Who we are?

Marcin Jan Grzesiak

General partner – legal adviser

marcin.grzesiak@prawni.pro

He obtained a Master’s degree in law from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and having passed an examination of professional competence he has worked as a legal adviser since 2010. In 2004–2013 he cooperated with Dr Krystian Ziemski & Partners Kancelaria Prawna sp.k., for the last eighteen months being a partner of that law firm and head of the civil (business) and labour law department.  A specialist in the field of broader business and civil law (including contract, real estate and public procurement law) as well as labour law.  He has a command of English.

Experience in the execution of selected projects:

  • participation in comprehensive handling of transactions of the sale of real estate and undertakings (agricultural holdings), in particular with regard to the preparation of relevant preliminary contracts and contract transferring the legal title;
  • participation in developing strategies for ownership transformation concerning real estate and undertakings (agricultural holdings) and company conversions, in particular in the context of civil law, competition and antitrust law as well as labour law;
  • audits of real estate and undertakings (agricultural holdings), including as contracted by potential acquirers with a view to reducing the risks involved in such acquisitions;
  • provision of comprehensive advisory services concerning the preparation and negotiation of contracts of any type, including contracts regarding e-business and e-commerce, contracts concluded in the IT sector (outsourcing, service) and finance [factoring (non-recourse, recourse, mixed, reverse factoring), credit agreements, debt portfolio transactions], contracts concerning loyalty schemes, contracts relating to the construction process (works contract, contract for specific work, project management contract, designer supervision contract) and (broadly defined) property development contracts, in particular with regard to unfair contractual terms (the so-called abusive clauses);
  • audits of the lawfulness of solutions applied by the Clients with regard to personal data protection, including the aspect of electronic processing of personal data;
  • audits of the lawfulness of solutions applied by the Clients with regard to the creation and transfer of databases (particularly those containing personal data), including the aspect of copyrights;
  • participation in the development of strategies for legal proceedings;
  • representation of parties to legal proceedings, particularly in the field of labour law, of the employee as well as of the employer, including claims for compensation related to the cessation of employment relationship, restraint of trade (non-compete) clauses, and civil law, including the protection of individual personality rights, determination of the existence of a legal relationship, payment;
    
  • representation of parties to insolvency proceedings;
  • representation of parties to enforcement proceedings;
  • preparation of legal opinions regarding both administrative and civil law, e.g. opinions on the sale or exchange of real estate by regional or local authorities, including in the aspect of real estate management law;
  • preparation of opinions on the application of the act on the maintenance of cleanliness and order in municipalities, particularly in the context of the conditions of procedures for the selection of an operator to build, maintain or operate a regional facility for municipal waste treatment and of an operator to collect waste or to collect and manage waste;
  • preparation of opinions in the field of public procurement law, the provisions on public-private partnership and concessions, including analyses of models of cooperation between the regional or local authority (public partner) and the operator (private partner) for the implementation of specific projects;
  • provision of comprehensive assistance in negotiations with trade unions;
  • staff audits, including analysis and verification of employment contracts, staff regulations, rules on remuneration, company social benefits funds and collective bargaining agreements;
  • preparation in designing HR strategies, particularly in the context of company transfers or conversions, as well as employment optimisation, e.g. with regard to forms of cooperation other than the employment relationship;
  • provision of comprehensive assistance in relations with the National Labour Inspectorate, trade unions, works councils or other bodies representing the staff, including with the aim of proper regulation of employment matters in an establishment, introducing changes to working routine, optimisation of working or remuneration conditions.