family firms but not infrequently their dynamic growth was the reason why the best legal vehicles were not employed. We help review the legal structures of family businesses, preserving what is best in them. We resort to our wide experience in reorganising and restructuring enterprises, and we use the legal mechanisms of the merger, division and transformation of companies.

• Selling shares in Polish companies

Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, private clients decide to sell their firms. We assist them in getting ready for this step, providing support during negotiations of the terms of the transaction with new investors, such as private equity funds.

• Taxation of private income

We advise on the taxation of the private income of investors, entrepreneurs, managers and employees. We have extensive experience in matters of taxation of income earned abroad (including CFC, secondment) and income tax.

Managing Partner: Dr. Marcin Olechowski

Number of partners: 35

Number of lawyers: 190+

Languages: English, French, German, Polish, Ukrainian

Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak, an independent Polish law firm, offers legal services to businesses from Poland and abroad. The firm advises clients on all the legal aspects of their local and international operations and represent them in litigation. SK&S was founded in 1991. Over the years it has won one of the leading positions in the market for legal services. The firm has expertise in all areas of the law that are relevant to business.

SK&S is a team of over 190 lawyers. For many years now, the firm and its lawyers have been ranked highest in Poland (Rzeczpospolita, Forbes, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna), but also by international law journals such as Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, IFLR1000. The firm is recognised as a leader in the Polish legal services market in the areas of commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and arbitration, banking and finance, antitrust law, intellectual property, capital markets, tax law and labour law, among others.

• Banking & Finance
• Bankruptcy & Restructuring
• Company Law, Mergers & Acquisitions
• Competition Law
• Dispute resolution
• E-Commerce
• Energy Law
• Environmental protection
• ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
• Infrastructure
• Intellectual Property
• International Arbitration
• IT & New Technologies
• Labour Law
• Life Sciences
• Litigation & Arbitration
• Media & Telecommunications
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Motor Industry
• Personal Data Protection
• Private Clients
• Private Equity
• Public Procurement
• Real estate & Construction
• Securities & Capital Markets
• State Aid
• Tax
• White Collar Crime