Our attorneys complement their expertise in business law with extensive experience gained while advising Polish companies and foreign investors operating in various industries and economic sectors. We understand the realities of our clients’ businesses and the goals they seek to achieve. Our knowledge of the law and the conditions under which our clients operate allows us to present them with the best – and often innovative – solutions to their legal problems, solutions that will stand up to the test of reality and the courtroom. Since its inception, the firm has actively supported and represented participants in major business ventures in Poland and abroad.

Today’s economic reality is increasingly complex, and the matters our clients bring to us rarely fall within the boundaries of a single area of law. At SK&S, we combine numerous specialized practices with a high level of expertise under one roof, ensuring that our clients receive comprehensive, coordinated support from a single team. For the client, this means there is no need to coordinate the work of multiple legal advisors, and a single partner assumes full responsibility for the entire project.

Our firm’s independence, combined with our broad and diverse client base, enables us to provide our clients with objective advice, free from the dependencies that can arise from belonging to an international network or from excessive reliance on a single client or industry.

As a result, when advising on matters of strategic importance to our clients, our attorneys have full decision-making authority within the Polish context. Conversely, when advising clients who need legal support outside of Poland, we can select partners who are best suited to a specific case, rather than those dictated by our membership in a global network.

The unique atmosphere of collaboration means that most of the firm’s associates have been with us for many years, often since the start of their professional careers.

As a result, we ensure full continuity in serving our clients, and the knowledge and experience accumulated over the years remain actively present within the firm. Clients do not face constant turnover among the teams serving them, and we provide them with the comfort of working with a team that has full knowledge of the client’s business history, past transactions, disputes, strategic decisions made in the past, and their consequences.

Our reputation is built on our clients’ satisfaction with achieving their business goals. It is also evidenced by the recognition we receive from the legal community in Poland and abroad, as confirmed by our high rankings among law firms and the awards we have received.

For many years, the firm and its individual attorneys have been recommended in rankings published by international legal publications such as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, as well as by the daily newspapers “Rzeczpospolita”, “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna” and the monthly magazine “Forbes.”

The firm is recognized as a market leader in legal services in Poland in the following areas: commercial law, intellectual property, litigation and arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, antitrust law, banking and finance, tax law, and labor law.

We know how important “access time” to a lawyer is, which is why we are always close to our clients.

We understand the dynamics of our clients’ work, which is why we support them at every stage of a matter. When a client needs a legal opinion on the eve of closing a transaction or during ongoing proceedings, they receive it from a partner who has the full authority to issue it – at a pace that matches the actual needs of the matter.

A significant portion of our work involves international aspects. We have extensive experience working with both international clients and Polish clients who are expanding their operations abroad. Our close collaboration with many renowned law firms around the world enables us to provide legal services for complex transactions conducted simultaneously in several countries, for which we can ensure coordinated, professional legal assistance from specialists in each jurisdiction.

The firm’s attorneys are also active in numerous international professional organizations and associations, such as the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance, EuroITCounsel, the International Trademark Association, and TRACE.

The law firm Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak was established in June 1991, when, as a result of political and economic changes in Poland, a free market for legal services emerged, focused on providing legal support for ownership transformations and new domestic and foreign investments.

The firm’s establishment and its subsequent growth were largely driven by its founders’ vision of the direction in which the Polish legal services market would evolve under the new economic realities. Their vision proved accurate: today, SK&S is one of the leading law firms in Poland. To meet the needs of clients in the provinces along Poland’s western border, we opened an office in Poznań in 1997, and the dynamic economic growth of the Silesian region led to the establishment of another SK&S regional office in Katowice in 1999.