We are aware of the importance for successful investment of adjusting the corporate structure to our client's business plans, the planned financial commitment and the structure of project financing.

In cooperation with our tax advisers, we advise our clients on selecting the optimum corporate structure from the viewpoint of tax law and on the formation and transformation of commercial companies.

We carry out due diligence of companies preceding the purchase of their shares/stocks, and also draft and negotiate agreements for sale of the shares/stocks of commercial companies.

We also assist our clients in establishing the corporate order in the company's everyday activities, and also - by way of mediation - in resolving disputes between members of the company.

The BSBI legal & tax lawyers have extensive experience in the area of advising the real estate market operators, based on their work for the leading international law firms specialized in legal advisory services in real estate matters, and for specific developers.

We offer comprehensive assistance in all legal aspects of real estate acquisition and development, implementation of construction projects, and real estate maintenance and commercialization.

In the area of real estate acquisition, we give advice on the asset deals and share deals, in that we draft, given opinion on, and negotiate the deal documentation. We check the legal status of real properties and their owners, and offer legal aid related to project financing (including the negotiation of loan agreements and the investor's securities, and the drafting of security documents).

Our advisory services in the area of real estate development includes assistance in selecting the manner of land development (also in planning the division and joining of real properties and in establishing the required servitudes), completing the required documents, and representing out clients in administrative proceedings aimed at obtaining the building permits. We also offer legal aid related to the negotiation of contracts with technical consultants as well as contracts for design and construction works.

For our clients operating in the commercial real properties segment, we draft agreements for rent and lease, for real property administration and for services required to properly maintain and manages such real properties. Besides, our lawyers have extensive experience in drafting the preliminary and final agreements for sale of apartments for residential developers, with due consideration to consumer protection provisions pertaining to prohibited clauses.

The legal advisory services offered by BSBI legal & tax base on our lawyer's experience gained within numerous real estate deals, including purchase by an American fund of a national chain of shopping centers, purchase and administration of "A" class office buildings that are among the most commercially recognized projects in Warsaw, or commercialization of retail and storage areas for the leading developers, and also in the course of implementation of numerous residential development projects (e.g. on behalf of the leading developers implementing projects in the Warsaw district of Wilanów).

Our tax advisors have extensive experience in provision of tax advisory services to international concerns operating in Poland and to leading Polish companies.

BSBI legal & tax offers comprehensive legal advisory services in tax matters such as VAT, PCC, CIT and PIT, and the tax aspects of transaction and corporate structure planning, also with foreign participation.

We give advice on the planning of transactions between related entities (the transfer pricing included); we represent our clients in tax proceedings; and we also draft applications for interpretation of the tax law.

The BSBI legal & tax lawyers have extensive experience in legal advisory services in the area of activity involving the use of new technologies and the Internet.

Our lawyers draft and give opinion on agreements for supply, implementation and servicing of IT systems, license agreement (including licenses for using copyrighted works in new fields of exploitation - IPTV, video on demand, streaming). We give opinion on and draft hosting, collocation and distribution agreements, as well as agreements for developing new Internet solutions (portals), agreements for ERP and CRM implementation, MVNO agreements and access agreements. We also assist the drafting of cooperation agreements in the area of implementation of new technologies and building of the affiliate networks.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in the area of advanced Artificial Intelligence methods and software engineering (neuron networks, genetic algorithms, evolution strategies).

We offer due diligence of the legal risks involved in new technologies, information protection, and transfer of new technologies, as well as legal opinions on the loyalty and motivation programs. On the client's commission, we supervise the progress of advertising campaigns and draft the rules of online promotion campaigns and competitions. We give legal opinion on and represent our clients in the negotiations of projects based on new technologies, including outsourcing projects, technology transfers, bodyshopping agreements, IT systems implementation and software licensing.

Together with the tax team, we advise out clients on tax optimization of the IT agreements - CAPEX, OPEX.

In the area of litigation, we represent our clients before common and arbitration courts in disputes pertaining to new technologies and protection of information, the Internet domains in particular and in disputes related to non-performance of IT agreements.

BSBI legal & tax offers comprehensive legal advisory services in the area of personal data protection with special regard to the activity of websites and electronic provision of services.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in developing the privacy and security policies as well as the IT systems administration instructions, and also in drafting agreements for outsourcing of personal data processing (personal data transfer to a third country included), preparing the documentation and representing clients in registration proceedings before the General Inspector for Personal Data Protection.

We audit the client's personal data protection solutions and appraise the legal risks in the areas of personal data protection and privacy that are related to eyetracking, behavioral targeting and innovative online services.

The BSBI legal & tax lawyers offer legal aid at all stages of judicial and administrative proceedings.

Within litigation, our lawyers give advice on the grounds of claims and chances for success of judicial proceedings in view of a broad range of potential risks.

The BSBI legal & tax lawyers represent their clients both at the stage of amicable settlement of disputes and in proceedings before common and arbitration courts.