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The Rödl & Partner company has become a partner of the Women in Law foundation which supports and promotes women in the law industry. As part of the cooperation, Rödl & Partner will be the sponsor of the prize in the competition for students for the best master’s thesis, combining legal issues and new technologies, and will offer an internship to one of the winners.

The experts from Rödl & Partner will also participate in events organized by the Foundation and share their knowledge. Moreover, a joint mentoring and reverse mentoring program is planned to be run by experienced and distinguished lawyers.

On October 15, the conference “Women as the future of the law industry” was held and it inaugurated the Foundation’s activity. In the discussion panel “What will the future of the law industry be like?” led by journalist Paweł Rochowicz, the company Rödl & Partner was represented by Dr. Monika Behrens, who shared insights on the use of new technologies and the role of women in the law environment. This is a very important issue for Rödl & Partner – a company with a very high percentage of women in management positions, also at high-level.

The goals of the Women in Law Foundation are: promoting women in the law industry, promoting the idea of ??diversity and innovation, including new technologies in the law industry, education in the use of new technologies in the field of law and good practices on the law market.

Rödl & Partner is an international company that provides integrated professional services in the areas of: auditing, Business Process Outsourcing, tax consulting, legal advice, consulting, as well as cyber security and blockchain technology. Rödl & Partner is present in 50 countries in 111 offices. It has been successfully operating on the Polish market for over 25 years, advising companies from various industries and segments.

Surprise your co-workers with a sophisticated celebration at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel!

Organize a truly memorable party with a wonderful array of grandeur decorations and unique festive atmosphere.

Our team of hard-working elves will craft an offer tailored to your individual needs. Write your letter to Santa Claus today and receive complimentary warming cocktail for each of your guests.*

 

*Applies for all packages included in this brochure

and reservations made by 31 October 2019.

 

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Telephone: +48 22 630 7888

E-mail: waw.ebc@marriott.com

Rödl & Partner has once again been recognized in several categories in the Polish Business Guide “Book of lists”. The company won first prize among accounting companies, maintaining this position unchanged for four consecutive years. It also noted a rise by one position compared to 2018 among tax advisory companies, taking second place. Another success is the third position in the category of audit companies.

In this year’s ranking of accounting companies, 19 accounting companies, 23 tax advisory companies and 14 audit companies were taken into account. The main criterion that determined the position in the ranking was the amount of revenue.

Liliane Preusser, Partner at Rödl & Partner responsible for the Business Process Outsourcing department comments on the results of the rankings: In our company everyone is equally important, we focus primarily on mutual respect and work in a team spirit. This approach translates into customer trust as well as professionalism and high quality of our services – not only at the substantive level, but also in building relationships and in everyday communication. The annual success in “Book of Lists” makes us particularly happy because it proves that it is also worth putting people in the center of business, not profit. The amount of revenue is a natural consequence of ensuring comfort and quality of cooperation.

It is also the result of a holistic approach to services provided based on their comprehensive and cross-border nature. Active customer support is an indispensable element of consulting, without which it is currently difficult to imagine successful cooperation. In the era of digitization, cybersecurity and new technologies are dynamically developing areas of business that a proactive account manager should take into account when offering consultancy services – adds Renata Kabas-Komorniczak, Partner responsible for the area of ??tax consultancy at Rödl & Partner. 

“Book of lists” is a guide to Polish business, containing annual rankings of the company assigned to eight sectors of the B2B type of economy: construction and real estate, finance, services for companies, transport and logistics, education, IT, tourism and travel, economy and industry.

Rödl & Partner is an international company that provides integrated professional services in the areas of: auditing, Business Process Outsourcing, tax consulting, legal advice, consulting, new technologies and cyber security. Rödl & Partner is present in 50 countries in 111 offices. It has been successfully operating on the Polish market for over 25 years, advising companies from various industries and segments.

Moreover, we invite you to read the company’s latest brochure “MDR Reporting in Practice“.

“MDR reporting in practice” – a brochure by Rödl & Partner experts

Specific examples of tax patterns and answers to the question of whether they are subject to reporting, as well as tips on forms, deadlines and information provided to tax administration authorities – these are the issues raised in the brochure “MDR Reporting in Practice”, which was prepared for entrepreneurs by Rödl & Partner experts.

The subject of reporting tax patterns (Mandatory Disclosure Rules – MDR) is currently widely commented on. Due to the lack of established practice, it can cause reporting difficulties, the main one in determining whether an activity should be reported to the tax office or whether it is not subject to reporting. It is worth reaching for a publication describing in an accessible way the steps that should be taken so that the MDR process runs in accordance with the requirements of the legislator.

The publication of Rödl & Partner specialists is a valuable source of knowledge for taxpayers and their advisers who are required to provide tax administration authorities with information considered to be a tax scheme.

