Dispute Resolution

We are experts in winning complex and precedent-setting cases. We advise clients in crisis situations and in those where a dispute has already emerged, promoting amicable solutions. Where a dispute is inevitable, we represent clients before common and administrative courts, Polish and international arbitral tribunals and before European courts. We are engaged in several hundred court and arbitration cases each year, and their total value ranges from 1.5 to several billion zloty.

Our objective is always to secure a win for our clients within a reasonable timeframe. It gives us great satisfaction when a case leads to a precedent-setting judgment that provides some order to practices in the marketplace, as was the case with Supreme Court judgments on the FIDIC contracts, on industrial designs and Community trademarks. Sometimes a winning case happens when the conflict ends before briefs are filed; this is the case when the litigation strategy we have elaborated together with the client discourages the opponent from escalating the dispute.

We are committed to maintaining high-quality, prompt communication with our clients. We want to understand the essence of the problem and our clients’ business expectations. Our lawyers  not only specialize in procedural law, but also  possess up-to-date expertise in civil and commercial law, and also seek to understand the technical and practical aspects of what our clients do. We suggest solutions and we openly discuss the risks we identify.

What unites the members of the SK&S litigation team is a passion for the law, involvement and mutual trust. Many of us, including all of the current partners, began our professional careers at the firm.

Providing professional legal assistance to clients in relation to disputes also means that we offer the assistance of other specialists, lawyers and academics, who are busy in the firm’s other practices.

We are privileged to work for the leaders in almost all business sectors. Our clients appreciate our understanding of the Polish reality and the reputation on the Polish market that we have earned. We have handled and continue to handle numerous disputes concerned with:

• infrastructure projects, including the construction of highways, airports, power plants, warehouses, and factories,
• IT,
• the financial market, settlement of transactions in that market,
• professional liability of auditors, etc.
• industrial property,
• real estate, including reprivatization and planning-related damages,
• aviation law, including compensation for aircraft crashes,
• civil liability of members of corporate bodies,
• personal data protection,

as well as disputes:

• corporate, including challenging or defending resolutions, relations between partners/shareholders, profit distribution, exclusion of a partner, succession issues,
• related to violations of competition law,
• with a foreign element, including the enforcement in Poland of foreign court judgments,
• post-arbitration disputes,
• labor law disputes,
• and post-cartel disputes.