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Practicioner’s Perspective: A Critical Look at Transformations of Business Organizations in Poland (Part II)

Bartosz Karolczyk, LL.M.[1] In my last note on the Business & Law blog I presented an outline of the transformation process. In this one I will present some critical thoughts regarding its [...]

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Entrepreneur, don’t collude!

I would like to devote this guest inscription to initiatives that the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection undertakes to effectively protect competition and constantly raise the legal awareness of professional market participants. Our experiences clearly indicate that undertakings’ [...]

Don’t Panic – It’s Only a Haircut

The passage of the second bailout package for Greece has awoken the fears of a massive credit default swaps (“CDS”) default, which was looming over the financial markets and was widely discussed in the media at the end of 2011. With the infamous CDS already on the spot, it is worth [...]

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No jokes about arbitrators!

, 23-03-2012

Every time I am in the US people offer me jokes about lawyers. There are plenty of them and I don’t like them at all. I always tell my American colleagues that these are jokes about them, about American lawyers, not about Polish lawyers and I am from Poland. Then, in return, they want to [...]

Doing Business in Egypt after the January Revolution: Capital Market and Investment Laws

Egypt underwent many economic and legal reforms that resulted in remarkable economic growth at the turn of the century. Due to widespread corruption, however, this economic growth mostly benefited the small clique of powerful officials and businessmen. Unsatisfied Egyptians then took their [...]