You can download the free brochure directly from the Rödl & Partner website: http://www.roedl.net/pl/pl/publikacje/broszury/broszura_raportowanie_mdr_w_praktyce.html

On behalf of the Polonia Palace Hotel we warmly invite you to an exotic journey through Argentina’s flavours.

Hotel Polonia Palace together with the Embassy of Argentina and El Esteco prepared a menu which includes such specialties of Argentinian cuisine as empanadas, beef with salad, beef stew or breaded chicken. A glass of wine is included in every set.

The Argentinian Week will last from September 30^th till October 4^th. We cordially invite you to the lobby bar between 12:00 and 18:00.

The promotion is accompanied by an exhibition of Nora Iniesta, a contemporary Argentinian artist.

 

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Polish Labour Code has been amended effective 1 January 2019. Employers should adapt their in-house procedures to those changes not only to ensure compliance with the current legislation, but also to reassure employees that the company cares for them. After all, it is them who are the company’s key resource. We invite you to a meeting with a labour law expert who will present the most significant amendments:

The most important labour law amendments 2019

Please go to the event page for the detailed training agenda, including e.g. storing employee-related documentation and Employee Capital Plans (PPK).

The meeting will be held in the Polish language on 11/09/2019 in Gdansk, al. Grunwaldzka 472B (Olivia Four).

The participation fee is PLN 200 + 23% VAT per person / PLN 100 + 23% VAT per person (Clients of Rödl & Partner).

Registration till 09/09/2019 via our website.

Please note that the number of participants is limited and you are not registered until you receive an e-mail confirmation.

A membership satisfaction survey was conducted at the Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Polish-Swiss Chamber of Commerce. 96% of our member companies would recommend cooperation with us to other companies. It is worth to supplement this result with how our members rate the cooperation with us. Up to 75% of the polled rate the cooperation 5 out of 5 possible points, another 15,4% gave us 4 points. In comparison to the previous year, this result falls favourably – in 2018 60% of the surveyed rated the cooperation with us for 5 points, whereas 35% rated it for 4 points.

New Year’s Meeting and Forums (CEO, CFO, CMO, HR Forum) are the most popular events and are best rated – respectively 62% and 71% of the polled, which participate in these meetings, gave them the best rate. Other popular formats include breakfast meetings, Economic Outlook and Polish-Swiss Innovation Day. Human Capital Practices Survey – our new initiative commenced in 2018 – was also highly assessed.

The communication with the Chamber was rated higher than in the previous edition. Up to 81% rated the communication as very good and 13,5% as good. In the previous edition, 67% of our members assessed the communication as very good and another 27% as good. The newsletter remains invariably our most popular communication channel, which is followed by our website. Our LinkedIn profile is growing more and more popular as it’s recognition has risen by 10 per cent points in comparison to 2008.

The last question concerned the new initiatives that we could take up in the upcoming year. Our member companies voted most of all for periodic networking meetings with new companies affiliated in the Chamber. Amongst other propositions there was also our cooperation with such institutions as Fundacja DigitalPoland, ABSL, Aspire, bringing together start-ups and companies interested in them as well as a development of regional representatives net.

In 2018 there were 49 companies polled. In 2019 there were 52 participants.

GESSEL advises on the purchase of Infinite from Emperia Holding

GESSEL is proud to have provided legal support to DialCom24 in the transaction for purchase of Infinite sp. z o.o. from Emperia Holding S.A., owned by Maxima Grup?.

Infinite provides B2B information technology systems in the Polish and international markets. The company was established in 2002 as a provider of services with respect to electronic data exchange for the B2B sector and has since grown into a leader in paperless solutions in Poland as well as countries such as Hungary, Romania and the United Arab Emirates, with a client portfolio of over 3,000 entities. Infinite Sp. z o.o. has over 220 employees and achieved revenue of over PLN 50 mln in 2018.

Maxima Grup? operates the retail chains Maxima (in the Baltic countries), Stokrotka (in Poland) and T-Market (in Bulgaria) as well as Barbora, an online groceries supplier active in the Baltic countries. Maxima Grup? is part of the Vilniaus Prekyba group, one of the largest retail operators across the Baltics and the Central and Eastern European region.

DialCom24 Sp. z o.o. is a fintech entity specialising in development of various financial and payment services for business clients and individuals.

GESSEL contributed its expertise in various elements of the transaction process, including legal due diligence, drafting and negotiation of the transaction documentation, and support at closing.

Our team working on this project under the overall supervision of Małgorzata Badowska, partner was led by Michał Bochowicz, managing associate and included Weronika Zdeb, advocate and Katarzyna Matyszewska, trainee attorney. The due diligence was performed by Michał Boryczka, managing associate, Marta Grabiec, advocate, Marcin Maciejak, advocate, and Piotr Tracz, trainee advocate.

