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Dear Sir/Madam,
I’m extremely glad that I have the honor to welcome you at our website. I would like to welcome you cordially, and invite you to become acquainted with our comprehensive range of services, to visit us frequently in the future, and to actively promote our Office among your family, friends, colleagues and business partners.
With great pleasure, I’d like to invite you to join the group of our permanent Clients. I trust that our vast experience in the legal service market, the recognized brand, and especially the highest quality of offered services, will help you in making the correct decision.
Personally, I am deeply satisfied knowing that our market successes are resulting from the exceptional care about our Clients and their needs, that the strategy of activities of our Office, assumed many years ago, the developed standards, the carefully selected aims, people and partners, and the constant willingness to improve our own competences, have resulted in the present situation, where we are respected by a large group of our Clients.
By offering professional legal services, we have become a significant firm in the sector of legal services, a modern office, professionally managed, responsible for the legal and advisory activities, one which guarantees the security of using our services, and the guarantee of maintaining proper secrecy.
Please feel invited to become familiar with our specializations. We always listen to your opinions and try to meet your expectations. I honestly hope that the information included in this website will allow you to learn about the specific character of our activities, will allow you to perceive the image of our Office as a professional, friendly firm based on partnership with you and deserving your trust. Please feel invited to follow our profiles in the social media, where we systematically publish information from the “everyday life of our Office”, selected articles from legal press, court sentences, as well as a number of other, practical materials from the scope of the widely-understood legal issues.
With regards and hope that we will meet in the seat of our Office,
Marcin Smagacz
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20 years of professional work
a team of 20 specialists
we provide legal services
to over 100 companies
40% of all our Clients constitute investment companies
we provide legal services
to several dozen development
projects / 80% of all our Clients
are by recommendation
the group of satisfied Clients
has continued to grow
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KATARZYNA KONIECZNY

KATARZYNA KONIECZNY
Specializations:
- economic law,
- commercial law, advisory services in the scope of developing corporate structures,
- administrative, material, procedural law, court and administrative law,
- civil law, law of contracts in business transactions,
- labor law,
- construction law, legal services for construction investments,
- real property law,
- complex legal services to Polish and foreign companies
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, she is a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Cracow. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Administrative and Court-Administrative Proceedings at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
She started working in the Office while still studying law, and she quickly became known as a very ambitious, hard-working and reliable person. In the years 2009-2012 she completed legal advisor’s internship, and was granted the professional title of Legal Advisor. She has been working in the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors since 2006, and since 2012 as a Legal Advisor.
- She specializes in administrative/court-administrative law and proceedings, civil law, economic law and commercial companies and partnerships.
- She has vast experience in the scope of corporate services to construction, investment and development companies. She is a recognized specialist in handling investment projects and processes. She knows the specific character and the needs of the fields she specializes in.
- She specializes in complex legal services for investment processes. On a daily basis, she advises and/or represents the Office’s Clients in proceedings before government and self-government administrative bodies, at all the stages of administrative procedures.
- She authored many specialist legal opinions in the scope of spatial development, construction and water law, environmental protection.
Professional interests: personal data protection, public-legal regulations of conducting business activities.
She is proficient in English, and good in French and German.

JOANNA SZANSER-SMAGACZ

JOANNA SZANSER-SMAGACZ
Specializations:
- economic law,
- commercial law, specialized services in the scope of developing corporate structures,
- administrative, material, procedural law, court and administrative law,
- construction law,
- real property law,
- bankruptcy, reorganization and restructuring law,
- business negotiations,
- complex legal services for companies
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, she is a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Cracow. Her professional career started from co-creating one of the most well-known brands in the market of legal services in Poland – LexMedia (now: Lexis Nexis). Since 1997, she has been professionally rendering legal and advisory services to Polish and foreign companies, private persons and public institutions.
- She is an expert in economic law, companies law, administrative law and procedures, as well as the broadly-understood real property law.
- She has vast experience in the scope of corporate services to construction, investment and development companies. She is a recognized specialist in handling investment projects and processes. She knows the specific character and the needs of the fields she specializes in.
- She knows how to develop solutions. She believes that the professionalism of a legal advisor/advocate, is measured not only based on its legal knowledge, but also its creativity and ability to solve problems, even if they seem to be almost impossible to solve.
- She is a splendid and efficient negotiator. She has the rare ability to conduct difficult negotiations and to bring partners and their opinions closer together, she precisely specifies the negotiation objectives, selects the styles and strategies of negotiation. Her vast experience is priceless in that case.
- She is always well-prepared. The involvement, the ability to act fast, the unconventional attitude and the passion she has for her work result in her being praised not only by Clients, but also by her opponents in the proceedings.
In the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Cracow she acts as an expert in administrative law and proceedings. Moreover, she is a member of the Team of Legal Advisor Inspectors at the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Cracow.

