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With the beginning of 2019 we have introduced a new chat feature on our website - accessible in the lower right corner of the page, allowing you to chat directly with one of our lawyers. You can now chat with us online in real time.

CRS (Common Reporting Standard) is a unified standard for providing tax authorities with information on accounts held in one country by tax residents of other countries.

A brief overview of some major legislative changes affecting the entrepreneurs in Poland after summer holidays, including changes concerning protection of trade secrets, law concerning construction investments in the cities, tax law and public procurement law.

Developers have got a powerful legal tool to build new apartments in Polish cities. The new law allows developers to make new investments and/or an accompanying investments after obtaining the consent of the local commune council and fulfilling certain further...

On July 9, 2018, Polish Civil Code was amended, introducing a modification of the rules regarding time limitation of civil claims. The general ten-year limitation period was changed to 6 years. The second most important limitation period - three years - does not...

Will 2019 will mark the end of the perpetual usufruct right in Poland? Not exactly - the changes are beneficial for entrepreneurs, but not for all of them. Certainly, the amendments are beneficial for natural persons.  The entrepreneurs may, however, feel a bit...

According to the new regulations in force from March 15, 2018, the financial statements of a Polish company can only be submitted by a member of the management board having PESEL number entered in the KRS register. This may turn into a serious legal problem if, at the...

An annual conference Innovative Legal Services Forum 2018 held on 17 May in Prague was  an unique event, one of a kind in CEE, focusing on legal innovation. #ILSF2018 audience members are partners of the biggest law firms, heads of corporate legal teams, legal...

On 25 May 2018, Regulation (EC) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data came into force (general data protection...

The EU Council agreed a position (general approach) on the directive on the posting of workers. The amendment changes some elements of the original Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers...