CORPORATE & TRANSACTION LAW
Corporate law practice has been one of leading specializations of our firm for over thirty years. This practice covers both typical corporate law advice as well as ongoing day – to – day legal assistance in various business and transactions related issues of our clients. During our long lasting practice in the corporate law field we have been advising clients on probably all typical and non-typical issues concerning creation and functioning their corporate structures in Poland including, relationships with their affiliates (e.g. shareholders) from other jurisdictions.
Our firm also has extensive experience in creation and implementation of procedures of corporate governance and compliance procedures. More on our practice regarding ESG, compliance and internal investigations is available here: ESG, Compliance & Internal Investigations.
Miller Canfield provides legal assistance in the mergers and acquisitions transactions concerning companies, enterprises and organized parts thereof. You can find more on our mergers and acquisitions practice here: Mergers and acquisitions.
Providing our clients with the everyday legal assistance connected with their business activity, we draft, negotiate and provide expert opinions on all types of contracts and transaction documentation in various business sectors, including complex and multi-level transactions, and advise on all matters related to performance of contracts.
In particular, we provide services in the following areas:
- elaborating and structuring legal solutions optimal for the desired business goals;
- establishment and full registration of companies and other entities (e.g. private and family foundations, branches of foreign companies);
- conducting and providing assistance at shareholders' meetings and supervisory board meetings;
- drafting and resolutions, regulations and other internal acts of companies required by law or corporate governance principles;
- drafting and negotiating shareholders' agreements;
- drafting and negotiating joint venture agreements;
- advising on financing the company by shareholders and drafting relevant loans and other documentation;
- advising on acquisition of capital by issuance of shares, bonds and other financial instruments;
- drafting, negotiating and reviewing of contracts in all business transactions (domestic and international);
- mergers, divisions and transformations of companies;
- restructuring and liquidation (winding-up) of companies.