RKKW’s clients win dispute over multi-million construction investment
Legal action was brought against the clients of RKKW for an order to cease any activities related to the realisation of a significant investment project for the clients. The aim of the opponent was to stop an ongoing construction project worth more than PLN 60 million. The justification for this lawsuit was the alleged imminent […]
Favorable ruling on the merger of some of Poland’s largest companies
The District Court in Lodz, in a verdict dated June 7, 2023, dismissed in its entirety a lawsuit seeking a declaration of invalidity or revocation of a resolution of the General Meeting of Shareholders of GRUPA LOTOS S.A. to consent to the merger of this company with one of the most important energy companies in […]
Witold Slawinski and Adriana Gostepska successfully represented a client – a well-known general contractor of numerous investments in the construction industry – in two appeal proceedings before the National Appeals Chamber in Warsaw. In the first of the appeal proceedings we represented the client acting as an adjoining party to the appeal proceedings on the […]
Business Judgement Rule Officially Enters Polish Legal Order
13 October 2022 is an important date for owners and holders of corporate bodies as well as practitioners of commercial law. On that day, an amendment to the Polish Commercial Companies Code and certain other acts comes into force. Under the amendment, the business judgement rule will be introduced into the Code to a wider […]
RKKW clients win dispute over exercise of voting rights on shares
A minority shareholder of a public company filed a lawsuit against the RKKW’s clients, including the majority shareholder of that issuer, attempting to deprive him of the ability to exercise his voting rights on his shares. The lawsuit thus concerned one of the most important corporate rights of any shareholder. The seriousness of the case […]
RKKW’s actions lead to stabilization of client embroiled in corporate dispute
As we already reported in the article RKKW Client obtained four injunctive relief orders in disputes under the Act on Public Offering – IR Global, RKKW Client – the parent company of an international capital group – has obtained four freezing orders in a multi-threaded dispute concerning the Act on Public Offering with respect to […]
The Court of Appeal accepted RKKW’s arguments about the invalidity of the resolution of the shareholders’ meeting regarding profit distribution in the proceedings initiated by RKKW’s client against a limited liability company. RKKW’s client, a shareholder entitled to half of the shares in the company, filed a lawsuit against the company, in which he mainly […]
RKKW defends clients against allegations of unfair competition (and a multi-million dollar claim)
One of the largest private airlines in Poland brought a claim for USD 3.5 million in damages against its former employees for allegedly committing an act of unfair competition. The damage for which the claimant sought compensation allegedly resulted from the takeover of a ‘key’ customer of the claimant by a newly established aviation company. […]
Public policy clause as a ground for an application to set aside an arbitral award
The Polish Supreme Court in its judgment of 15 June 2021 (file no. III CSKP 102/21) indicated that the public policy clause allows for review of the arbitral award only to a limited extent, but it is not an appellate procedure and cannot replace it. Its purpose is to review the compliance of the award […]
The new year brought promotions at RKKW – Kwasnicki, Wrobel & Partners – Jaroslaw Szewczyk and Karol Szymanski became new managing partners, and Marcin Jasinski and Piotr Letolc joined as partners. As of December 1st 2021, Jaroslaw Szewczyk and Karol Szymanski have become the new managing partners of RKKW – Kwasnicki, Wrobel & Partners, while […]
RKKW’s Client wins in dispute over invalidity of supervisory board’s resolution
The court of appeal, as a result of an appeal filed by RKKW on behalf of its Client, changed the appealed verdict of the district court and dismissed the suit brought by a shareholder of a joint-stock company seeking a declaration of invalidity of resolutions of the supervisory board of that company. The minority shareholder […]
On 1 July 2021, the Best Practice for the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) Listed Companies 2021 (“Best Practice 2021”) came into force – a new edition of corporate governance principles for companies listed on GPW Main Market in Poland. Companies are not obliged to comply with Best Practice 2021 however, it is demanded to […]
