POLAND Law and Practice Contributed by: Łukasz Klimczyk, Maciej Skrzypek, Beata Danel-Skrzypek and Piotr Klepuszewski, SLK Partners
SLK Partners is an advisory group providing com - prehensive legal, tax and accounting services to both the business and sports sector. With more than 15 years of market experience, the firm has established a strong reputation among domestic and international clients. The group comprises a multidisciplinary team of over 40 professionals, including lawyers, tax advis - ers and accountants, offering co-ordinated support across a number of core practice areas, including corporate law (with a particular focus on M&A trans - actions), commercial contracting, real estate and construction projects, employment law and medical
law. A significant and steadily developing part of SLK Partners’ practice is dedicated to sports and esports law. Within the sports and esports sector, SLK Part - ners advises national sports federations, profession - al clubs, event organisers and athletes on a broad range of matters. The firm’s expertise includes gov - ernance and compliance within sports organisations, sponsorship and broadcasting arrangements, player contracts and transfer agreements, disciplinary pro - ceedings, image rights and commercial exploitation of sports-related intellectual property.
Authors
Łukasz Klimczyk is an attorney-at-law and partner at SLK Partners with over 13 years of professional experience. He specialises in legal advisory for entities operating in the sports and esports sectors, including ongoing regulatory
Beata Danel-Skrzypek is an attorney- at-law and partner at SLK Partners with over 15 years of professional experience. She specialises in corpo - rate law, with particular expertise in advising public companies listed on
and commercial support. Łukasz has extensive experi - ence representing athletes in disciplinary proceedings, in particular anti-doping matters, before national and international arbitration tribunals, including the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). He is a member of national and international organisations, including the Polish Association of Sports Law and the International Sports Lawyers Association, and currently serves as Secretary General of the European Esports Federation and Vice President of the Polish Esports Federation.
the Warsaw Stock Exchange. She provides compre - hensive legal support to commercial companies (including from the sports sector) at all stages of their operations, including in connection with mergers, demergers and corporate restructurings. Beata has extensive experience in complex invest - ment transactions, including share and asset deals, private equity and venture capital investments, IPOs, SPOs, and bond issuances.
Piotr Klepuszewski is an attorney-at- law and partner at SLK Partners with over 13 years of professional experi - ence gained in Poland and Germany (German native speaker). His practice focuses on advising key corporate
Maciej Skrzypek is an attorney-at-law and partner at SLK Partners with over 15 years of professional experience. He has extensive experience in corporate and investment transactions, advising on complex M&A projects and strategic
clients on commercial law, business contracts, real estate matters and employment law, in relation to temporary employment agencies and cross-border secondment of employees. Piotr has extensive experience in negotiations concerning business and sports projects. He has also served in corporate governance roles, including as a member of the supervisory board of one of Poland’s leading video game developers.
business ventures, with a particular focus on the sports sector. Maciej provides ongoing legal support to entrepreneurs in the construction industry, covering projects related to the development and construction of sports facilities, as well as to clients in the technol - ogy and IT sectors and public sector entities. His practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, investment transactions, public procurement, intellec - tual property and data protection.
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