DR. MARTA KISIELOWSKA

DR. MARTA KISIELOWSKA
Specializations:
- European Union law,
- economic law,
- commercial law,
- administrative, material, procedural law, court and administrative law,
- civil law, law of contracts in business transactions,
- family law, including divorce and asset distribution cases,
- real property law, inheritance law, cooperative and housing law,
- complex legal services to Polish and foreign companies
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, she is a member of the District Chamber of Advocates in Cracow. In the years 2006-2009 she completed advocate internship, and was granted the professional title of Advocate.
She received two scholarships from the French Government, in 2003 she graduated from the School of French Law organized by the Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Orleans. In 2002 she completed a six-month scholarship at the Faculty of Law at the Montesquieu University – Bordeaux IV in France. Furthermore, in 2004 and 2007 she completed monthly scholarships at the Faculty of Law at the University of Orleans.
In 2010 she was granted the academic degree of PhD in Law, by defending her thesis entitled The rule of legality of activities of public administration bodies in a multicentric legal system. Currently, she is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Administrative Law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
She has been working in the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors since 2010.
- She specializes in the law of the European Union, administrative law, administrative and court-administrative proceedings, and civil law.
- She has several years of experience in providing services to Polish and foreign commercial companies and partnerships.
- She represents and advises to Clients in judicial and extrajudicial proceedings in civil and economic law, in particular in the scope of seeking claims on account of failure to perform or of improper performance of contracts.
- She is proficient in English and French.
Scientific publications: I). Hierarchical structure of norms and the concept of multicentric legal system [in:] J. Niczyporuk (ed.), Theory of administrative law institutions. Commemorative book of professor Jerzy Stefan Langrod, publishing house: Polish Academy of Sciences, Paris 2011, pp. 669-679. II). Certainty of the legal situation of a person and durability of final administrative decisions [in:] A. Błaś (ed.), Certainty of the legal situation of a person in administrative law, publishing house: Wolters Kluwer business, Warsaw 2012, pp. 147 – 172. III). Several remarks about administrative law between the countries [in:] J. Zimmermann (ed.), Space in administrative law, publishing house: Wolters Kluwer business, Warsaw 2013, pp. 171-180. IV). Multicentric system of law and its consequences for interpretation of administrative law [in:] P. Serrand i W. Jakimowicz (red.), Le pouvoir discrétionnaire. Regards croisés franco-polonais, à paraître, mare&martin, Collection : Droit public 2013, 55-72 . V). The multicentric legal system and its impact on administrative law interpretation [in:] P. Serrand and W. Jakimowicz (ed.), Le pouvoir discrétionnaire. Regards croisés franco-polonais, à paraître, mare&martin, Collection : Droit public, 2013, pp. 73-92. VI). Application by administrative bodies of community directives, Państwo i Prawo, No. 11/2005, pp. 88 – 101. VII). Rule of durability of administrative decisions in the legal decisions of the European Court of Justice, Państwo i Prawo, No. 10/2007, pp. 70 – 80. VII). The multicentric character of the administrative law system of standards, Samorząd Terytorialny No. 5/2013, pp. 75-83. VIII). "General rules of administrative law” – drawing up points 1.1., 1.2., 1.4., 1.5., 3 [in:] W. Jakimowicz (ed.), Guide to administrative law. Guidebook, publishing house Wolters Kluwer business, Warsaw 2013, pp. 89-94, pp. 104-109, 129-134. IX). "General rules of administrative law” – editing a chapter [in:] W. Jakimowicz (ed.), Guidebook to administrative law, Warsaw 2013, pp. 89-134.

MARCIN SMAGACZ

MARCIN SMAGACZ
Specializations:
- real property market analyses,
- real property due diligence,
- project feasibility studies,
- administrative representation,
- investment representation / investor’s representative/,
- specialist advisory services in the scope of transactions of purchasing/selling rights to real properties,
- complex services for real property development projects / preparation – introduction – supervision over project execution/,
- intermediation in the sales of investment areas
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the Faculty of management in the Małopolska School of Economics in Tarnów (Real Properties). In 2004 he was nominated to the award of the Minister of Infrastructure for his study entitled “The social costs of regulating the private resource rent system”. In the years 1999-2004 he received the scientific scholarship of the Prime Minister, Minister of National Education and Sports, Chancellor of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Chancellor of the State Higher Vocational School in Tarnów, Chancellor of the Małopolska School of Economics in Tarnów. In 2004 he was granted the medal Collegium Tarnoviense “Per aspera ad astra” (“Through hardships to the stars”) for special achievements.
From 2007 to 2011 he was professionally associated with the Doctor Q Bud Group, where he held the function of Chief Executive Officer, and was responsible, among others, for developing, introducing and supervising the execution of numerous real property development projects. Since October 2011 he has been employed at the position of Investment and Development Director in one of the largest industrial construction companies operating in southern Poland. Since 2010 he has been an independent analyst, project manager and real property advisor. He has been employed in the Office since 2006: he co-created the strategy of its development based on high-quality products, has been responsible for developing the image of the Office in the market of legal services, and has been directly responsible for certain business Clients.
He is specialized in strategic advisory services to participants in the real property market. He prepares detailed analyses in the scope of transaction prices, advises external investors in the scope of transactions of purchasing/selling real properties, investing financial resources in the real property market, and proper organization of investment processes of development character, with special emphasis on the issues associated with promoting and selling investments in the primary market.
If you have a land property/ a building with the properties of an investment real property and you want to:
- sell it,
- introduce as an in-kind contribution to a company, and draw benefits from it in the future,
- find a financial investor who will perform the given investment undertaking together with you,
- need assistance and support in connection with the intention to start a construction investment,
- or you have a different idea you’d like to talk about,
I’d like to recommend my services and invite you to contact me. I’m convinced that together we’ll find the solution that’s beneficial for you.
Professional interests: business negotiations, competence management. Private interests: architecture, photography.

GRZEGORZ DUCHNIK

GRZEGORZ DUCHNIK
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in 2004, by defending his thesis in the department of Criminal Law. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Chamber of Advocates in Cracow. He completed his advocate internship in 2009. Since 2013 he has been working as an advocate in the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office.
He provides legal assistance to natural persons (criminal, civil and administrative cases) and in the scope of legal services to business entities.

EWELINA ORLIŃSKA-KIEDROŃ

EWELINA ORLIŃSKA-KIEDROŃ
Specializations:
- economic law,
- commercial law,
- civil law, law of contracts in business transactions,
- labor law,
- construction law, legal services for construction and real property development investments,
- real property law,
- complex legal services for companies and partnerships
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (major: Law) and the Faculty of Economy and International Relations at the University of Economy in Cracow (major: Economy), and she is a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Cracow. In the years 2011-2014 she completed legal advisor’s internship, and was granted the professional title of Legal Advisor. She has been working in the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors since 2011.
- She specializes in complex legal services to corporate Clients.
- She has experience in providing legal services to Polish and foreign entities.
- She represents and advises to Clients in judicial and extrajudicial proceedings in civil and economic law.
- She is the author of numerous publications in civil and economic law and law of commercial companies and partnerships.
- She is proficient in English.
Selected publications: “A petition for bankruptcy is not enough” Rzeczpospolita of 17 September 2012, issue: 217 (9337), "When you get a proposal from the system” RZ dated 17 September 2012, issue: 217 (9337),"The order of satisfying creditors’ claims is set", Rzeczpospolita dated 3 September 2012, issue: 205 (9325), "Contract secured with a mortgage or another person’s guarantee”, Rzeczpospolita dated 11 July 2012, issue: 160 (9280), "What are the consequences of the lack of petition for bankruptcy in companies”, Rzeczpospolita dated 5 June 2012, issue 130 (9250), "Contract secured with a contractual penalty”, Rzeczpospolita dated 2 April 2012, issue: 78 (9198), "Special type of power of attorney” Rzeczpospolita dated 15 March 2012, issue: 63 (9183), "Choose limited partnership as a friendly form of business”, Rzeczpospolita dated 20 February 2012, issue: 42 (9162), "How to get ready to a payment request before a court”, Rzeczpospolita dated 2 February 2012, issue: 27 (9147), “A bill of exchange will secure the debt”, Rzeczpospolita dated 20 January 2012, issue: 16 (9136), “A business in the form of civil law partnership”, Rzeczpospolita dated 5 January 2012, issue: 4 (9124), "What is the difference between delay and default" Rzeczpospolita dated 6 December 2011, issue: 283 (9099), "A guiltless seller is also responsible”, Rzeczpospolita dated 18 October 2011, issue: 243 (9059), "The court may release the firm from costs”, Rzeczpospolita dated 30 August 2011, issue: 201 (9017), “The gaining of profits allows to differentiate between the contracts of rent and lease”, Rzeczpospolita dated 11 August 2011, issue: 186 (9002), “Rights of the lessor, rights of the lessee”, Rzeczpospolita dated 11 August 2011, issue: 186 (9002), "Extrajudicial arrangement better than litigation”, Rzeczpospolita dated 26 July 2011, issue: 172 (8988), "Earnest money and advance payment are not one and the same”, Rzeczpospolita dated 6 July 2011, "Check if you need to pay”, Rzeczpospolita dated 16 June 2011, “How much protection for the creditor when the debtor consciously becomes insolvent”, Rzeczpospolita dated 1 June 2011, issue: 126 (8942), "The entrepreneurs should specifically determine the intention to novate the debt”, Rzeczpospolita dated 13 May 2011, issue: 110 (8926), "How can the entrepreneurs reduce their mutual liabilities", Rzeczpospolita dated 7 May 2011, issue: 105 (8921), “A construction entrepreneur should be secured against losses”, Rzeczpospolita dated 18 April 2011, issue: 90 (8906)

RADOMIR WATRAS

RADOMIR WATRAS
Specializations:
- economic law,
- commercial law,
- civil law, law of contracts in business transactions,
- labor law,
- construction law, legal services for construction and real property development investments,
- real property law,
- complex legal services for companies and partnerships
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, he is a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Cracow. In the years 2011-2013 he completed legal advisor’s internship, and was granted the professional title of Legal Advisor. He has been working in the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors since 2010, and since 2014 as a Legal Advisor.
- He specializes in complex legal services to corporate Clients. He pleads cases in economic and commercial law, civil law and proceedings, and labor law.
- He has experience in providing legal services to Polish and foreign entities.
- He represents and advises to Clients in judicial and extrajudicial proceedings in civil and economic law.
- He was a finalist in the tax competition Eye on Tax 2010/2011 organized by Ernst & Young.
- Professional interests: financial law, labor law, negotiation techniques and judicial disputes.
- She is proficient in English.

BEATA GAJEWSKA

BEATA GAJEWSKA
Specializations:
- economic law,
- commercial law,
- civil law, law of contracts in business transactions,
- competition and consumer law,
- complex legal services to businesses
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, she is a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Cracow. In the years 2011-2014 he completed legal advisor’s internship, and was granted the professional title of Legal Advisor. She has been working in the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors since 2008.
- She specializes in civil and economic law, especially in the issues of legal services to businesses.
- She has experience in providing legal services to Polish and foreign entities
- She represents and advises to Clients in judicial and extrajudicial proceedings in civil and economic law.
- Her professional interests cover contract law in business transactions, companies law and competition law.
- She is proficient in English.

