Specializations
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is one of GESSEL’s main areas of practice. Thirty years of experience advising on transactions translates into knowledge, skills, resources and a...
Arbitration
Arbitration is one of our leading specialties. Our hallmark is our out-of-the-box approach to cases and the legal solutions used in them. Clients indicate that "we know the answers...
Litigation
Litigation is one of the most important specialties of our law firm. We take an individual approach to each case, taking into account the business needs of the client with maximum ...
Capital Markets
We provide comprehensive services related to handling capital market transactions. We advise on all aspects related to public and private offerings of shares or bonds, share tradin...
Competition and consumer law
We provide comprehensive advice on competition and consumer law. We represent clients before Polish and international institutions, including the Office of Competition and Consumer...
Consumer Finance and Fintech
Technological advances, new trends in financing purchases of goods and services, and innovative ways of making payments present opportunities, but also challenges for businesses. T...
Regulatory consulting
Establishment of lending institutions, credit intermediation entities, and obtaining licenses for payment services and entries in registers of payment institutions Implement...
Compliance
Each company has its own specific operations and distinctive legal and business environment. Meanwhile, the number of regulations that must be complied with on pain of severe sanct...
Private Equity
Advising on private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) fund transactions is a key part of our M&A specialization . We are the legal leaders of the PE/VC market in Poland, ...
Banking and Finance
We provide comprehensive services related to handling the processes of granting financing both in the form of credit and in other forms, including through the issuance of bonds or ...
White-collar crime
We were one of the first law firms on the Polish market to introduce a legal advisory service in the field of criminal-economic proceedings (white-collar crime). The criminal-econo...
Labor law, management contracts
We specialize in issues relating to rights and claims under labour law. Our experts provide legal advice to employees and employers – for individuals and legal entities. Labour...
Bankruptcy and restructuring
GESSEL’s litigation practice provides comprehensive legal support at all stages of bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings, and also in their run-up (analysis of prerequisites, as...
Intellectual property law
Legal advice on trademark protection, copyright infringement and combating unfair competition practices is an important area of our law firm's work. We provide legal advice in a...
Life Sciences and Health Care
The Life Sciences and Health Care department is a specialized team of lawyers from various fields providing support to pharmaceutical companies, wholesalers, pharmacies and hospita...
Personal data
Security of information in general, and of personal data in specific, is a critical aspect of compliance in any organisation. Any violation of the applicable laws may not only resu...
Tax law
We have extensive experience in tax consulting for businesses. We specialize in providing ongoing tax consulting services in the field of income taxes, value added tax, tax on civi...
Corporate law
We provide comprehensive legal services to companies and enterprises in the field of corporate law. With years of experience in corporate and commercial law, we can offer support a...
Real Estate
We provide comprehensive legal advisory services in the real estate universe. Our clients are individual and institutional investors from home and abroad, including tenants, landlo...
Financial litigation
Our finance and litigation team supports banks and financial institutions in litigation of all kinds. We assist in handling cases before the courts, including the Polish Supreme Co...
ESG
Our long years of experience providing strategic advice for businesses leave us well prepared to not only notice new trends, but also to assess their significance and to augur futu...
Energy, public procurement, infrastructure projects
We advise clients operating in the energy sector in the broadest sense, as well as advising on many other business areas directly affected by energy industry issues. We operate bot...
Risk & Support
GESSEL strives to continuously address the expectations of its clients. In this spirit, we found it expedient to create a team for special and interdisciplinary cases. This team...
German Desk
The German Desk team provides comprehensive legal services to German-speaking clients. We handle transactions under both Polish and German law. Our lawyers advise entities condu...
The basic principle that unites our team is to build relationships based on respect and trust.
We have been advising entrepreneurs for 30 years, so we understand the nature of business and how to properly support it. We focus on efficiency, transparency and partnership.
GESSEL Team