Gintowt Adwokaci Radcowie has been providing complex legal assistance to real estate transactions and the construction process since its very beginning.

We have vast experience in the scope of legal assistance relating to real estate law. We handle surveys regarding real estate and its holders, we draft risk analysis regarding correctness of administrative decisions or the administrative procedures, first refusal, land and mortgage register guarantees, foreigner restrictions. We advise how to avoid or limit legal problems connected with real estate transactions. We handle the regulatory procedures regarding the legal status of properties, e.g. removing the burdens of mortgage or third party rights from land and mortgage registers.

In the scope of legal assistance relating to real estate law we handle the following issues:

• development undertakings
• commercial lease
• ownership and co-ownership protection
• dissolution of co-ownership
• encumbrances
• transfer of ownership
• usucaption
• preemption
• foreigner acquisition
• sale and lease transactions
• perpetual usufruct transactions
• limited property rights and transactions (usufruct, easement, pledge, cooperative ownership right)
• sale, exchange, donation, life care contracts
• fiduciary acquisition
• fiduciary transfer to secure claims
• contracts for transfer of possession
• expropriation
• agricultural transactions
• demarcation, division and joining
• fees for using estates without contract

Since early 90’s Gintowt Adwokaci Radcowie has had practice in the real estate and construction investments market. We assist our clients throughout the entire pre-construction and construction process.

We assess development options, we negotiate sale contracts, we make sure the legal status of the real estate and companies is regulated for the transaction (crossing out mortgage, encumbrances or third party rights, etc.)

We assist in day-to-day affairs related to the construction process, we point out the best options, we negotiate transactions, we advise on tenders.

We represent clients in court and administrative proceedings regarding construction and development.

In the field of family law we have experience in cases regarding:

• divorce or separation
• partition of marital property
• establishing separate property regime
• maintenance
• child contacts arrangements
• parental authority arrangements
• declaration of parentage, denial of paternity
• incapacitation

We provide legal assistance in the following areas:

• securing inheritance
• process of acquisition of inheritance or bequests
• division of inheritance
• legitim
• inheritance debts

We specialize in:

• drafting contracts, preliminary and final, e.g. contract of sale, contract of exchange, contract of donation, contract of lease, contract of lending for use, contract for services, contract for specified work, contract for construction services, loan agreement, civil code partnership agreement
• negotiating contracts
• evaluating contracts
• contractual debt recovery
• handling contractual disputes regarding non-performance
• handling claims regarding statutory and contractual guarantee, contractual penalties

We handle cases for damages and compensation arising from torts, including medical malpractice, state authorities’ misconduct, road accidents, personal injuries, personal rights infringements.

We provide assistance in all matters related to employment and its termination. We negotiate employment terms and remuneration on behalf of both employer and employee. We draft employment contracts, non-competition agreements, agreements on material liability of an employee. We assist in negotiations and draft management contracts. We advise on collective and individual redundancies.

We draft bylaws, particularly regarding work and pay.

We represent parties of an employment relationship before labour courts.

We are fully qualified to provide complex day-to-day assistance to partnerships and companies, partners and shareholders. We are experienced in:

• partnership, company and branch formation process (company constitution, documentation, registration, etc.)
• day-to-day and ad hoc assistance to partnerships and companies (handling shareholders’, supervisory board and management board meetings, drafting and amendments to company constitution, advising on share cancellation, pledge and sale
• restructuring – mergers, divisions, transformation
• dissolution and liquidation of partnerships and companies
• representing members of supervisory boards and management boards in civil and criminal cases
• handling court proceedings regarding corporate disputes regarding e.g. challenging shareholders’ resolutions, recovery for damages sustained by the company (actio pro socio), claims for exclusion of a shareholder and dissolution of a company

Our team is experienced in representing creditors and debtors in bankruptcy and debt restructuring proceedings.

• We provide legal assistance to secure the parties in case of bankruptcy of the debtor. We evaluate insolvency and debt restructuring options. We assess the effectiveness of contracts and consequences in case of bankruptcy , we report claims, we handle cases for exclusion of third party property from bankruptcy estate, we negotiate and reach agreements with receivers and liquidators, we take protective action for company authorities in case of delay in filing for bankruptcy.