EWELINA MARZEC

EWELINA MARZEC
Specializations:
- economic law,
- commercial law, advisory services in the scope of developing corporate structures,
- civil law, law of contracts in business transactions,
- real property law, inheritance law,
- legal services for real property development investments, verification of legal status of real properties,
- complex legal services to companies, taking into account the tax aspects,
- debt recovery
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, she is a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Cracow. In the years 2010-2012 he completed legal advisor’s internship, and was granted the professional title of Legal Advisor. She has been working in the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors since 2011, and since 2013 as a Legal Advisor.
- She has experience in complex legal services to partnerships and companies, including in the processes of their establishment and restructuring.
- In the Office she provides legal services to more than a dozen business entities, such as real property development companies, construction companies – contractors and investment companies.
- She specializes in the issues associated with transactions in real properties, legal services for investment processes, as well as in the legal services to the entities that render real property management and/or administration services.
- Her professional interests include tax aspects of commercial transactions, including tax optimization and civil law in the construction sector.
- She is proficient in English.

KRZYSZTOF KIJEWSKI

KRZYSZTOF KIJEWSKI
Specjalizacje:
- prawo cywilne
- prawo gospodarcze i handlowe
- kompleksowa obsługa podmiotów gospodarczych
- windykacja należności
- prawo nieruchomości
- prawo budowlane
- prawo administracyjne oraz postępowanie sądowo-administracyjne
Jest absolwentem Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz członkiem Okręgowej Izby Radców Prawnych w Krakowie. W latach 2015-2017 odbył aplikację radcowską, a następnie po zdanym egzaminie radcowskim w 2018 roku uzyskał tytuł zawodowy radcy prawnego. Z Kancelarią Prawną Joanna Szanser-Smagacz/ Adwokaci i Radcowie Prawni współpracuje od 2015 roku. Włada biegle językiem angielskim oraz językiem hiszpańskim w stopniu średniozaawansowanym.
Posiada bogate doświadczenie w obsłudze podmiotów gospodarczych w szczególności w zakresie windykacji należności, zarówno na etapie przedsądowym (sporządzanie korespondencji przedsądowej, prowadzenie negocjacji, przygotowywanie porozumień pozasądowych), jak również sądowym oraz egzekucyjnym (występowanie w postępowaniach sądowych, zabezpieczających, egzekucyjnych, upadłościowych i restrukturyzacyjnych). Ponadto zajmuje się szeroko rozumianym prawem nieruchomości (m.in. analiza stanu prawnego nieruchomości - due diligence) oraz prawem budowlanym. Prywatnie miłośnik nowych technologii oraz hiszpańskiego futbolu.

ANNA DACZYŃSKA

ANNA DACZYŃSKA
Specjalizacje:
- prawo gospodarcze
- prawo handlowe
- prawo cywilne
- prawo umów w obrocie gospodarczym
- prawo medyczne
- prawo pracy
Jest absolwentką Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie w Katedrze Prawa Karnego. Stypendystka stypendium Prezesa Rady Ministrów dla najlepszych uczniów, a także trzykrotna stypendystka stypendium Rektora dla najlepszych studentów Wydziału Prawa i Administracji UJ. Obecnie odbywa aplikacje radcowską w Okręgowej Izbie Radców Prawny w Krakowie. W Kancelarii Prawnej Joanna Szanser-Smagacz / Adwokaci i Radcowie Prawni od 2016 r.
Swoje zainteresowania w przedmiocie prawa medycznego rozwijała w Studenckiej Poradni Prawnej UJ w Sekcji Prawa Medycznego, w Kole Naukowym Prawa Medycznego UJ, gdzie pełniła funkcję Wiceprezesa, a także uczestnicząc na ogólnopolskich konferencjach naukowych:
- wystąpienie podczas Ogólnopolskiej Konferencji Naukowej pt. „Corpus Hippocraticum, czyli o prawnych aspektach wykonywania zawodów medycznych” we Wrocławiu z referatem pt. „Sumienie farmaceuty w świetle polskiego prawa”;
- wystąpienie podczas Ogólnopolskiej Konferencji Naukowej pt. „Bioetyka i prawa – zawada dla postępu czy ostatnia reduta człowieczeństwa?” w Katowicach z referatem pt. „Prawo do prywatności pacjenta a dostęp osób bliskich do informacji o jego śmierci”;
- wystąpienie podczas II Ogólnopolskiej Konferencji Naukowej pt. „Hipokrates przed sądem” we Wrocławiu z referatem pt. „Obowiązek zachowania tajemnicy lekarskiej a odpowiedzialność karna lekarza na gruncie art. 266 §1 k.k.”
Publikacja naukowa: „Misje zagraniczne Unii Europejskiej jako kluczowy element wspólnej polityki bezpieczeństwa i obrony” (w:) Wybrane zagadnienia współczesnego prawa międzynarodowego publicznego ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem niektórych aspektów funkcjonowania organizacji międzynarodowych pod red. B.Kuźniak 2016, wyd. Kasper, ISBN: 978-83-63896-36-2.
Włada biegle językiem angielskim.
W wolnych chwilach od dzieciństwa jej wielką pasją jest muzyka - śpiewa, gra na pianinie i gitarze. Ukończyła Państwową Szkołę Muzyczną I stopnia im. Karola Szymanowskiego w Oświęcimiu w klasie fortepianu, Szkołę Wokalno-Aktorską w Krakowie, a tajniki muzyki jazzowej zgłębiała w Szkole Jazzu i Muzyki Rozrywkowej w Krakowie. Nagrała płytę pt. „Prezent”, której fragmenty można posłuchać na youtubie.

