On 27-28 March 2020 another conference of the European Commission INSOL Europe 2020 has been planned. It is organized by the Croatian Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. The conference focuses on the applicable law in cross-border insolvency proceedings. Advocate Bartosz Groele, who is a Partner of the TPG Law Office, has been invited to participate in this conference. As a speaker he will discuss the issues concerning the effects of foreign insolvency proceedings on arbitration proceedings in the state of recognition. The conference program has been prepared by the European Commission, INSOL Europe, the Croatian Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. For more informations please follow the link https://www.insol-europe.org/events/0/start_date/asc/colabelled

We are pleased to inform that the District Court in Bielsko-Biała has approved the arrangement in the accelerated arrangement proceedings, in which the TPG Law Office team headed by advocate Bartosz Groele, Partner at TPG Law Office, and attorney-at-law Bartosz Magnowski represented a major business enterprise in the meat processing industry. Thanks to the determination and cooperation of all interested parties, a new start for our client was possible after merely four months from the day of opening the proceedings.

On 6-7 February 2020, advocate Bartosz Groele Partner of the Law Office spoke before the students of the French National School of Justices and Prosecutors in Paris. As part of a two-day seminar, along with Jean-Luc Vallens, who is a French justice and former advocate at the Court of Appeal in Colmar, he gave a speech on the issues related to cross-border insolvency proceedings of groups of companies. The speech was well received. The next seminar will take place in September this year. We will keep you informed.

On 16 December 2019 the Supreme Court sitting in the panel of 7 judges adopted a long-awaited resolution regulating the issue of consumer bankruptcy and joint property of spouses. One of the attorneys-in-fact in this important case was the Partner of TPG Law Firm, advocate Bartosz Groele. You can read about the court ruling, reasoning and rationale, among others, in an article in Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, as well as read a more in-depth opinion of Mr. Groele on the basis of the adopted Resolution at https://prawo.gazetaprawna.pl/artykuly/1444916,upadlosc-konsumencka-wspolnosc-majatkowa-masa-upadlosci-sn creditors. html? utm_source = & utm_medium = dlvr.it linkedin . An abridged version of the Supreme Court’s rationale can be found at: https://lnkd.in/dNHCzi

We have just completed the 56th session of the Working Group V UNCITRAL (Insolvency Law) which took place on December 2-5, 2019 in Vienna. A number of representatives of UN member states took part in it. One of them, the representatives of Poland, delegated by the Ministry of Development was once again the Partner of TPG Advocate Bartosz Groele, who is an expert on restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy law. The Polish delegation comprised also Judge Emil Szczepanik, Advocate Maciej Geromin , Legal Counsel to the General Prosecutor’s Office Maciej Szkrzypek. The main topic of the 56th session was to develop common features and principles of simplified insolvency proceedings for micro and small enterprises in difficulty. This event was extremely important in terms of changes planned in our country in the year 2020. You may find out more about the event in the report summarizing the session https://uncitral.un.org/en/working_groups/5/insolvency_law

A few days ago, the partner of TPG Law Firm Bartosz Groele spoke for Business Insider Polska. Advocate Bartosz Groele commented on recent reports on tax audits at GetBack bondholders initiated by the National Tax Administration. For further information please follow the link;https://businessinsider.com.pl/finanse/getback-kas-kontroluje-obligatariuszy-windykacyjnej-spolki/9ex60lp

Partner of TPG Law Firm advocate Bartosz Groele is one of the co-authors of the comprehensive publication of the 2nd edition of the Commercial Law System. Volume 6 “Restructuring and bankruptcy law”, which thoroughly discusses issues related to the restructuring and bankruptcy law after the introduced changes. This publication has just been released.

In 2018, TPG Law firm assisted with the publication of the fourth volume of the “Architecture is the most important” series “Trees”. EMG publishing house proposed to selected outstanding individuals to write essays on trees and their role in the context of architectural and urban activities. The author of the introductory essay “Eight linden” is Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize laureate. This text still remains the latest text of the Nobel Prize winner published in Polish. We encourage all of you to read, not only the essay of Olga Tokarczuk, but also the texts of other authors, including Prof. Małgorzata Omilanowska, Barbara Bartkowicz and Jan Rylke.

The 4th Kalisz Business Forum is behind us, dedicated to all entrepreneurs from the region who want to expand their knowledge of entrepreneurship and building business relations. During this conference, experienced experts raised important issues related to the business world. Representatives of the TPG Law Office: Partner, advocate Bartosz Groele and advocate Bartosz Magnowski took part in it. Advocate Bartosz Groele together with Advocate Paweł Sikora gave a lecture on “Arbitration Court and Mediation Center at the Regional Chamber of Commerce in Kalisz in amicable, quick and effective settlement of commercial disputes.” More information and a detailed programme at:

The first edition of postgraduate studies on Restructuring, bankruptcy and financial law integrated with skills outside the legal area has just come to an end. It was organized by the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University (2018-2020). The workshop on restructuring law and insolvency law was held by Bartosz Groele, an advocate and a partner at the TPG Law Firm, together with Maciej Geronim, an advocate, and Zbigniew Miczek, a district and appeals court judge. The workshop was dedicated to judges sitting in economic divisions conducting restructuring and insolvency proceedings as well as the prosecutors and prosecutor assessors handling economic and financial crime in the whole of Poland. This is another edition of the workshop where experts conduct classes in this study form. In the current academic year 2019-2020, starting from 26-27 October this year. the second edition of the studies will open.