17 May 2022
Legal Alert 4/2022 Polish lawmakers have until 17 July 2022 to implement most of the provisions of Directive (EU) 2019/1023 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on preventive restructuring frameworks, on discharge of debt and disqualifications, and on measures to increase the efficiency of procedures concerning restructuring, insolvency and discharge...
17 May 2022
Legal Alert 3/2022 The CCC Amending Act[1] will come into force on 13 October 2022 and will introduce a number of significant changes in the operation of groups of companies and in the rules of the management and supervision of commercial companies. The changes cover the following areas: the law on groups of companies; amendments to the provisions on supervisory b...
15 March 2022
LEGAL ALERT On 9 March 2022, the Sejm (lower chamber of the Polish Parliament) adopted an act amending the Act on Mortgage Bonds and Mortgage Banks and certain other acts, which modifies selected provisions of the Act on Public Offering, Conditions Governing the Introduction of Financial Instruments to Organised Trading, and on Public Companies regarding tender offers (the ...
26 October 2021
On 31 October 2021, certain important amendments to the Act of 1 March 2018 on Counteracting Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (the “AML Act”) will come into force. We invite you to read our alert in which we discuss in more detail four groups of amendments to the AML Act which, in our view, deserve your special attention. Read full alert here: &n...
21 October 2021
In 2019, Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (the "Directive") was adopted, setting out requirements regarding the protection of whistleblowers. The Directive sets 17 December 2021 as the deadline for its transposition into national law. Read the full alert here: ...
6 July 2020
The vast majority of Polish commercial companies have until 13 July 2020 to submit information on the identity of their respective beneficial owners to the Central Register of Beneficial Owners. The original April deadline has been extended by three months due to the ongoing state of pandemic. Read the full alert here:
25 May 2020
New rules concerning the control of the Polish antitrust authority over investments resulting in the acquisition of control or a significant shareholding in a protected entity by a foreign (non-EU) entity were proposed by the Polish government in a draft of anti-COVID regulations on 22 May 2020. Read the full alert here: