The Office of Legal Advisor Joanna Szanser-Smagacz shall be involved in the circle of not numerous on the legal services market in Cracow fully professional, specialized entities rendering legal support in the scope of the realization of developer projects and investment projects.   

Within the scope of offered legal services the Legal Office:

  • performs legal audit of the real property,   
  • conducts proceedings in the scope of: regulation of legal status of a real property, recovering rights to real properties, obtaining permissions for purchasing of a real property by foreigners,
  • performs interpretations of provisions of administrative law, with particular regard to construction law and local regulations, acts of local law, masterplans, and other resolution which affect on factual and legal situation of a real property,
  • represents Clients before administrative bodies, in administrative proceedings inderictly or directly, preparing strategy of activity and advising on each stage of ongoing administrative proceedings, especially in the following matters: zoning decisions, building permit, demolition o building permit, utilities network system building permit, decision on conversion of the use of a real property, decision on exclusion the land form agricultural production and other decisions and provisions arising from the specific branches of administrative law,
  • represents investors before local authorities, and administrative courts in the course of proceedings regarding the adoption or amending provisions of masterplans, as well as in the course of proceedings before civil courts in matters related to claims arising as a result of exclusion or limitation of use of the real property as a result of adoption or amending of the masterplan,
  • applies to public administration bodies for issuing relevant for developer process opinions, and provided by specific provisions agreements, and analysis its contents from the formal and legal perspecitve,   
  • prepares complaints, recalls and other extraordinary appeals (application for ascertainment nullity of a decision, reissuing administrative proceedings, etc.),
  • operates mediations and settlements with public administration bodies, in case of necessity between parties of administrative proceedings,
  • represents its Clients before construction supervisory bodies in the proceedings on issuing use permit, where the case of exception from the approved building project by buidling permit appears,
  • takes part in the process of legalization of construction lawlessness,
  • prepares and gives its opinion to: developer agreements, design works agreements, agreements on construction supervision, construction works agreement, including agreements with general contractor of the investment, agreements on preparation of investments and investment substitution,
  • conducts court disputes between investors and contractors of construction works,
  • advises on real estate trading, including inter alia legal support at the moment of conclusion of agreements (preliminary and final) of purchase of real properties, and contracts for services of purchasing real properties,
  • advises and gives opinions on tenancy agreements, lease agreements, sub-lease agreements,
  • prepares agreements regarding establishment of limited property rights, as: usefruct, easement, mortgage,
  • renders legal support at separation of the right of premises ownership,  
  • takes part and advises within the process of erection of housing associations,
  • prepares and verifies projects of agreements regarding the management of a common part of the real property,
  • represents Clients before Local Self-government Appeals Committee, courts of common law, the Supreme Court, administrative courts and the Main Administrative Court.