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Joanna Krakowiak and Marcin Rytel examine the planned reform of EU pharmaceutical law—the biggest in 20 years. How will the new regulations affect innovation and access to affordable medicines? Will they reduce the environmental impact of pharmaceutical production?

The new edition of the annual publication Investing in Healthcare & Life Sciences has now been released. At the invitation of McDermott Will & Emery, publishers of the guide, Joanna Krakowiak drafted the chapter on the regulatory environment for the healthcare sector in Poland.

The 20th edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide to pharmaceutical advertising has now been published. Experts from our firm wrote the chapter on Poland.

How to conduct clinical trials in Poland - in questions and aswers.

The Family Foundations Act, which entered into force on 22 May 2023, introduces the family foundation into Polish law as a new legal entity designed for collecting property and managing assets in accordance with the founder’s will and paying benefits to beneficiaries. When is it worth setting up such a foundation? What are the benefits and risks? What activities can the foundation carry...

Acquirers of claims under the Warsaw Decree as a party to proceedings to establish perpetual usufruct of land| Broader access to bank accounts by the tax authorities: Invisible surveillance of citizens | The nature of indirect discrimination in Polish and British employment law | Proposed amendments to the Fiscal Penal Code: A necessary step to protect budget revenues or unfounded repression? |...

What can employers say in a job advertisement? How to verify the legality of a worker’s stay in Poland? What are the steps for legally hiring Ukrainians in Poland? What formalities are required when amending their terms of employment? How to delegate Ukrainian citizens to work elsewhere in the EU? How to end cooperation with foreign workers? Lawyers from the firm’s Employment & Global...

A monograph by Artur Pietryka on the prosecution of rape has been published. The book will be useful to anyone interested in the topic of violence, including sexual violence.

This is our thirteenth Yearbook. Traditionally, we write about trends and changes in law. Remote work, WIRON, indexation clauses, global supply chains…. As in previous years, the topics cover a huge range. A stronger and stronger trend is sustainability, which has entered the mainstream and is shaping both legal regulations and the expectations of investors and consumers. On the other hand, the...

On 2 September 2022, the Polish Ministry of Justice published a draft of far-reaching changes to the liability of collective entities, which would eliminate the requirement to obtain a predicate ruling for all criminal and fiscal offences for which collective entities could be held criminally liable. If these changes enter into force, they will still have momentous consequences for the operation...