ANNA GRZYWNA

ANNA GRZYWNA
Zainteresowania:
- prawo gospodarcze,
- prawo handlowe,
- prawo i postępowanie administracyjne,
- prawo cywilne, prawo umów w obrocie gospodarczym,
- prawo nieruchomości
- ochrona danych osobowych
Absolwentka Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie, stypendystka Programu Erasmus na Uniwersytecie w Lublanie (Słowenia), w 2014 r. ukończyła program Szkoły Prawa Amerykańskiego organizowany przez Uniwersytet Jagielloński i Columbus School of Law – Catholic University of America.
Od 2017 r. odbywa aplikację radcowską w Okręgowej Izbie Radców Prawnych w Krakowie. Z Kancelarią Prawną Joanna Szanser-Smagacz / Adwokaci i Radcowie Prawni współpracuje od grudnia 2016 r. Doświadczenie zawodowe zdobywała pracując w kilku krakowskich kancelariach oraz jako wolontariusz Fundacji Academia Iuris udzielając bezpłatnych porad prawnych osobom niezamożnym.
W Kancelarii zajmuje się sprawami z zakresu prawa cywilnego, prawa nieruchomości, procesu inwestycyjnego, współpracuje przy kompleksowej obsłudze prawnej kilkunastu podmiotów gospodarczych oraz bierze udział w prowadzeniu postępowań administracyjnych i sądowych. Jest osobą ambitną, rzetelną, dobrze zorganizowaną.
Włada biegle językiem angielskim i językiem rosyjskim, dobrze językiem niemieckim.
Zainteresowania pozazawodowe: podróże, wycieczki górskie, tango argentyńskie

KRZYSZTOF BARTUŚ

KRZYSZTOF BARTUŚ
Specializations:
- real property market analyses,
- real property due diligence,
- project feasibility studies,
- investment representation / investor’s representative/,
- specialist advisory services in the scope of transactions of purchasing/selling rights to real properties,
- complex services for real property development projects / preparation – introduction – supervision over project execution/,
- intermediation in the sales of investment areas,
Analyst and advisor in the real property market, property appraiser with more than 20 years of experience in the real property market, an intermediary in real property sale transactions. Member of the Real Property Market Monitor Analysis Institute. Author of many reports, analyses and projections devoted to the economic issues of the residential real property market. Associated with the real property market since 1990s, at first he ran his own firm dealing with property appraisal.
Professional specialization: analyzing and appraising real property development investments. Author of hundreds real property appraisals and court opinions. For many years he has been active among the appraisers organized in the Małopolska Association of Property Appraisers. He has organized and given lectures at numerous industry conferences devoted to the real property sector.

KAROL WÓJTOWICZ

KAROL WÓJTOWICZ
Zainteresowania:
- prawo gospodarcze,
- prawo i postępowanie cywilne,
- prawo medyczne,
- postępowanie wieczystoksięgowe
Jest absolwentem Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie (kierunek Prawo) oraz Wydziału Ekonomii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych na Uniwersytecie Ekonomicznym w Krakowie (kierunek Ekonomia). Obecnie odbywa aplikacje radcowską w Okręgowej Izbie Radców Prawny w Krakowie. Z Kancelarią Prawną Joanna Szanser-Smagacz / Adwokaci i Radcowie Prawni związany od 2017 r. Przedmiotami jego szczególnego zainteresowania są prawo i postępowanie cywilne, prawo pracy oraz prawo gospodarcze i handlowe. Jest osobą pracowitą, ambitną i optymistyczną.
Prywatnie miłośnik sportu, kina oraz książek.
Włada biegle językiem angielskim.

EWA SMAGACZ

EWA SMAGACZ
A public relations specialist. She organizes the works of the Office, by providing day-to-day administrative services. She is responsible for the whole range of organizational issues, and the functioning of the secretary’s office. She supervises the settlements with Clients, the preparation of external and internal reports

