Polish Domestic Capital Markets
Practices / Capital Markets
We provide the following services:
- Corporate structuring to ensure compliance with the requirements for issuers of financial instruments;
- Conducting legal due diligence of businesses intending to seek financing and building strategies for the purposes of capital market transactions;
- Advising on issues of shares, bonds and other financial instruments, both in public offerings and private placements;
- Advising on the preparation of transaction documents related to offers of financial instruments (in particular on the preparation of prospectuses, information memoranda, purchase offers, terms of issue);
- Drafting and negotiating investment agreements relating to funding;
- Advising on the admission and introduction of financial instruments to trading on the regulated market or in the alternative trading system operated by the Warsaw Stock Exchange or BondSpot;
- Advising on the purchase or sale of qualifying holdings, including through tender offers, accelerated book-building (ABB) sales and other over-the-counter (OTC) transactions;
- Advising on the fulfilment of disclosure obligations by issuers admitted to trading on a regulated market or in an alternative trading system (based on the MAR, national regulations and regulations of alternative trading systems), management of confidential information and the drafting of rules of procedure for the circulation of confidential information;
- Advising on the execution of agreements relating to capital market transactions (placement agreements, underwriting agreements, lock-up agreements, mandate agreements);
- Advising Management Board members, Supervisory Board members and persons closely associated with them (within the meaning of the MAR) on the fulfilment of notification obligations related to the transactions conducted by them;
- Advising on the rematerialisation of shares and delisting of financial instruments from the regulated market and alternative trading systems;
- Development and implementation of incentive programmes for the management boards of public companies and key managers based on both subscription warrants and phantom options;
- Advising on the buy-back of own shares by public companies;
- Advising on obtaining licenses for conducting business activity consisting in the establishment and management of investment funds and for conduct brokerage activity;
- Advising on the establishment of investment funds and alternative investment companies;
- Advising on providing collateral for the purposes of issue of debt securities;
- Representing issuers and other capital market participants before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, the National Depository for Securities, the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
- Corporate maintenance of issuers and regulated entities.