GESSEL is proud to have contributed legal expertise to what is one of the more important recent transactions in the payments processing sector: establishment of a strategic alliance between Nets, leading supplier of payment services in the Nordic countries and in the DACH region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the operator of Przelewy24, market leader in Poland. The resulting entity, P24 DotCard, will be one of Poland’s largest suppliers of payment services, comprising the Przelewy24, Dotpay and eCard platform; a 51% stake in P24 DotCard is held by Nets, and the remainder – by the current shareholders of the Przelewy24 operator. The project has received clearance from the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection as well as from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.

GESSEL’s role included comprehensive advice on the transaction, including its antitrust, regulatory and tax aspects for the operator of Przelewy24.

The GESSEL team, led by Marcin Macieszczak, managing partner and by Małgorzata Badowska, partner, included Michał Bochowicz, managing associate (exercising day-to-day supervision), Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik, partner (advising on antitrust issues), Leszek Koziorowski, partner (regulatory issues), and Janusz Fiszer, partner and Inarda Bielińska, of counsel (tax) as well as Tomasz Drągowski, attorney; Michał Osowski, trainee attorney; Karolina Krzal, advocate; Michał Szutenbach, advocate; Weronika Zdeb, advocate; Bartłomiej Pitera, trainee attorney; Katarzyna Matyszewska, trainee attorney; and Barbara Tomczyk, trainee advocate.

Przelewy24.pl is the operator serves over 85,000 merchants, including some of the major e-commerce platforms in Poland and in the world. Przelewy24 generates revenues in excess of EUR 20 million and employs 100 persons.

Nets is a Copenhagen-based company active for more than 50 years, during which it has become one of the largest players in the European payments market. It provides services to banks, merchants and large businesses; Nets employs 2,500 staff. Nets is owned by the private equity fund Hellman & Friedman, which acquired it in a USD 5.3 billion transaction in 2018. 

More informations: https://gessel.pl/en/news/strategic-alliance-between-nets-and-przelewy24-with-gessel-advising/

HOTEL BRISTOL, A LUXURY COLLECTION HOTEL, WARSAW
IN THE TOP 10 EUROPE CITY HOTELS
AND THE TOP 100 HOTELS IN THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO THE 2019 TRAVEL + LEISURE RANKING

Every year, the TRAVEL + LEISURE readers share their travel experiences around the globe. TRAVEL + LEISURE compiles a list of the best hotels in the world based on this feedback. Hotels are rated on their facilities, location, service, food, and overall value. The readers explore far and wide, and the hotels
that impress them reflect not only their high standards but also their ever-expanding sense of curiosity and adventure, special experiences far outside of traditional travel destinations. This year’s list of The Top 100 Hotels in the World reflects 33 countries and all continents except Antarctica.

Based on the readers’ votes, Hotel Bristol, Warsaw is the first hotel in Poland to be recognized in this distinguished ranking for 2019 by TRAVEL + LEISURE magazine. In addition, Hotel Bristol, Warsaw is also the only hotel in Europe of Marriott International to be selected this year.

Taking 4th place in The Top 10 Europe City Hotels, Hotel Bristol, Warsaw is amongst illustrious hotels such as La Réserve Paris Hôtel & Spa, Peninsula Paris, Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam or J.K. Place Firenze, Florence.

Hotel Bristol, Warsaw, ranked 81st on The Top 100 Hotels in the World, is one of 5 Marriott International hotels globally to be featured on the list, together with Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Cuzco, Peru (rank 82), the St. Regis Bora Bora Resort (rank 81), The Row Hotel at Assembly Row, Autograph Collection, Somerville, Massachusetts (rank 44) and JW Marriott Phu Quoc
Emerald Bay Resort & Spa, Vietnam (rank 6).

“I am thrilled and immensely proud that Hotel Bristol, Warsaw has been chosen this year as one of TRAVEL + LEISURE’s Top 100 Hotels in the World as well as one of The Top 10 Europe City Hotels” said Roman Goetsch, General Manager of the Hotel Bristol, Warsaw.

“This recognition is a true testament to the dedication of our associates and of their constant pursuit in delivering impeccable service and curating unforgettable experiences for our guests”.

Readers loved the sense of history at Hotel Bristol, Warsaw, an old-world beauty dating back to 1901. With its Art Nouveau interiors, atmospheric bars and restaurants, city views (which include the Presidential Palace next door) and famed Paderewski Suite, named after Ignacy Jan Paderewski, renowned pianist,
composer and original owner of the Hotel Bristol, Warsaw, the Hotel Bristol, Warsaw is truly an icon in the city of Warsaw.

“It is one of the nicest hotels I’ve ever stayed in” – gushed one TRAVEL + LEISURE reader – “Everything was perfect.”

Source:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/worlds-best/city-hotels-in-europe
https://www.travelandleisure.com/worlds-best/hotels-top-100-overall