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On 22 December 2016, Rödl & Partner moved into the second storey of brand-new Nicolas Business Center. The firm’s new address is at ul. Świętego Mikołaja 19.

Rödl & Partner has been open for business in Wroclaw since 1995 and for the 21 years our offices were at ul. Kiełbaśnicza The new office gives us new opportunities for staff development and organising training sessions, meetings and seminars for the clients. At the same time, we are still in the city centre. It is the location and the simple, modern design combined with top-quality technological solutions that made us choose Nicolas Business Center, said Therese Baginski, Auditor (PL), Partner and the Wroclaw Branch Manager.

Nicolas Business Center is a modern office building just 250 metres away from the Wroclaw market square. However, its contemporary, elegant and intriguing mass perfectly match the historic architecture of the Wroclaw city centre. The 6-storey building complex offers over 10,000 sq m of class A office space, an underground car park and 800 sq m of commercial space. Large windows and numerous glass partitions on all floors maximise daylight. Rödl & Partner will share the building with IT and telecommunications companies, as well as real estate agencies. Nicolas Business Center has been designed by Wrocławskie Biuro Inwestorskie Polskiego Związku Inżynierów i Techników Budownictwa [the Wroclaw Investment Office of the Polish Union of Civil Engineers and Technicians].

During the removal, Rödl & Partner did not forget about those in need – almost all the equipment of the previous office, such as furniture, IT hardware, books and office supplies, was given to institutions, charities and individuals.

Next year, Rödl & Partner will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its presence in Poland. On that occasion, we are planning an international event for our present and potential clients. We have called it “Forum International Poland” and it is going to take place on 9 May 2017 in Nicolas Business Center.

Rödl & Partner provides professional services in the area of: audit, consulting, legal advice, tax advice, accounting outsourcing as well as HR and payroll outsourcing. We have 106 offices in 49 countries. In Poland we have 6 offices: in Cracow, Gdansk, Gliwice, Poznan, Warsaw and Wroclaw.

http://www.roedl.com/pl/en

Dentons launches new edition of its Global Energy Game Changers series which focusses on Europe.

Dentons’ global Energy team has launched the newest edition of its Global Energy Game Changers series, a compendium of insightful analysis of the most important issues facing the energy industry globally.

The global energy sector is undergoing a dramatic transformation. New technologies and new regulations in nearly every subsector are straining yesterday’s business models. Foundational elements throughout the industry, including energy transfer and storage, have seen massive disruption. At the same time, price fluctuations, volatile consumer demand and cyber and physical security concerns continue to add to an unpredictable future. Nevertheless, opportunity abounds.

Download the latest edition of Dentons’ Global Energy Game Changers series. It is focused on key developments in Europe: continent-wide regulatory reform; the regulation of new cross-border power flows; challenges facing the oil and gas industry; infrastructure sharing; disputes under investment treaties; and the prospect of the UK leaving the European Union. Dentons’ Energy lawyers take an in-depth look into the issues shaping the business environment in one of the world’s most important energy regions.

For further information, please contact:

Iryna Batmanova

Business Development and Marketing Manager, Energy, Europe

+48 22 24 25 106

iryna.batmanova@dentons.com

About Dentons

Dentons is the world’s first polycentric global law firm. A top 20 firm on the Acritas 2015 Global Elite Brand Index, the Firm is committed to challenging the status quo in delivering consistent and uncompromising quality and value in new and inventive ways. Driven to provide clients a competitive edge, and connected to the communities where its clients want to do business, Dentons knows that understanding local cultures is crucial to successfully completing a deal, resolving a dispute or solving a business challenge. Now the world’s largest law firm, Dentons’ global team builds agile, tailored solutions to meet the local, national and global needs of private and public clients of any size in more than 125 locations serving 50-plus countries. www.dentons.com.

Together with the Swiss Embassy and Forum Obywatelskiego Rozwoju we would like to invite you to a debate “How Switzerland has achieved success? Ideas for Poland”.

This debate is inspired by two books recently published “Swiss Made- The Untold Story behind Switzerland’s success” (R. James Breiding) and “Możesz być bogaty- czyli jak Szwajcarzy osiągnęli sukces gospodarczy” (W. Koydl).

In the discussion panel will take part experts from Poland and Switzerland.

The meeting will take place on 28^th November at Warsaw University Library.
The debate will be translated into English.

Please register till 23rd November at debata@swisschamber.pl

In the attachment you can find the invitation.

We encourage you to take a look at the event report: link

The upcoming year end is an appropriate time to develop most favourable tax solutions for the next year 2017.

Experts from the Ożóg Tomczykowski Law Firm invite interested persons to a training course devoted to discussion of real-estate tax matters. Practical and detailed presentation of this subject will enable the participants to acquire most up-to-date knowledge and to become familiar with developments in the case law of administrative courts.

The training will be held in the Law Firm’s offices in central Warsaw, on two days to be chosen at your discretion: 23 November and 7 December.

The agenda will cover e.g.:
– Legal regulations governing real-estate tax
– Practice and case law
– Taxation methods in 2017

More details are available on our website: http://ozog.pl/szkolenia/19

The Polish Bank Association awarded the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal to Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek, Partner in charge of the Employment Law practice at Dentons’ Warsaw office, in recognition of her commitment and contribution to the banking self-regulatory organization. The medal acknowledges individuals for their outstanding contribution to the dynamic growth and security of the Polish banking system. The awards ceremony was held on 5 October 2016 at the Banker’s Club (Klub Bankowca) in Warsaw at the Annual Meeting of HR and Personnel Training Directors.

Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek is a recognized legal practitioner specializing in employment and corporate law. She has extensive experience in individual and collective employment law, employment restructuring, group layoffs, banking sector payroll systems and employment aspects of corporate transactions. She is valued by banking clients for her expertise in remuneration programs for bank management. She is also experienced in the interpretation and application of legal regulations incorporating the CRD3 and CRD4 Directives into the Polish legal system.

For many years Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek has been placed highly in international legal rankings. Legal directions, such as Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers recommend her in the field of Employment and Labor Law. In 2015 she was awarded with the ILO Client Choice Award.

“The Nicolaus Copernicus Medal is a huge distinction awarded by the Polish Bank Association to persons contributing to the development of the banking sector. We are proud that Aleksandra was honored in this way. This is a mark of appreciation for her expertise and commitment, as well as a confirmation of the excellent reputation she enjoys among our clients and business partners. I am glad that Dentons is able to provide our clients with the services of the most respected and talented lawyers out there,” said Arkadiusz Krasnodębski, Managing Partner of Dentons Poland.

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About Dentons
Dentons is the world’s largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral Network. Dentons’ polycentric approach and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance client interests in the communities in which we live and work. www.dentons.com

On behalf of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency we kindly request you to take part in the survey on investment climate in Poland. The survey is brought to you by Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency in partnership with advisory firm Grant Thornton and global bank HSBC. We are interested in the comments from companies with foreign capital, relating to the broad spectrum of factors that influence the conditions for both the setting up and the running of companies in Poland.

The questionnaire is anonymous and conducted in an on-line mode. Due to this factor, your responses will flow directly back to the database. The questionnaire is active until October, the 31th, 2016. The results of the survey will be analysed in October and November. The findings of the survey and the final report will be presented during the press conference in 4th quarter 2016.

Survey Participants Anonymity and Confidentiality:

The survey is anonymous, in the report no names of individuals nor companies participating in the survey shall be presented.

Link: http://www3.paiz.gov.pl/climate/?lang=en

Doing business in a time of dynamic development of IT solutions, global competition and high dynamics of change is a major challenge in any industry. Maintaining competitive advantage is becoming a key factor for defining changes in companies, starting from the characteristics of products and services offered to applied technologies and organizational solutions.

An important argument for change may be striving to improve cost efficiency in the company, formally defined as TCO model – Total Cost of Ownership. Through analysis of direct and indirect costs in the enterprise, it is possible to indicate of the often invisible places that require improvement and consequently the implementation of new – efficient solutions.

Tangible values define modern solutions reducing the total cost of managing C-type elements of automated solutions for purchasing, logistics of engineering, production and finance. These areas of change can be very difficult to imitate by competitors, which could effectively extend the advantage on the market.

In practice, the functioning of companies operating in the TCO model, introduced processes are changes in implementation of technology and organizational solutions from innovative suppliers and subcontractors. The content of a public seminar titled: “Industry 4.0 – TCO and Smart Factory”, organized jointly by Bossard and Angst + Pfister, is based on such examples.

The seminar will be held in Łódź on 13October 2016 in Technopark Łódź.

More information about our seminars can be found at www.bossard.5klepek.pl

Do you want to learn how to reduce the costs associated with the management of C- type elements in your organization? Visit our seminar. We are convinced that participation will lead to new ideas on the development of the TCO model in your company.

You’re welcome.

We are proud to announce that BALAJCZA is a partner of the “XII Warsaw International Banking Summit” and the „VIII Insurance Forum”, which will be held in Warsaw on the 5th and 6th of October 2016. BALAJCZA will provide comprehensive services to these events by supplying both conference interpreters as well as the equipment necessary to perform simultaneous interpreting.

The prestigious XII Warsaw International Banking Summit – Banking Forum conference will be held for the twelfth time. Key banking sector personalities, individuals responsible for regulating it (central administration and supervisory body representatives) as well as service provides and companies operating in the banking sector environment have been part of the event since its inception. The Forum aims to bring together all the banking sector movers and shakers, to facilitate a better understanding of changes amongst the participants, to bring business partners even closer together and to create conditions conducive for establishing new business relations.

VIII Insurance Forum is a prestigious meeting of insurance industry leaders, a venue for exchanging knowledge, experiences and to discuss the future of the insurance market. This event is not strictly addressed to insurance professionals, but also to all those interested in what is and what will be on the cards in the financial services industry. As this is the eighth time the event will be held, it is now firmly embedded in the calendar of the most important events for key sector players and is an excellent occasion to continue discussing paramount issues, problems, opportunities and challenges facing the insurance industry.

Kanton Schwyz together with PwC would like to invite you to the webinar on How to successfully enter the Swiss market?
The webinar will be held in English on 28th September between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.

More information you can find in the attachment.

Rödl & Partner has once again been ranked among the top ten firms in “Book of Lists”, a prestigious ranking guide to business in Poland. Rödl & Partner ranked first among “Audit and accounting companies” in the category of “Accounting firms” and was no. 1 in the ranking of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies.

Our firm is among leaders in other categories, too: we were ranked third in the category of tax consulting firms and sixth in the category of international law firms.

Rödl & Partner is a German firm operating in Poland for almost 25 years. It specialises in audit services, BPO, legal and tax advice services, as well as business consulting.

www.roedl.com/pl

The Book of Lists is a prestigious Polish-English guide to business in Poland and a compilation of listings of entities based on various criteria attributable to specific sectors of economy (70 ranking lists for 9 different sectors). In 2016, the publication was released in hard copy for the 21st time. The Book of Lists is published by Valkea Media.