Banking and financial market
We provide legal services on a wide spectrum of banking and financial market regulations, as well as the interface of these regulations with civil/private law, financial instruments law, insurance law and new technologies.
Selected experience
- for more than twenty years servicing financial institutions, including banks, the Bank Guarantee Fund, by members of the firm’s team, as well as advising renowned international and Polish law firms serving entities in the financial sector
- providing opinions on assumptions and contractual terms and conditions for outsourcing of services, both in terms of civil law, banking law, cyber security (including DORA), compliance with EBA guidelines and national supervisory authorities
- for a variety of outsourcing projects, qualifying the processed data (in a diverse digital architecture, with different types of cryptography and different control over the various elements of the architecture) from the point of view of qualifying this data as personal data or bank secret data
- verification of the legality of assumptions for the use of new technologies in various processes, for example, biometrics for the behavioral identification implemented by the bank
- verification of legal compliance, including RODO / GDPR, of assumptions for mining publicly available datasets (text and data mining, TDM) for the construction of an entrepreneurial database for purposes including artificial intelligence/AI-based market analytics and customer preference analytics
- evaluate cloud solutions and services against regulatory requirements including regulatory guidelines/communications
- assessment of issues related to the implementation of DORA, including for alignment with EBA guidelines, requirements for risk management systems
- providing opinions on services provided in cooperation with telecommunications companies in terms of, among other things, compliance with RODO, lawProviding opinions on services provided in cooperation with telecommunications companies in terms of, among other things, compliance with RODO, telecommunications law (electronic communications law)
- opinion on the full spectrum of civil law, consumer protection and investor protection issues
- preparing and reviewing documentation for products and changes for internal policies
- development of strategy assumptions for litigation in the field of private law and financial market regulation
We provide
- expert opinions for internal business needs
- expert opinions for the purposes of court proceedings or proceedings before supervisory authorities
- risk assessments for internal controls or auditors
- verifications (audits) of regulatory compliance, analysis of legal risks
- draft contracts/contractual clauses of outsourcing agreements or update them
- documentation for the products
- preparation of strategies for litigation
- draft pleadings
- representation before administrative and regulatory authorities
- representation in court and arbitration proceedings
- participation in arbitration proceedings as an arbitrator