M. Szulikowski Law Office wishes to provide legal support to anyone, who requires it.

We believe that providing legal services requires reliability and diligence in taken actions, because the possibility to help others is a privilege for a lawyer. We face challenges with responsibility.

In order to perform our mission, the Law Office publishes its materials in reputable press and on different Internet portals. Opinions, pieces of legal advice, standpoints and articles of the Law Office have so far been published, among others, on Onet.pl, in Gazeta Finansowa and Gazeta Prawna.

We would also like to invite you to:

Legal Newsletter

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• We provide legal support in the area of creating investment funds and legal aspects of operations of investment fund societies as well as the funds managed by them; this relates in particular to closed investment funds, including non-public closed investment funds, which may serve for various economic purposes, such as restructuring of enterprises, creating special-purpose holding firms or effective management of family assets (with application of tax optimisation),
• We provide legal support in the are of functioning of open investment funds, special-purpose open investment funds and funds of special structure, such as funds with different categories of participation units, funds with divided subfunds, basic and connected funds, as well as financial market funds, portfolio funds and securitisation funds,
• We provide legal support in the area of functioning of foreign investment funds in the territory of Poland,
• We solve legal issues involved in functioning of investment funds as professionals operating in the market,
• We draft and review civil law agreements concluded by investment funds, with due regard to the specifics of their operations,
• We provide legal support relating to acquisitions of other entities (commercial partnerships and companies) by investment funds, in particular we solve legal issues involved in the necessary notifications such as notification of the intended concentration to the relevant authorities; we suggest optimal solutions and – if necessary – represent investment funds in antitrust proceedings,
• We provide day-to-day legal support relating to the investment funds holding in their assets packages of shares or share certificates allowing them to control companies, in particular we prepare and conduct shareholders’ meetings and general meetings,
• We provide legal support in the area of day-to-day operations of brokerage houses,
• We advise on issuing share certificates, convertible bonds, senior bonds, subscription warrants and other securities, including promissory notes; we advise on public offerings of securities, drafting prospecti, informational memoranda and other relevant documents,
• We advise on introducing securities in the regulated market or alternative market (maintained by the Warsaw Stock Exchange S.A.), including drafting prospecti, informational memoranda,
• We represent our Clients during proceedings before the Financial Supervision Commission and in relations with capital market institutions; we advise on matters relating to such proceedings and relations,
• We provide legal support for listed companies and advise on protection of confidential information and notification obligations,
• We advise on special rights and obligations of shareholders of listed companies,
• We prepare legal assessments concerning securities and other financial instruments, legal regulations of financial market, rules of conducting operations by participants of financial market and operations made therein,
• We prepare draft agreements concerning non-standard transactions concluded on the regulated market or outside this market, regarding securities traded on the regulated market,
• We provide legal support in the area of drafting and reviewing documents concerning day-to-day operations of brokerage houses and other investment firms, including template agreements and regulations concerning provision of services.

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M. Szulikowski Law Office in Warsaw is looking for a trainee legal adviser for the post:

Trainee legal adviser

Scope of duties:

• preparing legal opinions, agreements, court letters in litigation, administrative and arbitration proceedings and other documents within the current Law Office’s activity;
• coordination of document circulation in the entrusted cases and taking care of the documentation completeness and adequacy;
• identification of and resolving the Client’s legal problems;
• monitoring of changes in statutory law and notifying the Law Office’s Clients;
• keeping current contact with jurisdiction institutions.

Requirements

• knowledge of statutory law, adequate to the stage of education and practice;
• experience in work (or cooperation) on similar post;
• very good management of working time and independence in performing duties; practical knowledge of legal issues connected with functioning of economic relations, as well from the private law area and the public law area;
• command of English language – both spoken and written, to a degree enabling independent preparation of letters and their translations; command of another foreign language will be additional trump card;
• command of computer tools (MS Office) and e-mail;
• high personal culture;
• ability to take up independent decisions and act under the time pressure;
• availability, responsibility, carefulness and precision;

We offer:

• full time work in /cooperation with an energetically developing Law Office, in a young and dynamic team or cooperation in
• flexible  time, enabling trainees for participation in training;
• possibility of earning  broad experience, including the international environment;
• possibility for trainees of developing legal education under the supervision of experienced lawyers – practitioners.

Interested persons are requested to send their documents (a CV and a covering letter with photo) with a reference note “Trainee legal adviser” only to the following e-mail address:

sekretariat@ szulikowski.pl

Thank you for sending your application and we would like to inform you that we will contact only the selected candidates.

Your personal data will be processed by M. Szulikowski Law Office only for the purpose of recruitment. Giving your personal data is voluntary, but necessary to participate in the recruitment process. You have the right to access the data contents and to correct it.

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