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SPECIALIZATIONS
WE ARE THE SOURCE OF OUR SUCCESSES.
In the firm like our Office, the actual value consists in the people who are able to work and win by working in a cohesive team. It’s not the brand, but the people that build it, that is decisive for the success of the Office, and thus for the successes of our Clients. Their knowledge, competences, experience, involvement, responsibility and ability to cooperate in a group, determine the quality of the services rendered by the Office, prove our strength and are decisive for how we’re perceived by others. People constitute our basic and highest value.
YOUR SUCCESSES DEVELOP THE VALUE OF OUR OFFICE.
The Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors offers a very broad scope of legal assistance – complex legal services for Polish and foreign business entities, commercial companies and partnerships, as well as natural persons operating their businesses.
The perfect knowledge of legal provisions, many years of professional experience, competitive conditions of cooperation, reliability and timeliness, are the fundaments of our Office. We belong to the exclusive group of legal, professional, specialized service entities that provide legal assistance in administrative law, administrative and court-administrative procedures, construction law, broadly-understood real property law and spatial planning law.
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COMMERCIAL LAW AND COMPANIES LAW
- CORPORATE CONSULTANCY
- COMPREHENSIVE LEGAL SERVICE FOR POLISH i AND FOREIGN BUSINESS ENTITIES
- BANKRUPTCY LAW
- RECEIVABLES COLLECTION
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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
- SUBSTANTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
- PROCEDURAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
- LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN THE PROCEEDINGS BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE BODIES
- LAW ON THE PROCEEDINGS BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE
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CIVIL LAW
- LAW ON COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS
- LABOUR LAW
- PUBLIC PROCUREMENT LAW
- NEGOTIATIONS AND LEGAL SUPPORT FOR CONTRACTS
- LEGAL REPRESENTATION BEFORE A COURT
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REAL PROPERTY LAW
- LAW ON REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT
- COOPERATIVE AND HOUSING LAW
- LAW OF INHERITANCE
- SELLING/PURCHASING RIGHTS CONCERNING REAL PROPERTIES
- PERPETUAL BOOKS AND MORTGAGE PROCEEDINGS
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LEGAL SUPPORT FOR INVESTMENTS
- LEGAL SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPER PROJECTS
- SUPERVISION OVER INVESTMENT PROJECTS
- NEGOTATIONS AND LEGAL SERVICE OF CONTRACTS
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LEGAL AUDIT
- LEGAL ANALYSIS ON THE COMPLIANCE OF ACTIVITIES OF THE ENTITY WTH THE BINDING PROVISIONS OF LAW
- ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE REAL PROPERTY
- ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF MOVABLES AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS
- ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSACTION RISKS
- EMPLOYMENT
RULES OF COOEPRATION
FRIENDLY PROFESSIONALISM
SECURITY AND TRUST
In the times when the economic reality can be complicated, and the surroundings – including the legal surroundings – is changing quite rapidly, it is quite important how the respective persons, or firms, project and secure the effects of the economic decisions they make. That’s also one of the reasons why the selection of a law office should be considerate – because it is decisive for the level of legal protection or efficiency of its activities, assumed for the given person or company.
QUALITY AND PARTNERSHIP IN ACTIVITIES
The basis of Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors has been for many years the highest quality of services serving to develop durable relations with our Clients and partners in the legal service market. The quality of services rendered determines the growth in our Clients’ trust in our Office, it consolidates our positive image in the legal service market, as well as guarantees the satisfaction of our Clients’ needs and expectations.
OPENNESS AND INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS
We are professional. In the work that we perform, we aim for competences, responsibility, reliability, as well as efficiency and speed of acting. We’re convinced that the speed of acting may not result in decreasing the quality or value of the services we offer, so we aim for the efficient solutions that are most beneficial from the point of view of our Clients’ interests. Finally, we’re there whenever you need us.
SO LET’S TALK ABOUT COOPERATION
The forms of payment result from the form of cooperation – the hourly rate agreed upon with the Client, the degree of complexity of the case, of the legal issue, and the projected amount of work we will need to perform. To adapt to the needs of our Clients, we propose a number of different settlement methods.
The four basic forms are as follows:
HOURLY RATE
Applied usually in so-called typical orders, in the cases of which there is the possibility to determine, quite precisely, the planned time of work needed to perform the given order. The remuneration for the legal services rendered on the basis of the assumed hourly rate is the product of the number of hours devoted to the performance of the order/partial orders, and the hourly rate,
agreed upon in advance with the Client. The VAT tax rate, based on the effective provisions of the law, is then added to the resulting amount. Before making the decision on the form of settlement, the Clients are given the information on the possibility to select hourly rate for settlements, and the projected time of work needed.
LUMP SUM WITH LIMITED HOURS
On account of rendering legal services consisting in full, day-to-day legal services to a Client, there is the possibility to determine the remuneration in the form of a lump sum with limited number of hours.
If we assume that the total time of work in the given month comprises a stable number of hours, the settlement is based on a fixed monthly fee. In the case of exceeding the agreed limit of time of work, the amount of the specified lump sum remuneration will be supplemented with the value for the time of work over that limit, upon the general rules assumed for such settlements.
LUMP SUM WITH UNLIMITED HOURS
That form of settlements is usually used for entrepreneurs, public institutions, and more rarely – for natural persons. The system of lump sum remuneration with unlimited hours consists in indicating, in the agreement on legal services, the monthly remuneration on account of rendering legal services consisting in full, complex legal services to the Client.
The monthly remuneration rate is determined through negotiations and depends on many factors: size of the enterprise, type of conducted activities and degree of complexity of the entrepreneur's legal condition, the selected form of cooperation (there is the possibility of in-house services, i.e. permanent legal services in the seat of the given company), projected monthly number of ordered cases, etc.
LUMP SUM PLUS SUCCESS FEE
By noticing various needs of our Clients, we also offer the possibility to undertake the cooperation consisting in the legal services for a specific investment process or real property development project. In the case of choosing that form of cooperation, the remuneration rules will be agreed individually through negotiations
The amount of remuneration results from the degree of complexity of the pending or projected administrative proceedings, the value of the planned investments, the level of responsibility for the activities taken, the number and level of risks, the projected duration of legal assistance, etc.
If you are interested in detailed rules of cooperation, please feel welcome to pay a visit to the seat of our Office,
where we will certainly arrive at a model of cooperation, which will be consistent with your needs, while drinking a cup of aromatic coffee.
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CRACOW IS A COMMITMENT / WHO TRUSTED US
For almost 18 years we have been rendering complex legal services to Polish and foreign businesses, commercial companies and partnerships, civil law partnerships, sole traders, public institutions and natural persons, always providing them with a high level of legal assistance. We advise and support our Clients in making difficult decisions. We draw up opinions and legal information, we give advice, prepare drafts of economic agreements, arrangements, pleadings and petitions. We participate in commercial negotiations, advise how to secure your receivables, or recover debts.
We represent Clients before common courts, arbitration courts, the Supreme Court, in proceedings before public administration bodies, including in mediation proceedings, before administrative courts and the Supreme Administrative Court. The scope of cases and competences our Clients entrust us with is very large, but it’s also a great responsibility, that’s why we’re so proud to say that almost 80 percent of all of our new Clients have found us through recommendations.


