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Associated Partner Pawel Zelich has been named as the new Head of Noerr’s Warsaw office as of July 1, 2022. He takes over from Partner Radoslaw Biedecki, who had been heading the office since 2017.

Gide Loyrette Nouel’s Warsaw office has advised subsidiaries of KGHM International on the sale of their shares in Sociedad Contractual Minera Franke – which owns the Franke mine in Chile – to Minera Las Cenizas. Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uria reportedly advised the buyer.

Krzysztof Cieplinski has been promoted to Partner in the Warsaw office of Gide Loyrette Nouel. He's active in the firm's Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, and New Technology & Infrastructure Projects practices.

In a Sale & Leaseback transaction, a property used for business purposes is sold and simultaneously made available for use by the seller under a lease or rental agreement.

Ever since the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (the "Directive") was adopted back in April 2019, its contents, especially regarding the liability of certain service providers, have sparked many controversies. According to the explanations provided by the European Council, the Directive's main goal was to protect press publication and reduce the "value gap" between the profits made by two main "entities": internet platforms and content creators. The Directive aimed to enhance collaboration between these two groups and to create copyright exceptions for text- and data-mining. However, Article 17 of the Directive proved difficult to accept within the internet sharing platform environment, as it replaces the "mere conduit" exemption from copyright infringement of online content sharing of the platform with a conditional exemption. Article 17 prohibits internet platforms from sharing and displaying unlicensed copyrighted contents on behalf of users.

White & Case has advised joint lead managers Banco Santander, Erste Group Bank, Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg, PKO BP, and UniCredit Bank on PKO Bank Hipoteczny's EUR 500 million issuance of mortgage-covered bonds. Reportedly, Allen & Overy advised PKO Bank Hipoteczny.

Under the CIT Act, taxpayers are normally required to file the TPR form and a statement on the preparation of the local file for 2021, by the end of the ninth month after the end of the financial year.

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