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We are glad that you are visiting our website. For almost two decades we support entrepreneurs in their most important business projects. We provide legal expertise in particular in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, competition law and legal coordination of audiovisual productions.

Our experience includes providing legal services both in leading international law firms, as in-house lawyers as well as while running our own business activity. Due to diversified experience we well understand needs of our clients.

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About Us

Andrzej Tropaczyński

Andrzej Tropaczyński

Andrzej Tropaczyński is an attorney at law with over 15 years of professional experience.

He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, investment contracts, corporate law and copyright law. He has worked with big corporations and start-ups.

For 9 years he had worked at Warsaw and Stockholm offices of Linklaters, a leading international law firm, working on a number of corporate transactions with a multimillion value. In 2010 and 2011, he was an in-house lawyer at Viacom Group, responsible for providing legal services in relation to such television channels as MTV Polska, VH1, VIVA, COMEDY CENTRAL and NICKELODEON. Since 2012 he has been continuing practice within a butique law firm.

Andrzej Tropaczyński authored a number of publications on civil and commercial law in professional magazines (the Monitor of Commercial Law, the Court Monitor), daily newspapers (e.g. Dziennik Gazeta Prawna) and on the blog that he co-established: korporacyjnie.pl.

He works in Polish (native) and English (fluent).

Marcin Paczewski

Marcin Paczewski

Marcin Paczewski is an attorney-at-law with over 15 years of professional experience.

He is a renown expert in competition law, compliance, combating unfair competition and litigation. Marcin advises both international and domestic clients active in various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceutical, financial and real estate. He conducts practical and effective workshops and training sessions, including tailor-made training programmes highly-valued by clients.

Marcin has gained experience by cooperating for a number of years with Allen & Overy international law firm as well as with leading Polish law firms.

He graduated from Warsaw University Law Faculty and is a member of the Warsaw Bar of Legal Advisors as well as the Polish Competition Law Association. Marcin actively takes part in legislative works in relation to Polish competition law.

He works in Polish (native) and English (fluent).

Areas of Practice

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Mergers and acquisitions

We provide a full range of services for M&A transactions. We conduct legal due diligence analyses, draft and help negotiate sale of shares contracts, investments and joint ventures contracts as well as contracts on sale of business undertakings and their organised parts. We help conduct corporate restructurings (mergers, divisions and transformations of commercial companies).

We work for financial clients (private equity funds), industry buyers, and start-ups. Thanks to such variety of clients we have a good understanding of the needs of both parties to M&A transactions, which helps us provide better and more efficient service.

Our selected experience in this area includes:

  • Drafting and negotiation for an investor from the UK of an investment agreement in connection with the subscription for a majority stake in a Polish-capital company from the movie sector;
  • purchase of 100 per cent of shares in a company from the educational sector for an investor from the Czech Republic;
  • acquisition of an enterprise from the medical sector for a Polish group of investors;
  • mergers of companies for an international real property management capital group;
  • capital and personal restructuring of a Polish audit capital group;
  • negotiating investment agreements for start-up clients.
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Corporate

We help create commercial companies and assist in their day to day management. We help conduct capital restructurings of companies (share capital increases, share capital decreases, capital injections, redemptions of shares, issuing corporate bonds, etc.), mergers, divisions, transformations, liquidations. We draft foundations acts of Polish companies as well as corporate resolutions and shareholders meetings minutes. We provide advice in shareholders conflicts.

Our selected experience in this field includes:

  • capital and personal restructuring of a group of companies from the audit sector;
  • share capital increase of a TV station for the contribution of IP rights to television programmes;
  • liquidation of companies and partnerships from an international real property management capital group;
  • debt to equity conversion for a foreign investor in a Polish limited liability company;
  • adjustment of foundation documentation of a Polish limited liability company in connection with rules of financing, new corporate management and joining of the company by an industry investor;
  • advising in a dispute regarding the dismissal of a management board member by a supervisory board of a Polish-capital company and pre-mature return of financing made by a shareholder of this company.
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Contracts and B2B relations

We provide the legal structure to our clients’ business concepts and support them in their everyday operations: we draft and negotiate contracts in various fields of trade and services, we consult in relations with their commercial partners, we draft framework agreements and useful templates.

Selected experience in this field includes: drafting and negotiating contracts concerning software implementation, B2B services (such as business consulting and recruitment), drafting a template consulting agreement for R&D finance, drafting a framework agreement concerning a co-authorship of audio-visual works, current advice concerning a long term relationship with a financing bank (including recovery of excess charges), termination of a long term agency contract in the fashion industry.

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Start-ups, joint ventures and investments

We support clients in enhancing security and find a suitable structure for their investments: we advise in relation to the acquisition of shares in companies, we draft and negotiate investment agreements, shareholder agreements, joint venture documentation. We work with developed businesses and start-ups.

We also assist and represent our clients in disputes concerning such ventures, and help them recover invested assets.

Selected experience in this field includes: drafting and negotiating an investment agreement for a UK investor acquiring a majority stake in a Polish audio-visual producer, negotiating a number of investment agreements for start-ups, representing an investor form the plastics sector in a corporate dispute with its German partner, representing an investor in a dispute concerning early redemption of corporate bonds (amicable settlement), protection of a minority shareholder, representing an investor in a litigation concerning termination of a joint venture, advising in relation to a division of a corporate structure comprising 6 companies and securing mutual payments between parting investors.

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Intellectual property and media

We draft and help negotiate agreements on licensing and acquisition of IP rights, film production, contracts with media houses, advertising agencies, sponsorship and barter contracts as well as regarding organization of cultural events. We support and represent our clients in disputes on breach of their intellectual property or personal rights.

We act among others for television stations, e.g. from Viacom and A+E Networks capital groups, as well as for numerous movie, television programme and advertisement producers.

Our selected experience in this field includes:

  • drafting and negotiating movie production contracts and contracts for the acquisition of rights to television programmes;
  • representing a client in a tender for a license right to broadcast a terrestrial digital television channel;
  • representing a famous sportsman in a dispute regarding the illegal use of his appearance in advertising materials.
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Compliance Workshops & Training

We create and conduct engaging, practical, tailored and effective workshops and training sessions in competition, anticorruption & whistleblowing protection compliance. We conduct both online and traditional training sessions.

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Combating Unfair Competition

We advise clients on unfair competition issues and offer our clients legal protection against such actions in the ever changing business environment.

We have extensive experience in misleading advertising and product protection issues. We conduct negotiations and successfully represent our clients in all types of disputes in the area of unfair competition.

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Competition & Consumer Protection

We provide professional legal advice ensuring compliance of your business activities with competition law, including:

  • assessing whether planned activities comply with competition law (including comprehensive compliance audits) and offering solutions ensuring both business objectives and legal compliance;
  • representing clients in proceedings before the Polish Competition Authority (PCA), European Commission and in related court cases in all instances, including the Supreme Court;
  • assessing whether a transaction has to be notified to the PCA or European Commission, including representing clients during merger notification proceedings;
  • identifying practices infringing collective consumer interests, particularly in online sales, contract models and proposing relevant legal actions;

reviewing distribution agreements and systems as well as developing relevant legal solutions.

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Team

Tropaczyński Paczewski

We team with legal advisors and advocates specialising in real estate, labour law and taxation.

In everyday work we are supported by junior lawyers we supervise.

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