I can recommend the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office Advocates and Legal Advisors with full conviction, as a competent, reliable and responsible Partner. Our cooperation of many years has been conducted without any reservations, the ordered works have been performed in a very professional manner, and the competences of the team managed by Counsel Joanna Szanser–Smagacz, and the attention to highest standards, result in the high credibility of the Office.


Taking into account the long-lasting cooperation
with the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors,
I can recommend the legal
services rendered by Counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz and her team.
The words that best describe her attitude to her Clients are: professionalism, commitment and creativity. Partner, Dorota Radwan


Without duress, resistance or redundant words, but with pure pleasure and satisfaction. I’d like to recommend the services of the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors.


I’ve personally met counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz and entrusted her with my business, because I know that she’s a great specialist.
She is very efficient. She has the skills and knowledge that I, and my company, could use on numerous occasions.
She is a woman of rules and outstanding culture. She is… I can say that with full responsibility… a professional.
That’s why I always recommend her.


As Albert Camus once said:
”... it's easier to reach success than to deserve it…”
I am under the impression that Counsel Joanna Szanser – Smagacz managed to do both those things due to her great commitment, professionalism, but also simple, human kindness…


With extraordinary pleasure, I would like to thank the whole team of legal advisors and advocates for your everyday assistance, your great professionalism, competences, efficiency, your commitment, hard work and durability.
I am glad to say that it is an honor to meet so many remarkable lawyers on the path of development of my company.
Thank you very much.
If am sure that reliability and professionalism will continue to be parts of your Office’s activities.
I hope that the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors will always be a real, commonly acknowledged example of high quality.
Please accept my words of respect.


We would like to heartily recommend the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors as the entity specialized in providing legal assistance to businesses.
We have been cooperating with Counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz for several years, during which she has advised us in different aspects associated with the activities of our company.
Counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz and her lawyers knew how to protect the interests of our company, how to claim its rights and to challenge those who would want to violate those rights. The legal assistance from the Law Office of Counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz gave us the feeling of safety and was conducive to performing day-to-day activities, mainly by avoiding the problems that we could have faced without the legal assistance.
To express our respect, we would like to recommend the legal advisory services of the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors to other companies.
With thanks for our cooperation


I’d like to ardently recommend the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors as a trustworthy business partner.
Efficiency, professionalism, broad knowledge, conscientiousness, reliability and splendid recognition and understanding of Client’s needs are just several of the properties demonstrated by the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office.
I'd like to thank you for previous cooperation and hope for further, equally fruitful cooperation in the future.


There is a great word in the Polish language which, in my opinion, best describes the degree of my personal satisfaction.
But it’s not the right place or time, and I shouldn’t use the words which are commonly considered to be crude, let me just tell you that it’s a very good Law Office.


... During many years of working in the real property sector, I have managed several large Projects and cooperated with the largest legal offices and their Best people in Poland.
On the basis of my experience, I can definitely say that counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz possesses the knowledge and skills for negotiations comparable to the level of “the Best ones” in Poland, and she knows how to apply them effectively.


I am very glad I can recommend that Office. The unique commitment of the Office to the matters of the Microman Company produce great respect and credit.


“Company” and “development” – is the task that feels obliging. I can’t imagine functioning in the sector of real properties without the legal support from the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors. The experience, high level of competences, commitment to problem solving, are the properties that distinguish that office, and so I can truly recommend it.
For every company it will provide support by ensuring the security of functioning as well as dynamic, orderly development I think that our cooperation with the Office will be measured not only by the number of documents, problems solved, hours spent in meetings, but also the “number of coffees” we've had, for which I’d also like to thank you!!!


On behalf of the PROGRESS company, I’d like to acknowledge and thank for the assistance of the whole team of the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office.
The high quality of legal services offered, many years of experience in handling non-standard cases, and full commitment to the projects performed, constitute the characteristics of the Office.
It's a trustworthy legal partner, so I can recommend, with full conviction, the services of the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office.


I recommend… I absolutely recommend


I’d like to ardently recommend the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors as a trustworthy business partner.
Efficiency, professionalism, broad knowledge, conscientiousness, reliability and splendid recognition and understanding of Client’s needs are just several of the properties demonstrated by the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office.
I'd like to thank you for previous cooperation and hope for further, equally fruitful cooperation in the future.


