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Has your agent brought in “new customers”?

Who is an agent's new customer? On won-back customers, new products, and the burden of proof for indemnity.

Katarzyna Dzik Marcin Liszka Maciej Rzepka

06.10.2026

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Banking, Financial institution agency networks

How far can the interpretation of the concept of ‘substantial benefits’ go and what are the associated risks?

One of the key prerequisites for an indemnity claim is that the principal continues to derive substantial benefits from customers acquired by the agent during the term of the agency…

27.10.2026

approx. 3 min

Katarzyna Dzik Marcin Liszka Maciej Rzepka

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Banking, Financial institution agency networks

What are ‘substantial benefits’ for the principal, and when do they entitle an agent to an indemnity?

One of the conditions for an indemnity is that, after the agency agreement has ended, the principal derives substantial benefits from contracts with customers brought in by the agent, or…

20.10.2026

approx. 2 min

Katarzyna Dzik Maciej Rzepka Marcin Liszka

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Banking, Financial institution agency networks

When does increased business with existing customers entitle an agent to an indemnity?

An agent may be entitled to an indemnity not only for bringing in new customers, but also for substantially increasing business with the principal’s existing customers.

13.10.2026

approx. 2 min

Katarzyna Dzik Marcin Liszka Maciej Rzepka

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Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme?

A Ponzi scheme is investment fraud. Its organiser finances payouts to earlier investors with money from later investors, keeping some for themselves. This can continue as long as enough new…

14.03.2024

approx. 5 min

Gracjan Pietras

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Corporate services, M&A

Changes to the Code of Civil Procedure effective from 14 March 2024

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07.03.2024

approx. 1 min

JPJarosław Panek

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin, not blockchain!

Blockchain is simply a database. The fact that data is placed in cryptographically linked packages doesn't change that. Its downside is low efficiency. Hence the sarcastic saying that blockchain is…

12.01.2024

approx. 7 min

Gracjan Pietras

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Corporate services, M&A, M&A transactions

What should a seller considering the sale of an agency know?

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15.12.2023

approx. 1 min

Katarzyna Lewińska

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Bitcoin

The MiCA Regulation is just around the corner

(Co-authored by Marcin Liszka .)

28.11.2023

approx. 4 min

Gracjan Pietras

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Corporate services, M&A, Corporate matters, Commercial contracts

Amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure

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19.10.2023

approx. 1 min

JPJarosław Panek

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Corporate services, M&A, Competition law

New rules on exemptions for vertical agreements

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26.09.2023

approx. 1 min

Łukasz Doktór

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Bitcoin

Legal Title to Bitcoin (EU perspective)

Absolute civil rights are rights that can be enforced against anyone who infringes them, unlike contractual rights, which can only be exercised against the other party in the contract. Classic…

01.09.2023

approx. 4 min

Gracjan Pietras

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Disputes

Treat the judge as you would wish to be treated: formal style in procedural documents

At the outset, it must be emphasised that where legal practitioners effect publication of articles or other textual material on the social networking service LinkedIn (hereinafter “LinkedIn”), addressed to other…

22.08.2023

approx. 4 min

Maciej Rzepka

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