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English lawyer joins DZP in London

David Shasha, an English solicitor with extensive experience in commercial law, M&A and financing, has joined the team at Domański Zakrzewski Palinka (“DZP”).  David will be working in London, where he will co-ordinate DZP’s relationships with law firms, financial institutions and companies located in the United Kingdom. He will also support DZP’s lawyers advising international and Polish clients.

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We look forward to working with David. Having him as a member of our team will significantly assist in our London marketing initiatives, said Krzysztof Zakrzewski, Managing Partner at DZP.

David Shasha has worked with international law firms for over 30 years. Before joining DZP, he worked at Clifford Chance (where, among other things, he was founder partner of offices in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest), Simmons & Simmons, Gowlings (now Gowling WLG) and Watson Farley & Williams. He has been distinguished in international rankings by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and was named one of the “Hot 100” by The Lawyer 2011. David’s position at DZP will be that of Counsel.

I have known DZP for a number of years, and have been impressed by the progress the firm has made during that time. I look forward to working with DZP in the London market, and helping the firm increase its international business said David Shasha.

About DZP

Domański Zakrzewski Palinka was established in 1993. For many years now DZP has been the largest independent Polish law firm. DZP has offices in Warsaw, Poznań and Wrocław and specialists who advise clients on all areas of their business.

For more than 15 years now, we have been recommended and highly ranked by publishers of international legal guides, including Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, IFLR1000 and WTR 1000.

For more information about DZP, please visit our website at https://en.dzp.pl/.

Contacts

Krzysztof A. Zakrzewski | Managing Partner

T: +48 22 557 76 84 | E: Krzysztof.Zakrzewski@dzp.pl

David Shasha | Counsel

T: + 44 (0)7435 630495 | E: David.Shasha@dzp.pl

Agnieszka Kamińska | Marketing & PR Director

T: +48 22 557 86 57 | E: Agnieszka.Kaminska@dzp.pl

CCIP launches InSight Observatory

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry has launched the Insight Observatory – A closer look at the Portuguese SME’s internationalization, a study that broadens the knowledge about the companies and managers’ attitude: the reasons, the means, the challenges and the states of mind of the Portuguese exporters.

The PPCC makes the document available here – Insight

PPCC speaker at Rzeczpospolita conference about the Brazilian market

Please click on the link to read Rzeczpospolita’s article on the conference

Good results of Millennium Leasing in 2016. High growths in financing vehicles, machines and devices

In 2016 Millennium Leasing signed real estate leasing contracts worth more than PLN 3bn, which resulted in good 15.2% growth over 2015. The value of capital committed to active leasing contracts as of the end of the year stood at PLN 5.16bn, which means 11.8% year-on-year growth.

 

In the category of light vehicles the company financed assets worth PLN 823.13m, reaching 32.2% growth y/y in cars and 59.9% growth y/y in trucks up to 3.5 tons.
In the heavy road transport category the value of lease-financed assets was PLN 1.11bn, reaching the highest y/y growths in following groups: trucks (over 3.5 tons) – 40.4% growth; lorries – 13.8% growth and semi-trailers – 10.2% growth. The value of financed machines and equipment reached the level of more than PLN 1bn, which means 21.3% growth y/y.

 

We are glad that our work on improving processes, the time-to-decision as well as the quality of service broadly understood is appreciated by companies. We were able to acquire more than 4,700 new customers, while growth rates in particularly demanding categories, such as cars and trucks up to 3.5 tons, shows that the effects of our consistent work allow us to be quite successful. Our activity in the corporate segment as well as close cooperation with Bank Millennium have also permitted us in 2016 to exceed one billion PLN worth of machines and equipment, which we financed for our customers – Marcin Balicki, Chairman of the Management Board of Millennium Leasing commented.

 

Millennium Leasing has for years been offering lease financing to all sectors in Poland. The company is an active member of Polish Leasing Association and one of the first leasing companies to appear on the Polish market. Leasing services are sold by leasing advisors in 66 branches throughout Poland. Sales activity is also carried out in the course of active cooperation with the Bank’s Relationship Managers in retail and corporate branches of Bank Millennium.

 

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PPCC Trade Mission to São Paulo 2017 *1-6 April 2017*

The PPCC is organizing its second trade mission to São Paulo, to take on 1-6 April 2017.

We strongly encourage all the companies interested in the Brazilian market to learn more about this trade mission.

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Standard Audit File in Millenet for Companies

In reply to growing interest of Customers, Bank Millennium has enabled automatic generation of JPK_WB reports in the format required by the Ministry of Finance. The new service in Millenet online banking makes life much easier for businesses required to furnish files in this specific format to tax inspection authorities.   

 

Ordering and receiving JPK_WB reports directly in electronic banking saves companies time and money. Thanks to automation of the process they can count on reduction of the duration of tax inspections carried out in their organisations as well as less involvement of their staff in the proceedings. Additionally the possibility to generate JPK (SAF) improves efficiency of control over internal processes in a company and facilitates data analysis. Also important is the fact that the bank will update the structure of reports in case of changes made by the Ministry of Finance. – Ricardo Campos, Director of the Electronic Banking Department in Bank Millennium explained.

 

What is SAF?

A Standard Audit File-Tax – SAF-T) is a set of data exported from a company’s data systems. It contains information about business transactions in the particular period. The file has a standardised layout and format (XML schema) to facilitate processing. SAF is an instrument successfully used in many EU countries including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Germany, Slovenia, Sweden, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

 

In Poland the requirement to generate SAF files was introduced by the Ministry of Finance on 1 July 2016. For now it applies to companies employing more than 250 employees and with turnover exceeding EUR 50m or with total assets over EUR 43m. In the future it will also become obligatory for smaller businesses.

 

SAF in Millenet online banking system

SAF reports concerning bank statements can be used both as basic reports – ready to be furnished to tax inspectors, as well as auxiliary reports – permitting verification of data extracted from the company’s systems. A customer requesting the report will only define its key parameters such as period covered, Tax Office, to which the report is to be sent as well as additional persons who are to receive it (the listed persons will get a message with a link for downloading the report). The generated report can reach back as far as 6 years and what is important, it can contain information about all accounts maintained during this period, even if they are already closed at the time of requesting the report. The new service shall be launched in reply to the Customer’s written request.

 

SAF advantages

– reduction of costs of implementing dedicated tools for generating reports in SAF format

– data for JPK_WB reports are always up to date and available 6 years back

– updating JPK_WB structure by Bank Millennium without the need to interfere with the customer’s systems in case of changes made by the Ministry of Finance

 

Online sending of documents required in the credit process

 

Another innovation in the Millenet for Companies online banking system is a module permitting enclosing and sending of documents required in the credit process. In this way entrepreneurs do not have to deliver paper documents personally to a branch or Relationship Manager. It is enough if they scan them, attach and send to the bank. Documents sent in this way reach the Credit Products Service Team in real time to significantly speed-up and simplify the entire process.

 

The “Documents and Applications -> Add Document” module supports all the most popular file formats, such as tiff, jpg, pdf, docx, xlsx etc. A single batch can contain 10 individual files up to 10 MB. It is planned to develop the service further and to enable sending of documents also for other types of products.

 

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