Global investigations, white-collar crime, cybercrime, criminal compliance and due diligence
Our criminal law team has extensive experience in all aspects of business crime. We act in internal and governmental investigations and represent clients in criminal trials relating to fraud, bribery, offences against companies and creditors, money laundering and bid rigging. We serve as auxiliary or private prosecutors in criminal trials as well as defend clients in white-collar crimes and extradition. We also advise on all corporate criminal liability issues.
We have unique expertise handling cyber incidents. We represent victims of cyber frauds in criminal and civil matters to recover losses.
We draw from our trial experience to advise on criminal compliance and criminal risk due-diligence projects.
Multi-practice approach. Members of our Business Crime team are well known for their expertise in civil law. We work closely with our colleagues from other practices on cases requiring in-depth knowledge of dispute-resolution tactics (pre-charge civil freezing orders and civil fraud), public procurement (debarment from public tenders), antitrust and consumer protection (bid rigging and price fixing), tax (tax liability and criminal tax liability), employment and data protection (criminal infringement of employee rights and data protection duties), corporate (liability of managers, especially where there is a risk of insolvency), M&A (criminal risk due diligence and advising on structuring of deals and wording of representations and warranties). With this approach, we can provide clients comprehensive cross-practice strategies to solve their problems.
High professional integrity. In providing our service we adhere to the highest professional duties with regards to conflict of interest and privilege. We consider ourselves officers of the court, and represent our clients zealously without breaching our duties to the court.
International expertise and reach. Although we are a local firm, we have global capabilities. We have experience working for international clients and law firms on global investigations and compliance projects. We provide local expertise in the wider international context. Our lawyers are also dually qualified, which provides them a unique understanding of the international legal context. Thanks to our international contacts and engagement in international networks and organisations, together with our foreign colleagues we can deliver legal assistance in almost all jurisdictions worldwide. For our international work for a multinational retail chain, designing and implementing the client’s anti-corruption policy in the CEE region, we were awarded the Lex Mundi Award for Best Multijurisdictional Project in 2020.
Cooperation with experts. We cooperate with leading, renowned risk analysis firms and private investigators to preserve and collect evidence.
Recognition. We are a group of specialists in the field, top-ranked by Legal 500.
Pro bono. We engage in significant pro bono activity. We cooperate with major domestic human rights NGOs (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Panoptykon, Human Rights and Business, Pro Bono Centre) on precedent-setting matters. Our work highlights civil, political, socio-economic and developmental human rights.
Contact:
Łukasz Lasek, lukasz.lasek@wardynski.com.pl
Tel. + 48 22 437 82 00, 22 537 82 00