Taking into account over five years of fruitful cooperation with the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors, I can fully recommend the services provided by the Counsel and her team. The professional and unconventional attitude to the appearing legal problems and the extraordinary care about clients' interests - these are the properties of all the activities of the team managed by Counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz, who provides her clients with a feeling of safety, and make her a recommendable business partner.


Many years of cooperation with the Office of Counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz allowed us many times to resolve the difficulties with interpretation of the effective provisions and official procedures in favor of our Clients, for which we would like to thank you again, and, as a tradition, we reserve the right, or the privilege, to recommend your services to our new Clients.


I have the pleasure to recommend the services of Counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz. She has the ability to talk about complicated issues in an understandable manner, while paying attention to detail. Taking into account the degree of complexity of the business matters, it is a property that not only allows to solve the cases, but also to understand them, which is a significant value for all the managers.
Full professionalism, timeliness and readiness to help in the most complex cases. It is a great pleasure to cooperate with the professional who is able to make the solutions of difficult matters –easy, and easy matters – full of elegance.


We have the pleasure to recommend the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors for solving complicated legal problems.
In particular, we would like to emphasize the very good subject matter knowledge in the scope of the issues associated with the activities of real property development companies.
We emphasize the professionalism of the Office, and we can definitely recommend it as a trustworthy partner that provides legal assistance at a very high level.


I would like to recommend the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors as a reliable, professional firm that renders professional services at a very high level, and is characterized by speed and efficiency of the undertaken activities, culture and accurate decisions.
It’s a reliable legal partner, so with full responsibility I can recommend that legal office to other entrepreneurs


The OPAK-FOL Z.U.P. Tadeusz Motyka company was established in 1991, and has been operating in the plastics and construction sectors. It has always required legal assistance. After many years of searching for and leaving legal offices, it has finally found a partner, whose activities are characterized by professionalism, experience and efficiency.
I would like to thank Ms. Joanna Szanser-Smagacz for the previous and future time devoted to my company by the whole team of the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors. I can recommend it with great satisfaction.


I would like to recommend the Law Office of Ms. Joanna Szanser-Smagacz as a reliable firm that provides services in a professional manner. It is characterized by the speed and efficiency of decisions made, and the fact that they are accurate.
It is a credible partner, so I would like to recommend that Office to other entrepreneurs.


The DOCTOR Q BUD Spółka z o.o. company, established in 1996, is now a part of a significant Doctor Q Bud Group which operates in the market of real property development services. Tradition, experience, recognized brand, as well as trust from our Clients, make all the companies in the Doctor Q Bud Group, as well as our Partners, undertake the activities and initiatives that consolidate the perfect reputation of the Group and increase its market value.
We would like to recommend the services rendered by the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors. On behalf of Doctor Q Bud Sp. z o.o., the Companies comprising GK Doctor Q Bud, as well as on my behalf and on behalf of all our colleagues, we would like to ensure you that the services rendered by the Office are of highest quality. For many years we have been impressed by the professionalism, knowledge, competences and rich experience, and especially the efficiency of the team of legal advisors and advocates, headed by counsel Joanna Szanser-Smagacz.


Today I can state with open satisfaction:
our market success happened to a high degree due to the people with whom we cooperate on a daily basis.
We jointly gather experience and knowledge, and we jointly overcome various difficulties. That is why I have the pleasure to recommend the services of the Joanna Szanser-Smagacz Law Office / Advocates and Legal Advisors.
I am personally convinced that I have made the right decision.
PHONE
(012) 294 18 75
(+48) 512 003 226
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LOCALISATION
Al. Płk. Beliny-Prażmowskiego 14/2
31-514 Kraków
FAX
(012) 294 18 76
LAW OFFICE SZANSER-SMAGACZ
ADVOCATES AND LEGAL ADVISORS.
- Office hours:
- Monday – Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. - Bank account number:
- ING Bank Śląski SA 06 1050 1445 1000 0022 7434 6812
NIP: 637-151-63-27, Regon: 356729952
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Experience shows that some of the lawyers employed in the Office are the persons who used to participate with distinction in our student trainings. We look for active, ambitious and talented people. Passionate people, oriented to constant development, determined to reach their goals, responsible, inquisitive, committed, actively looking for better solutions. We appreciate creative thinking, attention to development of the Office, ability to solve problems in a creative way and to work in a team. That is why we expect our future colleagues to be fully committed to performing the tasks they’re entrusted with, to present proper diligence, self-discipline, ability to be organized and manage one’s own worktime.
In exchange we can offer work in a dynamically developing team of legal advisors and advocates. By offering convenient conditions of professional development, we guarantee self-fulfillment and satisfaction from the tasks performed. Working in the Office allows to gain a high degree of specialization in the selected field of law, the best ones can be certain to be promoted and have the possibility to obtain the remuneration that is adequate to the effects of their work.
We would like to invite legal advisors and advocates, but also graduates of legal studies in the middle of their legal advisor’s or advocate’s internships. In the recruitment process, we will grant additional points for: fluency in Polish and English (and knowledge of other foreign languages), experience in working in a legal advisors’ or advocates’ office, an academic title or started procedure for a PhD, practical experience in rendering legal services to businesses, ability to simultaneously work on several cases, ability to develop permanent relationships with Clients.
We would also like to inform that the Office reserves the right not to answer all the offers sent.