Eversheds Sutherland Poland provides legal services for business. We are a member of Eversheds Sutherland, one of the world’s largest legal brands, with over 70 offices in over 30 countries, enabling us to support clients in carrying out complex projects on a global scale.

We provide legal support in all areas of business operations. We advise on corporate matters, M&A, data protection, intellectual property, litigation and arbitration, public procurement, tax, employment, competition, consumer rights, advertising, banking, capital markets, digital currencies, and compliance.

We advise clients who are global leaders in industries such as TMT, energy, real estate, construction, manufacturing, FMCG, finance, insurance, food, pharmaceuticals and healthcare. We have great experience working for clients from regulated sectors.

We provide full legal support in all types of transactions on the private equity market, including buyouts and capital-raising transactions, at all phases of growth of privately held and publicly listed companies. We advise at all stages of the project. We provide legal support with structuring the investment and the form of raising capital, as well as relations between the investors and the entities raising capital. Our private equity team has broad experience working on complicated transactions involving entities from many sectors of the economy. We know how key sectors of industry operate, we analyze market trends and challenges, enabling us to deliver clients not only legal support, but also knowledge helping them reach sound business decisions. We have particular experience working on projects connected with media, new technologies, infrastructure, industry, foods, and FMCG.

Our services

• Negotiation and drafting of letter of intent, heads of terms or term sheet
• Due diligence—complete or red-flag
• Development of legal and tax structure for transactions
• Drafting transaction documentation (investment agreement with security instruments, corporate and other documents)
• Representation in negotiations
• Support for financing of transactions (credit, bonds, mezzanine)
• Representation before competent authorities to obtain required administrative decisions
• Conducting merger control procedures before the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
• Participation in execution and closing
• Post-transaction support including oversight of compliance with project assumptions and enforcement of obligations under investment agreement
• Development of hiring programs and incentive and option schemes for key members of portfolio companies
• Compliance advice
• Corporate restructuring and reorganization for private equity houses and their portfolio companies
• Support for exiting investments

Ewa Szlachetka, Ewa Łachowska-Brol, Marta Gadomska-Gołąb, Aleksandra Kunkiel-Kryńska