Experienced lawyers

Allen & Overy is at the heart of the world’s banking and financial markets. Few practices can match the quality of our people, the breadth of our client base, our global reach and our top tier position across the full range of financial products. We advise our clients on the full spectrum of financing disciplines. 

We have a unique practice focusing on banking litigation matters. We are proud to have a team of lawyers who have been working together on banking litigation matters for many years. We advise leading multinational corporates and financial institutions entrust us with their most complex disputes. We not only act for financial institutions in major lender/borrower disputes and debt litigation, but are also regularly instructed by banks in complicated insolvency and restructuring disputes, as well as contentious enforcements of security, including mortgages, pledges and financial collateral.

We have a particularly strong track record advising clients on many ground-breaking capital market transactions. In many cases our lawyers have assisted in devising novel structures to meet Polish requirements and to satisfy clients’ demands. The wide scope of work includes local and international equity offerings, eurobonds, convertible bonds as well as projects in Polish financial markets.

The Polish-based Antitrust and EU team is one of the market-leading practices covering all aspects of Polish and EU antitrust law. As an integrated part of Allen & Overy’s U.S.-European Antitrust group, the Warsaw team meets its challenge with ease, having developed expertise both in the provision of strategic advice and in litigating competition matters, in close cooperation with our Brussels Competition team.  

We handle the full range of transactional and multi-disciplinary work, and provide advice on all corporate matters. Clients value our integrated and seamless legal services, whether they are raising capital, buying or selling businesses, outsourcing, restructuring and carrying out other corporate or corporate finance transactions.  

The Intellectual Property (IP) team advises clients on the full spectrum of IP matters, including protecting trademarks and brands, domain names, software and copyright, designs, know-how, business names, database protection and exploiting IP rights in joint ventures, licensing agreements and development arrangements, and technology transfer agreements.

The Intellectual Property (IP) team advises clients on the full spectrum of IP matters, including protecting trademarks and brands, domain names, software and copyright, designs, know-how, business names, database protection and exploiting IP rights in joint ventures, licensing agreements and development arrangements, and technology transfer agreements.The commercial litigation department deals with wide variety of litigation and arbitration lawsuits. Our team represents major international companies in their high-profile and exceptionally complex patent and trademark disputes which involve a significant amount of technical expertise. The Warsaw commercial litigation team is regularly called on to represent major financial institutions and multinational corporate clients in high-profile consumer protection cases.

The Warsaw Real Estate team advises clients on all aspects of real estate in Poland and abroad. We provide advice on the full spectrum of real estate work, including property finance, property development, construction, operation and maintenance, sale and purchase agreements, leases, tax, leasehold, zoning and planning, environmental and green-field projects.  

We provide advisory services in the full scope of tax law, including corporate income tax, value added tax, personal income tax, transfer tax, excise tax, and real estate tax. We work not only on a stand-alone basis but also form an integral part of the full legal service provided by Allen & Overy in Warsaw and globally.